{"id":1681,"date":"2021-01-20T15:03:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2021-01-20T15:03:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:03:36","slug":"book-launch-roads-runways-and-resistance-from-the-newbury-bypass-to-extinction-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/book-launch-roads-runways-and-resistance-from-the-newbury-bypass-to-extinction-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch: Roads, Runways and Resistance \u2013 from the Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Senior Lecturer in Transport and Planning, Steve Melia<\/a>, has written a new book called Roads, Runways and Resistance \u2013 from the Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion. It spans a 30-year story of the most controversial issues in transport, and the protest movements they spawned.  His research included 50 interviews with government ministers, advisors and protestors – many of whom, including ‘Swampy’, were speaking for the first time about the events they describe. It is a story of transport ministers undermined by their own Prime Ministers, protestors attacked or quietly supported by the police, and smartly-dressed protestors who found a way onto the roof of the Houses of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research project which led to the book was partly funded by UWE, although most of the interviews and writing were done in Steve\u2019s own time.  It also produced two academic journal articles, which inform the book\u2019s conclusions in a \u2018light touch\u2019 way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book will be launched virtually in a webinar on the 26 January 2021. The webinar will be introduced and chaired by Prof. Graham Parkhurst.\u00a0 Steve will tell the story of the main events described in the book, and also reflect on the tensions between academic research, direct action and writing for the general public, before opening for questions and discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register a place here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about the book can be found here<\/a> or watch this short video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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