IDENTITY IN POST-SOVIET ESTONIA
Can a former Soviet republic re-form an identity and culture that is separate from its recent past? Laurie Taylor is joined by social anthropologist, Sigrid Rausing who spent a year on a former collective farm on a remote Estonian peninsular.
MOTORWAYS
What affect have motorways had on the evolution of cities and the countryside? Should they be considered feats of civil engineering which connect people and communities or as environmental disaster zones which encourage ever greater dependence on the car?
Laurie Taylor discusses the wonders of the motorway with Peter Portland, local historian and co-author of Around the M60 - Manchester's Orbital Motorway and Roger Zogolovitch, Course Director at the London School of Economics Cities Programme.
Additional information:
Sigrid Rausing
History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN 0199263183
Peter Portland
Around the M60 - Manchester's Orbital Motorway
Matthew Hyde, Aidan O'Rourke & Peter Portland
AMCD Publishers
ISBN: 189776230-5
The book will be launched at The Manchester Museum on 3rd December 2004, in the reception area from 5.30pm (please check time)
Roger Zogolovitch
Course Director at the London School of Economics Cities Programme
London Orbital
Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN 0141014741
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