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The healing power of art: strategies for mending a cleaved ex-industrial community

Lisa Taylor art, bulletin, coronavirus, covid-19, populism 23 February 2022

In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 25, Lisa Taylor reflects on the role that participatory art projects may play in helping communities deal with the social and personal impacts of deindustrialisation.

Reflex Reaction? Memory, Deindustrialisation, and Right-wing Populism in a Northern English Town

Mike Makin-Waite bulletin, class, immigration, race 2 September 2020

Was it ‘automatic’ that deindustrialisation in northern English towns would lead to support for the populist politics which have brought us to Brexit? Suggestions on how cultural memories from Lancashire’s cotton mills mutated into nativist outlooks.

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Reflex Reaction? Memory, Deindustrialisation, and Right-wing Populism in a Northern English Town

Pygmalion’s (De)feat: Climate Crisis and the Humanities as Pedagogy

How Honeybees Can Teach Us How to Live During the Climate Emergency

Seven Photographs That Expose the Stark Reality of Immigration Detention

Update: The Richard Wollheim Centenary Project

The Art of Knowledge Failure

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