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Tony Blair and the jargon of modernisation

point for analyses of Thatcherism developed by important writers such as Andrew Gamble and Stuart Hall. In particular, modernisation formed an underlying theme to the perspectives developed in the 1980s in the pages of Marxism

Writing the obituaries

amazement, I discovered that, with the exception of Gramsci (then being re-read by Stuart Hall and others), the Marxist tradition - the left intellectual tradition - hardly recognised nationalism except as a third-world development stratagem

Across the great divide Welfare and culture inBritain and Europe

these essays help transcend the traditional 'agency-structure' dichotomy in our theorisation of social welfare. As Stuart Hall observed recently, 'You can no longer think primarily in terms of the economic and the material

Reimagining the inhuman city

Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic, Verso, London 1993. The introduction to Stuart Hall's Hard Road to Renewal, Verso, London 1988, has a fine discussion of Thatcherism's relation

The break-up of the conservative nation

Conservatism was based not merely on the tinkerings of electoral calculus. They were going, as Stuart Hall argued, for a radical recasting of the conservative nation. Time and again they declared that theirs

After the deluge Politics and civil society in the wake of the New Right

their different ways, thinkers like Edward Thompson, Raymond Williams, Juliet Mitchell, Perry Anderson, Tom Nairn and Stuart Hall never lost sight of the particular significance of the power exercised within the state, and its interactions

Welfare settlements and racialising practices

all.12 11. B. Tizard and A. Phoenix, 1993, Black, White or Mixed Race, London:Routledge. 12. Stuart Hall, 'New Ethnicities', reprinted in J. Donald and A. Rattansi, 'Race', Culture and Difference, Sage, London 1992, p257

Who dares, fails

They know the doubleness, the ambivalence, which is at the heart of identification: how slippery the distinction is between 'being' and 'having'; how little role modelling has to do with someone else's actual life, and how much it has to do with our rewriting of that life, into our narratives, with autography; how little it tells us about them, 117  soundings how much about our desire, both for ourselves and for the other; how inextricably the merging in fantasy with is linked to the awakening of the violence of refusal and rejection from - real or imagined. Bevan - my hero from the days of the suez demonstration in trafalgar square in 1956, when he had put the pigeons to flight with his scathing denunciation of the nefarious eden-french-israeli stitch-up that had taken britain into the most ludicrous post-imperial adventurism until the falklands war - had responded to this triumph of cnd campaigning, 'don't send me naked into the conference chamber'.

Whose Heroes Does A City Remember?

Stuart Hall c/o

An exemplary life

role in the establishment of New Left Review, his political involvement with colleagues such as Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Michael Rustin in the production of the 1967 May Day Manifesto, and lastly, incorporating

The New Left

analysis of the cultural influences at work by Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, Stuart Hall, and other contributors to U.L.R. The contributors t o ' Conviction' have pursued an analysis on parallel lines. It is no longer

Active Welfare: Introduction – Across the Great Divide

these essays help transcend the traditional 'agency-structure' dichotomy in our theorisation of social welfare. As Stuart Hall observed recently, 'You can no longer think primarily in terms of the economic and the material

Heroes, Heroines: Introduction – Who dares, fails

They know the doubleness, the ambivalence, which is at the heart of identification: how slippery the distinction is between 'being' and 'having'; how little role modelling has to do with someone else's actual life, and how much it has to do with our rewriting of that life, into our narratives, with autography; how little it tells us about them, 117  soundings how much about our desire, both for ourselves and for the other; how inextricably the merging in fantasy with is linked to the awakening of the violence of refusal and rejection from - real or imagined. Bevan - my hero from the days of the suez demonstration in trafalgar square in 1956, when he had put the pigeons to flight with his scathing denunciation of the nefarious eden-french-israeli stitch-up that had taken britain into the most ludicrous post-imperial adventurism until the falklands war - had responded to this triumph of cnd campaigning, 'don't send me naked into the conference chamber'.

I Want The Black One: Is There A Place For Afro-American Culture In Commodity Culture?

opens up the commodity form, but does it provide a platform for the emergence of what Stuart Hall calls the 'concrete historical subject'?38 Is there a Meridian in this text, capable of discovering

A Symptomology Of An Authoritarian Discourse: The Parliamentary Debates On The Prohibition Of The Promotion Of Homosexuality

play of racial and sexual images in this poster was by no means incidental; as Stuart Hall notes, the construction of the equivalence, Labour = 'excessive' local government = high rates = 'loony Left' = permissiveness = radical blackness, gayness

Identities

reassess the dynamic between the dissemination of identities and their fixity. T h u s Stuart Hall has recently been arguing for what he calls a 'new ethnicity': a politics that acknowledges the cultural construction

Englishness And The Paradox Of Modernity

well as others (e.g. Stuart Hall and Enoch Powell) believe that it is within the shadow of that period, and its meanings, that

Reviews

STUART HALL

Room at the Top

sense of the object of riches being transformed into the personal ambitions of the hero, which Stuart Hall wrote about in "A Sense of Classlessness" (ULR 5). But Mr. Gibbs does not follow his point

New Authoritarianism-New Left

Murdoch — their principal themes ("the new classlessness" and " alienation") are discussed elsewhere in this issue by Stuart Hall and Charles Taylor. Theirs is above all a plea for renewing the tradition of moral seriousness

Alienation and Community

provide the only criterion of success. (This represents, in fact, the growth of " Consumer Capitalism," which Stuart Hall analyses at length in his article in this issue.)

A Commitment Dialogue

part were: Graham Martin, Alan Lovell, Maurice Butterworth, Paddy Whannel, Charles Taylor, Gary Pearson, Alex Jacobs, Stuart Hall. {The two poems discussed in detail were "Song To a Dead Soldier"—New Reasoner

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basis of a series of discussions. The unsigned material has been written up by Stuart Hall, Ralph Samuel, Peter Sedgwick, Charles Taylor. Clive Jenkins' article is based on material for his forthcoming study

The New Labour Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

formulated this as 'corporate populism', which gives an apt new emphasis to the concept which Stuart Hall earlier devised in regard to Thatcherism, 'authoritarian populism'. In a valid contrast, Barnett juxtaposes the manipulative and authoritarian

Notes on Contributors

Stuart Hall Doreen Massey Michael Rustin