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On the Wrong Side of the Track?: East London and the Post Olympics

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
426 Seiten
Englisch
Lawrence & Wisharterschienen am12.04.2013
Examines the legacy of the 2012 Olympics for East London.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextExamines the legacy of the 2012 Olympics for East London.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-907103-62-9
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2013
Erscheinungsdatum12.04.2013
Seiten426 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 22 mm
Gewicht594 g
Artikel-Nr.20370004

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: 'Everyone a winner' - Welcome to the Post Olympics Part I: East London then and now: an everyday story of 'race', class and imagined community 1. London goes East: the gothic imagination and the capital's 'other scene'. 2. All white down our way: portrait of a working-class community in crisis 3. Living the dream? Some scenes from 'Growing up East Enders' 4. From Canary Wharf to Stratford via Thurrock and Southend: London's eastward's turn and the making of Thames Gateway Part II: The 2012 Olympics: between the artificial paradise and the beautifying lie 5. London calling 2012: notes on the haunting of an Olympic story 6. Signs taken for wonders: the politics and poetics of staging a mega event 7. Bodyscapes: class, gender and 'race' in the fabrication of 2012 8. East 20: Towards a good enough legacymehr

Autor

Phil Cohen grew up with Steve Ovett and Jean-Paul Sartre as his teenage heroes and has been trying to get them into the same book ever since. He is author of Knuckle Sandwich: Growing up in the working class city (with Dave Robins); Rethinking the Youth Question; London's Turning: The making of Thames Gateway (with Mike Rustin); and Borderscapes: memory, narrative and Un/Common Culture (to be published in 2013). His poetry has been published by Critical Quarterly, Agenda, Soundings and Kites. He is Emeritus Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of East London.