Cover_autumn07.qxd 20/8/07 10:16 Page 1 CUCR Occasional paper series Brian W.ALLEYNE Personal Narrative and Activism: a bio-ethnography of "Life Experience with Britain" William (Lez)HENRY Mette ANDERSSON Projecting the 'Natural': Language and Citizenship in S t r e e t S i g n s The Situated Politics of Recognition: Ethnic Minority, Outernational Culture Youth and Indentity Work. Centre for Urban and Community Research : autumn 2007 Colin KING Les BACK,Tim CRABBE, John SOLOMOS Play the White Man:The Theatre of Racialised Lions, Black Skins and Reggae Gyals Performance in the Institutions of Soccer Andrew BARRY Larry LOHMANN Motor ecology: the political chemistry of urban air Ethnic Discrimination in "Global" Conservation Zygmunt BAUMAN Ben LOOKER City of Fears, City of Hopes Exhibiting Imperial London: Empire and City in late Victorian and Edwardian guidebooks Vikki BELL Show and tell: passing, narrative and Tony Morrison's Jazz Hiroki OGASAWARA Performing Sectarianism:Terror, Spectacle and Urban Eva BERGLUND Myth in Glasgow Football Cultures Legacies of Empire and Spatial Divides: new and old challanges for Environmentalists in the UK Garry ROBSON Class, criminality and embodied consciousness: Tine BLOM Charlie Richardson and a South East London Habitus Dostoyevsky's Inquisitor:The Question of Evil, Suffering and Freedom of Will in Totalitarian Regimes Flemming RØGILDS Charlie Nielsen's Journey:Wandering through Multi- Bridget BYRNE cultural Landscapes How English am I? Fran TONKISS Ben CARRINGTON The 'marketisation' of urban government: private finance Race,Representation and the Sporting Body and urban policy Stephen DOBSON Danielle TURNEY The Urban Pedagogy of Walter Benjamin: lessons for The language of anti-racism in social work: towards a the 21st Century Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 deconstructuve reading Ben GIDLEY Gordon WALKER and Karen BICKERSTAFF The proletarian other: Charles Booth and the politics of Polluting the poor: an emerging environmental justice representation agenda for the UK? Paul GILROY The status of difference: from epidermalisation to nano- please refer to www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr politics for downloads and further information. Centre For Urban and Community Research Goldsmiths College Phone: +44 (0) 20 7919 7390 University of London Fax: +44 (0) 20 7919 7383 New Cross Email: [email protected] London Website: www.gold.ac.uk SE146NW www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr Cover_autumn07.qxd 20/8/07 10:16 Page 3 MA IN CULTURE, GLOBALISATION AND THE CITY The Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. CONTENTS The Urban Globe? Our world is moving from being a global village to an Multiculture, Hybridity and Racism and the Spatial Politics urban globe. One of the big challenges of the 21st of Gender and Sexuality. A multi-disciplinary approach is Century is how to understand the social organisation of applied that draws on Sociology, Cultural Geography, INTRODUCTION / CUCR news by Michael Keith page 1 contemporary urban life. The MA in Culture, Cultural Studies, Politics and Social Policy. The MA is Globalisation and the City gives you the theoretical and dedicated to turning students into active researchers, practical tools to make sense of cities like London, Los critics and writers. Small moments in the City photographs by Alison Gosper page 2 Angeles, Nairobi or Tokyo. Architecture of Contemporary Religious Transmission by Roger Hewitt page 4 The programme consists of 3 core courses, dissertation The course examines a range of issues from the and a choice of options. It can be followed either full-time Spaces of shared cohabitaion photographs by Karla Berrens page 7 economics of the global city to the politics of graffiti or part-time. ESRC funding for one UK resident is On the Commission on Integration and Cohesion by Michael Keith page 8 writing. These include analysing Urban Youth Cultures, currently under review and may not be available next year. Mind the Gap by Steven Hanson page 10 Literary and Political Milieux, the Political Economy of the Next available entry point: October 2008. London Winter 2007 photographs by Cristina Saez page 14 City, Science and the Technology of Urban Life, Urban Another Way of Photographing people by Ariadne van de Ven page 16 Strategies of Sharing: Deptford TV by Adnan Hadzi and Maria page 19 Olympic Debris photographs by Gesche Wuerfel page 22 MA IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND URBAN CULTURES Audio Theory:We are Spartacus! by Emma Jackson page 24 The Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) Social theory, the left and terror by Ben Gidley page 27 Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Beyond the Frame photographs by Angelos Rallis page 29 Magis World photographs by Elizabeth Haarala page 30 Introducing the MA Structure The MA in Photography and Urban Cultures has been A combination of written and practical work to include a The Car Park by David Colangelo page 32 developed in response to the increasing interests in urban research dissertation and a portfolio of photographs and More Than Fun: Festivals, Culture and Regeneration theory and the visual representation and investigation of final exhibition. It can be followed either full-time or part- written by Nicola Frost, photographs by Laura Cuch page 35 urban life and the physical environments of the city. time. Next available entry point: October 2008. The Westway by Simon Gummer page 38 Who is it for? The MA is run by the Centre for Urban and Community Photographers, visual artists and media practitioners, as Research (CUCR), a national and international leader in well as those with a background in social sciences, research on urban and community life. CUCR is multi- interested in exploring the creative interplay between disciplinary and focuses on issues such as citizenship and cultural research, urban studies and photographic practice. cosmopolitanism; social exclusion and cultures of racism; You should have a degree or equivalent in a relevant area. sport, popular culture and music; regeneration and wealth creation; issues of crime and community safety; technology LISTINGS and REVIEWS page 42 and new patterns of digital culture. Nylon Conference 2007 by Will Davies page 42 Lewisham’77 by Ben Gidley page 43 Further information and how to apply: UK and EU students:Admissions Office, telephone 020 7919 7060 (direct line), fax Re-Visioning Black Urbanism by Paul Goodwin page 44 020 7717 2240 or e-mail [email protected]; Overseas (non EU) students: International Office, telephone 020 7919 The Great Theft:Wrestling Islam from the Extremists by Stephen Jones page 45 7700 (direct line), fax 020 7919 7704 or e-mail [email protected]; Kings Cross Wildlife by Emma Jackson page 46 For further information about the Centre: Please call 020 7919 7390; e-mail [email protected] or visit www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/ Mise-en-scene, MA exhibition, September 2007 page 47 List of contributors page 48 Centre For Urban and Community Research Goldsmiths College Phone: +44 (0) 20 7919 7390 edited by Michael Keith University of London Fax: +44 (0) 20 7919 7383 Emma Jackson New Cross Email: [email protected] London Website: www.gold.ac.uk Britt Hatzius SE146NW www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr photograph on front cover by Britt Hatzius Street_Signs_autumn07.qxd 20/8/07 17:07 Page 1 street signs : autumn 2007 Introduction by Michael Keith might want to think carefully about how we mediate the relationship between the researcher’s eyes, ears and imagination and the accounts, practices and lives of those Welcome to the Autumn 2007 edition of Street Signs, the in people that populate our research and the audiences that house journal of the Centre for Urban and Community we write to. Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths College, University of Such engagement in 2007 implies a degree of moral London. ambivalence about the construction of academic CUCR has tried to consolidate links between MA students, engagement that is somehow antithetical to the exhortatory PhD students and short term and long term researchers moral certainties of some leftist traditions of city working at the Centre. In this sense we like to characterise scholarship. Hannah Arendt, with her biographical flaws and the place as a ‘community of researchers’ and one point of counterintuitive judgements in part overshadows this issue this journal is to give you a sense or a taster of the sort of of Street Signs. In a sense the motif that runs through many work that is coming out of the Centre in recent months, in contributions to this edition might be taken from her sense terms of both funded research and graduate work. of the obligation of “bearing consciously the burden that events have placed upon us” that Ben Gidley considers in Alongside PhD work, the centre hosts two MA programmes the light of the relevance of the ‘war on terror’ to (in Culture, Globalisation and the City and Photography and contemporary city scholarship. A curiosity that is moral but Urban Culture). Funded research focuses on five thematic also a morality that is ambivalent about the cast of today’s areas that address issues of city change and regeneration; city informs our work. the politics of metropolitan residence; identity and cultural studies of the city, the visual cultures of contemporary The politics of metropolitan residence strand of our work was urbanism and the evaluation of social policy programmes strengthened over the summer by a small project for the (http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr/html/research.html). Urban Buzz HEFCE funded knowledge dissemination programme. Gesche Wuerfel, a former graduate student at The Centre has developed an ethos of simultaneously the Centre won the award, working together with engaging theoretically and practically with the flux of situationist arts practice City Mined to consider the ways in everyday city life and a consideration of some of the ethical which older people considered the sorts of city futures and political dilemmas that result from such engagement.