Think Hope, Think Crisis: a workshop with John Holloway

The workshop will be held on 08/09/2015 at 10.30- 13.30 in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds

To attend the workshop register here by August 20th

The MA in ‘Global Urban Justice’ and the ‘Cities and Social Justice’ research cluster at the School of Geography, University of Leeds are organising a workshop with John Holloway. Holloway is a Professor of Sociology at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y humanidades in the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. He has published widely on Marxist theory, on the Zapatista movement and on the new forms of anti-capitalist struggle. His book ‘Change the World Without Taking Power’ (Pluto, London, 2002, new edition 2010) has been translated into eleven languages and has stirred an international debate. His more recent book, ‘Crack Capitalism’ (Pluto, 2010), takes the argument further by suggesting that the only way in which we can think of revolution today is as the creation, expansion, multiplication and confluence of cracks in capitalist domination. John visited the School of Geography at Leeds previously in 2011 and delivered a set of public lectures that can be watched here: https://johnhollowayinleeds.wordpress.com/ .

 

Read an interview of John Holloway at Roar magazine, published online in September 2014:http://roarmag.org/2014/09/john-holloway-cracking-capitalism-vs-the-state-option/

 

This workshop follows John’s public lecture the previous evening 

Following this workshop we will be holding a roundtable with artists and activists