[Xmca-l] Re: Vale Colin Barker

[Helena Worthen]

I am very sorry to hear this.  Colin put on a small (50-80 people) but very good conference. We attended and participated  twice, maybe three times, and found it a wonderful venue for senior academics  to mix with graduate students who were making presentations of their own research.  I remember presentations from Ireland, Netherlands, Greece, Germany, Norway as well as from the UK and the US. The content of these presentations was always progressive and international and a little bit “out there". He and his wife Ewa would host a big dinner for many of us at their home at the end of the conference. He was a generous organizer, a very adept critic and teacher, and a good writer.  I remember a very clear critique he made of Activity Theory a few years ago.  Something else he wrote was just uploaded to Academia the other day; I had not read it yet. 

Helena 


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> On Feb 5, 2019, at 4:21 PM, Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org> wrote:
> 
> Apparently, Colin Barker, a member of this list and founder/organiser of the annual Manchester Social Movements Conference, died yesterday.
> 
> Check his Facebook page for details as they are provided.
> 
> Andy
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> Andy Blunden
> http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm <http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm>
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