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ICA DEBATE ON COUNTERCULTURE

October 18, 2014Media and Life, SubculturesCounter-culture, Politics, popular music, Public TalksProfLRobinson

 

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FOOTLOOSE AND THE POLITICS OF PLEASURE

October 18, 2014Media and Life, The EightiesEducation, Feminism, Film, Footloose, Politics, Popular Culture, Protest, UCU, UniversitiesProfLRobinson

This post is based on a speech that I gave as part of UCU industrial action I had proposed that Union members and students shared our two hour strike on 28th January 2014 by watching the 1984 film Footloose. I’m not sure how I got away with it, but I did. Here is how I explained why to those who came to watch the film.

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