Steve Hanson

Dr. Steve Hanson works as a lecturer, writer and researcher. His first book Small Towns, Austere Times, was published by Zero in 2014.

Northern house power

We need a new polity of globalism, not ethnocentric regionalism.

By Steve Hanson

/ 5 Apr 2016

Pomona for the people?

We should be imagining the present, not the future, in our public spaces.

By Steve Hanson, Natalie Bradbury and Robert Galeta

/ 21 Dec 2015

The Northern Powerhouse as ‘Real Mirage’

The new maps of Britain, and how we should understand them.

By Steve Hanson

/ 9 Dec 2015

Introducing our new series: the Northern Powerhouse

Welcome to the Northern Powerhouse collection of articles for openDemocracy, curated by Manchester Left Writers. Here, I want to outline what we aim to do across our pieces.

By Steve Hanson

/ 25 Nov 2015

Diagnosing the daily poison

We must see the tabloid right as a target in the battle for a better society.

By Steve Hanson

/ 26 Jan 2015