tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096690447802445485.post2841243839013964507..comments2023-04-18T18:20:36.128+01:00Comments on RADICAL HISTORY NETWORK (RaHN): Colin Ward : the anarchist of everyday life :Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096690447802445485.post-27994040940748004362016-08-02T18:19:17.459+01:002016-08-02T18:19:17.459+01:00The Value of Eye-Witness Accounts
By Brian Bamford...The Value of Eye-Witness Accounts<br />By Brian Bamford<br />CENTRAL to Colin Ward's critique of anarchist analysis and practice in the 1960s, was his belief that it was too obsessed with history and historical accounts. That is too focused on the historical narrative of what had transpired in earlier times, and lacking an awareness of the here and now, and what people like me who have been brought up in anthropological study or ethnomethodology may call 'the missing what-ness'. <br />In May 2011, I gave [a] paper at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair entitled: 'Pro. Preston and George Orwell: The varieties of historical investigation and experience'. It was an attempt to access the qualitative value differing accounts such as that of the academic historian Professor Paul Preston and George Orwell's more ethnographic eye-witness studies and descriptions.<br /> For more go to http://www.northernvoicesmag.blogspot.comRadical History Network (RaHN)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12583324130074286354noreply@blogger.com