Livingmaps Review

Phil Cohen

Phil Cohen is an urban ethnographer turned cultural geographer. He started using mapping methods in working with young people in East London about their sense of place, identity and belonging. Amongst his publications are  Knuckle Sandwich:Growing up in the Working Class City (1978); London’s Turning: the making of Thames Gateway (2006); Finding the Way Home: young people’s sense of place,gender and ethnicity (2007) and On the Wrong Side of the Track:East London and the Post-Olympics (2013). Material Dreams: maps and territories in the un/making of modernity, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.