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Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and
most important essays that directly engage with political issues.
Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as
New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays span the
whole of Hall's career, from his early involvement with the New
Left, to his critique of Thatcherism, to his later focus on
neoliberalism. Whether addressing economic decline and class
struggle, the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the politics of empire,
Hall's singular commentary and theorizations make this volume
essential for anyone interested in the politics of the last sixty
years.
In one sense, of course, all of Stuart Hall's writing was
political, but this collection focuses on the essays he wrote
throughout his life that directly engaged with the political issues
of the day. From the beginning, his analyses focused strongly on
the central role of culture in politics, and his insights are
evident across the whole selection, whether he is writing about
Thatcher's authoritarianism or the double shuffles of Tony Blair.
These essays come from three broad periods: the 1950s and 1960s,
when Hall was involved in the New Left; the 1970s and 1980s, when
he evolved his critique of Thatcherism; and from the 1990s until
the end of his life, when he focused on the emergence of
neoliberalism. The editors have brought together the best and most
representative works of a writer with a unique and conjunctural
approach to understanding politics, and have collected those works
that have a general application to broader political questions. The
collection is therefore valuable for readers interested in the
politics of the past sixty years, in specific political questions,
such as around political commitment, or the politics of empire, and
specific political moments, such as the Cuban Crisis, or the
actions of New Labour. But Hall's engaging writing and the
connections here between his more obviously political writing and
the other areas of his work-including identity politics and
race-also make the collection an essential resource for those
interested in politics more generally.
Issue 54 Summer 2013Buy this issue Hope and experience As well as
publishing two more instalments of the Soundings manifesto - Doreen
Massey on vocabularies of the economy and Michael Rustin on a
relational society - this issue includes articles that engage with
and extend its arguments in a number of different directions. Tom
Crompton writes from the perspective of long involvement in the
environmental movement and discusses how values are articulated in
political discourse. Richard Johnson finds sources for hope in
Gramsci's work, while Nick Stevenson shows how the arguments in The
Long Revolution remain relevant. Kevin Morgan argues that the 1945
Labour government's achievements need to be understood historically
as the product of many years discussion and struggle during the
interwar period - something that needs to be taken on board by
those of us seeking to recreate such a breakthrough. Paolo Gerbaudo
discusses the role of young people and horizontal movements in the
crisis in Egypt. He is critical of the opposition's welcoming of
the army coup and argues that this shows some of the limitations of
horizontalism. Anna Coote and Jacob Mohun Himmelweit argue that the
distribution of time should become part of political debate, and
that we should be putting forward a norm of working thirty hours a
week. Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller document the enormous
environmental and social damage caused by the growth of the digital
economy, and argue that this receives much less attention than
might be expected because of our wider technophilia, and the
continuing lure of i-gadgetry. Sophie Mayer discusses the movement
of international solidarity with Pussy Riot, including the special
role of poetry within the campaign. And we also restart our poetry
pages in this issue, commissioned by our new poetry editor, Alison
Winch. We begin with a selection of three poems from Fit to Work:
Poets Against Atos. As Sophie writes: 'The poem and the song are
the perfect vehicle for protest - small enough to smuggle by hand,
learn by heart or send in a tweet, large enough for the whole world
to join in.'
Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and
most important essays that directly engage with political issues.
Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as
New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays span the
whole of Hall's career, from his early involvement with the New
Left, to his critique of Thatcherism, to his later focus on
neoliberalism. Whether addressing economic decline and class
struggle, the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the politics of empire,
Hall's singular commentary and theorizations make this volume
essential for anyone interested in the politics of the last sixty
years.
The neoliberal revolution, which began in the 1970s, was an
extremely successful attempt to roll back the gains of the post-war
welfare state and of liberation movements, and to restore the
dominance of business interests across the world. In recent years,
many Soundings articles have sought to interpret these developments
through conjunctural analysis. This collection brings some of this
work together, to explore what is at stake in our current and
recent political battles and call into question the foundational
assumptions of the neoliberal order. With contributions from Stuart
Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin - the founding editors of
Soundings - John Clarke, and an introduction by Sally Davison and
Jonathan Rutherford, this volume represents a key moment in
Soundings' analysis of neoliberalism. Throughout the collection,
authors examine issues on which the whole of the left needs to
focus, including political parties, activists, social movements,
the trade unions and other civil society movements. Hegemonies,
including the current neoliberal hegemony, can be disrupted at
moments of crisis. Analyses of such moments, such as those in this
Soundings collection, develop our understanding of how to
politically intervene and how to formulate an alternative to
neoliberal hegemonies.
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