Andrew McCulloch

Localism and its neoliberal application: A case study of West Gate New Deal for Communities in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK:

The New Labour Governments New Deal for Communities attempts to stitch neoliberal urban policy onto Area Based Initiatives that involve the local community. In Newcastle upon Tyne, this combination resulted in several fault-lines and considerable local conflict. The local community was not adequately represented, because there was not one. The locus of power was not in the community but in the partner agencies. Thus the most obvious community was that of community regeneration professionals in these partner agencies, who have an ideological and material interest in representing the fact that there is a community for which they act.

Capital & Class Past and Present: Some Reflections on Our First 25 Years

The first question Capital & Class’s editors asked themselves when it reached  years old is, ‘Why are we still here?’ Capital & Class was a child of , of a radical age that no longer exists. Yet, unlike so many other products of that time it has succumbed to neither respectability, nor age, nor lack of interest. It remains an enfant terrible, the journal of choice for some important questions that cannot be asked anywhere else. It has rejuvenated itself; the Editorial Board was hard pressed to find two members who could even remember enough about the old days to co-write this introduction. The journal is alive, young and kicking with a healthy worldwide circulation of -plus and still rising and a backlog of articles to publish. Whatever  and the journal survived on, it was not academic approval, although not a few research projects now commonplace in social science or liberal arts programmes can trace their roots to Capital & Class’s pages. Capital & Class was a child of struggle and as Fred Lee’s article testifies, it is still thumbing its nose at the academic establishment.  held a year  conference on globalisation and sponsored the thriving Association of Heterodox Economists. The publication of the French students’ petition against the stifling dogmatism and irrelevance of modern economics teaching, and its series of special issues—on globalisation, Capital & Class Past and Present: Some reflections on our first 25 years

Ian Craib, 1945-2002

A moving commemoration at the University of Essex on 7th March of Ian Craib, Professor of Sociology, began with an affectionate address by his son, Ben. Ian Craib died at the age of 57 years on 22nd December, 2002 from a massive heart-attack, induced by an inoperable cancer in his lungs. ‘Remembering Ian Craib’ lasted nearly three hours. This was not because of the string quartet playing favourite pieces of Ians nor because of the past and present colleagues, both academic and administrative, who also paid him generous tribute. It was principally because of the students who queued up to praise and appreciate what one of them described as ‘the most inspiring teacher that I have ever known.’