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.

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  • 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)

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