Kenan Malik

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Kenan Malik is a sometime academic and now writer and is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmental LM network. He stood as an RCP candidate in the 1987 general election, was active in Workers Against Racism in the mid 1980s, has written for Living Marxism and Spiked [1], spoken at Spiked events, the Battle of Ideas and the Brighton Salon and Leeds Salon. He studied neurobiology (at the University of Sussex) and history and philosophy of science (at Imperial College, London).[2]

Publications

Books

  • The Meaning of Race: Race, History and Culture in Western Society (Palgrave / New York University Press, 1996);
  • Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Human Nature (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000 / Rutgers University Press, 2002),
  • Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate (Oneworld, 2008)
  • From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy (Atlantic, 2009 / Melville House 2010).

Resources

Contact

Website Kenan Malik

Notes

  1. "After the fatwa, the free speech wars", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010
  2. Kenan Malik About Me, accessed 7 January 2011