Month: July 2009

• Hey big spender!

  Will Hutton is interviewed about the economic crisis in this week’s Big Issue magazine. Despite Hutton’s position in the mainstream media as a bit of a maverick, he normally makes quite conservative predictions about economic and social matters, trumpeting the rise of China or promoting economic / managerial approaches to social and cultural change. As […]

  James Kennell

  July 30, 2009

  economic crisis, politics, Social Justice

  credit crunch, David Harvey, economic crisis, economics, Marxism

• CFP: Liminal landscapes – remapping the field

  This looks to be an excellent event. Wesley Rykalski and I will probably be submitting a paper, based on some of our work on our arcades / promenades project. Symposium Liverpool John Moores University 1st July 2010   Convenors Dr Hazel Andrews, (Tourism, Consumer and Food Studies, LJMU) Dr Kevin Meethan, Department of Sociology, University […]

  James Kennell

  July 20, 2009

  arcades / promenades, conferences, seaside, Theory, Tourism, walter benjamin

  conference, Theory, Tourism

• Symbolic capital in practice

  Much of the discussion about symbolic capital focuses on the cultural and social capital that individuals or groups don’t have, and how this can explain behaviour, attitudes and achievement.  Because of this we often fall into the trap of defining symbolic capital in negative terms, or explaining it by setting out the consequences of it’s […]

  James Kennell

  July 13, 2009

  bourdieu, Theory

  bourdieu, cultural capital, social capital, symbolic capital, Theory

• David Harvey ‘The Crisis Today’ @ Marxism 2009

  By far the best thing I saw at the conference and an insightful, challenging analysis of the next steps in the crisis in which David Harvey presents a new model of restructuring around seven ‘moments’ that offers an opportunity to the left for a reconceptualisation of it’s approach.

  James Kennell

  July 7, 2009

  conferences, economic crisis, London, Marx, politics, Social Justice, Theory

  conferences, credit crunch, David Harvey, economic crisis, economics, Marx, Marxism, Theory