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Faith, Hope or Clarity

Faith, Hope or Clarity Stuart Hall LET ME START by saying that I regard this not as a debate in which one tries…Stuart Hall and Tony Benn at the Left A live conference, 1984

How the Other Half Lives

whole rightward shift of the political spectrum . . .' ('The Great Moving Right Show'1 Stuart Hall) I find myself in a curious position in the midst of the debates taking place within the Left over…Ed Stuart Hall and Martin Jacques The Politics of Thatcherism…affairs, comfortably consistent with Victorian values after all; on the other hand they publicly mobilise, in Stuart Hall's phrase, 'authoritarian populism'

The Drift to Law and Order

practice of discipline in attitudes, behaviour and choices in the home, the streets and the workplace. Stuart Hall and others have described the way that the first has broadened into the second as 'legitimating…Society, 12 June 1980. Robert Mark, In the Office of Constable, p 255. 3 Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, Brian Roberts, Policing the Crisis, p 278. "Speech to NACRO conference, 15 July…E P Thompson 'The Secret State' in Writing by Candlelight 1980. Stuart Hall, Drifting into the Law and Order Society. 7 Committee of Inquiry into the United Kingdom Prison Services

Thatcherism - a new stage?

Tories, not through spontaneity, but by the step by step development of the struggle. May 14 Stuart Hall, in his contribution to this discussion, emphasised the need for a counter-hegemonic strategy to match…aggressive individualism. In the popular imagination socialism has been dubbed 'passive, coercive and corporatist' and as Stuart Hall points out, this is the vision of socialism adopted by many sections of the Left. He states…popular acceptance of cuts. We need to ask why people do not value the public services. Stuart Hall comments in his article on the bureaucratic, corporatist nature of public services which are not accessible

The new Conservatism and the old

Fashioned by tough-minded political savants and intellectuals for the new world that is post-welfare britain, — thriving, lively, realistic, with its feet firmly planted in the political middleground, its fingers on the pulse of the expanding middle classes, its winning smile on the faces of the "new men of power" and future safe behind the glass doors of the giant oligopolies—the "new conservatism" offered itself as a going concern with a gilt-edged future, a safe investment for the politically .uncommitted. The new middle class recruits to the party are the most aggressively nationalist; the defenders of capital the limited revolution the welfare state—with its three punishment promote defence cuts: the advocates of bipartisanship, turn main planks, social security, income out, under pressure, to be militantly redistribution and nationalization— anti-american.

New Left and New Labour: Modernisation or a New Modernity?

parental' role in shaping the upbringing and development of the latter (Guardian, 9.9.98), while Stuart Hall has 14…communities, as well as the resulting changes in the relationship between class and politics. Stuart Hall, for example, writing over forty years 9. R. Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, Penguin 1957, pp342

Not such tolerant times

sure that the current generation of black British youth is as comfortable as Stuart Hall recently suggested, in just 'going on being black and being British'.16 These observations are not necessarily new; in recent…16. Stuart Hall's keynote address at the 'Frontlines Backyards' conference held at the Institute of Education on 6 December

Not Such Tolerant Times

sure that the current generation of black British youth is as comfortable as Stuart Hall recently suggested, in just 'going on being black and being British'.16 These observations are not necessarily new; in recent…16. Stuart Hall's keynote address at the 'Frontlines Backyards' conference held at the Institute of Education on 6 December

The Reading Of A Decade

first used by Stuart Hall in Marxism Today to define the new turn in political strategy and ideology that was taking place on the right in the late 70s. Stuart Hall's seminal article

Being Gay: Politics, Identity, Pleasure

obscured histories of Black, lesbian, and gay, and women's movements reappear in new political formations? Stuart Hall stands at the forefront of recent discussions of 'New Times', the Communist Party's initiative to transform…possible to see how people (rather than 'the people') have been making a reentry into politics. Stuart Hall and David Held have drawn attention to the internal diversity of that orthodox Marxist predication: 'the people

Letter to our Readers

Pancras Town Hall, the ' New Left Review' will be launched. There will be a bran-tub full of speakers; we can't be sure what you will draw, but probably Stuart Hall, the Editor…your pockets. Those who are mean enough to come without money will be locked in the Town Hall crypt until they have signed I.O.U.s. Any London readers who think that they will be clever…first number, we hope, before Christmas). It will have - at last -- a full-time Editor, in Stuart Hall. It will draw upon the combined resources, goodwill and illwill, of both journals. And the two editorial

All in the same boat?

identification can change, but also how coming to Britain has produced particular ways of naming. As Stuart Hall notes, cultural identity, 'is a matter of "becoming" as well as of "being". It belongs…oth Lamming and Hall alert us to the ways in which current labels which demarcate the borders of belonging are also…1. Stuart Hall, 'Cultural Identity and Diaspora', in Jonathan Rutherford (ed.), Identity Community, Culture, Difference, Lawrence and Wishart, London

All in the Same Boat?

identification can change, but also how coming to Britain has produced particular ways of naming. As Stuart Hall notes, cultural identity, 'is a matter of "becoming" as well as of "being". It belongs…oth Lamming and Hall alert us to the ways in which current labels which demarcate the borders of belonging are also…1. Stuart Hall, 'Cultural Identity and Diaspora', in Jonathan Rutherford (ed.), Identity Community, Culture, Difference, Lawrence and Wishart, London

Notes on Contributors

Stuart Hall Doreen Massey Michael Rustin…Part II Heroes and Heroines Introduction: Who dares, fails Stuart Hall An Impossible Heroine? Mary Wollstonecraft and female heroism Barbara Taylor Heroes and Mother's Boys Jonathan Rutherford

World Of Difference - book review

moral and political consensus based on a full recognition of autonomous groups and their distinct concerns. Andrea Stuart and Pratibha Parmar distinguish different forms of feminism and trace their distinct genealogies and political linkages. Kobena…Simon Watney analyses the politics of identity in the context of Aids. Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall go deeper and raise important theoretical issues. In an occasionally dense but perceptive essay Bhabha rightly challenges…identity as an inherently open and fluid process of self-conscious identification with groups and movements. Stuart Hall, whose presence shadows almost all the earlier pieces, explores the agony and the dilemmas involved

Identity in Family and Society

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Editorial

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Editorial

Editor Sabby Sagall : Assistant editor Anthony Arblaster : Editorial committee Clive Barker, Henry Collins, Bernard Crick, Stuart Hall…Hinterhoff and John Slater Race as a political issue: John Rex The Labour Government and People: Stuart Hall Political Strategy for the White-Collar Unions: Clive Jenkins

The Windrush issue Postscript

The Windrush issue Postscript Stuart Hall The 'Windrush' file collected here by Gail Lewis and Lola Young, with its varied styles, voices and genres, seems

Metisse Narratives

nation, ethnicity, region, and class, among others; and one, of course, which ignores inter-racial collaborations. Stuart Hall's definition of cultural identity dovetails with this fluid notion of identities: Cultural identity...is a matter…Stuart Hall, 'Cultural Identity and Diaspora', in Rutherford (ed), Identity, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1990, 225. 109

Uncomfortable times

Uncomfortable times Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey, Michael Rustin

Lay Down Your Weary Tune; The Left And The Cultural Politics Of Aids

values and boundaries with the full authority of 'science', and excluding whole population groups from what Stuart Hall has described as 'the imaginary community of the nation'. 5 It is 'the nation' that consequently emerges…with a shopping-list of political demands folded into her or his back-pocket. To quote Stuart Hall, 'Politics must construct the meanings and deliver the group to the slogans, not assume that the group

Rank and File Building Workers Movements 1910-20

with respect to the base; even though the economy determines in the last instance. See also, Stuart Hall, Bob Lumley and Gregor McLennan, 'Politics and Ideology: Gramsci's Working Papers in Cultural Studies 10/On Ideology…forces within specific con¬ junctures'—also 'cut across the simple topographical model of base and superstructure' (Stuart Hall, at al., 'Politics and Ideology: Gramsci', p.47 and p.71

The politics of emigration

fresh material. It is threatened by lack of money. Can you come to our aid? STUART HALL GABRIEL PEARSON RODERICK PRINCE RALPH SAMUEL CHARLES TAYLOR Donations should be made payable to Universities and Left Review…Two louder boos After Stuart Hall's comments on the unpleasant contemporary significance of George Scott's autobiography, Time and Place, I was very

THE BIG SWIPE

THE BIG SWIPE Stuart Hall Some comments on the "Classlessness Controversy'