My article about the effect of the 2012 Olympic development on my neighbourhood has just been published in thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture. You can download it via the link in the reference below.
Olympics/Uhlympics: Living in the Shadow of the Beast
Charlotte Cooper
Abstract
This essay explores some of the ways that the Olympics intervenes and intrudes on local life. Using a dialogue between two fat queer women who live close to the 2012 Olympic site in East London, UK, this work explores the ways that change and hype by the development agencies are experienced by local people. Such responses are characterised by anger and anxiety, resistance, activist humour, and imaginative possibilities which contrast powerfully with dominant commercial Olympic discourses. This reflexive essay acknowledges the intersections of fat and queer identities, and the use of public rhetoric and private gendered dialogue.
Cooper, C. (2010) 'Olympics/Uhlympics: Living in the Shadow of the Beast' [online], thirdspace, 9:2. Available: http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/article/view/cooper [Accessed 26 October 2010].
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