Summary
Maoism: the changing face of a revolutionary ideology. Julia Lovell, Professor in Modern Chinese History and Literature at Birkbeck, University of London explores the origins and development of global Maoism; Alpa Shah, Associate Professor in Anthropology at LSE, provides a glimpse into the lives of a group of Maoist guerrillas in modern day India and Dennis Tourish, Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at the University of Sussex, looks at Maoist organisations in the context of his research into political cults. Revised repeat. Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:40.8 | selection of the topics paid proper attention to the value of the |
| 0:44.2 | discussion but also to my own sociological predilections. |
| 0:49.2 | Ideology was a natural choice because in my seminars at York University I was not only |
| 0:55.2 | regularly challenged to spell out my own belief system but was frequently made to |
| 1:00.1 | listen at length while students earnestly sought to propagate their more radical alternatives. |
| 1:06.8 | And in this respect, no one stood out more than a zealous second year with the honest of nicknames. Among academics and fellow students he was |
| 1:15.3 | routinely known as theory and practice. It was a moniker he'd acquired because of |
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| 1:25.1 | colonialism, feminism and post-structuralism. His insistence that debate about the |
| 1:31.8 | sorry state of the world was pointless unless it was linked to |
| 1:35.0 | revolutionary action, to the overthrow of existing institutions and the installation of a |
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