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[[Chris Gilligan]] is an academic associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. He has written for [[Living Marxism]], [[Culture Wars]] and [[Spiked]], spoken at the [[Battle of Ideas]] and the [[Belfast Salon]], contributed to the [[Institute of Ideas]] via its [[Global Uncertainties Schools Network]],<ref>"[http://www.instituteofideas.com/newsletters/may_2010.html Global Uncertainties Schools Network]", Institute of Ideas website, accessed 8 May 2010</ref> adjudged for [[Debating Matters]] and promoted [[WORLDwrite]].[[File:Chris Gilligan.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Chris Gilligan in 2010]]
 
[[Chris Gilligan]] is an academic associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. He has written for [[Living Marxism]], [[Culture Wars]] and [[Spiked]], spoken at the [[Battle of Ideas]] and the [[Belfast Salon]], contributed to the [[Institute of Ideas]] via its [[Global Uncertainties Schools Network]],<ref>"[http://www.instituteofideas.com/newsletters/may_2010.html Global Uncertainties Schools Network]", Institute of Ideas website, accessed 8 May 2010</ref> adjudged for [[Debating Matters]] and promoted [[WORLDwrite]].[[File:Chris Gilligan.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Chris Gilligan in 2010]]
  
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==Education====
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Gilligan has a BA (Hons) in Politics and West European Studies, [[University of Wolverhampton]] (1992) and studied for a PhD in Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford in from 1997-2002.<ref>Chris Gilligan [http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/aich/members/chrisgilliganwebpubbio06.pdf Biography], University of Ulster, 2006, accessed 3 August 2011</ref>
  
 
==Edinburgh RCP==
 
==Edinburgh RCP==

Revision as of 15:29, 3 August 2011

Chris Gilligan is an academic associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. He has written for Living Marxism, Culture Wars and Spiked, spoken at the Battle of Ideas and the Belfast Salon, contributed to the Institute of Ideas via its Global Uncertainties Schools Network,[1] adjudged for Debating Matters and promoted WORLDwrite.

Chris Gilligan in 2010

Education==

Gilligan has a BA (Hons) in Politics and West European Studies, University of Wolverhampton (1992) and studied for a PhD in Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford in from 1997-2002.[2]

Edinburgh RCP

Gilligan was an RCP organiser in Edinburgh in the mid 1990s. According to a 1996 Scotland on Sunday report:

a surprising note of optimism came from two people on Edinburgh's Princes Street, competing with the festival leafleters to try to promote the left-wing magazine Living Marxism and having as much luck as the Hare Krishna man further down. "The feel-good factor is just a phrase the Tories use to win votes but the strange thing is that things are actually getting better," was Chris Gilligan's theory as he tried to encourage another passer-by to buy his magazine.
But he countered this by saying that although life was better economically, people don't feel good because they feel they can't change anything. "If people don't feel in control of the society they live in then it doesn't matter if things are getting better - they won't feel good." It is all apparently explained in their book, The Point is to Change It, his fellow persuader Tiffany Jenkins pointed out. But not many of the shoppers who raced past seem to feel bad enough about their situation to want to change it by buying the magazine. Too busy spending their disposable income.[3]


Resources

Blog Chris Gilligan's blogspot

Notes

  1. "Global Uncertainties Schools Network", Institute of Ideas website, accessed 8 May 2010
  2. Chris Gilligan Biography, University of Ulster, 2006, accessed 3 August 2011
  3. 'Feel-good factor takes a pounding: Are Consumers Conscious Good Times Are Coming, Or Are They Keeping Their Pounds In Their Pockets', Asks Elizabeth Quigley Scotland on Sunday August 25, 1996, Sunday Pg. 8