Event overview
Dr Alex Rhys Taylor, Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr Alex Rhys Taylor, will be speaking as part of the University of Nottingham's, Centre for Critical Theory, Visiting Speaker Series.
His presentation applies methods and concepts derived from a ‘sensory turn’ within the social sciences to a street market, popular with migrants to east London, to explore the socio-sensory processes through which convivial metropolitan multiculture is produced. Arguing against critiques of “eating the other” (hooks 1992, p.21) and reductive accounts of cross-cultural interaction (assimilation, acculturation, boutique cosmopolitanism etc.) this paper hones a sensory attention on the market place and reveals the ways urbanites come to live with difference and, between them, develop metropolitan multicultures.
Building on over twenty years of excellence in the field of critical theory at The University of Nottingham, the Centre for Critical Theory facilitates and promotes cutting-edge research that aims to maintain critical theory’s relevance for contemporary society, politics and culture.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 27 Feb 2013 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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