Phil Cohen Works

Generation and Gender

FROM HERE TO MODERNITY

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 Rethinking the Youth Question with C Wright Mills  Look,mum, it comes down to something pretty simple. If I get a job when I leave school, its gonna be part time-most probably serving some rich kid  fried chicken.I’ve started to see myself like dad. And I don’t know if that’s such a bad thing. Dad does things. When he had a job he did his job. When they took that away, he … [Read more...] about FROM HERE TO MODERNITY

Mapping the Real : Ethno-graphology and the ‘Other Scene’

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…  since Neolithic times  we have been marking down representations on cave walls, in the dirt, on parchment, trees, lunchplates, napkins, even on our own  skin-all so we could remember  where we have been, where we want to be going, where we should be going. There is a deep impulse ingrained in us to take these directions, coordinates, declarations out of … [Read more...] about Mapping the Real : Ethno-graphology and the ‘Other Scene’

Born to Flying Glass

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In this talk, given to a number of  conferences and seminars in Germany, Sweden and the UK in  2005/6 I discuss a number of theoretical and methodological issues related to a research project on early  childhood memories of civilian bombing  in World War Two. View the text here:  Born To Flying Glass … [Read more...] about Born to Flying Glass

Not Lost in Translation: Phil Cohen and Nora Rathzel in Dialogue on the Youth Question

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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