Spaces of informal learning and cultures of translation and marginality in London's Jewish East End

This chapter examines some spaces of learning in inner London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These informal settings were brought into being by immigrant Jews to foster dialogue and exchange. The figure of the organic intellectual is, I will argue, an appropriate description of the role of the men and women who inhabited these spaces. The spaces they created enabled a proletarian pedagogical culture through which emerged a counterculture of modernity. The contemporary relevance of this historical case lies in its anticipation of features typical of the global city today: the dense web of interactions through within mobile, complex diverse populations

‘Being Said/Seen to Care: Masculine Silences and Emerging Visibilities of Intimate Fatherhood in Dominica, Lesser Antilles’

This chapter explores the dissonant discursive construction of paternal care in Dominica. It examines how fathers’ care is spoken about and performed in varied and divergent ways; how concepts of care as both material provision and emotional labour are in everyday circulation on the island, though, verbalised or hushed context- and class-specific ways. The chapter demonstrates how paternal care is discursively formed through everyday speech, public statements, silences, and quotidian practices. I am interested here in how discourse affords recognition—whether/how fathers are said, and thus seen, to care for their children in Dominica and, by extension, the Caribbean. Grounded in 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Dominica, Eastern Caribbean, the study draws on a methodologically eclectic approach (including analyses of quotidian conversation, semi-structured interviews, observations, family planning materials, television, and social media) to argue that Dominican fathers are finding burgeoning descriptive voice for their care, and in the process demanding a broader imagining of Caribbean fatherhood