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Opening Address
London: Post Colonial City

Paul Gilroy

"Its perverse hetero-cultural details may bring pleasure as well as fear, but the temptation to evaluate and assess contemporary London as though it could be a simpler, more homogenous and less irreducibly diverse place, is something we should regard with the upmost suspicion."

Food in London: The Post Colonial City
Claudia Roden

"I went to look at my local Marks and Spencer yesterday. It looks like an ethnic food emporium. ... There is very little that is English apart from the pudding range. "

Queensway Mix: a case-study in architectural anthropology
Clare Melhuish

" As a journalist commented in 1989, 'Put the spotlight on Queensway and you might make the mistake of thinking that the world and its neighbours get on and even like each other. Seven days a week, 52 weeks a year ... this quarter of a mile strip does a better job for international relations than any United Nations convention.' "

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