Stuart Hall - Conversation Projects and Legacies - Grand Format

Stuart's legacies... have already vastly transformed individuals, theories, fields and movements. It is precisely this capaciousness that so many of us experienced as the generosity of Stuart's ideas and interventions. He helped to make Marxism more open, even if lacking the guarantees we could not avoid desiring. He helped to shift our epistemological focus from discipline-based theories and methods to problems...
indeed, to think beyond the framework of disciplines, and to also recognize the production of knowledge in venues other than academic ones - in other words, also through political practice. And all of this he accomplished with the most wonderful, most unforgettable smile. Angela Y. Davis, "Policing the Crisis Today", Stuart Hall : Conversations, Projects and Legacies. "What a splendid and diverse ensemble of essays on Stuart Hall's thought ! The range is as rich as Hall's own, and brings his work on conjuncture, policing, race, identity, state power, crisis, culture and above all, the requirements for an effective Left, into our difficult present." Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley.
"This beautifully curated book expresses a longing to continue a whole series of "unfinished conversations" with and about Stuart Hall, following his untimely death in 2014. The tributes, reflections, essays and photographs by his many colleagues and collaborators attest to the enduring influence of Hall's insistence that the study of culture matters politically. I cannot think of another public intellectual whose scholarship and political engagement has moved so many academics, filmmakers, artists and activists to experiment with radical new ways of working." Jackie Stacey, The University of Manchester.
"Much has been written about the legacy of Stuart Hall since his death in 2014, signalling his enormous influence on cultural studies scholars and students around the world. This collection is a unique contribution to this growing body of work. Written by a cast of those who have worked most closely with Hall, both since the early days of the Birmingham Centre and in more recent times, these essays are by turns trenchant and intimate, both a moving tribute to one of the greatest British critical intellectuals of the twentieth century, and an excellent introduction to the depth and breadth of his engagement with contemporary culture and politics.
"Ien Ang, Western Sydney University.