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Risinghill and the Ecology of Fear

This piece attempts what may be the first significant published reconsideration of the circumstances surrounding the rise and fall of the controversial Risinghill School, a secondary co-educational comprehensive school established by the London County Council (LCC) in 1960 and closed 5 years later. This is accomplished through a critical re-evaluation of Leila Berg's book Risinghill: Death of a Comprehensive , a 'biography' of the eponymous school and of its first, and only, headteacher, Michael Duane. The translation of events at Risinghill by Berg into the narrative of Risinghill , the semi-mythical, Manichaeian story of Duane's enlightened struggle against the LCC is analysed as a set of rhetorical/discursive practices with theoretical insights borrowed from the US scholar Mike Davis. Berg is charged with subscribing to a distorting deprivationist discourse.