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Hi Gareth

Thanks for sending this. Unfortunately I am going to have to pull out as I have to concentrate on finishing Material Dreams. The book is already overdue and Palgrave  have set a deadline for mid June , so I cannot afford the time and have pulled out of a couple of other  things. 

Hope it goes well , and perhaps there will be another  occasion. Will let you know about the  urban ethnography conference  we are organising  in London next year. 

all the best

Phil 


Phil Cohen

Research director :Living Maps    http://www.livingmaps.org.uk

Editor: Livingmaps Review: www.livingmaps.review


Emeritus Professor  in Cultural Studies, University of East London ; Visiting Professor , Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London ;Research Fellow The Young Foundation

Website :  http://www.philcohenworks.com


Latest Blogs: Finding Common ground :  the avatars of community activism /Through thick and thin: community studies and the ethnographic turn/  To vote,perchance to dream:some reflections on choosing a leader/ The Centre will not hold: some comments on the 2015 Election/ On Living with Painting/  Now you see it, now you don’t: reflections on the pop up economy; Glass Ceilings: remembering a pioneer urbanist /The dialectics of trespass in ethnographic fieldwork

Birkbeck ISR Lecture : http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2014/10/phil-cohen-our-kind-of-town-citizen-social-science-participatory-mapping-and-the-struggle-for-a-just-city/?pid=16189


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Archive that,Comrade  PM Press

London 2012 and the Post Olympic City : a hollow legacy? ( co-edited with Paul Watt )  Palgrave Macmillan  

Material Dreams:maps and territories in the un/making of urban modernity  Palgrave Macmillan 

 



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Subject: [URB-GEOG-FORUM] The Sociology of Contemporary Urban Life: Economies |Cultures| Politics| Aesthetics REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
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***REGISTRATION NOW OPEN***

The Sociology of Contemporary Urban Life

Economies |Cultures| Politics| Aesthetics

Thursday 16th and Friday 17th June 2016

University of York, UK
This two-day conference, co-organised by the Department of Sociology and CURB (Centre for Urban Research) at University of York, is an attempt to provide a lively, open-minded forum for urban sociologists to gather and discuss the challenges of conducting the craft of urban sociology in a fragmented, hierarchical urban world; an urbanizing planet where the very concept of ‘the city’--traditionally  the unit of analysis for urban sociologists—faces unprecedented levels of scepticism.  The title of the conference is a riff on T.J. Clark's (1984) book on Manet and Paris, The Painting of Modern Life. As such, the conference aims to engage with contemporary urban life in a  critical manner, using a  multiplex of economies, cultures, politics and aesthetics to explore  our contemporary urban experience/s (with or without the city).  The conference will also address the distinctive role that urban sociology has played, does play and may in the future play within the broader academic endeavour of Urban Studies.
Confirmed speakers include:
Fran Tonkiss (LSE)
Michael Keith (Oxford)
Emma Jackson (Goldsmiths, London)
Phil Hubbard (Kent)
Ayona Datta (Leeds)
David Pinder (Roskilde) 
Richard Sennett (LSE) (a public lecture given as part of the York Festival of Ideas).

There are also four streams panel sessions. Full details of the full programme will be available here very shortly: https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/news-and-events/department/2016/urbansociology/
Registration is £40.00 (full) or £20.00 (student/ postdoctoral) for the full conference. One day rates are also available. The direct link to payment pages is here: https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/news-and-events/department/2016/urbansociology/#tab-2


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Dr Gareth Millington
Lecturer in Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
 
01904 323058
 
New Antipode paper on the post-political city: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12211/full

Author of: 'Race', Culture and the Right to the City: centres, peripheries, margins
 
 
 
 
 
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