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On the Wrong Side of the Track? - East London and the Post Olympics (Paperback, New)
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On the Wrong Side of the Track? - East London and the Post Olympics (Paperback, New)
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On the Wrong Side of the Track draws on insights from the human
sciences to challenge the arguments of Olympophiles for whom the
Games can do no wrong as well as Olympophobes for whom they can do
no right, using 2012 as a lens through which to examine underlying
trends in contemporary culture. Part one sets the scene, exploring
the changing social and physical landscape of East London from the
inside - including voices from East London communities and the
Olympic Park workers - and from the outside - in the imagination of
artists, social commentators and reformers who made the area into
an object of public fascination and concern. The second half of the
book examines the strategies that were used to present an
'Olympian' vision of London to the world; it focuses on the
rhetoric and reality of regeneration and the cultural politics of
staging the event, pinpointing the differences that East London and
the Olympics have made, and will continue to make, to one another.
The book includes a photo essay on the Olympic site, original
photographs by Jason Orton, Ian F. Rogers, Loraine Leeson and Peter
Dunne, and John Claridge; artworks by Aldo Katayanagi, Jake
Humphrey, and Jock McFadyen; and maps by William Dant and John
Wallet. The cover is a specially commissioned photomontage by Peter
Kennard and Tarek Salhany. The book also includes a reading guide
and is supported by an online gallery of images and other Olympic
materials for further study. Phil Cohen grew up with Steve Ovett
and Jean-Paul Sartre as his teenage heroes and has been trying to
get them into the same book ever since. He is author of Knuckle
Sandwich: Growing up in the working class city (with Dave Robins);
Rethinking the Youth Question; London's Turning: The making of
Thames Gateway (with Mike Rustin); and Borderscapes: memory,
narrative and Un/Common Culture (to be published in 2013). His
poetry has been published by Critical Quarterly, Agenda, and
Soundings. A memoir Reading Room Only: memoirs of a radical
bibliophile is forthcoming. He is Emeritus Professor in Cultural
Studies at the University of East London.
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