This video illustrates some of the innovative methods used in a research project which explored young people’s sense of place and identity in two deprived neighbourhoods in London’s Docklands. The aim was to provide a space of representation in which the young people felt free to express their fears and anxieties, whether through artwork, or the stories they … [Read more...] about Methods in Dialogue / Finding the Way Home
Generation and Gender
Depicting the Gospel of Work: From Moralised Landscape to Mechanical Reproduction
Throughout the nineteeenth century, the association of heroic forms of masculinity with manual work was adumbrated less through political rhetoric than through biblical imagery and also in aesthetics of labour developed by the painters and photographers of the first industrial revolution. We will look briefly at each in turn. View the full text here: Phil Cohen … [Read more...] about Depicting the Gospel of Work: From Moralised Landscape to Mechanical Reproduction
Beyond Storm and Stress Some reflections on War, Modernity and Youth after 9/11
In the West, during the ‘heroic’ 19th century phase of nation and empire building ‘youth’ was placed rhetorically and actually in the front ranks of violent confrontation. Young men were cast as the main protagonists of class war and civil war, not to mention the ‘war of generations’, the struggle of the forces of modernity against tradition. In the process young women were … [Read more...] about Beyond Storm and Stress Some reflections on War, Modernity and Youth after 9/11