Hilary Wainwright
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Hilary Wainwright is a British
socialist and feminist, best known for being editor of Red Pepper
magazine.
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.
on Dalton Terrace (A59
) in York, followed by St Anne's College at the University of Oxford
, where she studied PPE
. She graduated in 1970. She gained a BPhil
in Sociology from St Antony's College, Oxford
in 1973.
. 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
; 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 countless examples of resurgent democratic movements from Brazil to Britain and the lessons they provide for progressive politics.
Wainwright founded the Popular Planning Unit of the Greater London Council during the Thatcher years, and was convenor of the new economics working group of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly
from 1989 to 1994.
Formerly on the editorial board of New Left Review
, she was also on the National Council of the Catalyst
think tank
, the only such body on the Left
in the UK
which did not accept corporate sponsorship, a position was able to maintain thanks to sponsorship from the trade union movement.
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
, The Nation
, New Statesman
, Open Democracy, Carta, Il Manifesto
and El Viejo Topo, as well as appearing as a commentator on the BBC
.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
socialist and feminist, best known for being editor of Red Pepper
Red Pepper (magazine)
Red Pepper is an independent ‘red, green and radical’ magazine based in the UK. For most of its history it appeared monthly, but relaunched as a bi-monthly during 2007.- Origins :...
magazine.
Personal life
Hilary Wainwright's father was the LiberalLiberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
MP Richard Wainwright, and her brother, Martin
Martin Wainwright
Martin Wainwright MBE is a British journalist and author.He was born in Leeds, and educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford University. His father Richard Wainwright was the Liberal MP for Colne Valley after a career in accountancy.Wainwright is The Guardians Northern Editor...
, is the Northern Editor of The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, to which she occasionally contributes.
She married Roy Bhaskar
Roy Bhaskar
Roy Bhaskar is a British philosopher, best known as the initiator of the philosophical movement of Critical Realism.-Early life:Bhaskar was born in Teddington, London, the elder of two brothers...
, the British philosopher, in 1971.
Education
Wainwright was educated at the independent Mount SchoolThe Mount School, York
The Mount School is a Quaker independent day and boarding school in York, England, for girls aged 11–18. It was founded in 1831. Its preparatory school is called Tregelles, and it accepts only girls from 2012 onwards and has a nursery department. There are two or three forms in Year 7 to 11 and...
on Dalton Terrace (A59
A59 road
The A59 is a major road in the United Kingdom that runs from Liverpool in Merseyside, to York in North Yorkshire.-Merseyside:The A59 begins in the centre of Liverpool at the mouth of the Birkenhead Tunnel, and heads north out of the city, first as Scotland Road in Vauxhall, then Kirkdale Road,...
) in York, followed by St Anne's College at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, where she studied PPE
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Philosophy, politics, and economics is a popular interdisciplinary undergraduate/graduate degree which combines study from the three disciplines...
. She graduated in 1970. She gained a BPhil
Bachelor of Philosophy
Bachelor of Philosophy is the title of an academic degree. The degree usually involves considerable research, either through a thesis or supervised research projects...
in Sociology from St Antony's College, Oxford
St Antony's College, Oxford
St Antony's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.St Antony's is the most international of the seven all-graduate colleges of the University of Oxford, specialising in international relations, economics, politics, and history of particular parts of the...
in 1973.
Life and career
Until 1979, Wainwright was a research fellow at the Department of Sociology at Durham UniversityDurham University
The University of Durham, commonly known as Durham University, is a university in Durham, England. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837...
. From 1979-81, she was a researcher at the Technology Department of the Open University
Open University
The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...
. In 1982, she became Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstone is an English politician who is currently a member of the centrist to centre-left Labour Party...
's Deputy Chief Economic Advisor to the Greater London Council (GLC)
Greater London Council
The Greater London Council was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It replaced the earlier London County Council which had covered a much smaller area...
.
Wainwright is a Fellow
Fellow
A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...
of the international think tank for progressive politics, the Transnational Institute
Transnational Institute
Transnational Institute is an international think tank for progressive politics. It was established in 1973 in Amsterdam and serves as a network for scholars and activists...
, Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
; Senior Research Associate at the International Centre for Participation Studies at the Department for Peace Studies, University of Bradford
University of Bradford
The University of Bradford is a British university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The University received its Royal Charter in 1966, making it the 40th University to be created in Britain, but its origins date back to the early 1800s...
, UK and previously research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
. She has also been a visiting Professor and Scholar at the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
, 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 countless examples of resurgent democratic movements from Brazil to Britain and the lessons they provide for progressive politics.
Wainwright founded the Popular Planning Unit of the Greater London Council during the Thatcher years, and was convenor of the new economics working group of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly
Helsinki Citizens Assembly
The Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly is an organization of citizens dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights in Europe. It is a non-governmental organization, working on the notions of fundamental rights and freedoms, peace, democracy and pluralism....
from 1989 to 1994.
Formerly on the editorial board of New Left Review
New Left Review
New Left Review is a 160-page journal, published every two months from London, devoted to world politics, economy and culture. Often compared to the French-language Les Temps modernes, it is associated with Verso Books , and regularly features the essays of authorities on contemporary social...
, she was also on the National Council of the Catalyst
Catalyst (think tank)
Catalyst was an independent left wing think tank based in London, United Kingdom, set up in 1998 to promote policies directed to the redistribution of power, wealth and opportunity...
think tank
Think tank
A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...
, the only such body on the Left
Left-wing politics
In politics, Left, left-wing and leftist generally refer to support for social change to create a more egalitarian society...
in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
which did not accept corporate sponsorship, a position was able to maintain thanks to sponsorship from the trade union movement.
She received an Honorary DLitt
Doctor of Letters
Doctor of Letters is a university academic degree, often a higher doctorate which is frequently awarded as an honorary degree in recognition of outstanding scholarship or other merits.-Commonwealth:...
from the University of Huddersfield
University of Huddersfield
The University of Huddersfield is a university located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.- History :The University traces its roots back to a Science and Mechanic Institute founded in 1825...
on 28 November 2007, with her brother Martin, for 'services to journalism'.
Hilary Wainwright has written for The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, The Nation
The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
, New Statesman
New Statesman
New Statesman is a British centre-left political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s....
, Open Democracy, Carta, Il Manifesto
Il Manifesto
il manifesto is an Italian newspaper. While it calls itself communist, it is not connected to any political party. It was founded as a monthly review in 1969 by a collective of left-wing journalists engaged in the wave of critical thought and activity on the Italian left in that period. Prominent...
and El Viejo Topo, as well as appearing as a commentator on the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
.
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 9780956037053
- Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy (Verso books, 2003), ISBN 978-1-8598-4689-6
- Arguments for a New Left: Answering the Free-market Right (Blackwell, 1994), ISBN 978-0-6311-9191-9
- 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? (Shocken Books, 1981) (co-authored with David Elliott).
- Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism (Merlin Press, 1980) (co-authored with Sheila RowbothamSheila RowbothamSheila Rowbotham is a British socialist feminist theorist and writer.-Early life:Rowbotham was born in Leeds, the daughter of a salesman for an engineering company and an office clerk From an early age, she was deeply interested in history...
and Lynne SegalLynne SegalLynne Segal is an Australian-born, British-based socialist feminist academic and activist, author of many books and articles, and participant in many campaigns, from local community to international. She has taught in higher education in London, UK since 1970, at Middlesex Polytechnic from 1973...
). - The Workers Report of Vickers (Pluto Press, 1978) (Co-authored with Huw Benyon).
External links
- Hilary Wainwright's papers at the Labour History Archive and Study Centre
- Hilary Wainwright's profile on the Transnational InstituteTransnational InstituteTransnational Institute is an international think tank for progressive politics. It was established in 1973 in Amsterdam and serves as a network for scholars and activists...
- Hilary Wainwright on twitter
- Red Pepper magazine
- Dutch broadsheet NRC Handelsblad interviews Hilary Wainwright ahead of Dutch 2010 local elections
- Hilary Wainright comments on the Tories' co-ops proposal in the Guardian's Comment Is Free
- interview: Wainwright: 'Don't blame voters for the low turnout,' NRC handelsblad (English edition) (2 March 2010)