John Clarke’s The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture (2023) is a major work of political, cultural and social analysis, investigating the state of Britain in the wake of Brexit. A classic exercise in cultural studies, this book attends to all of the complex interconnections between histories of imperialism, class struggle, radicalisation, nation-building, democratisation and repression that define our political epoch. John has been a very significant contributor to British social theory, critical policy studies and cultural studies since the 1970s, when he was one of the co-authors of Policing the Crisis.
Over four 2-hour sessions, John will introduce the key arguments of the book and discuss them with seminar participants. The series will be hosted and facilitated by Jeremy Gilbert, with Sarah Bufkin, Jo Littler and Anamik Saha acting as respondents in individual seminars.
The series will be hosed by The Autonomy Institute and Culture, Power and Politics and is free to attend. Registration is required and space will be limited.
Seminars will take place on Zoom, Tuesdays 18:00-20:00. Details and booking links are below:
June 2nd with Jeremy as respondent, covering the Introduction and chapters 1-2
June 16th with Jo as respondent, covering chapters 3-5.
June 30th with Anamik as respondent, chapters 6-8.
July 14th with Sarah as respondent, chapters 9-10.
This event is being organised for free and with no funding of any kind, so please do consider supporting Culture, Power and Politics if you can.
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