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London's Finished?: Understanding the Paradoxes of a Multicultural City
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The research programme Diversity and Learning invite to open lecture by professor Les Back
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Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and will in this lecture argue for the development of a cosmopolitan method that reworks the relationship between technology, art and critical social science. He argues for a sensuous mode of scholarship in which the social relations of sound, smell, touch and taste can alert us to the ways in which community is inhabited and lived. The aspiration of this sensuous and multimodal agenda for researching community is to create vital forms of research that capture the conflicts as well as the opportunities that arise in city life.
The presentation is based on reviewing the current debate on the ?death of multiculturalism? and thus the political and ethical dimensions of research practice are explored.
The lecture is free of charge. No registration required
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