Stuart Hall: thought leader, patron of sociology and the arts
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1932, Hall graduated from Oxford University to become Director of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Professor of Sociology at the Open University, television presenter, journal editor, President of the British Sociological Association, and chair of two arts organisations. He famously coined the term ‘Thatcherism’.
Hall was a prominent scholar. He achieved a Rhodes scholar at Merton College, Oxford, and became Director of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Professor of Sociology at the Open University. He was a socially and politically engaged academic, presenting several television programmes, including the BBC series Redemption Songs and many broadcasts for the Open University. He also led numerous organisations, including becoming President of the British Sociological Association and a member of the Runnymede Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain. He also chaired the arts organisations Iniva and Autograph ABP.
Stuart Hall was the first editor of New Left Review (available to read in the Library), a founding editor of the journal Soundings and author of many articles and books on politics and culture including Policing the Crisis and his article “The Great Moving Right Show” for the January 1979 issue of Marxism Today, in which he famously coined the term ‘Thatcherism’.
Read Stuart Hall in the Library
There are many other works produced by the Open University that were edited by Stuart Hall – too many to list here.
Different: a historical context: contemporary photographers and black identity 778.92 HAL
The hard road to renewal: Thatcherism and the crisis of the Left 324.24104 HAL
Modernity and difference 700.1 HAL
Modernity and its futures 306 MOD
New times: the changing face of politics in the 1990s 320.532094 NEW
Policing the crisis 364.155209410904 HAL – also available as an [ebook]
Resistance through rituals: youth subcultures in post-war Britain 305.2350941/HAL – also available as an [ebook]
Stuart Hall: critical dialogues in cultural studies 700.1 STU – also available as an [ebook]
Visual culture: the reader 701 VIS
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