Nationality British | Name Hilary Wainwright | |
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Born 1949 (age 66–67) United Kingdom Occupation Journalist, political activist, sociologist Education University of Oxford, St Antony's College, Oxford People also search for Sheila Rowbotham, Roy Bhaskar, Maureen Mackintosh, Huw Beynon, David Elliott, Sue Branford Books Reclaim the State, Arguments for a new left, Politics Transformed: Lula and t, The Lucas Plan, Labour: A Tale of Two Parties | ||
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Hilary Wainwright (born 1949) is a British sociologist, political activist and socialist feminist, best known for being editor of Red Pepper magazine.
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- Early life
- Education
- Life and career
- Personal life
- References
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Early life
Wainwright's father was the Liberal MP Richard Wainwright, and her brother, Martin, is the Northern Editor of The Guardian, to which she occasionally contributes.
Education
Wainwright was educated at the Mount School, York, and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she studied PPE. She graduated in 1970. She gained a BPhil in Sociology from St Antony's College, Oxford in 1973.
Life and career
Until 1979, Wainwright was a research fellow at the Department of Sociology at Durham University. 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 examples of resurgent democratic movements in many countries across the world and the lessons they provide for progressive politics. Formerly on the editorial board of New Left Review, she was also on the National Council of the Catalyst think tank.
She received an Honorary DLitt from the University of Huddersfield on 28 November 2007, with her brother Martin, for 'services to journalism'.
In July 2015, Wainwright endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. She said: "To be honest, the Labour Party isn't worth that valuable three quid. But a platform for someone who not only insists that there is an alternative, but stretches himself to support everyone who is fighting for it, is beyond anything that money can buy." She added: "...I believe Jeremy Corbyn should be supported not as an attempt to 'reclaim the Labour Party' but as a transition to a political organisation beyond the Labour Party and beyond parliamentary politics."
Wainwright has written for The Guardian, The Nation, New Statesman, openDemocracy, Jacobin (magazine), Carta, Il Manifesto and El Viejo Topo, as well as appearing as a commentator on the BBC.
Wainwright is a founding member and current co-editor of the Red Pepper political magazine.
Personal life
In 1971, Wainwright married the British philosopher Roy Bhaskar.