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Contributors to The Great Debate
Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth
has worked in an orang utan rehabilitation
centre in Borneo, as a peace observer in the rebel Zapatista
villages of Mexico, as a floor-sweeper in McDonalds and as an
assistant lock-keeper on the river Thames. He studied history
at Oxford University between 1991 and 1994, was arrested
during the Twyford Down road protests of 1993 and was named one of
Britain's 'top ten troublemakers' by the New Statesman magazine in 2001.
He has worked on the comment desk of The Independent,
as commissioning editor for opendemocracy.net
and as deputy editor of The
Ecologist. He is also an award-winning poet,
and an honorary member of the Lani tribe of
New Guinea. He has written for most UK newspapers and many
other publications at home and abroad, and appeared on radio and TV.
Paul's first book,
One No, Many Yeses
(Simon and Schuster, 2003), an investigative journey
through the 'anti-globalisation' movement, was
published in six languages in thirteen countries.
His second book, Real England,
was published by
Portobello Books in 2008.
His debut poetry collection, Kidland, is forthcoming from
Salmon Poetry.
In 2009 he co-founded the Dark Mountain Project.
Paul will be speaking on
'It's the end of the
world as we know it (and I feel fine): Why environmentalism
has failed and what comes next.'
on 22nd February 2010
giving a version of his contribution to the book
What is Radical Politics Today?
edited by Jonathan Pugh of Newcastle University,
and published in November 2009 by Palgrave-Macmillan.
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Books by
Paul Kingsnorth
Real England: The Battle Against The Bland
We see the signs around us every day: the chain cafes and
superstores that dominate our high streets; the decline of small
farms and the loss of post offices; the headlines about yet another
traditional industry going to the wall. Now, for the first time,
here is a book that makes the connection between these isolated,
incremental, local changes and the bigger picture of a nation whose
identity is being eroded.
As he travels around the country meeting fruit-growers,
lock keepers, stall owners and the inhabitants of Chinatown,
Paul Kingsnorth records the kind of conversations that are
taking place in country pubs and corner shops across the land –
while warning us that, unless we act, such quintessentially
English institutions may cease to exist.
One No, Many Yeses
Published in six languages in thirteen countries,
One No, Many Yeses is a manifesto, an investigation and a
travel book: an introduction to the new politics of resistance
which shows there's much more to the 'anti-globalisation'
movement than trashing Starbucks.
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