Naomi Klein, Bristol Festival of Ideas.

Naomi Klein

Bristol Festival of Ideas

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Bristol Festival of Ideas returns in May 2008 with a full programme of debates, lectures and discussions. Events at Arnolfini include Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, discussing identity; a panel discussion on the 60s and the legacy of idealism; and Naomi Klein whose new book The Shock Doctrine (Allen Lane) critically examines the success of America’s ‘free market’ policies.

For details of events at Arnolfini please go to our website. For information about the full programme see www.ideasfestival.co.uk or pick up a copy of the festival brochure at Arnolfini.

Events

Fri 23 May, 6.00pm

£6.00 / £4.00 concs.

Naomi Klein uses the term ‘shock doctrine’ to describe the way in which the ‘free market’ came to dominate the world. Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that ‘free markets’ lead to ‘free people’. She argues that our world is increasingly in thrall to a little understood yet hugely influential ideology: the shock doctrine – a doctrine that sees moments of collective crisis as a ‘window of opportunity’. Klein reinterprets our past to trace the rise of disaster capitalism, a programme of social and economic engineering advanced through shock. Playing out today around the world in Israel, Iraq, New Orleans and South-East Asia, Shock Doctrine examines the beliefs that underpin global policy.

www.ideasfestival.co.uk

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