Stammering as Dada

Mike Neary was a renowned critical educator, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln, and a founding member of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln. He died in January 2023, and in the months prior to his death, the editors of this book met with Mike and, with his guidance, worked with him on a collection of his writings. Mike was once asked why he wrote and he responded, «I write for the future» This book gathers some of his key writings to keep alive the critical legacy which Mike’s life and work embodied. It contains a body of work written by Mike on his own, with his close collaborators, as well as contributions written about him. The work gathered here in this book attests to Mike’s lifelong critical engagement with the work of Karl Marx, and as his work shows, this is an engagement on terms which are uniquely his own, reflecting Mike’s unique vision, his deep egalitarianism, his personal warmth, and his critical intellect.

Stephen Cowden is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Gloucestershire with an interest in the relationships between pedagogy, social justice and equality. He is a member of the Feminist Dissent editorial collective as well as a Commissioning Editor for the Peter Lang New Disciplinary Perspectives in Education series.

Gary Saunders is an Associate Professor in Criminology and Sociology at the University of Nottingham. Gary’s interests include university governance, learning and teaching and student empowerment. Gary helped to develop Student as Producer at the University of Lincoln as well as working with others at the Social Science Centre (Lincoln).

Joss Winn is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Lincoln, responsible for the School's post-graduate research programmes. Between 2010 and 2019, he researched and wrote about co-operative higher education with Mike Neary.