Frank Furedi

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Frank Furedi (born 1947 in Hungary) is professor of sociology at the University of Kent, UK. Under the pseudonym Frank Richards, he was the founder and chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) of Great Britain, a left-wing political party which was expelled from the International Socialists in the 1970s, styling itself as the Revolutionary Opposition. He is the husband of Ann Furedi, the Chief Executive of BPAS, the UK's largest independent abortion provider.

Furedi's family emigrated from Hungary to Canada after the failed 1956 uprising. He has lived in Britain since the 1970s.

The RCP published a newspaper The Next Step throughout the 1980s and the magazine Living Marxism (later relaunched as "LM") in the 1990s. Still under Furedi's guidance, the ex-RCP came to concentrate on anti-imperialist and anti-statist traditions in Marxism.

He is associated with the on-line journal Spiked-online. Furedi maintains that society and universities are undergoing a politically driven dumbing down process which is manifest in society's growing inability to understand and assess the meaning of risk. The rise of the environmental and green movements parallels society's growing obsession with risk which has become a commodity that some organisations are using to further their objectives.

Furedi's academic work was initially devoted to a study of imperialism and race relations– his books on the subject include The Mau-Mau war in Perspective, The New Ideology of Imperialism and The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race. In recent years his work has been oriented towards exploring the sociology of risk.

Furedi is frequently quoted in the media as an expert on how some Western societies have become obsessed with risk. He writes regularly for Spiked Online. He has also written several books on the subject of risk, offering a counterpoint to the analyses of Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck, including Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and Culture of Fear.

He wrote an article about risk culture post September 11, one of several publications from the charity Global Futures.

During his LM / RCP days, he addressed meetings and wrote under the pseudonym of Frank Richards. Frank Furedi is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.

1 Bibliography
- 1.1 As sole author
- 1.2 As coauthor/contributor
2 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] As sole author

The Soviet Union Demystified: A Materialist Analysis

Junius Publications, 1986 (ISBN 0-948392-05-3)
The Mau Mau War in Perspective

James Currey Publishers, 1989 (ISBN 0-85255-052-9)
Mythical Past, Elusive Future: History and Society in an Anxious Age

Pluto Press, 1991 (ISBN 0-7453-0531-8)
The New Ideology of Imperialism: Renewing the Moral Imperative

Pluto Press, 1994 (ISBN 0-7453-0846-5)
Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism

IB Tauris, 1994 (ISBN 1-85043-784-X)
Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation

Continuum International Publishing Group, 1997 (ISBN 0-304-33751-X)
- Revised edition
  
  Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002 (ISBN 0-8264-7616-3)
Population and Development: A Critical Introduction

Palgrave Macmillan, 1997 (ISBN 0-312-17658-9)
The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race

Pluto Press, 1998 (ISBN 0-7453-1303-5)
Courting Mistrust: The Hidden Growth of a Culture of Litigation in Britain

Centre for Policy Studies, 1999 (ISBN 1-897969-95-3)
Paranoid Parenting: Abandon Your Anxieties and Be a Good Parent

Allen Lane, 2001 (ISBN 0-7139-9488-6)
- Revised edition
  
  Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child
  
  A Cappella Publishing, 2002 (ISBN 1-55652-464-1)
Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age

Routledge, 2003 (ISBN 0-415-32159-X)
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting Twenty-First Century Philistinism

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004 (ISBN 0-8264-6769-5)
The Politics of Fear. Beyond Left and Right

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005 (ISBN 0-8264-8728-9)

[edit] As coauthor/contributor

Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism

By Franz Jakubowski

Translated by Anne Booth

Introduction by Frank Furedi

Pluto Press, 1990 (ISBN 0-7453-0389-7)
Emergencies and Disorder in the European Empires After 1945

Edited by Robert Holland

Chapter 'Creating a breathing space: the political management of colonial emergencies' by Frank Furedi

Frank Cass Publishers, 1994 (ISBN 0-7146-4109-X)
Has History Ended?: Fukuyama, Marx, Modernity

Edited by Christopher Bertram and Andrew Chitty

Chapter 'The enthronement of low expectations: Fukuyama's ideological compromise for our time' by Frank Furedi

Avebury, 1994 (ISBN 1-85628-959-1)
The Concise International Encyclopedia of Business and Management

Edited by Malcolm Warner

Entry 'Futurology' by Frank Furedi

Thomson Learning, 1996 (ISBN 1-86152-114-6)
Globalisation and the South

Edited by Caroline Thomas and Peter Wilkin

Chapter 'The moral condemnation of the South' by Frank Furedi

Palgrave Macmillan, 1997 (ISBN 0-312-17564-7)
Disconnected: Ageing in an Alien World

By Tracey Brown and Frank Furedi

Reconnecting, 1997 (ISBN 1-902105-00-1)
The International Encyclopedia of Business and Management Handbook of Management Thinking

Edited by Malcolm Warner

Entry 'Alvin Toffler' by Frank Furedi

Thomson Learning, 1998 (ISBN 1-86152-632-6)
Environmental Health: Third World Problems, First World Preoccupations

Edited by Roger Bate and Lorraine Mooney

Chapter 'A sociology of health panics' by Frank Furedi

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998 (ISBN 0-7506-4223-8)
Another Country

Edited by Digby Anderson and Michael Mosbacher

Chapter '"Not people like us": what modern Britons have against country people' by Frank Furedi

Social Affairs Unit, 1999 (ISBN 0-907631-83-5)
Mistaken Identities: The Second Wave of Controversy over 'Political Correctness'

Edited by Scott Davies, Cyril Levitt and Neil McLaughlin

Chapter 'The new etiquette' by Frank Furedi

Peter Lang Publishing, 1999 (ISBN 0-8204-4137-6)
Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers, c1700-1964

Edited by David Killingray and David Omissi

Chapter 'The demobilised African soldier and the blow to white prestige' by Frank Furedi

Manchester University Press, 1999 (ISBN 0-7190-5735-3)
The Imaginary Time Bomb: Why an Ageing Population Is Not a Social Problem

By Phil Mullan

Foreword by Frank Furedi

IB Tauris, 1999 (ISBN 1-86064-778-2)
Health Promotion: New Discipline or Multi-Discipline?

Edited by Ricca Edmondson and Cecily Kelleher

Chapter 'Reproductive health or population control?' by Frank Furedi

Irish Academic Press, 2000 (ISBN 0-7165-2711-1)
How Claims Spread: Cross-National Diffusion of Social Problems

Edited by Joel Best

Chapter 'Bullying: the British contribution to the construction of a social problem' by Frank Furedi

Chapter 'The evolution of road rage in Britain and the United States' by Joel Best and Frank Furedi

Aldine/Transaction, 2001 (ISBN 0-202-30654-2)
Rethinking Mixed Race

Edited by David Parker and Miri Song

Chapter 'How sociology imagined mixed race' by Frank Furedi

Pluto Press, 2001 (ISBN 0-7453-1567-4)
Democracy and Participation: New Social Movements in Liberal Democracies

Edited by Gary Taylor and Malcolm Todd

Foreword by Frank Furedi

Merlin Press, 2003 (ISBN 0-85036-538-4)
The McDonaldisation of Higher Education

Edited by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard

Chapter 'The bureaucratisation of the British university' by Frank Furedi

Greenwood Press, 2002 (ISBN 0-89789-856-7)
Always On, Changing Britain

Edited by Graham Mather

Chapter [title?] by Frank Furedi

European Media Forum, 2004 (ISBN 1-903850-14-2)
The RoutledgeFalmer Guide to Key Debates in Education

Edited by Dennis Hayes

Chapter 'The formalisation of relationships in education' by Frank Furedi

RoutledgeFalmer, 2004 (ISBN 0-415-33244-3)