Hilary Wainwright

Hilary Wainwright
Born	1949 (age 66–67) United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Occupation	Journalist, political activist, sociologist

Hilary Wainwright (born 1949) is a British sociologist, political activist and socialist feminist, best known for being editor of Red Pepper magazine.

Personal life

Hilary Wainwright's father was the Liberal MP Richard Wainwright, and her brother, Martin, is the Northern Editor of The Guardian, to which she occasionally contributes.

She married Roy Bhaskar, the British philosopher, in 1971.

Education

Wainwright was educated at the Mount School, York, and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she studied PPE. She graduated in 1970. She gained a BPhil in Sociology from St Antony's College, Oxford in 1973.

Life and career

Until 1979, Wainwright was a research fellow at the Department of Sociology at Durham University. From 1979–81, she was a researcher at the Technology Department of the Open University. In 1982, she became Ken Livingstone's Deputy Chief Economic Advisor to the Greater London Council (GLC).

Wainwright is a Fellow of the international think tank for progressive politics, the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam;^[1] Senior Research Associate at the International Centre for Participation Studies at the Department for Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK and previously research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics. She has also been a visiting Professor and Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles; Havens Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Todai University, Tokyo.

She is a researcher and writer on the emergence of new forms of democratic accountability within parties, movements and the state. She has documented examples of resurgent democratic movements in many countries across the world and the lessons they provide for progressive politics. Formerly on the editorial board of New Left Review, she was also on the National Council of the Catalyst think tank.

She received an Honorary DLitt from the University of Huddersfield on 28 November 2007, with her brother Martin, for 'services to journalism'.

Hilary Wainwright has written for The Guardian,^[2] The Nation, New Statesman, openDemocracy, Jacobin (magazine), Carta, Il Manifesto and El Viejo Topo, as well as appearing as a commentator on the BBC.

Select bibliography

Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy (Seagull books, 2009), ISBN 978-1-905422-60-9
Public service reform - But not as we know it! (Compass/UNISON, 2009), ISBN 978-0-9560370-5-3
Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy (Verso books, 2003), ISBN 978-1-85984-689-6
Arguments for a New Left: Answering the Free-market Right (Blackwell, 1994), ISBN 978-0-631-19191-9
Labour: A Tale of Two Parties (Hogarth Press/Chatto Windus, London, 1987).
A Taste of Power: The Politics of Local Economics (Verso Books, London, October 1987) (co-edited with Maureen MacIntosh).
The Lucas Plan: A New Trades Unionism in the Making? (Schocken Books, 1981) (co-authored with David Elliott), ISBN 0805280987.
Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism (Merlin Press, 1980) (co-authored with Sheila Rowbotham and Lynne Segal).
The Workers Report of Vickers (Pluto Press, 1978) (Co-authored with Huw Benyon).

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Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 48069500 ISNI: 0000 0001 0969 3403 SUDOC: 075017784 BNF: cb14511897f (data)

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