Dr. Steve Hanson works as a lecturer, writer and researcher. His first book Small Towns, Austere Times, was published by Zero in 2014.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBrexit has revealed the Northern Powerhouse as a colonial enterpriseThe Tories’ “Northern Powerhouse” has always relied on historical tropes about bootstrap industrialisation. But it...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHedonism and homelessness, Madchester and masculinityThe North’s rockstar-scally-addicts aren’t romantic heroes – they’re examples of commodification in action.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKManchester is not a 'radical city', Salford is - of housing, Labour, and neoliberal bastionsAs the Corbynistas besiege the New Labour diehards, as in other Labour-run councils, the main battleground is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe new left can be post-truth tooBadly thought through pro-Soviet posturing among the new left risks undermining the possibility of a Labour Party...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe City of BladesIs Manchester merely a playground for tired Madchester myths, property speculators and discredited Osbornomics? Or...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThis month in Manchester: the past is another countryThe default white western view of Islam as a sealed world is wrong.