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Generation and Gender

Methods in Dialogue / Finding the Way Home

October 28, 2012 by philco

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

Depicting the Gospel of Work: From Moralised Landscape to Mechanical Reproduction

October 18, 2012 by philco

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

September 30, 2012 by philco

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

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WRITING BEHIND THE LINE

This is the Preface to Waypoints Volume 2 : Studies in the Grey Zone , a collection of new work to be published by eyeglass books in January 2024 … [Read More...] about WRITING BEHIND THE LINE

In Praise of the Heimlich Manoeuvre

Text of speech given at Wivenhoe House on June 3rd 2023, on the occasion of my 80th birthday. Reasons to be Cheerful : that so many people managed … [Read More...] about In Praise of the Heimlich Manoeuvre

UNEASY LIES THE HEAD : ON LOSING THE ROYAL TOUCH  NOW AND THEN

Note: This is a revised and updated text of an article  originally published in Livingmaps Review  and posted online in 2021. It is due to … [Read More...] about UNEASY LIES THE HEAD : ON LOSING THE ROYAL TOUCH  NOW AND THEN

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