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Thinking Allowed: War Games - Riding the Subway

07/01/2015

War Games - Riding the Subway

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, War Games - Riding the Subway

Laurie Taylor explores the way war and violence invades our lives. Also, riding the subway

Laurie Taylor explores the way in which war and violence invades our current lives. Also, a study of New Yorkers riding the subway.

The militarisation of every day life. Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, talks to Laurie about the multiple ways in which military violence and war play invade our current lives, pervading language and entertainment. Are we irrevocably 'wounding the world'?

Also, Richard Ocejo, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, takes us on a mystery ride with teenage New Yorkers, showing the diverse ways in which people experience being strangers in public space.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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