Angela McRobbie

Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, London, and the author of Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries (Polity Press 2015).

Knife crime in an incarceral society

Many, if not most of the boys who are caught up in gang culture in the UK are in effect already incarcerated.

By Angela McRobbie

/ 9 Mar 2019

Anti-feminism and anti-gender far right politics in Europe and beyond

The proclaimed support of the EU for gender equality is seen as one element in a wider programme of colonization, whereby what was once Marxism is now replaced by gender politics. Book review.

By Angela McRobbie

/ 18 Jan 2018

Anti-feminism and anti-gender far right politics in Europe and beyond

The proclaimed support of the EU for gender equality is seen as one element in a wider programme of colonization, whereby what was once Marxism is now replaced by gender politics. Book review.

By Angela McRobbie

/ 18 Jan 2018

Women beware: President Trump and the promise of violence

The Mooch may have gone but the menace and misogyny remain deep inside the White House.

By Angela McRobbie

/ 6 Aug 2017

Fire in neo-liberal London

The burnt-out shell of Grenfell Tower is a visible reminder that public responsibilities should never be watered down.

By Angela McRobbie

/ 19 Jun 2017

The neoliberal economics of family life

Attempts to restore the family as the foundation of social welfare could destroy the gains of second-wave feminism.

By Angela McRobbie

/ 3 Apr 2017

Anti-feminism, then and now

Menace and the threat of violence have a particular address to women. Welcome to a new phase of anti-feminism.

By Angela McRobbie

/ 28 Nov 2016

July 18, 2016, Bourdieu and France

Where are Durkheim and Bourdieu when we need them?

By Angela McRobbie

/ 20 Jul 2016

July 18, 2016, Bourdieu and France

Where are Durkheim and Bourdieu when we need them?

By Angela McRobbie

/ 20 Jul 2016

Gathering and assembling: Judith Butler on the future of politics

A new book from one of the world’s leading philosophers brims with ideas about gender, collective action and insecurity.

By Angela McRobbie

/ 27 Jun 2016

Women's working lives in the ‘new’ university

Is there room for any women other than the "exceptional woman", let alone women with children, in the new hyper-stratified university?

By Angela McRobbie

/ 10 Aug 2015

Is passionate work a neoliberal delusion?

The rise of the creative economy encourages self-interest over collective action in the arts, but all is not lost.

By Angela McRobbie

/ 22 Apr 2015