The lecture draws on research in a post-industrial city where racism has found purchase. Archbishop Justin Welby challenges the neglect of post-industrial cities like this: locations of economic decline, the collapse of self-help institutions and hollowed out democracy. Yet if there are examples of Islamism and racist gangs there are resources of hope too.
Professor Linden West, PhD, FRSA is a Professor of Education and Director of the PhD programme in the Faculty of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University and Visiting Professor at the University of Paris Ouest, La Défense.