This film was originally made to accompany the Open University Course on ‘Race, Culture and Society’ and explores the popular imagery of race, nation and empire that was in circulation in the Victorian school. … [Read more...] about Empires of the Mind
Not Lost in Translation: Phil Cohen and Nora Rathzel in Dialogue on the Youth Question
This video is a short extract from a lecture ' Young heads,Old Shoulders' given to a conference of youth workers and educationalists in Hamburg. It is included to illustrate some of the issues raised by translating issues from one national context and field of discourse to another. This Anglo-German dialogue on the Youth question was pursued further in the context of a … [Read more...] about Not Lost in Translation: Phil Cohen and Nora Rathzel in Dialogue on the Youth Question
November blog
To blog or not to blog that was the question. Is it always nobler in the mind to keep one’s thoughts to oneself rather than complain about the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune? Blogging often seems to have become just another excuse for grumbling, although as a medium for sharing grievances is obviously has its uses. Blogs are the parish pumps of cyberspace, where gossip … [Read more...] about November blog
Labouring Under Whiteness
This text explores the history and forms of working class racism in Britain since the beginning of the Industrial revolution up to the present. It examines the way the English working class was positioned as a both a ‘backbone of the nation’ and a ‘race apart’ in the dominant discourse and how this shaped the internal development of its culture and politics, … [Read more...] about Labouring Under Whiteness
The Idea of the University and the Intellectual in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
The Idea of the University in the Age of the Knowledge Economy / The Idea of the Intellectual in the Age of the Knowledge Economy. The advent of a globalised knowledge economy has transformed the conditions of intellectual work over the past twenty five years. These two texts examine different aspects of the situation. The first looks at the impact on the university and … [Read more...] about The Idea of the University and the Intellectual in the Age of the Knowledge Economy