What are you reading? ¨C?14 January 2016

Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography, University of Oxford, is reading Dawn Foster¡¯s Lean Out (Repeater, 2016). ¡°Rarely does ¡®essential reading¡¯ really mean that you urgently need to read a book. But Lean Out is different: 바카라사이트 argument that a society that promotes ¡®aspiration¡¯ must rely on outliers is just one of its many gems. There is a danger that corporate feminism will enter academia and will not be recognised for 바카라사이트 aberration that it is. Lean Out is 바카라사이트 antidote. Just 87 pages long, it is well worth 바카라사이트 many hours it takes to read and absorb.¡±

Vicky Duckworth, senior lecturer in educational research, Edge Hill University, is reading Michael R. M. Ward¡¯s From Labouring to Learning: Working?class Masculinities, Education and De-industrialization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). ¡°I¡¯m gripped by 바카라사이트 educational journeys of a group of working-class males from 바카라사이트 Welsh valleys, and moved as I navigate through 바카라사이트 rich history and devastating deindustrialisation of a once-vibrant community. ¡®Chameleonisation¡¯, Ward¡¯s meaningful metaphor, unlocks 바카라사이트 often silenced complexities at work in 바카라사이트se re-traditionalised, re-embodied practices of masculinity.¡±

Dave O¡¯Brien, senior lecturer in cultural policy, ICCE, Goldsmiths, University of London, is reading Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), edited by David Hesmondhalgh, Kate Oakley, David Lee and Melissa Nisbett. ¡°I¡¯m reading this for three reasons. First, it is invaluable for 바카라사이트 teaching I do. Second, it gives important context to 바카라사이트 uncertainty associated with arts funding. Finally, it gives a nuanced assessment of 바카라사이트 entire New Labour period, countering simplistic assertions that it was merely a neoliberal project.¡±

R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history, University of Winchester, is reading Gavin Stamp¡¯s Lost Victorian Britain: How 바카라사이트 Twentieth Century Destroyed 바카라사이트 Nineteenth Century¡¯s Architectural Masterpieces (Aurum Press, 2007). ¡°It reads at times like a relentless catalogue, but this effect rightly underlines 바카라사이트 ruthless obliteration of countless fine Victorian buildings not just by wartime bombs but in 바카라사이트 course of ill-conceived schemes of civic ¡®improvement¡¯. Euston station¡¯s destruction was perhaps 바카라사이트 most unforgivable, but alongside it should be placed iconic buildings as various as 바카라사이트 Imperial Institute in South Kensington and 바카라사이트 monumentally vast Eaton Hall in Cheshire.¡±

Uwe Sch¨¹tte, reader in German, Aston University, is reading Marianne Fritz¡¯s The Weight of Things (Dorothy, 2015). ¡°Possibly 바카라사이트 world¡¯s most colossal literary work, Festung (Fortress) is one in which its author, 바카라사이트 Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007) breaks with all narrative norms. It is a monstrous work that mirrors 바카라사이트 monstrosity of its subject matter ¨C 바카라사이트 Second World War. Only 바카라사이트 first part, The Weight of Things, can conceivably be translated. Adrian Nathan West has achieved this difficult task superbly.¡±