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This briefing paper summarizes the results of research carried out in Bradford, Salford and Manchester in the UK, Porto Alegre in Brazil, Medellin in Colombia, and Caracas in Venezuela, 2006-2007.
This research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council under the ESRC Non-Governmental Public Action Programme. The ESRC is the UK's leading research and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. ESRC aims to provide high-quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and Government.

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- Manchester, Gobernabilidad, Gobernanza, Participación ciudadana

The Manchester collective, “Steady State Manchester” has been working for the last three years on the idea of a post-growth economy. This proceeds from the understanding that aggregate growth of the economy is deeply problematic, ecologically, socially and indeed, in its own terms, economically. We have focussed on its implications at the municipal and regional levels, emphasising re-localisation (in the context of “globalisation gone mad”), redistribution and equality, the money-debt-credit-investment system, and how to assess the well-being of the community without reliance on the crude economistic measures of GDP and GVA growth. This short chapter describes our work and the opportunities and barriers it meets.

Depuis quelques annees, un interet croissant pour les ecoquartiers se manifeste chez les elites urbaines. A travers l’analyse du projet New Islington a Manchester, cet article cherche a comprendre le role joue par la realisation de ces quartiers dans les demarches de developpement urbain. En replacant ce projet dans le contexte des politiques urbaines conduites au Royaume-Uni, l’article cherche a isoler les logiques a l’œuvre dans les usages repetes de la notion de « ville durable ». Les ecoquartiers, bien que contribuant a l’approfondissement des politiques urbaines d’environnement, apparaissent insuffisants pour repondre a l’« ideal » de la ville durable. En circonscrivant les innovations et ameliorations a des zones reduites de la ville, ils participent a l’accentuation de la differenciation du traitement des espaces urbains.

- by Vincent Béal
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- Urban Politics, Political Science, Urban Planning, Sustainable Urbanism

The UK Government wants to make it easier to convert offices to residential use without full planning permission to help solve London's housing shortage. But it runs the risk of simply turning valuable commercial space into more empty... more

- by Zoe Green
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- Real Estate, Global cities, Urban Planning, Housing
- by Jasna Cizler
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- Urban Geography, Urban Planning, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Urban Regeneration

GIS images of Manchester slavery petitions of 1806

- by Sami Pinarbasi
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- Slavery, History of Slavery, Abolition of Slavery, Slave Trade

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to measure the validity and reliability of the Manchester Triage System (MTS) in an Irish healthcare setting.
Design: The design used is that of a methodological nature which is aimed at determining the level of interrater reliability or levels of agreement amongst nurses using the MTS.
Setting: The setting used the emergency department of an inner city centre teaching hospital in Dublin, with an average attendance of 46000 patients per annum where the MTS has been in use since 1998.
Sample: The sample consisted of 31 nurses who work within the emergency department, have had formal training in the use of the MTS and who use it on a regular basis.
Data Collection: All participants were given a questionnaire by the researcher which they have to complete. The questionnaire was divided into two sections; the first contained 15-20 patient scenarios which the participants will be asked to assign a triage category to each, the second section contained demographic questions about the individual participant.
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Data Analysis: the data was analysed using the Kappa statistic, to determine the level of agreement between the individual nurses responses, descriptive statistics are used to outline the characteristics of the sample chosen.
Results: The interrater reliability of the MTS in this project was determined as moderate (k=0.45 p<0.0001). Only one scenario received the correct answer by all participants, of all the answers received approximately 15% (n=141) were ‘over triaged’ and 17% (n=155) were ‘under triaged’. The correlation of the modal scores with the correct answers was approx 90% with a difference of only 1 category between any of the scores.
Conclusion: These results demonstrate that the MTS has a moderate level of interrater reliability when used within an Irish healthcare setting; however the discrepancies that were found namely the percentages of ‘over’ and ‘under’ triaging could have detrimental effects for patient outcomes. The conclusions that arise from this project are that further educational strategies need to be put into place in order to reduce the number of patients that are triaged incorrectly and that further reliability and validity studies are required in the area of the MTS.

- by Kenny Folliard
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- Manchester, Triage

This paper uses the glass and steel Urbis building in Manchester as a prism via which we might look at cultural, political and economic change in England over the last twenty years or so. It takes stock of neoliberalism, museum and popular culture in England during that time, and tries to sense different political, cultural and economic turns, at the same time as it acknowledges that 'uneven development' on any landscape makes the attempt to describe macro change problematic. To deal with this, the paper introduces a particular figuring of the term 'degentrification', in order to think about the ways in which these essentially dialectical movements operate. We are soliciting a cultural dialectic here, which focuses on one site, but then uses the insights made there - in the tradition of Walter Benjamin and the Situationists - to think through wider cultural, economic and political temperatures in England between the early 1990s and the present day.

- by Mark Justin Rainey
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- Popular Culture, Gentrification, Neoliberalism, Manchester
- by Iris Chu
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- England, Manchester, Industrialization, Hitory
- by Peter N Lindfield
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- History, Art History, Genealogy, Heraldry

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- by Simon Young
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- Manchester, Lancashire dialect, Lancashire Local History, Moston

This thesis is the first to focus on grassroots political opposition to fracking development in a city-region. It examines the political space opened by activists in Greater Manchester between 15th November 2013 and 12th April 2014, situating their political struggle in a broader urban terrain of protest. Data collection was conducted between 28th August 2013 and 20th October 2014. The thesis looks beyond simple interpretations of community opposition, toward theoretically grounded understandings of anti-fracking dissent. Paradoxically, in this case a local struggle emerged primarily from social movements unrelated to the development site itself, whose actors converged on the issue of stopping fracking in the cityregion and engaged disadvantaged communities neighbouring the exploratory well. Research illustrates how activists drew on the tactics and organisational practices of radical urban uprisings to open-up and sustain an anti-fracking camp outside the exploratory well for five months, and examines ways that their dissent challenged what was being contested, who could engage in the struggle and which grievances were recognised as legitimate. Understanding the complexities of the struggle contributes to existing research on the politics of contemporary urban environmental movements by examining how solidarity and an emancipatory politics can emerge from disparate groups that have seemingly discordant perspectives. This has practical as well as theoretical relevance, because the Greater Manchester anti-fracking movement successfully presented a united front against ‘fracking’, despite internal conflict between actors. Using ostensibly horizontal and less-obvious vertical organisational modes of practice to organise the anti-fracking movement, activists sustained a protest camp and limited access to the exploratory well while it was in operation, before leaving of their own volition. This means that analysis contributes to a politics of hope, offering lessons for similar struggles that emerge from disparate, autonomous groups.

- by Craig Thomas
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- Social Movements, Political Theory, Jacques Rancière, Protest

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important field of government-led intervention, and policy and practice continue to adapt to the fresh challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century, as well as confronting long-standing intractable urban problems and dilemmas. This Companion provides cutting-edge critical review and synthesis of recent conceptual, policy and practical developments within the field. With contributions from 72 international experts within the field, it explores the meaning of ‘urban regeneration’ in differing national contexts, asking questions and providing informed discussion and analyses to illuminate how an apparently disparate field of research, policy and practice can be rendered coherent, drawing out common themes and significant differences. The Companion is divided into six parts, exploring: globalization and neo-liberal perspectives on urban regeneration; emerging econceptualizations of regeneration; public infrastructure and public space;
housing and cosmopolitan communities; community centred regeneration; and culture-led regeneration. The concluding chapter considers the future of urban regeneration and proposes a nine-point research agenda. This Companion assembles a diversity of approaches and insights in one comprehensive volume to provide a state-of-the-art review of the field. It is a valuable resource for both advanced undergraduate
and postgraduate students in Urban Planning, Built Environment, Urban Studies and Urban Regeneration, as well as academics, practitioners and politicians.

- by Amin Al-Habaibeh
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- Manchester, Volume

Provide a critique of existing development or an existing proposal for a site within Hulme or Moss Side, Manchester. Based on these critiques outline your alternative proposal for promoting a better masterplan/design and with this a more... more

Social, economic and environmental aspects of building sustainable communities receive ample academic and policy attention; far less is paid to finding financially sustainable models of urban regeneration. This case study of the Hattersley Estate in Greater Manchester, England, provides insights into an innovative approach to financing estate regeneration via novel mechanisms of planning gain, stock transfer, and tenure diversification, influenced by the Mixed Communities agenda. In the context of enduring spatially-concentrated deprivation, state withdrawal of regeneration funding, and residualisation and neglect of public housing stock by an absentee landlord-together rendering estate renewal too expensive for conventional stock transfer-regeneration partners have instead sought to leverage local land values for a 'self-financing' method of regeneration. This article describes how a novel business model and financialisation fix were conceived and implemented for Hattersley's relatively successful estate regeneration; explores the political-economic implications and contradictions of this financialised approach for urban development trajectories; and draws critical connections between research on financialisation, land value capture and municipal entrepreneurialism.

In the summer of 1981 a series of riots broke out across England. Here we look at the contemporary photojournalism of the Moss Side, Manchester, riots in the local newspaper, the Manchester Evening News, in order to better understand the riots and media representation of riots more generally. We begin by exploring the contradictory nature of photography (and news photography in particular) – what Susan Sontag refers to as photography’s narrowly selective transparency. We then outline a brief history of the riots, before turning to examine photographs in the Manchester Evening News at the time. We analyse the images both collectively and individually on the basis of what has been selected to be shown and why, and what has been excluded. This perspective allows us then to see in the photographs themselves what was intended to be excluded, primarily the causes of the riots – poverty, racism and oppressive policing; and the humanity of those who took part.

- by Shirin Hirsch
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- Photography, Race and Ethnicity, Manchester, Riots

This article examines the actions of Mancunians who either supported or opposed abolitionism between the years 1792 and 1807. A central part of this article is an exploration of the individual signatories (and associated addresses and businesses) who attached their names to the Manchester pro- and antislavery petitions of 1806. This is achieved by using historical geographic information systems (GIS) to understand and plot patterns of opposing ideologies throughout the city in order to present the idea that the ideology expanded beyond social clubs, parlours, and published materials. The notion that two opposing sides of the slavery debate often occupied the same space is investigated. Such an approach will offer a hitherto overlooked aspect of slavery and abolition in Manchester.

- by Sami Pinarbasi
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- Slavery, History of Slavery, Slave Trade, Microhistory

This article critically examines existing queer theoretical takes on punk and same-sex passion, highlighting the politically troubling implications of retrospectively romanticising punk's transgressions. Drawing on a range of examples including the fashion designs of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, the punk subcultural nucleus of the Bromley Contingent and the work of the Buzzcocks, it argues that a new approach is needed: one that provides an accurate historical portrayal of the complex and varied relations between British punk, sexual politics and identities and the conjuncture of the late 1970s. Such analysis makes possible an assessment of the ways in which these relations might inform crucial issues faced by LGBTQ people and countercultural forces in the present. What resources of hope might punk offer, and how might we learn from its missteps and dead ends, which, to be fair, are always easier to see in hindsight?

- by David Wilkinson
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- Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Queer Theory, Gender and Sexuality

In the years immediately after the WWII Manchester bore witness to its own miniature version of the 'military industrial complex'. The coalescence of research and manufacture in the service of the military, especially in the northwest , had an indisputable impact on the fortunes of the University and the, then, Manchester College of Technology, and their expansion in both student numbers and estate in the years after 1945. The legend of Turing, Williams and Kilburn and the Ferranti Mark I computer at the University is well known. The place of UMIST in the recovery story is less exposed, but its evolution was part of a national plan and intrinsically tied to the political desire for advancement through technological progress.

- by Richard Brook
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- Manchester, History of architecture, post-war Modernism, UMIST
- by Michael R. Krätke
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- Political Economy, Marxism, Ecology, Socialism

Please note that an updated and expanded version of this paper is now included in my book, 'Krakow; Sources of Information for Jewish Genealogy and History' which was published by JewishGen Press in 2022. The information in the... more

- by Geoffrey Weisgard
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- Jewish History, Manchester, Kraków

House music has had a considerable influence in shaping the sound of pop music from the late 1980s onwards. From underground dance events to the pop charts, traces of this aesthetic can be found in many guises. This book is a comparative study which traces a genealogy of house music across England, the Netherlands and US cities, such as Chicago, from the early 1980s to the first half of the '90s. In doing so, it maps some of the power structures that are at play in the uses of its specific technologies of production and consumption. The author, Hillegonda Rietveld, was already steeped in dance club culture before she decided to write this loving piece of academic prose about house. Taking critical cultural studies as a vehicle and house music as its aesthetic fuel, she ram raids boundaries of academic disciplines, fusing ideas like a meticulous DJing curator.

- by Jo Stanley
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- Latin American and Caribbean History, Migration Studies, Manchester

Friedrich Engels maintained close relations with two Irish women; Mary
Burns (c.1822-1863), Engels’ common law wife, and then her sister Lydia
‘Lizzie’ Burns (1827-1878), who formally married Engels just before her
death. The history of women, like those of the working classes and racial
minorities, is always bedevilled by what E.P. Thompson called ‘the enormous
condescension of posterity’, in which illiterate peoples are erased
from the historical record. Yet, it is rare to find illiterate women so close
(and seemingly making a major determining impact) on the lives of literate
men. Drawing on Marx and Engels’ sprawling correspondence, as well as
other contemporary records, this paper seeks to uncover how much we
can ever truly know about these two women? How much of a role did
they actually play in Engels’ political and literary work? And how much
have their real lives been covered up with a Marxist romanticising of two
proletarian, illiterate factory workers?

- by Aidan Beatty
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- Irish Studies, Victorian Studies, Irish Diaspora, Communism

هل انت محبط في الحياة. ما نوع الثروة التي تريدها؟ اليوم أمرنا لوسيفر بإحضار عضو إلى مملكته. هل تعبت من الفقر وتريد الآن الشهرة والسلطة والثروة ، قوتنا السحرية تفوق خيالك. يمكننا القيام بالسحر نيابة عنك فيما يتعلق بوضعك المالي أو الأحداث المستقبلية أو كل ما هو مهم بالنسبة لك. لدينا القوة ونستخدمها. نحن المتنورين ، ويمكننا تغيير مسار القدر. تواصل معنا وسنساعدك. أخبرنا بما تريده وسنقوم بعملنا. هل هو شخص أو شيء ترغب في الحصول عليه؟ هل تريد ثروة (تريد أن تنمو حسابك المصرفي ؟، تحتاج أموالًا للاستمتاع بحياة جيدة؟ هل تعبت من العمل الجاد ومعرفة أين؟) أو السعادة؟ المجتمع الأكثر قوة يرحب بك في المتنورين .. اتصل بمبادرة Illuminati home أرسل لنا أهم رغباتك وسنعمل قوتنا لصالحك. عند ملء نموذج الطلب عبر الإنترنت ، تأكد من إخبار المتنورين بما تريد! اتصل بي عبر البريد الإلكتروني: {illuminatihoodssociety666@outlook.com} أو + 2348119128864 ، أضفني على Whatsapp + 22393587689
ما هو المتنورين؟
تم استخدام مصطلح "المتنورين" في العديد من السياقات ونُسب إلى مجموعة متنوعة من الأفراد أو المجموعات. تم اختيار المتنورين في الأصل كاسم لجمعية سرية أوروبية في القرن الثامن عشر ، وهو مخلوق مختلف تمامًا عن مخلوق المتنورين في بافاريا.
يستخدم المتنورين اليوم بشكل شائع كمصطلح عام لوصف النخبة الحاكمة ، وهي مجموعة صغيرة نسبيًا من الأثرياء الأثرياء الذين يمتلكون عالمنا ويحكمونه بشكل جماعي.
من الصعب تحديد العدد الدقيق للأشخاص في هذه المجموعة ودرجة سيطرتهم وتأثيرهم على الشؤون العالمية ، لكن وجود الطبقة الحاكمة نفسها مقبول على نطاق واسع على طرفي الطيف السياسي العالمي. تعمل هذه الطبقة الفائقة المنظمة للغاية في مصلحتهم المشتركة سواء في تحسين الأعمال أم لا.
تقع مجموعة الظل هذه في قلب كل النظريات الحديثة لمؤامرة المتنورين. تتجاوب المجموعة مع الحركة ، وهي منظمة جذرية عشبية ولدت في أعقاب الأزمة المالية لعام 2008 ، احتلوا النسبة المئوية. غالبًا ما أضاف الأصوليون المسيحيون والمستفيدون من الأجسام الغريبة تحولاتهم الخاصة ، بما في ذلك البط المعتاد لعبادة الشيطان والتضحية بالدم ، مما يجعل استخدام مصطلح المتنورين الغامض.
سوف ندرس بعض النظريات الأكثر شيوعًا حول مؤامرة المتنورين وننظر إلى أوجه التشابه والاختلاف بينهم.
إجراءات توصيل الأعضاء المتنورين.
الخطوات لمتابعة:
1. يدفع الأعضاء رسومًا قدرها 200 دولار أمريكي
2. تلقي سلسلة من الرمز السري (S.S.C.N)
3. ستتلقى مكالمة هاتفية أو بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى Grand Lodge Lord الذي يوجهك إلى الخطوة التالية ، وتاريخ ووقت ومكان حفل البدء.
ملاحظة: بمجرد إتمام الدفع ، سيتم إرسال إيصال عبر البريد الإلكتروني لهذه المعاملة.
بمجرد تأكيد الدفع الخاص بك ، سوف نتصل بك على الفور وسوف ترسل أيضًا خطاب دعوة عبر البريد الإلكتروني إلى المتنورين المحليين لدينا لحضور حفل البدء في غضون 24 ساعة من تاريخ دفع رسوم التسجيل للأعضاء. سيكون خطاب الدعوة عبارة عن رقم تسلسلي سري (S.S.C.N) ستقوم بإنشائه لتعريف نفسك في Lodges Worldwide.
ملحوظة: بمجرد حضور حفل الافتتاح ، سيتم تقديمك رسميًا إلى جمعية شبكة المتنورين العالمية وستتلقى جميع مزايا وامتيازات الأعضاء الجدد في المتنورين.
1. جائزة نقدية قدرها 3،000،000 دولار أمريكي لعضويتك المباركة كأعضاء جدد
2- سيارة أحلام أنيقة جديدة بقيمة 300.000 دولار أمريكي.
3- شراء منزل الأحلام في البلد الذي تختاره.
4- إجازة لمدة شهر (مدفوعة بالكامل) إلى الوجهة السياحية التي تحلم بها.
5- باقة عضوية الجولف لمدة عام.
6- علاج V.I.P في جميع المطارات في العالم.
7- تغيير كلي في نمط الحياة.
8- الوصول إلى بوهيميان جروف.
9- دفع 1،000،000 دولار أمريكي شهريًا في حسابك المصرفي كل شهر
كعضو
10- حجز موعد لمدة شهر مع أفضل 5 قادة عالميين وأفضل 5
مشاهير في العالم

- by williams james
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- History, Business & Society, Public Domain, Brotherhood

There follows a taster for Higson, South Manchester Supernatural (978-1-8380969-0-8)
This is southern Manchester as you have never seen it before. We have: shape-changing ghosts; cow-levitating Boggarts; child-murdering Jenny Greenteeth; the tree-haunting Nut Nan; Dicky, a railway-destroying skull; din-making Clap Cans; border-guarding Pad Feet; and, beware, above all, Raura Peena the last fairy of Saddleworth. All this in a hundred-and-three pages, in the Pwca Ghost, Witch and Fairy Pamphlet series.
The author, John Higson (1825-1871) wrote, from the 1850s, a series of supernatural sketches of Gorton (where he was born and grew up), Droylsden (where he lived), Lees (where he died), Saddleworth (where he walked) and other areas he visited, including Preston and Derbyshire. Born to a poor family, raised without an education, Higson became, through hard-work and talent one of the most exciting Lancashire folklore writers of his generation, and got to be friends with some of the most influential county authors of his day.
However, because Higson never brought his folklore work together in a single volume his supernatural prose (and two songs) have been lost in obscure and, in some cases, forgotten publications. For the first time now his folklore compositions, from fifteen different articles and books, are gathered together in the hope of giving Higson (and the supernatural world he inhabited) the attention they so richly deserve. Also included: a short biography and William E. A. Axon’s ‘Hartshead Boggart’ (a tribute to Higson from a friend).

- by Simon Young
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- Folklore, Manchester, Lancashire dialect, Supernatural Folklore

This article uses Manchester (England) as a case study to examine some relationships between the city and the popular culture that emerges from, or seeks to represent, this city. We focus on postwar popular culture that has been widely disseminated such as film, television and popular music. The article considers whether these examples of popular culture reflect wider urban, social and cultural change and discus what impact this popular culture has had on changing the landscape and fortunes of the city. In particular, we discuss the case study of Manchester's popular culture in terms of ideas about place-based identities and social class. We consider popular culture in terms of de-industrialising Manchester through to regenerated Manchester. The paper concludes by discussing the possibility that the city centre of Manchester has become gentrified and considers the impact that this is having on popular culture.

- by Katie Milestone
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- Music, Women, Creative Industries, Manchester
- by Giacomo Bottà
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- European Studies, Popular Music, Creative Industries, Manchester

This essay investigates "She's Lost Control" (SLC); four versions by Joy Division and a cover version by Grace Jones. The essay explores the assertion that 'music can represent mental states directly, including those classified as illnesses or disabilities, without the mediation of language'. (Lerner and Straus, 2006, p8). Musical and extra-musical factors contribute to the process by which the song generates meaning and remains open to interpretation by disparate social groups and generations. I argue that Joy Division's various versions are inherently unstable and heighten the loss of control indicated in the lyrics. Conversely, Jones' version is musically stable. Her theatrical vocal delivery creates a distance between her and the often-harrowing lyrics.

- by Liam Maloy
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- Disability Studies, Epilepsy, Manchester, Disability Studies in Music

This is an edited transcription of an oral interview published in Academia on June 17th. ‘Only Connect’ was a slogan coined by the novelist, E.M. Forster, in Howard’s End. My latest book, Self in the World (2022), has as a subtitle ‘Connecting life’s extremes’: self/world, individual/society, personal/impersonal, local/global, real/virtual, life/ideas, speech/writing. The interview in Rio de Janeiro, May 2011, takes some time to get to this point, but firmly establishes that my fixation with these pairs as an anthropologist is rooted in the contradictions of my schooling as a teenager. The first half of my professional history is focused on my early years as a student in Manchester, Cambridge and Accra. But the second half achieves greater depth with the development industry, the United States, studying money, building an online community, South Africa and reflections on the global condition of anthropology today. There are important gaps, such as Britain, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe, with no mention of prolonged mental illness, even if it is a known hazard of professional academic life. These topics are explored more fully in Self in the World.

- by John Keith Hart
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- Anthropology, Education, Ghana, Memoir and Autobiography

This is a transcription of a conversation we held in honour of Keith Hart at the 2018 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) meeting in Stockholm. We asked people to think about the great themes of Keith’s work, including both methods and topics: money and currency; and scale
and how to bridge individual experience, global process, and world history. For
good reason, we invited a poet, a playwright, and a novelist, as well as a postcolonial literary critic, to join the group of anthropologists who had come together. We were mindful of Keith’s injunction to use whatever writing form best communicates what we’re trying to say.
As the conversation flowed, it merged accounts of friendship, collegiality, and
kinship with ways of hearing, as well as understanding and being in the world, and
how to render these accounts. For many of us, this exercise was like John Mortimer’s 1963 autobiographical play A Voyage Around My Father. In his teaching and writing Keith approaches an incorrigibly plural and diverse world as something only apprehensible though individual experience. What we learned did not reach a tidy conclusion, although we ended on a neat enough note. It was in the ebb and flow of exchange that we found ourselves swimming into the current, as Keith suggested long ago.

- by John Keith Hart
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- History, Music, Anthropology, Individuality

A discussion of the mysterious Clapcans

- by Simon Young
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- Mythology And Folklore, Folklore, Supernatural, History of Folklore Theory and Method

‘Only Connect’ was a slogan coined by the novelist, E.M. Forster, in Howard’s End. My latest book, Self in the World (2022), has as a subtitle ‘Connecting life’s extremes’: self/world, individual/society, personal/impersonal, local/global, real/virtual, life/ideas, speech/writing. The interview in Rio de Janeiro, May 2011, takes some time to get to this point, but firmly establishes that my fixation with these pairs as an anthropologist is rooted in the contradictions of my schooling as a teenager. The first half of my professional history gives is focused on my early years as a student in Manchester, Cambridge and Accra. But the second half achieves greater depth with the development industry, the United States, studying money, building an online community, South Africa and reflections on the global condition of anthropology today. There a important gaps, such as Britain, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe, with no mention of prolonged mental illness, even if it is a known hazard of professional academic life. These topics are explored more fully in Self in the World.

- by John Keith Hart
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- Anthropology, Education, Development Studies, Ghana

The aim of this research is to unravel and interrogate critically the recent histories of the production and reproduction of Castlefield, Manchester. This unravelling is accomplished theoretically through the historicised application of Lefebvre‘s spatial triad. Production of space histories and Castlefield‘s ‗regeneration‘ are revisited principally through archival and interview evacuations of the neglected years of the 1970s. Urban public space is seen as the key city synecdoche. The thesis argues against what is called the ‗dominant academic narrative‘: challenging the narrative where it ignores or downplays the role of counter-representations and counter-projects in the production of urban public space. The empirical research is based mainly on archival data and complimentary interview and visual data; the analyses are qualitative. Visual representations of space largely neglected in the literature are foregrounded throughout the empirical research. Spaces of representation and spatial practice are interrogated from the perspective of public space analysis which emphasises the importance of the contested nature of representations of space within the public sector and the vulnerable and unstable character of some official representations of space. The thesis therefore does not seek to reproduce what might be called a ‗traditional‘ Lefebvrian analysis which counter-poses repressive official representations of space against quotidian heroic, poetic spaces of representation. The research challenges oversimplified characterisations of Castlefield as a space simply of heritage, leisure and exclusive residential enclaves. A dynamic, complex spatial portrait is revealed whereby ludic, ‗natural‘ and abstract space rise and fall though intricate spatial layering as time unfolds. Urban differential space and ludic space are found to emerge through the interstices of abstract space as key outcomes of the contestation of space. The thesis concludes that the potential for differential urban public space exists through the production of new spaces and their diverse politicised appropriation.

- by Michael Edema Leary-Owhin
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- History, Cultural History, Visual Sociology, Urban Geography

Suburbs have long been associated with assumptions and imposed meanings that do not fit the everyday reality of city life. Very little research has looked at the ways in which suburbs are experienced, represented and imagined as ‘real’ places. This represents the core focus of this thesis. I am concerned with the extent to which the cultural consumption of the city has come to shape suburban residents’ relationship with the city. This question is addressed through the lens of suburban festivals. My aim is to reassess the role of suburban communities in shaping the cultural life of the city. In this light, this research seeks to (1) to assess the role of the suburbs as more central in defining the practice of everyday life than might be assumed, (2) show why culture matters for places where people live and co-exist day to day; and (3) to bring suburbs, in all of their cultural complexity, to the fore in discussions around improved connections to place and more so-called ‘sustainable’ urban futures and ways of life. The research draws on fieldwork carried out in suburban communities in Manchester, focusing on three suburban festivals as case studies. It is based on data collected through cultural mapping workshops and semi-structured interviews with festival organisers, festival participants and policymakers. The findings suggest that suburbia is a multi-dimensional concept. As such, the spatial experience of suburban place and the micro-geographies of the ‘intimate’ play a constitutive role in forming and shaping place identity. Accordingly, the thesis provides a more nuanced approach to the process of place-making in the suburbs. In doing so, it challenges the orthodoxy of a culturally inert suburbia on the fringes of the city, arguing that the suburbs provide a powerful conduit through which the contemporary urban condition can be better understood.

- by Stephen Bowd
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- English Reformation, Manchester, John Dee

Bugzy Malone is Manchester's first grime artist to hit the mainstream with a UK album chart top ten entry for his 2015 debut EP Walk With Me. A career kick-started by a highly-publicized beef with London artist Chip, he has remained a controversial figure by frequently repeating the refrain '0161, Manny on the map' while shunning collaboration with other local musicians. This article aims to decipher Bugzy's rise to fame, underscoring his musical persona's similarity to Bret Easton Ellis's Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, to argue that the artist's unique trajec-tory cemented a new individualistic era in grime culture, away from its London roots of solidarity within crews. Walk With Me, Bugzy Malone implores his listeners with the title of his debut EP, and they did. In July 2015 the record went in at number 8 on the British album chart, catapulting Bugzy to the position of highest charting grime artist that year, relegating the previous highest grime album entrant, JME, who went in at number 12 in May 2015 with his second album Integrity>. That Bugzy is not from grime's home of London is what made this even more momentous an event for the genre. Following that release Bugzy was nominated for two Music of Black Origin awards (MOBOs): 'Best Newcomer' and 'Best Grime Act', and although he did not win, the honours were huge if one takes into consideration that the artist was overwhelmed to even be mentioned by the awarding body on Twitter, only a few months before the nominations were announced. Such was the extent of his gratitude that his nemesis Chip chided him for it on his track 'Light Work' from the Light Work EP with the line 'gassed off a MOBO tweet'. This rapid rise to UK-wide

- by Kamila Rymajdo
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- Music History, Popular Music Studies, History of Popular Music, Manchester
- by Felipe Cotrim
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- History, Political Economy, Philosophy, Marxism

Our aim is to better understand the changing geography of housing in England through a focus on Ancoats, a district that has experienced important transformations over the last two centuries. To do so we historicise relations between state, capital and housing into five distinct eras. In this first chapter, we look at the period between the 1800s and 1890s, when the district was a site of rapid urbanisation, slum landlords, a new urban poor and little state involvement in housing. We then consider the period between the 1890s and 1940s and the onset of municipal intervention into housing, slum clearance, the rise of the Council home and a period where marginalised residents were understood as requiring various types of intervention and ‘improvement’. In the second chapter we bring the story into the contemporary era through the post-industrial decline and withdrawal of state and capital, leading to the (re)stigmatisation of the district and population, and the subsequent financialisation of housing that has transformed Ancoats yet again. In developing this historical analysis of what is now a post-industrial urban space, we respond to Engels’ ideas to consider the underlying dynamics of class and race in structuring planning logics, and the shifting role of the state and capital in housing provision. We draw from and expand the argument from the editors of this volume that, “inequalities are historical, geographical and social structures which implicate the past in the present and the actions of the rich in the situation of the poor.” We attempt to broaden the focus on class inequality to consider the relevance of race and migration to this story. We conclude the chapters by reflecting on what lessons the history of this district generates concerning The Housing Question in regard to urban inequality.

- by Jonathan Silver
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- Marxism, Urban Studies, Housing, Manchester