First of all sarah, good luck with your project its a big question and bound to raise a cascading set of issues if examined right : and as long as its not some form of council sponsored propaganda, paid for to make us all happier with the reality of multicultural urban london, ie the bad here should really be on equal footing with the good, to be honest I think probably only the english find finsbury park troubling, as the arrivals past or present probably have no idea or a false perception of how english community could/should be, and are probably reasonably happy with finsbury park as they find it, as often they stick to their own “communitys” which is what works for them. Few truly work at integration and make the multicultural “community” work its shady definition.
Re community in finsbury park ?
In my opinion the word “community” is one of the most tarted out, agendered, and debased words in britain, whose sense has been ripped to peices and re-invented for political and multicultural agendas over the years, and would therefore would make a marvellous subject for a play ! if examined right :)
I’m thinking Samuel Beckett here, not an smily token ethnicity engineered youth project, though in Finsbury Park it probably wouldn’t representatively be so token.