Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social
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Anthropologist. Researching UK pub closures @AfterLastOrders @LboroCSSP. PhD @goldanth on urban regeneration, gentrification and heritage in Poplar, east London
Our latest long-read is up! The White Horse in Kimpton, Hertfordshire closed in 2014. For over a decade, residents have campaigned to reopen it as a community-owned pub rather than see it converted into a private residence. Links to this and other published long reads, below!
Let's make hope normal again.
Excited to share the first three case study 'long reads' from the After Last Orders project. Each case study draws on extensive research to tell the story of a pub and the people and places affected by its closure. after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk
Delighted to share some of the insights from the After Last Orders project on the social and cultural impacts of pub closures in The Conversation. theconversation.com/consolation-co…
Tomorrow, MPs will debate and vote on a measure to proscribe the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Without equivocation or caveat, Novara Media stands opposed to this historic infringement on freedom of expression. Our statement:
New article on the 'banal nationalism' of pub closure media narratives, with @thurnellreadsoc, now out in the British Journal of Sociology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
