Month: March 2014

MA Visual Sociology: The First Year So Far by Rebecca Coleman

March 30, 2014

  The MA in Visual Sociology was launched at last year’s IVSA conference with a plenary session with Bernd Kraeftner, chaired by Michael Guggenheim and Nina Wakeford (listen to the podcast here: https://cucrblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/ivsa-2013-visual-sociology-ma-launch-with-bernd-kraeftner/?relatedposts_exclude=181), and with a blogpost by Michael Guggenheim titled ‘What was visual sociology?’ (read here: http://www.csisponline.net/2013/07/01/what-was-visual-sociology/). Positing visual sociology in the past tense … More MA Visual Sociology: The First Year So Far by Rebecca Coleman

Gone to the dogs: The redevelopment of Catford Stadium by Louise Rondel

March 23, 2014

 An inevitable title, perhaps, for a post about the closure of Catford’s greyhound stadium now reduced to an overgrown wasteland, ringed by fences and patrolled by a bored-looking security guard and a pair of ferocious-sounding dogs. Another headline, ‘From Traps to Flats’i (or more accurately from traps to Barratt homes), reports on Boris Johnson’s announcement … More Gone to the dogs: The redevelopment of Catford Stadium by Louise Rondel

Uncertain Landings by Caroline Knowles

March 16, 2014

   At this a major junction the flip-flop trail splinters in all direction: east to Australasia, south to Singapore and Japan, westward to the African continent, the US, Canada and South America, and north to Europe and Scandinavia, quietly connecting Fuzhou, the major production centre for flip-flops (in SE China) with the world. Staying true … More Uncertain Landings by Caroline Knowles

Re-staging Revolutions : Alternative Theatre in Lambeth and Camden by Lesley Brew

March 9, 2014

There was a recent remembrance of Stuart Hall by Clancy Sigal in the London Review of Books. He recalled late-1950’s times in the Partisan coffee shop in Carlisle Street in Soho  and clashes (mild and verbal) with Raphael Samuel. Along with the hang-out of the CP Historians Group [Dona Torr, Dorothy Thompson and others] and … More Re-staging Revolutions : Alternative Theatre in Lambeth and Camden by Lesley Brew