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Geoff Andrews is senior lecturer in politics at The Open University and author of The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure.

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British food: Moving beyond crisis Featuring: audio, New contentCreative Commons Image The Open University

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University), Sanjay Kumar (Guest), Julian Cottee (Guest)

22 May 2012

Have supermarkets got too much power? Have we lost touch with seasonal and local food in favour of convenience choice? Our panel discuss the future...  Read more : British food: Moving beyond crisis

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The end of the line: Is fishing in crisis?New contentCreative Commons Image Rockyeda under CC-BY licence

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University)

22 May 2012

The once-abundant oceans are running short of fish, while trawlers discard edible catch. Can slow food offer a solution before it's too late?  Read more : The end of the line: Is fishing in crisis?

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City Road, Cardiff: suburban thoroughfare  Featuring: activity, Creative Commons Image Cardiff Central Watch under Creative Commons license

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University)

10 May 2012

Known as Castle Road in the 19th century, we trace the changing character and communities of City Road, re-named in 1905, when Cardiff gained city...  Read more : City Road, Cardiff: suburban thoroughfare

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Elitism won't hold back the food revolutionBBC

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University)

28 March 2012

With interest in the sociology of food increasing, Geoff Andrews explains how assumptions of ‘fine dining’ are being disrupted  Read more : Elitism won't hold back the food revolution

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Curiosity killed the cat BBC

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University)

22 February 2012

Geoff Andrews responds to Stefan Collini's What are Universities For and warns of the dangers of a 'curiosity-free' education system  Read more : Curiosity killed the cat

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Brave New World re-imagined Creative Commons Image By Abode of Chaos via Flickr under Creative Commons license

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University)

24 January 2012

80 years since the publication of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World, Geoff Andrews wonders how it might be re-imagined today in the context...  Read more : Brave New World re-imagined

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Let's hear it for AristotleTilemahos Efthimiadis under CC-BY-SA licence

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University)

27 July 2011

Is there any reason to study the thoughts of a long-dead Greek? Geoff Andrews find inspiration in the work of Martha Nussbaum.  Read more : Let's hear it for Aristotle

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Reith Lectures 2011: Reith Responses - Dissent As Vocation Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image lewishamdreamer under CC-BY-NC licence

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University), Professor Michael Saward (The Open University), Rosemary Bechler (Guest)

06 July 2011

In response to the 2011 Reith Lectures, our experts explore the idea of dissent as a calling - and how far new technology has inspired...  Read more : Reith Lectures 2011: Reith Responses - Dissent As Vocation

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The politics of food introduction  Featuring: video,audio, The Open University

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University), Julian Temperley (Guest)

13 November 2010

The apple has become a contested political symbol of rural Britain versus the need to keep up with mass markets, and as the policing of...  Read more : The politics of food introduction

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The politics of food: Perspectives Featuring: audio, By Marcin Floryan via Wikimedia under Creative Commons 2.5

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University), Sue Braithwaite (Guest), Kath Dalmeny (Guest)

13 November 2010

How does the decline of the British apple orchard have wider significance to our understanding of food, politics and the way we live? And why...  Read more : The politics of food: Perspectives

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Browse Dr Geoff Andrews’s latest research from Open Research Online

Andrews, Geoff (2008). The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure. London: Pluto Press.

Andrews, Geoff (2005). Not a Normal Country: Italy After Berlusconi. London: Pluto Press.

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Why have a National Opera in Wales? BBC

By Dr Hugh Mackay (The Open University)

30 November 2011

Why have a National Opera in Wales? Hugh Mackay discusses the role of cultural institutions in constructing Wales  Read more : Why have a National Opera in Wales?

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Curiosity killed the cat

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11 Mar 2012

I agree. I think that all too often people expect students to accept force-fed information, rather then thinking for themselves. The greatest discoveries were made free-thinking minds. A well known... Read more : Curiosity killed the cat

Brave New World re-imagined

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10 Mar 2012

Huxley was one of many Fabian Socialists fond of or in league with British born fans of Eugenisists, such as H.G Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and other writers who, dreamed of a utopian one world... Read more : Brave New World re-imagined

Curiosity killed the cat

Comment posted by re876

24 Feb 2012

A long overdue discussion about what universities are for, as Geoff says and one starting to take place in a number of academic disciplines. With the costs of studying being so radically shifted to... Read more : Curiosity killed the cat

Brave New World re-imagined

Comment posted by dfs6

08 Feb 2012

Yes - Shakespeare's Tempest was an experimental play about 'what could happen' and Huxley sets us up for the utopia/dystopia discussions. Methinks William Morris and his News from Nowhere does the... Read more : Brave New World re-imagined

Brave New World re-imagined

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24 Jan 2012

For 15 years I was on the production line. I think a very chilling book is Scientific Management by F.W. Taylor . From him came the basic cynicism and treating of people as robots Read more : Brave New World re-imagined

Brave New World re-imagined

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24 Jan 2012

For 15 years I was on the production line. I think a very chilling book is Scientific Management by F.W. Taylor . From him came the basic cynicism and treating of people as robots Read more : Brave New World re-imagined

Biography

Read Dr Geoff Andrews’s biography.

Geoff Andrews is a lecturer and staff tutor in politics at The Open University. He teaches and writes about the history of political thought.

His books include Not a Normal Country: Italy After Berlusconi' (Pluto  Press 2005), Endgames and New Times; the Final Years of British  Communism (Lawrence and Wishart 2004) and The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure (Pluto/ McGill 2008).

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