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SUMMARY:‘The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and the Nation in Twenty-First Century Britain’ with Sivamohan Valluvan and Gargi Bhattacharyya
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT \nNationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times\, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception\, and in the midst of Brexit\, it has even become a vanguard of nationalism’s confident return to the mainstream. Intellectual attempts to account for nationalism’s resurgence have however floundered. \nDesperately trying to read nationalism through one overarching cause – as capitalist crisis\, as cultural backlash\, or as social media led anti-Establishment politics – these accounts have proven woefully inadequate. This book argues that the only way to understand nationalism is through nationalism itself. To understand it as the key force of modernity that calls upon all existing ideological traditions in asserting its appeal: whether it is liberal\, conservative\, neoliberal or left-wing. This ideological clamour that characterises today’s British nationalism requires both recognition and theorisation. \nA meaningful understanding of new nationalism must reckon with the ideological range animating it and the deeply hostile aversion to different racial minorities that pervades its respective ideologies. Drawing on a variety of cultural and political themes – ranging from Corbyn’s dithering\, the cult of Churchillism\, the neoliberal fixation with a ‘point-system’ immigration policy\, the muscular secularism of Richard Dawkins and friends\, fears that the white working class have ‘become black’\, and even simply the strange appeal of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones – this book provides a dazzling but always detailed study of how nationalism is the politics of today only because it is a politics of everything. \nReview\n‘With a rare intelligence\, The Clamour of Nationalism reopens and re-situates debates over nationalism. Valluvan examines its relation to racism and its shortcomings as a vehicle for progressive or radical reconstruction. Along the way\, he skewers the idiocy of Left nationalisms and enumerates the depressing developments unfolding across Europe. This urgent survey conveys the shocking discovery that the aggressive pathology of Britain’s brexit is not\, in fact\, Britain’s alone.’ —Paul Gilroy\, author of There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack and After Empire \n‘As nationalism rises to a fever pitch across the political spectrum\, Valluvan pulls no punches in arguing against the brutal politics of border walls\, migration raids and retrograde patriotism. His work is a light in dark times.’ —Eleanor Penny\, Senior Editor at Novara Media and Online Editor at Red Pepper Magazine \n‘Amid the nationalist reflux of Europe and North America\, pundits caught unawares have reached for reductive off-the-shelf analyses. They treat nationalism as the mere expression of something more familiar and reassuring: the economy\, class\, or voter stupidity. Sivamohan Valluvan’s astute\, elegantly cussed study takes nationalism seriously. Here\, nationalism is not written off as a reflex\, but treated as a vehicle for the complex demands of diverse constituents assembled across the political spectrum. A vehicle for collective wishing and dreamwork. This\, coupled with its ability to define the non-belonging outsiders against whom the nation can be roused\, is exactly what accounts for its uncanny capaciousness\, its ability to hegemonise the political terrain after a period of relative abeyance. He also warns the Left\, parts of it too easily seduced by the song of nationalism\, or by facile explanations of nationalism as a mere expression of familiar discontents\, against acquiescing in this hegemony.’ —Richard Seymour\, author of Corbyn: The strange rebirth of radical politics \nSpeakers\nSivamohan Valluvan is an Assistant Professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Warwick\, and author of the book under discussion. \nGargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Sociology at the Centre for Migration\, Refugees and Belonging\, University of East London. Her research interests are in the areas of: ‘race’ and racisms; sexualities; global cultures; the ‘War on Terror’\, and\, increasingly austerity and racial capitalism. \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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SUMMARY:'So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron' with Susie Thomas\, Nadia Valman\, and Ken Worpole
DESCRIPTION:The novelist Alexander Baron (1917-1999) was born into a working class Jewish home in Hackney\, joined the Communist Party as a young man\, saw the thick of battle in Sicily and Normandy\, and became one of the most admired writers of post-war Britain. His first novel\, From the City\, From the Plough (1948)\, was acclaimed as the definitive novel of the Second World War\, the first of a trilogy including There’s No Home (1950) and The Human Kind (1953). \nThis was followed by a string of novels about working class life in post-war London\, including The Lowlife (1963) a cult novel for many other writers ever since. In recent years his reputation has flourished with many of his fifteen novels back in print. ‘So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron’\, published by Five Leaves in 2019\, is the first detailed study of the man and his work. \nOur guests\, literary critic Susie Thomas\, historian Nadia Valman\, and social historian Ken Worpole\, will each take a distinctive approach to the work of Baron and consider why his reputation and his work are currently enjoying such a serious revival. \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX
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SUMMARY:Autonomy Now presents: 'Occult Features of Anarchism' with Erica Lagalisse and Carl Levy
DESCRIPTION:In the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution\, but in the current century various “conspiracy theories” suggest that anarchists are controlled by government itself. The Illuminati were a network of intellectuals who argued for self-government and against private property\, yet the public is now often told that they were (and are) the very group that controls governments and defends private property around the world. Intervening in such misinformation\, Lagalisse works with primary and secondary sources in multiple languages to set straight the history of the Left and illustrate the actual relationship between revolutionism\, pantheistic occult philosophy\, and the clandestine fraternity. \nExploring hidden correspondences between anarchism\, Renaissance magic\, and New Age movements\, Lagalisse also advances critical scholarship regarding leftist attachments to secular politics. Inspired by anthropological fieldwork within today’s anarchist movements\, her essay challenges anarchist atheism insofar as it poses practical challenges for coalition politics in today’s world. \nStudying anarchism as a historical object\, Occult Features of Anarchism (PM Press\, 2019) also shows how the development of leftist theory and practice within clandestine masculine public spheres continues to inform contemporary anarchist understandings of the “political\,” in which men’s oppression by the state becomes the prototype for power in general. Readers behold how gender and religion become privatized in radical counterculture\, a historical process intimately linked to the privatization of gender and religion by the modern nation-state. \nPraise: \n“This is surely the most creative and exciting\, and possibly the most important\, work to come out on either anarchism or occultism in many a year. It should give rise to a whole new field of intellectual study.”\n—David Graeber\, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, author of Debt: The First 5\,000 Years \n“Erica Lagalisse’s Occult Features of Anarchism is a wonderful and learned provocation. Taking the concept of modern politics as a form of theology and magical ritual\, she traces some aspects of the origins of socialist and anarchist politics and performance to the Hermetic tradition which influenced the Radical Enlightenment and its originators\, in for example\, the work of Spinoza. But she also argues that this ‘magical’ or Hermetic tradition rested on a masculinist coup against women’s knowledge\, especially in the transformation of women healers into malevolent witches.”\n—Carl Levy\, professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths\, University of London \nAbout the Speakers: \nErica Lagalisse is an anthropologist and writer. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, where she is conducting a research project on dynamics surrounding the “conspiracy theory” in social movement spaces. \nCarl Levy is professor of politics at Goldsmith’s College\, University of London. He is a specialist in the history of modern Italy and the theory and history of anarchism. His recent plublsihed work includes The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism with Matthew S Adams\, The Anarchist Imagination with Saul Newman and Colin Ward: Life\, Times and Thought. \nEntry to this event is free and unticketed. \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX
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SUMMARY:Stormlight Book Launch with Jan Woolf
DESCRIPTION:Riversmeet Press invites you to the Housmans launch of Stormlight by Jan Woolf \nStories – short and long- setting ordinary people against big themes; love\, war\, loss\, contemporary politics and the search for fulfilment. Like the author’s first collection Fugues on a Funny Bone they are funny\, witty and acerbic as well as serious. \nStormlight includes her Royal Court short play You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know examining the Blair legacy. Stories range from a Rambler’s Christmas day walk\, a childless senior sneaking into a mothers’ and babies’ only film\, a bitter family argument over the EU referendum\, management consultant wonkery\, and the down but not quite out of homeless street life. All are rooted in experience and activism. \nThe evenings readings will include Jan’s short play ‘You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know’ first performed at the Royal Court. Guest actors will include Alan Franks. \nWine included. Cash sales only of Stormlight on the night. \n***FREE EVENT*** \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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