Frank Furedi

Frank Furedi is professor of sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Previously, as Frank Richards, he was founder and chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain, a left-wing political party which was expelled from the International Socialists in the 1970s, styling itself as the Revolutionary Opposition.

Furedi was born in Hungary in 1948. His family emigrated to Canada after the failed 1956 uprising and has lived in Britain since the 1970s.

The RCP published a newspaper The Next Step throughout the 1980s and the magazine Living Marxism in the 1990s. Under Furedi's guidance, the ex-RCP fused Marxist opposition to imperialism and libertarian anti-statist tendencies.

He continues to be one of the leading figures of the LM group and has often been characterised by the media and various green campaign groups as an anti-environmentalist and pro-GM extremist. His supporters maintain that Furedi has said little on environmentalism, other than pointing out its "neo-Malthusian tendencies" and "anti-humanist excesses".

Furedi's academic work is largely in the area of imperialism and development studies – his books on the subject include The Mau-Mau war in Perspective, The New Ideology of Imperialism and The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race.

Furedi is frequently quoted in the media as an expert on how some Western societies have become obsessed with risk. He writes regularly for Spiked. He has also written several books on the subject of risk, offering a counterpoint to the analyses of Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck, including Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and Culture of Fear.

He wrote an article about risk culture post September 11, one of several publications from the charity Global Futures.

During his LM / RCP days, he is alleged to have written under the pseudonyms Frank Richards and Linda Ryan.

Contents

1 Bibliography 1.1 As sole author 1.2 As coauthor/contributor 2 External links

Bibliography

As sole author

• The Soviet Union Demystified: A Materialist Analysis

  Junius Publications, 1986 (ISBN 0948392053)

• The Mau Mau War in Perspective

  James Currey Publishers, 1989 (ISBN 0852550529)

• Mythical Past, Elusive Future: History and Society in an Anxious Age

  Pluto Press, 1991 (ISBN 0745305318)

• The New Ideology of Imperialism: Renewing the Moral Imperative

  Pluto Press, 1994 (ISBN 0745308465)

• Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism

  IB Tauris, 1994 (ISBN 185043784X)

• Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation

  Continuum International Publishing Group, 1997 (ISBN 030433751X)

  • Revised edition

    Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002 (ISBN 0826476163)

• Population and Development: A Critical Introduction

  Palgrave Macmillan, 1997 (ISBN 0312176589)

• The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race

  Pluto Press, 1998 (ISBN 0745313035)

• Courting Mistrust: The Hidden Growth of a Culture of Litigation in Britain

  Centre for Policy Studies, 1999 (ISBN 1897969953)

• Paranoid Parenting: Abandon Your Anxieties and Be a Good Parent

  Allen Lane, 2001 (ISBN 0713994886)

  • Revised edition

    Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child

    A Cappella Publishing, 2002 (ISBN 1556524641)

• Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age

  Routledge, 2003 (ISBN 041532159X)

• Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting Twenty-First Century Philistinism

  Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004 (ISBN 0826467695)

As coauthor/contributor

• Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism

  By Franz Jakubowski

  Translated by Anne Booth

  Introduction by Frank Furedi

  Pluto Press, 1990 (ISBN 0745303897)

• Emergencies and Disorder in the European Empires After 1945

  Edited by Robert Holland

  Chapter 'Creating a breathing space: the political management of colonial emergencies' by Frank Furedi

  Frank Cass Publishers, 1994 (ISBN 071464109X)

• Has History Ended?: Fukuyama, Marx, Modernity

  Edited by Christopher Bertram and Andrew Chitty

  Chapter 'The enthronement of low expectations: Fukuyama's ideological compromise for our time' by Frank Furedi

  Avebury, 1994 (ISBN 1856289591)

• The Concise International Encyclopedia of Business and Management

  Edited by Malcolm Warner

  Entry 'Futurology' by Frank Furedi

  Thomson Learning, 1996 (ISBN 1861521146)

• Globalisation and the South

  Edited by Caroline Thomas and Peter Wilkin

  Chapter 'The moral condemnation of the South' by Frank Furedi

  Palgrave Macmillan, 1997 (ISBN 0312175647)

• Disconnected: Ageing in an Alien World

  By Tracey Brown and Frank Furedi

  Reconnecting, 1997 (ISBN 1902105001)

• The International Encyclopedia of Business and Management Handbook of Management Thinking

  Edited by Malcolm Warner

  Entry 'Alvin Toffler' by Frank Furedi

  Thomson Learning, 1998 (ISBN 1861526326)

• Environmental Health: Third World Problems, First World Preoccupations

  Edited by Roger Bate and Lorraine Mooney

  Chapter 'A sociology of health panics' by Frank Furedi

  Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998 (ISBN 0750642238)

• Another Country

  Edited by Digby Anderson and Michael Mosbacher

  Chapter '"Not people like us": what modern Britons have against country people' by Frank Furedi

  Social Affairs Unit, 1999 (ISBN 0907631835)

• Mistaken Identities: The Second Wave of Controversy over 'Political Correctness'

  Edited by Scott Davies, Cyril Levitt and Neil McLaughlin

  Chapter 'The new etiquette' by Frank Furedi

  Peter Lang Publishing, 1999 (ISBN 0820441376)

• Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers, c1700-1964

  Edited by David Killingray and David Omissi

  Chapter 'The demobilised African soldier and the blow to white prestige' by Frank Furedi

  Manchester University Press, 1999 (ISBN 0719057353)

• The Imaginary Time Bomb: Why an Ageing Population Is Not a Social Problem

  By Phil Mullan

  Foreword by Frank Furedi

  IB Tauris, 1999 (ISBN 1860647782)

• Health Promotion: New Discipline or Multi-Discipline?

  Edited by Ricca Edmondson and Cecily Kelleher

  Chapter 'Reproductive health or population control?' by Frank Furedi

  Irish Academic Press, 2000 (ISBN 0716527111)

• How Claims Spread: Cross-National Diffusion of Social Problems

  Edited by Joel Best

  Chapter 'Bullying: the British contribution to the construction of a social problem' by Frank Furedi

  Chapter 'The evolution of road rage in Britain and the United States' by Joel Best and Frank Furedi

  Aldine/Transaction, 2001 (ISBN 0202306542)

• Rethinking Mixed Race

  Edited by David Parker and Miri Song

  Chapter 'How sociology imagined mixed race' by Frank Furedi

  Pluto Press, 2001 (ISBN 0745315674)

• Democracy and Participation: New Social Movements in Liberal Democracies

  Edited by Gary Taylor and Malcolm Todd

  Foreword by Frank Furedi

  Merlin Press, 2003 (ISBN 0850365384)

• The McDonaldisation of Higher Education

  Edited by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard

  Chapter 'The bureaucratisation of the British university' by Frank Furedi

  Greenwood Press, 2002 (ISBN 0897898567)

• Always On, Changing Britain

  Edited by Graham Mather

  Chapter [title?] by Frank Furedi

  European Media Forum, 2004 (ISBN 1903850142)

• The RoutledgeFalmer Guide to Key Debates in Education

  Edited by Dennis Hayes

  Chapter 'The formalisation of relationships in education' by Frank Furedi

  RoutledgeFalmer, 2004 (ISBN 0415332443)

External links

• Frank Furedi Official Website (http://www.frankfuredi.com)
• Disinfopedia: Frank Furedi (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Frank_Furedi)
• Disinfopedia: LM group (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=LM_group)
• Disinfopedia: Revolutionary Communist Party (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party)
• Far Left of Far Right? (http://www.monbiot.com/dsp_article.cfm?article_id=266), George Monbiot, Prospect
• Living Marxism profile (http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=78), GM Watch
• Life after Living Marxism: Banning the bans (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,341053,00.html), David Pallister, John Vidal and Kevin Maguire, Guardian
• Invasion of the Entryists (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1102753,00.html), George Monbiot, Guardian