Citta jungle

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Sonic intimacy: as a political resource

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Whiteness and loss in outer East London: tracing the collective memories of diaspora space

This paper explores collective memory in Newham, East London. It addresses how remembering East London as the home of whiteness and traditional forms of community entails powerful forms of forgetting. Newham's formation through migration - its 'great time' - has ensured that myths of indigeneity and whiteness have never stood still. Through engaging with young people's and youth workers' memory practices, the paper explores how phantasms of whiteness and class loss are traced over, and how this tracing reveals ambivalence and porosity, at the same time as it highlights the continued allure of race. It explores how whiteness and class loss are appropriated across ethnic boundaries and how they are mobilized to produce new forms of racial hierarchy in a 'super-diverse' place.</p

Guest, Resonance FM, ‘The London Ear’. 11th March 2021 https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-london-ear-11-march-2021/

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Guest, Surviving Society, 20th April 2021 https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/e122-malcolm-james-sonic-intimacy

Discussion of my book Sonic Intimacies</p

Young blood, old soul

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Guest, BBC Radio 4, ‘The Listening Project’, 2nd May 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vp0m

Conversation with Tissot Regis about clubs and rave in the 1990s</p

Exit, consoled by a bear: Hunting for meaning in Paddington, The Queue, and sanctioned and unsanctioned grief

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Regeneration songs: sounds of investment and loss in East London

The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt in major cities across the world. Since the 2012 Olympics was awarded to the British capital, East London has been at the heart of the largest and most all-encompassing top-down urban regeneration strategy in civic history. At the centre of this has been the local government, Newham Council, and their daring proposal: an “Arc of Opportunity” for developers to transform 1,412 hectares of Newham. This proposal was outlined in a short film, London’s Regeneration Supernova, and shown to foreign developers and businesses at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. While the sweeping changes to East London have been keenly felt by locals, the symbolism and practicalities of these changes – for the local area, and the world alike – are overdue serious investigation. Regeneration Songs is about how places are turned into simple stories for packaged investment opportunities, how people living in those places relate to those stories, and how music and art can render those stories in many different ways. The book will also include a download code to obtain the related musical project, Music for Masterplanning – in which musicians from East London soundtracked London’s Regeneration Supernova – and a glossy insert detailing the artists involved. Contributors include Owen Hatherley, Joy White, Douglas Murphy and Will Jennings