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Keywords for a New Left
by Ian Parker
(Zero Books, £17.99)
CRITICAL psychologist Ian Parker is emeritus professor at Leicester University and is a prolific left academic, having penned over 30 books, some on radical research methods, and numerous academic works.
A brilliant academic and highly committed “psy,” he is a political activist of four decades standing, giving the lie to the claim that being an academic and an activist is mutually exclusive.
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