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Counter Cannon Racialised Scholars Reading List

By Goldsmiths Racialised Postgraduate Network (GRPN) At the start of the 2020-2021 academic year, members of GRPN attended a meeting with senior lecturers and administrators at Goldsmiths. At this meeting, it came to our attention that some program convenors found it particularly challenging to include racialised scholars in their reading list due to the assumption … Continue reading Counter Cannon Racialised Scholars Reading List

Learning a New Language of Boundaries

An essay by Rosette Jäminki The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to make drastic changes to the ways in which we move around and interact in our social world. There has been a rapid recalibration of what is expected in terms of following the guidelines and what kind of behavior is considered unacceptable in each stage of the pandemic. Physical touch and physical proximity have certainly been … Continue reading Learning a New Language of Boundaries

Research News – May 2021

Publications   Christos Varvantakis has a chapter published in a recent edited volume on photography and collective identities in Greece: Varvantakis, C. (2021) ‘Η Ακρόπολη από μακριά: Απόσταση, εγγύτητα και αφή’ (‘Acropolis from a distance: Distance, proximity and touch.’), in Petsini, P. and Stathatos, Y. (eds) Φωτογραφία και συλλογικές ταυτότητες: Ελληνικές φωτογραφικές μελέτες Ι (Photography … Continue reading Research News – May 2021

Research News – April 2021

Publications Martin Savransky has published an essay titled “After Progress: Notes for an Ecology of Perhaps” in the latest issue of Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organisation, as part of a special issue on “Standby: Organising modes of in/activity”. It’s open access! Natassia Brenman has recently had a book review published in the Sociology of … Continue reading Research News – April 2021

Deptford is Changing: a creative exploration of the impact of gentrification

Published by Anita Strasser, 2020 Deptford is Changing: A Creative Exploration of the Impact of Gentrification is part of Anita’s AHRC-funded PhD in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths. The book is the outcome of a collaborative research project that, together with local residents of Deptford, south-east London, researches and highlights the impact of gentrification and austerity … Continue reading Deptford is Changing: a creative exploration of the impact of gentrification

Life Before

Poem by A.K.M   ‘Life Before’ Bright, busy, noisy. That’s what it used to look like at night in London People walking in crowds, but now that memory is hazy. A kaleidoscope of colours, red, yellow, green Leading the path for exhausted workers to make their way home People rushing past each other, now nowhere … Continue reading Life Before