The Human Paradox: Worlds Apart in a Connected World by Frank Gaffikin tackles key societal challenges in these troubled times, which looks at growing inequality, identity politics, culture wars, authoritarian populism, climate emergency, nuclear proliferation, AI, distorted social media and the domination of high finance.
In doing so, it joins the dots among these acutely contested global issues, examining what it means to be human and whether we can escape the delusional appeal of human centrality in the natural world.
Professor Frank Gaffikin has been an academic for four decades with a special focus on urban scholarship and planning in contested space; co- Director of the Urban Institute at the University of Ulster; a Senior Research Fellow at the Great Cities Institute in Chicago; and Director of the Institute of Spatial and Environmental Planning, Queen’s University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Join Frank Gaffikin in conversation with Malachi O’Doherty as they discuss and unpack the major themes in this fascinating and relevant book and where we go from here.
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Getting to The Human Paradox: Frank Gaffikin in conversation with Malachi O'Doherty
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North Down Museum
City Hall
Castle Park Avenue
Bangor
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United Kingdom