The Underground Sea

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John Berger

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Hardback

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The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. Publication of The Underground Sea marks the 40th Anniversary of the 1984-5 Strike, at a time when people are rediscovering the necessity, power and possibilities of collective action.Including transcripts and image-essay of his rarely-seen BBC programme, Germinal; interviews and his essay 'Miners', it places itself in the heart of a Derbyshire mining village, with reflections on the everyday life of a typical pit community. Berger grapples with the politics of witness as he studies the miners' labour and the wider community shaped in service to this work. Reflecting on their precarity, he goes back to Zola's novel for hope that 'a new world is germinating underneath the ground. And when it arrives, it will crack open the earth.'

Author Biography:

John Berger was born in London in 1926. His seminal Ways of Seeing was one of the most influential books on art in the twentieth century. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include To the Wedding, King, and the Booker Prize-winning novel, G. He died, aged ninety, in January 2017.Tom Overton is the archivist, editor and the official biographer of John Berger.Matthew Harle is a writer and curator from London.

Release date Australia

February 29th, 2024

Author

John Berger

Contributors

Edited by Matthew Harle
Edited by Tom Overton

Pages

128

Edition

Main

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

b&w images throughout

Dimensions

140x221x14

ISBN-13

9781805302995

Product ID

37907770

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