Phil Cohen is Professor Emeritus at UEL. His work over the last 20 years has focused on East London and has dealt with issues of racism and multiculturalism, public safety and danger, the role of the cultural economy in urban regeneration and popular participation in planning. His books include Rethinking the Youth Question, New Ethnicities,Old Racisms and Questioning Ethnographies (2009). Phil Cohen is now managing editor of Livingmaps Review, an online journal of critical cartography which launches in November.His recent books include On the Wrong Side of the Track:East London and the Post Olympics (Lawrence and Wishart 2013) and Reading Room Only :meoir of a radical bibliophile (Five Leaves 2013).
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan Corbyn forge a new bottom up social democracy?Only time will tell whether Corbyn can forge a new social democracy capable of overturning the realpolitik of...
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Published in: HomeLiving the dream: a letter from ParisThe true nature of perversion is a turning away both from the real and from the imagination of what might transform...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBeyond carnival capitalism: London 2012 and its legacy of hopeLondon 2012 provided a key insight into the shifting relationships between global, national and local as residents...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTowards a good enough Legacy: the long term impact of London 2012As London 2012 draws to a close the questions of Legacy and how to measure the Games' impact emerge as present tense...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA beautifying lie? Olympic culture and kitsch @London2012The directorial questions facing Danny Boyle in his upcoming dramatisation of the Tempest for the London 2012...