Paul Cooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590061 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Cooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooke |
| SIGNATURE | COOKE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8377-3118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1928 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Backstage Participation: Mess and Muddle in Youth-Focused, Arts-Based Mental Health Research
This paper introduces two methodological innovations designed to enhance the transparency, ethics, and creative rigor of youth-focused participatory research in mental health. First, we conceptualize ‘Invisible Ink’ as a metaphor for latent participant knowledge—insights rooted in lived experience that remain hidden without specific relational and analytic scaffolds. Second, we model ‘Backstage Cafés as emergent, informal third spaces where young…
Exploring similarities and differences in how researchers and young people understand key terms in youth mental-health research
A lack of a shared understanding of key terms is acknowledged as a significant barrier to interdisciplinary research. This paper examines the ways in which a broadly interdisciplinary team of academics and youth co-researchers involved in mental health research interpreted a number of research and mental health terms that are central to their work in order to understand conceptual differences in how different stakeholder groups approach these ter…
Investing in youth public mental health in India: Multi-stakeholder co-production of a whole school program to promote the mental health of Indian adolescents
Introduction: In India, although rates of adolescent anxiety and depression are of concern and contribute to a high youth suicide rate, public mental health approaches targeting adolescents are rare. India does not have an integrated whole-school mental health approach to promote youth wellbeing and prevent anxiety and depression. The aim of this study (Project SAMA) was to co- produce a whole school mental health program for delivery in Indian s…
Using participatory video to generate active agents of change at community level to address the drivers of antimicrobial resistance in two settings in Nepal
CARAN highlights the potential of PV as a way of creating community-level champions to help address the drivers of AMR. More work is required to understand the longer-term value of creating such champions
Articulating Indigeneity, other-than-human relations and environmental crises in Cambodia through participatory film
This article reflects on a participatory filmmaking project that was intended to explore and raise awareness about intersecting social and environmental challenges facing a Bunong Indigenous community in Cambodia. Participatory research and arts methods are often deployed because they promise less extractive approaches that lend themselves to challenging dominant narratives, and the erasures, harms and inequalities that they produce. Recent liter…
Using participatory video in environmental research
Tackling environmental challenges that face humanity requires us to acknowledge new ways of working and to cross disciplinary boundaries. However, the methodological toolkit used by environmental researchers to explore the human attitudes, knowledge and behaviours that drive global challenges such as biodiversity loss and climate breakdown remains constrained. Here, we describe participatory video, a methodology for capturing and communicating kn…
Practitioner Review: Effectiveness and mechanisms of change in participatory arts‐based programmes for promoting youth mental health and well‐being – a systematic review
Changing the Story: The Evaluation of a Leadership Development Programme for Vulnerable and Deaf Youth in South Africa
Vulnerable youth and youth with disabilities are at great risk of not having their rights met. In addition, they face challenges with regard to empowerment and participation in their own lives. Youth development programmes frequently focus primarily on the individual skills of the youth. However, reviews have indicated that for youth to be able to drive change, additional opportunities at community and broader society levels are required. This pr…
‘The Big Picture’: Developing community-led approaches to substance use disorder through participatory video
‘The Big Picture’ was a participatory video (PV) project. The aim was to increase the involvement of young people in India in the active development of practice and policy regarding substance use disorder (SUD). Working with drug rehabilitation centres to innovate their programmes, the team used video production as a tool to help young people advocate for policy change by promoting public awareness of how they see this issue. Unlike many accounts…
How Are Leadership Programs Empowering Our Vulnerable Children and Youth? A Scoping Review
Globally vulnerable populations are negatively impacted by policy and practice. For vulnerable youth, risks to growth, development, and a lack of participation in decisions about their lives are common. Leadership programs are frequently implemented to address the risks faced by vulnerable youth. This review sought to describe the goals, content, and outcomes of existing youth development programs to better understand if they are meeting the need…
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia
Questions of reconciliation and memory after genocide and conflict in Cambodia remain finely poised. Young people often do not believe the stories of hardship and loss of the older generation, and cleavages remain between divided and stigmatised former factions. This article reflects on a series of participatory video projects led by young Cambodians that sought to engage and explore complex ‘perpetrator’ memories with the aim of building dialogu…
Community engagement: The key to tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) across a One Health context
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a One Health problem underpinned by complex drivers and behaviours. This is particularly so in low - and middle-income countries (LMICs), where social and systemic factors fuel (mis)use and drive AMR. Behavioural change around antimicrobial use could safeguard both existing and future treatments. However, changing behaviour necessitates engaging with people to understand their experiences. This publication descri…
What is ‘antimicrobial resistance’ and why should anyone make films about it? Using ‘participatory video’ to advocate for community-led change in public health
In this article, we discuss the role of participatory video (PV) as a tool for developing community-level solutions to ‘Antimicrobial Resistance’ (AMR) in Nepal. In recent years, PV has become an ever more popular tool in development contexts for supporting communities in low and middle income countries to raise awareness of issues that they do not feel are adequately represented in mainstream media. One area of growing interest in this regard is…
Reimagining voice for transrational peace education through participatory arts with South African youth
This article reports on a co-produced project based in South Africa which aimed to support the development of youth committees in Safe Parks operating across Ekurhuleni municipality, by building young people’s capacity to claim greater voice within their communities through participatory arts practices. Drawing on recent perspectives in the field of peace education, our analysis engages a transrational onto-epistemology to examine how voice might…
Participatory Arts in International Development
The values and principles underpinning community engagement approaches to tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
in action within existing AMR interventions. Finally, we consider the extent to which CE approaches are appropriate to tackle AMR challenges. We reflect on these in relation to the tool, and current literature for both CE and AMR research. Authors and co-producers anticipate this tool being used to scene-set, road map and trouble shoot the development, implementation, and evaluation of CE projects to address AMR and other One Health challenges. H…
Film and the End of Empire: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Colonial Pasts and their Legacy in World Cinemas
The social, political and economic upheavals that marked the end of empire were mediated through the medium of film, while film was used to present new post-war conceptions of empire—for example, based on partnership and development. This chapter will examine how film was used to represent, legitimize and prolong colonial rule, within and beyond Europe. It will use the subject of film to open up wider questions of how culture could operate variou…
The Routledge Companion to World Cinema
Rather than suffer the ongoing dominance of critical and theoretical frameworks for understanding world cinemas that cannot keep pace with technological innovation, political change, the movement of people and the networks they inhabit, this essay establishes the concept of cinemas of citizens and cinemas of sentiment in order to embrace the present continuous tense of world cinema and map its real-time ongoing evolution. Following the political …
Routledge Companion to World Cinema
Screening European Heritage
Despite the transnational character of the 21st-century film and entertainment industries, and the transformation of modes of consumption by the interlinked impacts of globalisation, digitisation, media convergence, social media and participatory culture, academic discourse around ‘heritage cinema’ has nonetheless persisted in framing it (however anachronistically) as a national ‘project’. The Screening European Heritage project, similarly, has p…
Experiencing the Digital World: The Cultural Value of Digital Engagement with Heritage
Since the late 1990s the potential of the digital world for generating new ways of engaging with heritage, broadly defined, has been a key focus of academic work and cultural practice. At times, the emphasis has been on how the internet can provide a ‘shop window’ for the sector, and how this might be translated into physical visits to sites. Elsewhere, scholars have argued that the digital sphere can provide a dynamic space for two-way engagemen…
A Critical History of German Film
Stephen BROCKMANN, Camden House, 2010,, ISBN 978-1-57116-4684, £19.99 (pbk), 522 pp. Stephen Brockmann's history of German film traces the development of the medium from its beginnings in Germany w
The long shadow of the New German Cinema: Deutschland 09, Deutschland im Herbst and national film culture
The following article offers the first detailed comparison of Tom Tykwer's omnibus film project Deutschland 09 (2009), with Deutschland im Herbst (1978), a film made by a number of artists connected to the New German Cinema. I explore the reasons why this group of contemporary filmmakers should choose to look back to a film made 31 years earlier, examining the ways in which the New German Cinema continues to cast a shadow over contemporary cultur…
Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering
Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.
When Heimat Meets Hollywood. German Filmmakers and America 1985–2005
When Heimat Meets Hollywood. German Filmmakers and America 1985–2005." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 17(1), pp. 131–132
Performing ‘Ostalgie’: Leander Haussmann's Sonnenallee
The following article examines Leander Haußmann's hit youth comedy Sonnenallee (1999). In particular it attempts to challenge many reviewers who saw the film as nothing more than a self‐indulgent piece of ‘Ostalgie’ which trivialises the oppressive reality of life in the GDR. Instead, it argues that the film deliberately highlights the competing tensions at work within contemporary nostalgia for the East German state. On the one hand, Sonnenallee…
Reimagining voice for transrational peace education through participatory arts with South African youth
This article reports on a co-produced project based in South Africa which aimed to support the development of youth committees in Safe Parks operating across Ekurhuleni municipality, by building young people’s capacity to claim greater voice within their communities through participatory arts practices. Drawing on recent perspectives in the field of peace education, our analysis engages a transrational onto-epistemology to examine how voice might…
Dresden (2006), Teamworx and Titanic (1997): German Wartime Suffering as Hollywood Disaster Movie
This article examines the extraordinary success of Roland Suso Richter's recent television mini‐series Dresden (2006), one of a number of major television projects produced by Nico Hofmann's TeamWorx company, with the support of the television mogul Jan Mojto. It explores the way this and other productions have exploited both the recent upsurge of cultural interest in German ‘wartime suffering’ and the rediscovery of the disaster movie as a genre…
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia
Questions of reconciliation and memory after genocide and conflict in Cambodia remain finely poised. Young people often do not believe the stories of hardship and loss of the older generation, and cleavages remain between divided and stigmatised former factions. This article reflects on a series of participatory video projects led by young Cambodians that sought to engage and explore complex ‘perpetrator’ memories with the aim of building dialogu…
Supporting Contemporary German Film: How Triumphant is the Free Market
This article examines the way the film industry is supported in Germany, looking at the complex array of public funding available, the types of films this support tends to produce and what the future might hold for film-makers. I question the claim that the industry has moved from a subsidy-based model, which promoted avant-garde Autorenkino, to a market-driven model that is more in line with Hollywood, with an emphasis on mainstream mass enterta…
Surfing for Eastern Difference: Ostalgie, Identity, and Cyberspace
In recent years the Internet, or cyberspace, has become an increasingly important part of everyday life for a growing proportion of the world's population. Although at present the demographic of Internet usage in Germany remains predominantly male, educated, under forty, and Western, this is beginning to change. A recent Focus article suggested, for example, that more and more women are now using the Internet (Focus Online). However, the most rap…
More Cinema Vandalism
The Cost of Segregated Public Schools in the District of Columbia
The end of separate business education for Negro high school students and the ghettoing of Negro high school education would result if recommendations from a survey of schoolhousing in Washington were put into effect. In 1949 the Appropriations Act for the District of Columbia provided for a survey of the public schools of Washington, D. C.' Dr. George Strayer, Professor Emeritus of Columbia University, heads the survey, which may have resulted f…
The Strayer Report
The Negro Teacher in the Washington, D. C. Integrated School System
How will the Negro classroom teacher fare if the public school segregation in Washington, D. C., is ended? Will the teacher currently employed be affected? How about the crop of new teachers? As various kinds of school segregation have been ended all over the country, keen study has been directed to the employment situation of the Negro teacher. Notable was the position of the Negro teachers at Louisville Municipal College when the students of th…
Problems of School Integration
Youngblood
Present Status of Integration in the Public Schools of the District of Columbia
Some Things in Common
Racial Integration in Education in the District of Columbia
Since the 1955 Yearbook number on integration, three centers of interest have received paramount attention during the second year of school integration in the Nation's Capital. The integration process itself was actually secondary to concern -for (1) pupil achievement problems, (2) discipline or adjustment problems, and (3) certain fundamental lacks in the school system. The problems are integral to any study of racial integration in the District…
Towards Full Acceptance
Discrimination Against Both Whites and Negroes
Desegregated of Higher Education in the District of Columbia
Washington, D. C., is a very confused city at the present time. It is still uncertain as to whether it is a southern provincial town or the capital city of a great world power. It has attained to an uneasy compromise by attempting to think as a world capital and to feel as a provincial town. Nowhere is that confusion between head and heart better exemplified than in the pattern of its relationships between its white and negro [sic] citizens
Tales Set in the Orient
Southern Heritage
A Novel on School Desegregation
Desegregated Education in the Middle-South Region: Problems and Issues
A Century of Erratic Progress
Jews Face Discrimination
Delinquency Prevention Through Educational Intervention
A school for parents of 4-year and 5year old children on Saturday morning -and for the children, too .... A preschool nursery and day-care program Monday through Friday . .. . Project Double Barrel college students work with potentially delinquent elementary school children . . . . A work-training program (a) to carry some high school youth into work in government agencies and nonprofit institutions, (b) to carry others into private enterprise, a…
Equal Educational Opportunity: Some Findings and Conclusions
The Paternal Reverie in Mauriac's ‘Mémoires Imaginaires’
Journal Article THE PATERNAL REVERIE IN MAURIAC'S ‘MÉMOIRES IMAGINAIRES’ Get access PAUL COOKE PAUL COOKE DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITYLEICESTER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume L, Issue 3, July 1996, Pages 299–310, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/L.3.299 Published: 01 July 1996
Die volkseigene opposition? The stasi and alternative culture in the GDR
This article examines the character of oppositional movements in the GDR in the light of post‐Wende revelations of Stasi infiltration. We look at responses by members of the alternative culture to accusations that their work during the GDR was rendered ineffective by the Stasi and is consequently of little importance to a historical reappraisal of the GDR. Whilst they were clearly aware of the Stasi, whose influence did have an effect, our eviden…
Speaking the Taboo: A study of the work of Wolfgang Hilbig
Wolfgang Hilbig is a writer who is widely acknowledged as one of the most important to have emerged from the former GDR. In this study, the first in English, Paul Cooke explores the interplay of aesthetic and social ‘taboos’, as defined by the official discourse of the GDR, in a cross-section of Hilbig’s critical writing, poetry and prose. The protagonists in Hilbig’s texts suffer from a profound crisis of identity due to the disparity between th…
Das Schreiende Amt’: The ‘Bourgeois’ Tradition and the Problem of ‘Objectivity’ in Wolfgang Hilbig’s Abwesenheit
The following article examines the text abwesenheit (1979), the East German writer Wolfgang Hilbig’s first collection of poetry. Specifically, the article explores Hil‐big’s appropriation of literary modernism in this work, a tradition which was condemned as ‘bourgeois’ and ‘formalist’ by the cultural authorities in the East. Tak‐ing the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud and Georg Heym as paradigms for his engagement with this tradition, the article shows…
East Germany: Continuity and Change
Ian WALLACE: Preface. Section One: Martin KANE: The Role of the East German Writer. Paul COOKE: Continuity and Taboo: Sexual Repression and Vergangenheitsbewaltigung in Wolfgang Hilbig's Die Weiber Simon BEVAN: Change and Continuity in the Work of Christoph Hein: a Comparison of Horns Ende (1985) and Von allem Anfang an (1997) David CLARKE: 'Mit Kunst der Welt beikommen': Christoph Hein on Literature, Ideology and the Possibility of Change in the…
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