Max Farrar

Max Farrar writes, takes photographs, organises with #RememberOluwale, and socialises. He eventually got a job teaching sociology at Leeds Beckett University. He retired in 2009 to start living again. Visit his website at www.maxfarrar.org.uk.

Sensuous materialism: emotion and the left

We must make a new world in which a new kind of human being can be born, but how?

By Max Farrar

/ 2 Apr 2019

Sensuous materialism: emotion and the left

Opposing terror: dilemmas for the left on Islam, Islamophobia and Islamism

The left has struggled to reconcile its opposition to racism with the need to stand up to reactionary Islamism.

By Max Farrar and Rumana Hashem

/ 3 Dec 2015

Why on earth would leftists go out of their way to support Cage?

Max Farrar responds to this article, and its authors respond in kind. What exactly is Cage, and how should it be treated?

By Max Farrar, David Miller, Tom Mills and Narzanin Massoumi

/ 12 Aug 2015

Anatolian Muslimhood: humanising capitalism?

A week in Istanbul can hardly fail to be an enriching experience for the intellectually curious visitor - even more when this great city, and Turkey generally, is at the

By Max Farrar

/ 29 Oct 2008

In search of British Muslim identity: responses to 'Young, Angry and Muslim'

* S Sayyid, University of Leeds * Max Farrar, Leeds Metropolitan University * Mohammed Sajid, PhD student, University of Bradford * David T, Harry’s Place * Abdul-Rehman Malik, Q-News * Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck College, London

By Sami Zubaida, S Sayyid, Max Farrar, David T, Mohammed Sajid and Abdul-Rehman Malik

/ 27 Oct 2005

Leeds footsoldiers and London bombs

openDemocracy writers including Scilla Elworthy, Amyn B. Sajoo and Turi Munthe discuss the implications of the London attacks. Also, Mohammed Sajid on being young, Muslim, male and Yorkshire-born. The London

By Max Farrar

/ 21 Jul 2005