You can't move history. You can secure the future
Giving central voice to young people in the debate on the value of heritage at the “world's oldest surviving skateboarding spot”
Projects
SCCS is committed to interdisciplinarity in the study of new cultural formations within and beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. The Centre encompasses expertise from many disciplines including: Media, Sociology, English, History, Anthropology, Philosophy, Film Studies and has established its reputation both nationally and internationally.
Current and recent projects by SCCS' Co-Directors, Associate Directors and associated faculty include:
Playgrounds: a material cultural study
Historical investigation of the playground movement at the start of the twentieth century to today's standardised and experimental playgrounds
Eating the Other: London's pop-up restaurant scene
The dynamics of 'supper clubs’ hosted at home or elsewhere, and how different ‘ethnic’ cuisines are represented and perceived
Dr Malcolm James' research
The alternative cultural political formations of everyday life from a critical theoretical, postcolonial studies and sound studies perspective
Dr Rob Sharp's research
Performativity, citizenship, voice and the politics of recognition; the boundary work between journalism and humanitarian communication
Dr Silvina Silva Aras' research
The language and regional barriers to transnational/global exchanges on the field of Race and Racism from the last decades
You can make history
Charting the changing nature of the Long Live Southbank campaign to save the skateboarding spot, including the restoration project, and its impact beyond the Southbank
Business of women's words
Exploring the dramatic story of the feminist publishing revolution that unfolded during the UK Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s and 80s
The magic of a conversation across generations
Changing perceptions of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement and showing the power of oral history to connect and to humanise