Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
28 February 2007
HONOUR and RESPECT Is honour dead? In our society of celebrity worship, therapy, self absorption and shopping, what meaning does the concept of honour have?
James Bowman, Research Scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington and author of Honor: A History and Anthony Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at the Birkbeck, University of London explore the idea of respect and what it means on an East London Estate. They discuss the idea of honour and respect as outmoded concepts or keys to understanding aspects of the modern world.
RESPECT IN TOWER HAMLETS According to some new research, “a culture of respect is already very much present amongst young people within the inner-city and within inner-city schools, but it is one that places an emphasis on violence, a violent image and a lack of hope in ‘conventional norms’ such as achievement ideology.”
Laurie Taylor is joined by Dr Carolyn Gaskell, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of London to discuss her recently published paper entitled “But They Just Don’t Respect Us”: Young People’s Experiences of (Dis) Respected Citizenship and the New Labour Agenda.
Additional information:
James Bowman, Research Scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington DC
Honor: A History Publisher: Encounter Books,USA ISBN-10: 1594031428 ISBN-13: 978-1594031427
Anthony Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at the Birkbeck, University of London
Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New Ed edition ISBN-10: 0747586039 ISBN-13: 978-0747586036
Among the Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime? Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN-10: 0747576718 ISBN-13: 978-0747576716
Dr Carolyn Gaskell, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London. On secondment currently at the charity Kids Company in London.
Gaskell C (2005) Fighting for respect: youth, violence and citizenship in East London PhD Thesis, Department of Geography, University of London
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