As Londoners we are used to buildings crowding out the sky, the constant friction of human traffic, the barrage of audio-visual noise which cuts into our thoughts and counterpoints our conversations on the street. And so we cocoon ourselves inside little immersive techno-bubbles which are just as invasive, but at least of our own choosing, and we seek out … [Read more...] about JULY BLOG A Walk in Olympic Park
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June Blog Crossing the Borderline : the dialectics of trespass in ethnographic fieldwork
Introduction Trespass is a very complicated, tricky, and sometimes dangerous concept. It occupies an ambiguous semantic space somewhere between a model and a metaphor, that is, it operates within both a normative and poetic discourse of transgression. For example a work of graffiti sprayed on the side of a house can be treated as both an act of cr5iminal damage or … [Read more...] about June Blog Crossing the Borderline : the dialectics of trespass in ethnographic fieldwork