Wednesday 16.00-16.30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
05 October 2005
White Backlash
In the early 1990s, Roger Hewitt conducted ethnographic research in Greenwich, investigating racism in young people, particularly on working class estates. It was a time of political unrest where an increase in racially motivated crime culminated in the murders of Stephen Lawrence, Rohit Duggal and Roland Adams.
Hostility towards policies of multi-culturalism and anti-racism emerged in what Roger Hewitt describes as a ' white backlash' , a phenomenon that few have paid due attention to.
Laurie Taylor talks to Roger Hewitt , Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London about his new book White Backlash and the politics of multiculturalism.
Artificial Flavours
The invention of artificial flavours and their development in the 1960s mirrored the emergence of processed foods that needed flavour enhancers. But are our tastes now so acclimatised to the enhanced and the unnatural that we have lost the means to recognise artifice from authentic? And does it really matter?
Laurie Taylor is joined by David Howes , Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal and Elisabeth Luard , food-writer and cookery journalist to find out what drives the development of these flavours, the backlash against artificially flavoured foods and why smell is the most post-modern of all the senses.
Additional information:
White Backlash and the politics of multiculturalism
Roger Hewittt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521520894
Essay: Artificial Flavours David Howes
From The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink
Carolyn Korsmeyer (Editor)
Publisher: Berg Publishers
ISBN: 1845200608
Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory
Publisher: University of Michigan
ISBN: 0472068466
Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader
David Howes (Editor)
Publisher: Berg Publishers
ISBN: 185973863X
Senses and Sensibilities
Jillyn Smith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN: 0471506575
Aroma: A Cultural History of Smell
Constance Classen, David Honer, Anthony Synott
Publisher: Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 041511473X
Elisabeth Luard
Food-writer specialising in traditional cooking in its social, geographical and historical context and contributing editor of Waitrose Food Illustrated
Sacred Food, Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1556525303
Family Life - Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing
Publisher: Corgi Adult
ISBN: 0552145440
Still Life
Publisher: Bantam Press
ISBN: 0593042530
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