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Making Spaces: Or, geography, is political too

a place of their own: geography and the middle class power over space and place is, then, a major weapon in the negotiation of today's world. whatever one's view on international migration, it is difficult to base it on any 1. 1 came across this story in russell king, 'migrations.globalisation and place', in d. massey and p. jess (eds), a place in the world?: places, cultures and globalisation, the open university with oxford university press, oxford 1995, pp5-44 193  soundings simple notion of inalienable rights.

Night Errantry: The Epistemology Of The Wandering Woman

Unsurprisingly, lombroso's attitudes towards the vagabond woman ranged freely, from pity (one must offer help to this diseased woman), to fear (the female offender was driven by strong chemical currents and capable of great evil under their influence), to disgust (with her heavy jaws and hairy moles, the female offender was physically repulsive), to fascination (note what peculiar things female offenders do). The neo-darwinian narrative of de-evolution, issuing in a legitimized imprisonment of wandering women, failed, then, not only because 'prostitution' as a way of life and a form of identity became impossibly diffuse, difficult of access and definition; but also because nineteenth-century social meliorism included in its attitude a new kind of political critique and sentimental narrative at odds with the cold, apolitical, pseudo-objectivity of lombroso, tarnowsky, and simonot.

Invisible Bodies: Mary Kelly's Interim II

This struck me as right, and focused for me the connection with post-partum document: that is, the problem of the woman, of femininity - of sexual difference - as one of how, to adapt lacan's words, i sustain myself in any desire whatsoever.2 at the same time the comment misses the point, and power, of interim (and also of post-partum document). of course, interim as yet also lacks those metadiscursive elements represented in post-partum document by the scientific discourse of the documentation notes, which explain the selection and import of the material shown, or the experimentum mentis footnotes, where the discourse of psychoanalysis is used to present an analysis of the document as a field of desire and also to place and explain the selection and investment of the objects and texts in relation to that field of desire.

Imperialism and the British Labour Movement (1920s)

.  the marxist theory of imperialism and the british labour movement stuart macintyre the british labour movement derived its original understanding of imperialism from outside its own ranks. Thus we find repeated reference in sdf writings to the need of british capitalism to find fresh outlets for goods and surplus capital, and allegations that capitalist 'cliques' were fostering jingoism for this purpose.11 these radical themes were in fact surprisingly similar to the ideas of kautsky and the german spd, which were generally accepted within the second international before the first world war.12 while leading members of the british sdf encountered these ideas at various congresses, they found little expression in their own writings, and the great majority of british marxists were unaware of continental marxist writings on the subject.

Chartism in the Black Country 1850 - 1860

(63) this was acknowledged by the dudley branch the next week who expressed sincere approval of the conciliatory tone of jones to the middle-class reformers and hoped that a united organisation would be effected to secure a real, honest and satisfactory reform bill, (64) the above is a typical example of an increasingly outspoken attitude the dudley chartists were prepared to take and which jones printed in the "people's paper". bilston chartist leadership 1850 - 56 at the beginning of 1850, black country chartism was beginning to stir again, stimulated by the chartist delegate conference held in london in december 1849* in the first week in january a meeting of bilston chartists was held at the house of john jones of wolverhampton street.

Thomas Bewick 1753-1828; Artist, Naturalist, Radical

Life and works by d.croal thompson, the art journal, 1882 bewick gleanings by julia boyd, andrew reid (newcastle), 1886 thomas bewick: his life and times by robert robinson, robinson, 1887 thomas bewick and his pupils by austin dobson, chatto & windus, 1889 thomas bewick by montague weekley, oxford university press, 1953 there is also a large volume, edited by reynolds stone, of reprints of bewick engravings, with an extensive bibliography. It remained for bewick to develop the hardlysuspected range of the new medium.  - 8 - bewick's working life the first job bewick was set to, on starting work with the beilbys, was the cutting, on wood, of the diagrams for a book on mensuration bycharles hutton, son of a colliery labourer, who was one of,the leading mathematicians of the day.

The Organisation of Science - Science as social activity

Too many remnants of the 'gentleman amateur' tradition exist today: the government is reluctant to deal with the organisation of science as a national matter, and one to be taken out of the hands of private enterprise; science graduates form a small minority among industrial executives and the top civil servants; scientists are poorly remunerated in comparison with business executives and pop-singers - the pleasure of scientific work is supposed to be an adequate recompense in itself; and the scientists themselves are slow to achieve the effective trade union organization needed to improve their situation. The culmination of the drive towards the technical university was the formation of imperial college of science and technology by charter in 1907 from an amalgamation of the royal school of pines (which was descended from the royal college of chemistry), the royal school of science and the city and guilds central technical college.

The break-up of the conservative nation

If there had once been some territorial and political substance to the idea of the conservative nation, the invention of what has 18  the break-up of the conservative nation now come to he known as middle england was, from the start, of a different order: 90 per cent in the mind and 10 per cent the friction of discernible geographies. Its carefully fashioned 14  the break-up of the conservative nation democratic project, which underpinned the longuee duree of the conservative party as a competitor in the field of modern mass politics, has come to an end.

Mother Nature - a talk with Phyllis Chesler

chesler is very clear that she does not think that the 'bond' between mother and child entails the need for constant maternal presence or a single maternal caretaker, she believes, for example, marxism today march 1990  interview mother's pride: but is it the bond eternal? that 'each child needs at least 10 adult caretakers'. In adoption, and in surrogacy and custody battles, the assumption is commonly made that an affluent, middle-class lifestyle, (often one which only men can finance), is automatically 'better' for a child than a less affluent one in which the child remains with the biological mother.

The Tory Opposition Interview with Michael Heseltine

If we had a consensus about the need to pursue a market economy, then there is a powerful argument for a freeing up of politics to give local government a greater opportunity, but i think you could only do that if you were to create a power structure at local government that was meaningful. it is working in the states, but it is a 17 'i think david owen made a classic misjudgement in leaving the labour party' judgement about a social problem which i think is large, unacceptable and incurable within the techniques that are available today.

Whose Right To Life A Roundtable Discussion

The latest, the alton bill, has its second reading in the house of commons later this month the participants in the roundtable are: teresa gorman, conservative mp for billericay; jo richardson, labour mp and shadow minister for women; wendy savage, senior lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at the london hospital; and jane woddis, birmingham co-ordinator of fight the alton bill campaign and member of the communist party national women's committee. While well-off women could get an abortion and always will, poorer women had to resort to jumping on and off the table, having drunk a bottle of gin, or worse, knitting needles... t e r e s a it is very serious because you can see in the house fairly popular measures, such as sunday trading, 19 marxism today being defeated by organised and very successful lobbies representing a minority.

KILLING TIME Life on the Assembly Line

The older black women seemed to trundle on all day, but us younger ones would try to go to the loo, not in the breaktime, to give a couple of minutes, and be overjoyed if we were stopped work for a few minutes or a light was missed. Last nights telly was pulled apart, then it got onto general issues - what age was best for marriage, having children, what to let men get away with, and when to put your foot down, a lot about contraception and questions about whether or not you should have an abortion if you are married, and stories about what had happened at doctors or family planning clinic.

What is Definitely Not to be Done

 15 spot the difference puzzle answer oniiaaw her husband ivdiulod is at avpolitical iv si un1v8st1h meeting nth equal pay is only one of many issues on which the trade union movement has failed to fight for women: child care faci­ lities, equal opportunity for training and promotion, abolition of ‘men only’ jobs and restriction of women to ‘women’s work’, equal pension rights-all these and more must be won before women can enjoy any semblance of parity with men in industry. but since the working class is divided, this essential function in no way rules out the necessity of parallel organisations among other sections of the working class with special interests in need of protec­ tion: claimants unions among the wageless, women’s liberation groups among women and the black liberation movement among black people.

A BIT OF UPLIFT TUTUS AND TIGHTS

Classical ballet celebrates the potential harmony of the human body, the utopian ideal of collective endeavour, the a bit of uplift tutus and tights richard dyer possibility of the interchange between the sexes of human qualities we now label masculine or feminine. going to evening classes to learn classical ballet convinced me of the value of ballet.

Michael Jackson THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST?

We find president reagan (somewhat unsurely) extolling michael's temperance, jesse jackson fluctuating between public support and grudging toleration, whilst his aide louis farrakhan castigates michael for his 'sissified' influence on black youth. As charles chaplin embodied 'charlie' the endearing ingenue and 'chaplin' the obsessive businessman, today we are fascinated by the et naivete of gifted michael whilst hearing of the calculating commercial acumen of jackson the dollar multi-millionaire.

WAYS OF WITNESSING Interview with John Berger

36 december 1984 marxism today ways of witnessing interview with john berger john berger's writings on art have fundamentally changed the way we see painting and sculpture. His new book and our faces, my heart, brief as photos will surprise many with its personal and poetic treatment of love, time and displacement.

Interview with David Yip The Chinese Detective

October 1983 marxism today 19 interview with david yip the chinese detective interview by alan clarke how did the idea of the chinese detective come about? I mean whether you do two or three series i'm now the chinese detective actors do — that they can go for months, years in fact taking small parts and then something huge comes along because a writer has either written a part which suits them down to the ground or some enlightened director has given them a lead.

Campaigning Against the Cuts - the South Yorkshire experience

In part this stems from the self-confidence of a powerful labour movement so sure of its own strength that it under-rates the importance of allies; in part it stems from a kind of 'labour party sectarianism' — an anxiety to assert labour party hegemony over the movement. Labour councillor george wilson, leader of sheffield council, had made a statement supporting a proposal from another labour councillor, peter price, to the effect that, if sheffield council had to cut anywhere, it would make its cuts  16 february 1980 marxism today in the one part of sheffield that had registered a tory majority in the election.

Heroines: black skin, blue Eyes and muslin

Heroines: black skin, blue Eyes and muslin Becky Hall Becky

Making spaces or, geography is political too

a place of their own: geography and the middle class power over space and place is, then, a major weapon in the negotiation of today's world. whatever one's view on international migration, it is difficult to base it on any 1. 1 came across this story in russell king, 'migrations.globalisation and place', in d. massey and p. jess (eds), a place in the world?: places, cultures and globalisation, the open university with oxford university press, oxford 1995, pp5-44 193  soundings simple notion of inalienable rights.

The National and International Significance of the Adenauer policy

I s h a n d c o n t i n e n t a l cuisine q u i c k s e r v i c e p a r t i e s r e s t a u r a n t 12 n o on to o p e n 3 p.m. and 5 . Its members are international fascism doing organized youth work; with holiday camps (17 youth even people who deal with the problem of german neocamps in 1959); etc. in the above-mentioned publication mr. gnielka writes: fascism very thoroughly seldom realise that most of these “the number of radical fascist organizations, groups and movements are in a very well-organized network of fascist societies has become immense since the removal of the obligation groups in other countries as well.

Reimagining the Inhuman City: The 'Pure Genius' Land Occupation

processes which he conceived of this as a right to direct and internalise the shape the character and direction of the city spacial inequality of through forms of participation and appropriation cities' which are distinct from, and transcend, the right to property and the right merely to visit the city.9 expelled from the centrality of the city by the omnipresent walls of property and the enclosure of public spaces, and also expelled intellectually and symbolically from the representations of the city which pervade and structure official decision-making processes, marginalised groups find their ability to form this 'meandering cry and demand' crushed. the argument of gramsci, that advanced capitalist societies depend for their legitimacy on the 'spontaneous consent given by the great masses of the population to the general direction imposed on social life by the dominant fundamental group' can inform our ways of thinking about how social/political movements can challenge and reshape this direction.3 dominant groups elicit this 'spontaneous consent' by constructing hegemonic power relations which, through a complex interlocking of political, social and cultural forces, diffuse their own lived system of meanings and values throughout the whole of social life.

Paradigm Lost: Youth and Pop in the 90s

other 'death of pop' allegations have been aimed at cultural forms which have displaced pop's force, but dance music is different, because all of its offspring 182  techno, hard house, handbag house, ambient, hardcore, jungle, drum and bass, intelligent house, goa trance and what london's time out calls 'other moves and grooves' - are original musical forms. Britpop v dance is of little importance because both are on the same side: original 90s pop music by the young, for the young, against the aged voices of reaction who attack youth.

What has Socialism to do with Sexual Equality?

None of the economic inequalities between women and men is particularly hard to explain, for whether we look at the sexual distribution of full-time and part-time employment, or the disproportionate number of women in jobs that require minimal training, or the difficulties women experience in reaching the higher levels on any career ladder, they all point to the unequal division of care work that requires so many women to interrupt their working lives, or opt for part time employment. i am not claiming that a more equitable distribution of care work between women and men resolves all problems of sexual inequality, for while i do see the sexual division of labour as crucial in sustaining sexual hierachies and oppressions, i would not want to present equality in employment and care work as the only feminist concern.

The Content And Discontents Of Kipling'S Imperialism

4 among the studies which appeared in the mid-1960s were andrew rutherford (ed.), kipling's mind and art (1964), j. i. m. stewart, rudyard kipling (london: gollancz, 1966), c. a. bodelsen, aspects of kipling's art (manchester: manchester university press, 1964), alan sandison, the wheel of empire (london: macmillan, 1967), louis l. cornell, kipling in india (london: macmillan, 1966), bonamy dobree, rudyard kipling: realist and fabulist (oxford: oxford university press, 1967), t. r. henn, kipling (edinburgh: oliver & boyd, 1967). The foremost exponent of this view is alan sandison who argues that empire for kipling was simply a 'place des signes', his real concern being with 'man's essential estrangement, illumined with such clarity in the imperial alien's relationship to his hostile environment'. 10 because for sandison, as for kipling, india is 'a very powerful symbol of a nature intrinsically hostile to man', the figure of 'a world inimical to his physical and moral survival', a potent image 'of the forces of persecution ranged against the individual in his struggle to sustain his identity', 11 his commentary colludes with kipling's specification 50 new formations  of india as the negative pole in that ubiquitous structure of oppositions - mind/ body, reason/passion, order/chaos, intelligibility/incoherence - deployed by dominant orders to legitimate relationships of power.