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SUMMARY:White Skin\, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism - with Andreas Malm\, Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter in conversation with Ash Sarkar
DESCRIPTION:What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate change? \n\n\n\nHousmans is pleased to welcome Andreas Malm and Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter from the Zetkin Collective to discuss White Skin\, Black Fuel\, the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis.  \n\n\n\nFossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. White Skin\, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation\, revealing its deep historical roots.  No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface\, some professing to have the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down. \n\n\n\nAndreas\, Laudy and Anoushka will be in conversation with Ash Sarkar\, senior editor at Novara Media.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAndreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology\, and the author of The Progress of this Storm and of Fossil Capital\, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. \n\n\n\nLaudy van den Heuvel is a Dutch investigative journalist focusing on conspirituality\, libertarianism and health. \n\n\n\nAnoushka Zoob Carter is a researcher based at the University of Sussex\, exploring the nexus between land\, food and right-wing politics. \n\n\n\nLaudy and Anoushka are part of the Zetkin Collective\, a group of scholars\, activists and students working on the political ecology of the far right. \n\n\n\nAsh Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media\, and lectures in political theory at the Sandberg Instituut. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210519T190000
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SUMMARY:Border Abolition Now: Fortress Europe and the Migration Crisis - Harsha Walia in conversation with Gargi Bhattacharyya and Maya Goodfellow [online event]
DESCRIPTION:How do borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial\, capitalist\, and racist rule? \n\n\n\nHousmans is very pleased to announce this joint event with Haymarket Books\,  a radical\, independent\, nonprofit book publisher. \n\n\n\nAmidst a global pandemic\, governments around the world have accelerated border closings\, imposed more barriers to asylum seekers\, and expanded immigrant detention. In Border and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism\, Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises\, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of conquest\, capitalist globalization\, and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide. \n\n\n\nJoin Harsha Walia\, Maya Goodfellow and Gargi Bhattacharyya for a discussion about this timely book. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nGargi Bhattacharyya is one of the UK’s leading scholars on race and capitalism. She is the author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008)\, Traffick (2005) and co-author of Empire’s Endgame (2020). \n\n\n\nMaya Goodfellow is a writer\, researcher and academic. She has written for the New York Times\, the Guardian\, the New Statesman\, Al Jazeera and the Independent. She is a trustee of the Runnymede Trust. Maya is the author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats (2019). \n\n\n\nHarsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and\, most recently\, Border and Rule. Trained in the law\, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice\, anti-capitalist\, feminist\, and anti-imperialist movements\, including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. \n\n\n\nTicket information \n\n\n\nThis event will be livestreamed on Haymarket’s YouTube channel. To attend\, please click on link below. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by Housmans Bookshop and Haymarket Books. While all of Haymarket’s events are freely available\, they ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of their important organizing\, programming and publishing work. \n\n\n\n\nTo register for this event\, click here\n\n\n\nTo buy a copy of Border & Rule\, click here\n\n\n\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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CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210526T190000
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SUMMARY:Not Quite Right for Us: Celebrating flipped eye and Speaking Volumes\, with Sharmilla Beezmohun and Colin Grant
DESCRIPTION:Housmans is very proud to announce a joint event with flipped eye and Speaking Volumes to celebrate the publication of Not Quite Right for Us\, an anthology featuring 40 international voices talking about outsider-ness. \n\n\n\nThis event is also part of flipped eyes’s 20th anniversary celebrations. Not Quite Right for Us is published in collaboration with Speaking Volumes\, who are also celebrating their 10th anniversary this year.  \n\n\n\nSpanning eight thematic areas (childhood\, family\, friends\, work\, travel\, love\, yesterday/today and today/tomorrow)\, the anthology features a huge breadth of contributions\, from autobiographical essays to a short story translated from Bengali\, from fictional email exchanges between authors and editors\, to extracts from theatrical plays and mythological poems.  \n\n\n\nIn Not Quite Right for Us new and established writers evoke their own experiences of outsiderness—and defiance against it. Contributors include Kerry Hudson\, Xiaolu Guo\, Aminatta Forna\, Colin Grant\, Nick Makoha\, Byron Vincent\, Rishi Dastidar\, Johny Pitts and Rafeef Ziadah and a foreword by Linton Kwesi Johnson. \n\n\n\nSharmilla Beezmohun\, co-founder of Speaking Volumes and editor of Not Quite Right for Us\, will be in conversation with author and contributor to the anthology Colin Grant. The conversation will be chaired by Mitch Albert\, director of fiction and non-fiction for flipped eye. \n\n\n\nAbout flipped eye \n\n\n\nWinning global acclaim for being a champion of compelling work\, flipped eye publishing has been publishing affordable culture from the margins of British society since 2001. As an incubator for talent\, flipped eye focuses on cultivating potential\, as opposed to producing rapid output\, with publications a manifestation of long-term dialogue between editors and authors over several years. Award-winning authors who were discovered\, developed or launched by flipped eye include Roger Robinson\, Warsan Shire\, Inua Ellams\, Malika Booker\, Miriam Nash\, Nick Makoha and more. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharmilla Beezmohun is the co-founder of Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions in 2010. Previous work includes eleven years as Deputy Editor of Wasafiri\, the Magazine of International Contemporary Writing\, plus stints at Virago and Heinemann’s African and Caribbean Writers Series among others. She edited Continental Shifts\, Shifts in Perception: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe (2016) and co-edited A Meeting of the Continents: The International Book Fair of Black Radical and Third World Books (2005). She is a Trustee of Carcanet Publishers\, Modern Poetry in Translation magazine and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColin Grant is a non-fiction writer\, historian and broadcaster. His books include: Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation\, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week (2019); A Smell of Burning\, a history of epilepsy and Sunday Times Book of the Year (2016); the memoir Bageye at the Wheel\, shortlisted for the Pen/Ackerley Prize (2013). Grant has written and directed several BBC drama documentaries including A Fountain of Tears: The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca; and A History of the N Word. He is the director of the new platform WritersMosaic\, launching in April 2021. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210527T190000
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SUMMARY:Paint Your Town Red - Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones in conversation with Grace Blakeley
DESCRIPTION:Housmans is pleased to welcome Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones to discuss Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too\, the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall.  \n\n\n\nAcross the world\, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic\, less exploitative\, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level through the experience of Matthew Brown\, the driving-force behind the Preston Model. Exploring how different communities around the world are applying similar principles to take back control\, Paint Your Town Red gives us a real blueprint for the wholesale transformation of society.  \n\n\n\n“Paint Your Town Red is a timely reminder that despite years of austerity and neoliberalism there are now genuine economic alternatives emerging in many towns\, cities and regions across the UK.” — John McDonnell\, former Shadow Chancellor \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nMatthew Brown is Labour’s leader of Preston City Council and a Senior Fellow for the Democracy Collaborative\, tasked also with promoting Community Wealth Building across the UK and abroad.Rhian E. Jones is a writer\, historian and author of four books on politics and popular culture. She is an editor at Red Pepper. \n\n\n\nGrace Blakeley is staff writer at Tribune magazine and the author of Stolen and The Corona Crash. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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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