Phil Cohen (cultural theorist)

rdf:langString Phil Cohen (cultural theorist)

rdf:langString Phil Cohen

rdf:langString Phil Cohen

rdf:langString London

rdf:langString Cohen in 2017

rdf:langString Sociologist, Ethnographer

rdf:langString St Pauls School, Cambridge University, PhD by publication

rdf:langString Basil Bernstein; Gregory Bateson; Michail Bakhtin; Bruno Latour

rdf:langString Sociology of youth culture; impact of urban regeneration on working class culture; theories of racism and identity. Also a high profile leader of squatters rights movement in London .

rdf:langString British

rdf:langString Writer and cultural activist

rdf:langString Jean McNeil, painter

rdf:langString Phil Cohen (born 1943) is a British cultural theorist, urban ethnographer, community activist, educationalist and poet. He was involved in the London underground counter culture scene and gained public notoriety as 'Dr John', a leader in the squatter's rights movement but is now better known for his work on youth culture and the impact of urban regeneration on working class communities, particularly in East London, with a focus on issues of race and popular racism. More recently the scope of his work has widened to includes issues of identity politics, memory and loss, and the future of the Left in Britain. Cohen’s academic work is trans-disciplinary and draws on concepts from linguistics and narratology, psycho-analysis and anthropology, cultural history and social phenomenology. He is currently (2020) Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of East London, a research fellow at the Young Foundation and Research Director of the Livingmaps Network. Cohen is also a member of Compass, a Gramscian think tank within the Labour Party and is on the editorial board of New Formations. His work has been translated into French, German, Swedish, Italian, French and Japanese.