North Woolwich is part of the Royal Docks but is physically isolated by virtue of its physical geography and for many years was subject to neglect by planners and politicians alike . It has a large concentration of social housing and has been home to a large , and increasingly ethnically diverse working class community. East Europeans are the latest immigrants to an area … [Read more...] about Young East Ender’s Views of Regeneration: The North Woolwich Story
Archives for June 2013
Race, Ethnicity and the Unconscious
This is an excerpt from a seminar I gave in Vienna in which I explore some of the problems and possibilities of applying psychoanalytic concepts and insghts to understanding and tackling the culture of popular racism. … [Read more...] about Race, Ethnicity and the Unconscious
May/June Blog – Living the Dream : a Letter from Paris
Forty five years after the May ‘evenements’ in Paris I took my grandchildren to Euro-Disney for their half term holiday break. To bracket the most determined assault on the ‘Society of the Spectacle’ with the most extravagant expression of its triumph might seem wilfully perverse, at best a rueful acknowledgement that capitalism has succeeded, beyond our wildest … [Read more...] about May/June Blog – Living the Dream : a Letter from Paris