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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Jenks’s life reveals complex links between fascism and ecology
Steve Andrew reviews Farming, Fascism and Ecology
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M Coupland (Routledge, £27.99)
BORN in 1899 to a middle-class family espousing liberal politics, Oxford graduate Jorian Jenks bucked tradition. From an early age, all he ever wanted to be was a farmer.
Managing to realise this in his thirties, he eventually lost his farm due to the bleak economic climate of the period.
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