9781915672483
300 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Politics
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Railway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis shows why the railways are key to the fight for a better world.
As well as building a case for the for railways as a common good, Dennis argues that they are a critical tool for humanity to survive and thrive in an age of climate change and political upheaval.
He takes us across the globe, from Hyperloop’s abandoned test track in the Nevada desert to the overcrowded stations of England, exploring how railways can shape our future, and in turn how we can shape transport for the better. With his deep knowledge of railways and unique view of history and politics, he equips us with the tools to answer those imperative questions: what and who should our railways be for?
GARETH DENNIS (MEng GMICE MPWI) is a railway engineer and writer. He has written for the Independent, New Internationalist, Progressive Review and RAIL. He has appeared regularly on television, and has advised UK the government on transport policy through the Transport Select Committee.
9781915672070
250 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$16.95
Cultural Studies
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An occult and esoteric history of England told through one of
its most popular cultural forms: the sitcom.
Code: Damp is a journey through the weirdness, radicalism and dampness of English culture, focusing on two sitcoms from the 1970s, Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Using these sitcoms as a gateway into an esoteric world of mystery plays, archaeology, cheap lager, gardening, post-punk and Situationism, it follows this journey into the radical underbelly of English life, excavating the traces of revolution and unrest that lay dormant beneath our feet.
Touching on everything from alchemy, mysticism, and parish folklore
to pulp, Time Team, darts, the Fall and, of course, the sitcom, Code: Damp takes the reader through the landscape and culture of weird England in an attempt to disorient and disrupt the ground we stand on.
SOPHIE SLEIGH-JOHNSON teaches as an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at Goldsmiths College. She writes for publications including The Darkside, The Leigh Times, and The London Drinker.