Nick Garland
DPhil Student
University College
Research Topic
'The Labour Party, the British Left, and the Idea of Community, 1968-1994
If you are interested in any further information, you can reach me at nicholas.garland@univ.ox.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr Ben Jackson
My thesis explores the different ways that actors within the British Labour Party and the wider Left, including politicians, journalists, intellectuals and activists, conceptualised and deployed ideas of 'community' - particularly in relation to ideas of decentralisation and localism - in the 1970s and 1980s. This encompasses grassroots 'community action' after 1968; the turn of Labour's revisionist right towards 'community socialism'; the varied politics of municipal socialism; journalistic accounts of the decline of solidaristic working-class communities, and the communitarian anarchism of Colin Ward.
