CARNIVALS
Carnival time as Laurie Taylor talks to Trinidadian-born composer Geraldine Connor and Leeds-based sociologist, , about the migration of celebratory traditions back and forth across the Atlantic and their changing role in the creation of identity.
E-DEMOCRACY
And continuing the theme of power to the people, how to re-democratise democracy?Ìý Collapsing voter turnout, fast-shrinking mass-membership of political parties and a major switch-off of political coverage on television all indicate that democracy is increasingly confined to a cultural ghetto.
, first ever Professor of E-democracy in this country, has been exploring the contrasting ways in which public and politicians understand representation, respect and each other.
In his report A Tale of Two Houses - The House of Commons, the Big Brother House andthe people at home, Professor Coleman suggests that far from seeking to revive the old ways, we should use new media’s interactive technology to forge a new stronger mode of democratic engagement
Additional information:
Cultural Sociologist at Leeds Metropolitan University
Carnival in Leeds and London, UK – Making New Black British Subjectivities
Geraldine Connor, Max Farrar
from Carnival in Action, London and New York
Edited by Riggio, Milla C
To be published by Routledge in 2004
Geraldine Connor
Academic, Artistic Director and Composer
Ethnomusicologist, Music Lecturer at the and Associate Director of the .
Article by Raymond Ramcharitar
published in NOU magazine
Volume 2, number 1
Geraldine conceived, composed and directed Carnival Messiah, a radical theatrical reinvention inspired by Handel’s oratorio ‘Messiah’ and Trinidadian calypso.
Cisco Professor of e-Democracy at
Professor Coleman’s report
A Tale of Two Houses - The House of Commons, the Big Brother House and the people at home
can be obtained from:
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The E-connected world
Edited by Stephen Coleman
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN 0889119457
Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation
Stephen Coleman, John Gotze
Hansard Society
ISBN 0 900 432 365
Realising Democracy Online: A Civic Commons in Cyberspace
Jay G Blumler and Stephen Coleman
ISBN 1 86030 153 3
2001: A Cyber Space Oddysey: the Internet in the UK Election
Hansard Society
ISBN 0 900 432 403
Televised Election Debates: International Perspectives
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 0333732634
Parliament in the Age of the Internet
Edited by Stephen Coleman, Wim van de Donk
Oxford University Press
ISBN 0199224226
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