I’ll be giving a talk at the University of Greenwich on 8th December 2011, on the tourism legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. The talk will be part of an Olympic Park Legacy Company event that we’re hosting at Greenwich and also speaking will be Clive Little, the new Director of… [Read more…]
September 6, 2010
This is a new promotional film that has just been released for our BA Tourism Management degree at University of Greenwich. I’m the programme leader for the degree and I’m in the video, along with three of our current students.
July 7, 2009
By far the best thing I saw at the conference and an insightful, challenging analysis of the next steps in the crisis in which David Harvey presents a new model of restructuring around seven ‘moments’ that offers an opportunity to the left for a reconceptualisation of it’s approach.
January 15, 2009
These are the details for an internship at Counterpoint, where I did some work in 2003. They are a fascinating organisation, a small think tank within the British Council, with a remit to develop and extend the British Council’s thinking in areas including cultural diplomacy and intercultural communication. The British Council is the UK’s international… [Read more…]
April 10, 2008
Wesley has a great post over at Media Readings about Boris Johnson and his campaign to be Mayor of London. Wesley reads Boris through Baudrillard’s theories of simulation and hyper-reality in a way that situates Boris within a hyper-real fantasy of celebrity: “Boris then is a simulacra in that he is a simulation of so… [Read more…]
April 4, 2008
The Olympic torch passes through London on Sunday, symbolically travelling from the traditional heart of London’s sporting community in the West to Greenwich in the East, one of the five east London boroughs hosting the 2012 games. It looks like this event will be the first occasion for serious political protest around the London games. With… [Read more…]
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