Familiar stranger: a life between two islands
by Hall, Stuart
fromStuart Hall : selected writings
Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingston's stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured thems…
Familiar stranger: a life between two islands
by Hall, Stuart
fromStuart Hall : selected writings
With great insight, compassion, and wit Stuart Hall (1932-2014) tells how his experiences-from growing up in colonial Jamaica and attending Oxford to participating in the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain-shaped his intellectual and political work to become one of his a…
Möglicherweise wäre die Soziologie als Fach gar nicht etabliert worden, wenn sich mit der massiven Veränderung der Lebens- und Produktionsbedingungen, ihrer Ambivalenz von technischem Fortschritt und Verelendung Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht auch ein allgemeines Unbehagen bre…
Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, a new Cold War is being waged in our societies. During the Cold War a theoretical model of man was developed by economists and the military, an egotistical being interested only in his own benefit and in duping his opponents to ac…
"It is now common knowledge that the FBI and its long-time director, J. Edgar Hoover, were responsible for the creation of a massive internal security apparatus that undermined the very principles of freedom and democracy they were sworn to protect. While no one was above suspic…
"It is now common knowledge that the FBI and its long-time director, J. Edgar Hoover, were responsible for the creation of a massive internal security apparatus that undermined the very principles of freedom and democracy they were sworn to protect. While no one was above suspic…
