Beads, bodies and trash

In Bodies, Beads and Trash, David Redmon merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins.

Billingsgate fish market

A film based on time-lapse photography shows a day in the life of Billingsgate Fish market. Images and sound were recorded on Tuesday 11 December 1-12 from 1am to midday by Dawn Lyon and Kevin Reynolds.

Clothing and age

The website for a series of interconnected research projects on the subject of clothing and age. They are part of a continuing research agenda undertaken by Professor Julia Twigg.

Mardi Grass: made in China

David Redmon’s companion documentary to Bodies, Beads and Trash.

Fishmongers in a global economy: craft & social relations on a London market.

‘Fishmongers in a global economy’, an article by Dawn Lyon and Les Back, is based on multi-sensory ethnographic research. Charlie, whose family has been in the business for over 100 years, is pictured here simultaneously working on the fish and the sale.

Watermark

Tim Strangleman was involved in Watermark, a 90-min documentary about the history and closure of Buckland Paper Mill in Dover told through memory, objects and images.

Photography and the public sphere

In a short article on ‘Photography and the Public Sphere’, Larry Ray discusses photography, atrocity, and democracy, the subject of a forthcoming book.

Documentary criminology: expanding the criminological imagination

This paper explores the central role of documentary filmmaking as a methodological practice in contemporary criminology.

This is how we see you

David Garbin explores the (post) colonial museum of Central Africa in Brussels as a diasporic contact zone and a site of representation, gaze and counter-gaze.

Gender, sexuality and the sensory symposium May 2017

This symposium asked what significance explorations of the sensory have for contemporary analysis of gender, feminism and queer theories.