Andy Wightman, Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow 5 December, 2016
5 December, 2016 1 p.m: Andy Wightman
University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Andy Wightman is a writer, researcher, analyst, commentator and activist on issues of land, power, governance, democracy and money. He studied forestry at Aberdeen University and spent some time working as an environmental scientist before becoming self-employed in 1992. In 1996 I wrote Who Owns Scotland(Canongate) and in 1999 wrote Scotland: Land & Power. The Agenda for Land Reform in Scotland. In 2010, he wrote The Poor had No Lawyers (Birlinn), an attempt to provide a historical analysis of the land question and to reinvigorate debate around land relations. Andy Wightman is a writer, researcher, analyst, commentator and activist on issues of land, power, governance, democracy and money.
www.andywightman.com/about

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