I understand ‘political awareness’ in a very broad sense early on…..my father was a very abusive man and there was a lot of domestic violence in my home when I was young. It still fascinates me now how ‘live’ this is as a subject (rightly) within Social Work – when I was a child if the police came (which they did) they called it ‘a domestic’ and were not concerned….even as a very very young child 3 or 4? …I remember experiencing this ‘politically’ as oppression, although of course i did not have the vocabulary for it then. Some of my earliest memories (4?) are around what I would now term ‘social justice’ issues of trying to protect my mother from a man and a system that I understood to be failing her – tho of course i could not understand why…
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My family talked about politics a lot. My earliest political memory is watching the Watergate hearings while my father yelled obscene things at the TV. It was very exciting to hear that much cursing in the house. My family also had a celebratory watching of Nixon's resignation speech, and I…
In "earliest political memories"
On Friday morning last week (24/07/2016) the UK woke up to the outcome of the referendum vote on EU membership. The blogosphere, social media and mainstream media are awash with attempts to make sense of what happened, as have my own conversations with others over the last three days. These 'furious' sense…
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Last autumn we ran an experimental online public engagement series called 'earliest political memories'. We collected a total of 68 memories that were generously contributed by members of the public. You can read all the contributions here. The series caught the attention of our colleague Rachel O'Connell in the School of English who…
In "earliest political memories"