The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017

By Simon Wilson

This annual journal of provocative, passionate and argumentative essays is made for anyone who thinks there's little to stimulate intelligent well-informed debate in the media anymore and who hungers for some brain food.

Featuring: Morgan Godfery on identity - Jess Berentson-Shaw on social investment - Andrew Judd on racism - Carys Goodwin on climate change - Conor Clarke on dirt - David Cohen on Popper, Plato, Hegel and Marx - Emma Espiner on a tikanga Maori world - Gilbert Wong on growing up Chinese - Giselle Byrnes on why universities matter - Jo Randerson on dying - Mamari Stephens on our threatened marae - Victor Rodger on being actually brown - Maria Majsa on Johnny Rotten - Max Harris on dreams - Mike Joy and Kyleisha Foote on dams - Raf Manji on a new progressive agenda - Sarah Laing on menstruation - Sylvia Nissen on youth and politics - Teena Brown Pulu on three Tongan funerals - Tim Watkin on explaining Trump - Simon Wilson on a radical centre.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0994141564
• ISBN13: 9780994141569
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Massey University
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"