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’s received positive reviews, including in The Guardian,  London Review of Books, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Critical Social Policy and Patterns of Prejudice. Amongst Mike’s articles linked to the book is this on memories of deindustrialisation .

The latest Process North book reviews are of a clear and informative account of shifting standards in American journalism, showing why accurate reporting is essential to democracy, and of a collection of pieces by Siegfried Kracauer on media, propaganda, and political communication.

Click here for other reviews, on Ruth Colker’s analysis of how ‘public insults’ degrade political culture, making it more difficult to address issues of oppression; a consideration on how the far right could shift to combine racism and ‘green’ politics; an account of the context and motivations which shaped Jane Elliott’s ‘Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes’ classroom activity about discrimination; and Myisha Cherry’s ‘elaborate case for rage at racism’.

For our archive of previously published reviews, click here.

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