FEBRUARY BLOG :THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD - AN URBAN TRIPTYCH 1) Chic by Growl I recently moved into a new neighbourhood in Islington. My flat is in a large Peabody Estate, off the Essex Road, quite close to the area which Ruth Glass made the object of her famous study on ‘gentrification’. I am living in one of the earliest ‘ … [Read more...] about February Blog There goes the neighbourhood
Working class identity politics in post Brexit Britain
Part One : Subtle Dialectics,Crude Thoughts ‘In order to save the Party we had to destroy it’ (with acknowledgement to Bert Brecht) After the so called uprising of June 23/When business and political leaders /had leaflets distributed /stating that the people/had forfeited their confidence/and could win it back only/by redoubled … [Read more...] about Working class identity politics in post Brexit Britain
BOTH SIDES OF THE LINE Stuart Hall and ‘New Ethnicities, then and now
In June 1992 Stuart Hall came to the University of East London to give the inaugural lecture for the Centre for New Ethnicities Research to which I had just been appointed director. I had been working for a number of years at the Institute of Education developing an approach to anti -racist work with young people based on ethnographic research … [Read more...] about BOTH SIDES OF THE LINE Stuart Hall and ‘New Ethnicities, then and now
Ben Cohen Obituary Royal Society of Medicine
Ben Cohen, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, has died at the age of 101. He was born into a family of poor Jewish immigrants who settled in the Glasgow Gorbals before the First World War. His father was a militant socialist and fled from Vitebsk to avoid both political and religious persecution under the Tsar. The son grew up in the … [Read more...] about Ben Cohen Obituary Royal Society of Medicine
An Unseasonal Triptych
Trump L’Oeil Like most people on what we used to call the Left, I guess I have been struggling to come to terms with the result of the US Presidential election, not to mention the UK vote to leave the EU and the gains by the Far Right in Eastern Europe. It is fatally easy to join up the dots and see the emergence of authoritarian populism and national … [Read more...] about An Unseasonal Triptych