Christopher Silver, Author at Enough!

Part Two: A long time gone, memory and mining from Silesia to the Ruhr

“During the industrial era people were forced to endure long and bitter conflicts in their struggle to participate in the political system…It remains to be seen whether the transformation of traditional industrial societies will be accompanied by a regress of democratic structures or whether progress towards more democracy is already culturally anchored and irreversible.”

Part One: Old-Fashioned Loyalties

"Across the continent, millions do not recognize themselves in the climate movement."Green New Deal for Europe, Blue Print for Europe’s Just Transition"The consumer is essentially somebody who feels, or is made to feel, lost, unless he or she is consuming. Brand names and logos become the place-names of the Nowhere."John Berger, Ten Dispatches...

Radical Route 3: In Search of Culture and Community in Dark Places

‘…in the era of global warming, nothing is really far away; there is no place where the orderly expectations of bourgeois life hold unchallenged sway.’Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the UnthinkableSetting out at a moment of profound disconnection and disruption – in mid-winter – my journey will trace...

How Scotland Can Escape the ‘Great Car Economy’

Roads to Nowhere: can Scotland Escape the ‘Great Car Economy?’The use of the term “movement” to describe mass political organisation has its origins in the mid-19th century. At a time when enormous industrial growth had created a vogue for speed and motion, the metaphorical link to transport was clear. Amidst all those new railways, steam packets ploughing the oceans,...

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