Phil Cohen Works

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There Must Be Some Way Out of Here

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Political Mindfulness and Left responses to a multiple crisis Edited by Phil Cohen With contributions from Ruth Lister,Angela McRobbie, Dick Pountain, Michael Rustin, and Valerie Walkerdone   Taken together  the pieces assembled here  represent a thoughtful attempt to begin to  find a way out of the current impasse in which the Left finds itself, … [Read more...] about There Must Be Some Way Out of Here

Mapping the Pandemic

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MAPPING THE PANDEMIC FROM LEFT FIELD PHIL COHEN Published on line by Compass  Wednesday June 24 2020 This essay  looks at a  range of public, personal and governmental responses to the pandemic for what it tells us about the kind of society and culture we live in. Drawing on insights from anthropology and psychoanalysis a model of risk perception is … [Read more...] about Mapping the Pandemic

WAYPOINTS: Towards an ecology of political mindfulness

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We are living through disturbed and disturbing times in which the maps drawn by political scientists no longer make sense of what is happening on the ground. Against this background the propagandists of neo-liberal individualism urge us to cultivate ‘resilience’ and ‘mindfulness’ as a way of seizing and surviving the present moment. Mindfulness in particular has been … [Read more...] about WAYPOINTS: Towards an ecology of political mindfulness

Postcards to Grandad – a Family Romance

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In this prose poem Phil Cohen explores the ‘other scenes’ of his family history, the stories he was not told about where he came from. Many of them were about the mysterious, and in his eyes romantic figure of his father’s father, a Jewish revolutionary from Vitebsk who emigrated to live in the Glasgow Gorbals during the period of Red Clydeside before and after the First World … [Read more...] about Postcards to Grandad – a Family Romance

Telling the Olympic Legacy Story – an Ethnographic Approach – Japan Visit

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TALKS ABOUT THE OLYMPICS IN JAPAN  Telling the Olympic Legacy Story - an  ethnographic  approach   Phil Cohen  For seven years prior to the London 2012 Games I carried out ethnographic research with local communities most directly affected by the creation of a new Olympic Park In East London. Subsequently I carried out a further … [Read more...] about Telling the Olympic Legacy Story – an Ethnographic Approach – Japan Visit