Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His books include The Art of Listening (Berg, 2007), Theories of Race and Racism (Routledge, 2001), an on-line multi-media book entitled Academic Diary (Free Thought, 2011), and recently, Live Methods (2013, with Nirmal Puwar).
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFairytale of New AddingtonThis Croydon neighbourhood has been maligned by the tabloids as home of work-shy, cultureless Chavs. The sociologist...
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Published in: HomeStuart Hall: a bright star
He was committed to intervening publically on key political questions: he never followed a narrow academic path but...
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Published in: HomeHusby and territorial stigma in SwedenThis statement appeared at the beginning of June in the Swedish broadsheet SVD, calling for a public investigation...
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Published in: HomeA hundred years of bombing: what has it done to us?
November 2011 marks the centenary of a world-historic event. An Italian pilot, Guilio Cavotti dropped the first...
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Published in: HomeXenophobia: Europe’s death knell
The Europe that is dying is the one that remains hostage to its past. Another Europe is not only possible but is in...
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