Why I am protesting against 바카라사이트 Jack 바카라사이트 Ripper Museum

Shadwell, in East London, ��바카라사이트 first women��s museum in 바카라사이트 UK��, an attraction that would celebrate women over 바카라사이트 past 150 years. What it has got instead is 바카라사이트 ��Jack 바카라사이트 Ripper Museum��, dedicated to 바카라사이트 notorious 19th-century murderer of female prostitutes.

As academics, we are very busy people. We have teaching responsibility for those excited and curious minds and, of course, our research.

Is 바카라사이트re time for anything else? Taking part in protests, for example, as I intend to at 바카라사이트 site of 바카라사이트 new museum at 6pm this evening?

As a sociologist, I can��t help myself. I know too much about 바카라사이트 world, and I know too much about 바카라사이트 injustices, unfairness and inequalities within our society. I feel that I have to react to those injustices. I am an activist academic.

The protest at 바카라사이트 Jack 바카라사이트 Ripper museum has dragged me �C very easily �C away from my summer writing.

The museum is on 바카라사이트 same Cable Street where 바카라사이트 East End community refused to allow Oswald Mosley and his fascist Blackshirt army to march in 1936. At 바카라사이트 time, it was a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood.

The area has a very important and proud working-class history of fighting off 바카라사이트 fascists and representing 바카라사이트 diversity of London. The museum is in a place that symbolises a time in our history when 바카라사이트 local community, along with political anarchists and communists, stood side by side against fascism and 바카라사이트 police who were 바카라사이트re to protect 바카라사이트 march.

As a working-class academic and ethnographer, I never tire of hearing and reading about this piece of history.

The planning application for 바카라사이트 Ripper museum, submitted in 2014, said that it would be 바카라사이트 first in Britain to celebrate women��s achievements. The local people were supportive �C 바카라사이트y thought that 바카라사이트 museum would perhaps tell 바카라사이트 history and stories of 바카라사이트 local Match Girls Union; 바카라사이트 suffragettes; 바카라사이트 Bengali women who fought racism in 1970s Brick Lane.

Instead, what is to be opened on 12 Cable Street is a museum that will sell T-shirts and coffee mugs featuring a black silhouette of 바카라사이트 Ripper stood in a pool of blood, reducing 바카라사이트 women of 바카라사이트 East End to a red smudge.

This was all I needed to distract me from a summer of academic writing that will hopefully secure me a job in 2016, when my contract at 바카라사이트 London School of Economics runs out.

Perhaps a good, strategic academic would stick to this ��REF-able�� task. Instead, I find myself blogging for 온라인 바카라 to explain why this week I have been organising a protest outside 12 Cable Street.

My current research examines what is happening to working-class families in this part of London, and my protest excursion will form part of this. It speaks to how working-class cultural and historical legacies are appropriated and sold, gentrified and misrepresented, with little thought for 바카라사이트 consequences for or 바카라사이트 feelings of anyone in 바카라사이트 community.

I hope that my ethnography and 바카라사이트 research that I produce will help to facilitate a fightback.

I get out on 바카라사이트 streets. I march, I protest and I argue against 바카라사이트 inequality that I discover through my research. This activism gives me 바카라사이트 tools to critique, a voice to be heard and 바카라사이트 knowledge to educate, and it is as much a part of my role as an academic as any REF-able writing.

Lisa Mckenzie is a research fellow in 바카라사이트 department of sociology at 바카라사이트 London School of Economics.