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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe great Stuart Hall is dead - he coined the phrase 'Thatcherism'
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/feb/10/godfather-multiculturalism-stuart-hall-dies<snip>
Academics, writers and and politicians have paid tribute to one of Britain's leading intellectuals, the sociologist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who has died age 82.
Known as the "godfather of multiculturalism", Hall had a huge influence on academic, political and cultural debates for over six decades.
Jamaican-born Hall was professor of sociology at the Open University from 1979 to 1997, topping off an academic career that began as a research fellow in Britain's first centre for cultural studies, set up by Richard Hoggart at the University of Birmingham in 1964. Hall would later lead the centre and was seen as a key figure in the development of cultural studies as an academic discipline.
Martin Bean, vice-chancellor of The Open University said: "He was a committed and influential public intellectual of the new left, who embodied the spirit of what the OU has always stood for: openness, accessibility, a champion for social justice and of the power of education to bring positive change in peoples' lives."
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Stuart was a Rhodes Scholar - attended Jamaica College before heading to Oxford.
Stuart was one of the icons of Cultural Studies. I had a lot of time fort him although I was never a fan of the 'new left'.
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The great Stuart Hall is dead - he coined the phrase 'Thatcherism' (Original Post)
malaise
Feb 2014
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enlightenment
(8,830 posts)1. Loss of a great mind.
He was a brilliant scholar and one of the rare public intellectuals. Very sad to read this.
malaise
(268,846 posts)2. I used a lot of his work
Loved him.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)4. His work lives on.
At least.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)3. One of the best
Hall's legacy will outlive us all.