On Burnley Road, book reviews, articles

Process North’s Mike Waite is the author of On Burnley Road: Class, race and politics in a northern English town (2021, Lawrence Wishart Books).  It received a range of positive reviews, including in The Guardian,  London Review of Books, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Patterns of Prejudice and the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Amongst Mike’s articles linked to the book is this piece on the website of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

The latest book reviews on this site consider a sustained case for the importance of the politics of truth in defending democratic culture, and perspectives on the (arguably) over-used phrase ‘difficult conversation’ – and looks at what such a thing actually is, and how it can best be handled.

For the Process North archive of previously published reviews, click here.

Themes covered include good practice in conflict resolution; understanding and responding to extremism; ideas and theory; and communications and media.

And click here for a discussion piece offering a provisional consideration of the relevance of Chantal Mouffe’s thought for conflict resolution work.