Book Review

2017Book ReviewsDatacide 16

Angry White People – Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right by Hsiao-Hung Pai (Book Review)

“Angry White People” by Hsiao-Hung Pai offers an in-depth look at the English Defence League (EDL), challenging the non-racist image they cultivate. By speaking directly with supporters and leaders, Pai reveals the group’s anti-Muslim sentiments and underlying racism. Set against Luton’s history and culture of multiculturalism, Pai explores the roots of EDL’s rhetoric and examines why the far right persists despite its inconsistencies. The book provides a nuanced view of British nationalism, its manifestations, and its opposition, within the broader context of societal change.

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Book ReviewsDatacide 14

Robert Dellar, Splitting In Two: Mad Pride & Punk Rock Oblivion (Unkant Publishing) (Book Review)

Robert Dellar’s book is part autobiography, part social history and in places morphs into fiction. It covers both Dellar’s own life via punk rock and the dehumanisation of those deemed clinically insane by the powers that be. While in academia the idea that madness might be the only sane response to capitalist society is often discussed in terms of Deleuze and Guattari’s anti-Oedipal theories, Dellar has a more hands on and activist approach to ‘bad craziness’.

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