Bell, Vikki. 2016. ‘A Present Moment, More Present: John Berger’s Politics of Intensity’. In: Yasmin Gunaratnam and Amarjit Chandan, eds. A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Honour of John Berger. London: Zed. ISBN 9781783608799 [Book Section]

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Published also under the short title 'Stars' this essay was written for Gunaratnam, Y. and A. Chandan (editors) A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Honour of John Berger (2016) London: Zed. It concerns the concept of intensity in Berger's writing, not as a simple theatricality, nor a search for something truer to life, but is a philosophical stance that concerns political equality. It discusses this in relation to a moment in my own research in the cemetery in Santiago, Chile.

Item Type:	Book Section
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Dates:	Date Event 2016 Accepted 5 November 2016 Published
Item ID:	20952
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2017 09:53
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2017 09:53
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/20952

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