On youth in the multi-cultural inner-city in the 1990s
Youth in the multi-cultural inner-city: Learning from experience I learned as much of my sociology from experience as I did from books. Ethnography has always been my preferred method. I learned to write as much from home-made journalism, particularly for Chapeltown News and Big Flame, as I did from the great literature I’ve consumed since […]
The Local is in the Global
Invited by Jenny Zobel and her colleagues at the Centre for Global Education, which is hosted by York St John University, I gave a talk to the good citizens of York on the theme of learning about the globe by learning in and with the multicultural areas of British cities (in my case, Harehills and […]
Islam in the West – Key Issues in Multiculturalism (Palgrave, 2012)
Co-edited by Max Farrar, Simon Robinson, Yasmin Valli and Paul Wetherly, this book examines a range of issues that have commanded media attention over the past few years in which ideas about Islam and the lives of Muslims have proved controversial. These flash-points have contributed to what some have called a crisis in multiculturalist discourse. […]