 | Martin Earnshaw is a founding member of the Future Cities Project, which critically explores issues around the city. He devised and authored the 2005 Attitudes to the City: Bingeing on Anti-social Behaviour report examining perceptions of crime and anti-social behaviour. Currently, he runs the Future Cities Projects Readers Group, is reviews editor for the Future Cities Project website, and has written for Culture Wars and the Battle of Ideas Battles in Print Series. He is co-editor of The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (Pluto Press 2008). He chairs the IoI’s Social Policy Forum as well as being a BoI Committee member. |
Saturday 31 October 2009, 9.30am Café
Chav-bashing: demonising the ‘white working class’?
Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated, (Pluto Press, 2008)
"It alerts me to new areas of debate, and gives thought-provoking new angles on topics I thought I already knew well. Altogether it's a wonderful intellectual tonic, which cheers up the dog days of November."
Ivan Hewett, music critic, Daily Telegraph
