附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.
Beginnings : the politics of the word -- Cultural revolutionaries -- Activist work and the workings of activism -- Slow builder and consolidator : a life history of John La Rose -- "Life experience with Britain" -- Radical lifework -- Appendix I : New Beacon publications, 1966-1999 -- Appendix II : scope of the George Padmore Institute's archive -- Appendix III : activist network centred around New Beacon.
摘要:This book interrogates the ideas and practices of the New Beacon Circle's activists as relatively stable elements in the fast-changing scene of contemporary radical politics. Highlighting how biography and self representation have important cultural, theoretical and political implications, Alleyne succeeds in making an original contribution to a growing literature on autobiography as a rich resource for understanding social and political theory. He also provides an engaging account of a neglecte d area of British Activism. This book will be of interest to social anthropologists, sociologists,
