What is radical politics today?

The recent economic crisis is making all of us think about how the world could
be run differently. Despite this, a radical alternative has hardly emerged to mobilise people, which begs the question: What is radical politics today? In this book, leading academics, politicians, journalists and activists attempt to pinpoint an answer, debating the issues facing radical politics in the 21st Century. Rarely united in their opinions, they collectively interrogate the character and spirit of being radical in our times.
The book includes numerous prominent members of the left internationally including Zygmunt Bauman, Frank Furedi, Clare Short, Edward W. Soja, David Chandler, Hilary Wainwright, Dora Apel, Michael J. Watts, Jason Toynbee, Doreen Massey, Gregor McLennan, Tariq Modood, Nick Cohen, Will Hutton, Saul Newman, Chantal Mouffe, David Featherstone, Alejandro Colás and Jason Edwards, David Boyle, and Saskia Sassen.
You can read some of the authors here.
Read some more reviews at the British blog Left Foot Forward.
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Ordinary People's Politics

Respected academics Judith Brett and Anthony Moran get ordinary Australians to talk about life, politics and the future of their country.

This unique series of snapshots of Australian political culture takes us from the Depression through the post war boom, the economic changes of the 1980s to the early 2000s and the war on terror. Based on interviews done in the 1950s, the 1980s and the early 2000s, twenty-two ordinary Australians talk about politics and its place in their lives. The portraits are sharply etched to read like well-crafted political short stories.

You can hear Geraldine Doogue's interview with the authors from ABC radio here

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