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Policing the 2012 London Olympics
Legacy and Social Exclusion
Av Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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The summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world’s biggest single-city cultural event. While the Olympics and other sport mega-events have received growing levels of academic investigation from a variety of disciplinary approaches, relatively little is known about how such occasions …
Mischief, Morality and Mobs
Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Pearson
Av Dick Hobbs
Häftad, 2019
471 kr
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Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era. His work spanned social work, social theory, social history, criminology and sociology. In particular, his work has had a huge impact upon studies of youth, youth culture and drugs. …
Hip Hop Versus Rap
The Politics of Droppin' Knowledge
Häftad, 2019
740 kr
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'What is the real hip hop?''To whom does hip hop belong?''For what constructive purposes can hip hop be put to use?'These are three key questions posed by hip hop activists in Hip Hop Versus Rap, which explores the politics of cultural authenticity, ownership, and uplift in London’s post-hip hop …
Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town
Ghetto Chameleons
Av Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
Häftad, 2019
661 kr
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Cape Town has some of the highest figures of violent crime in the world, but how is it that young men avoid and enact physical aggression and navigate stressful and dangerous situations?Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town offers an ethnographic study of young men in Cape Town and …
Musical Mobilities
Son Jarocho and the Circulation of Tradition Across Mexico and the United States
Häftad, 2019
740 kr
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How do musical practices move? Though technology increasingly plays a great part in establishing different degrees of spatial proximity, music making still seems to be tied to specific geographical locations, cultures or communities. The identity of musical traditions, in particular, is often …
Migrant City
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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Migrant City tells the story of contemporary London from the perspective of thirty adult migrants and two sociologists. Connecting migrants’ private struggles to the public issues at stake in the way mobility is regulated, channelled and managed in a globalised world, this volume explores what …
Moving Difference
Brazilians in London
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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Moving Difference demonstrates how differences between migrants who share the same nationality travel with them and can impact on every aspect of their ‘mobile lives’. Analysing the lived experiences and narratives of Brazilians in London, it adds an in-depth ethnographic understanding of the …
Selling the Kimono
An Ethnography of Crisis, Creativity and Hope
Av Julie Valk
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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Based on twelve months of in-depth ethnographic research in Japan with retailers, customers, wholesalers, writers and craftspeople, Selling the Kimono is a journey behind the scenes of a struggle to adapt to difficult economic conditions and declining demand for the kimono.The kimono is an iconic …
Selling the Kimono
An Ethnography of Crisis, Creativity and Hope
Av Julie Valk
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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Based on twelve months of in-depth ethnographic research in Japan with retailers, customers, wholesalers, writers and craftspeople, Selling the Kimono is a journey behind the scenes of a struggle to adapt to difficult economic conditions and declining demand for the kimono.The kimono is an iconic …
Moving Difference
Brazilians in London
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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Moving Difference demonstrates how differences between migrants who share the same nationality travel with them and can impact on every aspect of their ‘mobile lives’. Analysing the lived experiences and narratives of Brazilians in London, it adds an in-depth ethnographic understanding of the …
Young Men’s Experiences of Long-Term Imprisonment
Living Life
Av Rachel Tynan
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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Long sentenced young people are a small but significant part of the juvenile prison population. The current approach to young people convicted of serious crime speaks to wider issues in criminal and social justice, including the idealisation of (some) childhoods, processes of racialisation and …
Young Homeless People and Urban Space
Fixed in Mobility
Av Emma Jackson
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This ethnographic exploration of contemporary spaces of homelessness takes an expanded view of homeless space, threading together experiences of organizational spaces, routes taken through the city and the occupation of public space. Through engaging with participants' accounts of movement and …
Black Men in Britain
An Ethnographic Portrait of the Post-Windrush Generation
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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While extensive attention has been paid to black youth, adult black British men are a notable omission in academic literature. This book is the first attempt to understand one of Britain’s hidden populations: the post-Windrush generation, who matured within a post-industrial British society that …
Logic of Violence
An Ethnography of Dublin's Illegal Drug Trade
Häftad, 2021
718 kr
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Violence is widely associated with illegal drug markets, and is one of the features that can differentiate illegal capitalism from legitimate business. This book explores the perceived causes and functions of violence in an illegal drug market in Dublin City, Ireland.Understanding why violence …
Builders
Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry
Av Darren Thiel
Häftad, 2013
648 kr
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Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the total labour market in almost every country of the world. They construct, repair and maintain the vital physical infrastructure of our societies, and we rely upon and trust their achievements every day. Yet we know surprisingly little …
City, Street and Citizen
The Measure of the Ordinary
Av Suzanne Hall
Häftad, 2013
648 kr
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How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don’t know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city’s public parts, …
Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys
Drug Taking Decisions from Adolescence to Adulthood
Häftad, 2014
791 kr
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This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their perceptions of different drugs, it situates their …
Strong and Hard Women
An ethnography of female bodybuilding
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has caused a significant rupture on feminist ground. Whilst proponents claim that female bodybuilding is a way of empowering …
Sport, Difference and Belonging
Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more generally), …
Dirty Dancing
An Ethnography of Lap Dancing
Häftad, 2012
747 kr
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Based on ethnographic research conducted in 'Starlets', a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the 'deviant', and 'stigmatized' world of lap-dancing. As well as the relationships between dancers, the author offers a unique insider's account of …
Crack Cocaine Users
High Society and Low Life in South London
Inbunden, 2011
2736 kr
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Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the …
Builders
Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry
Av Darren Thiel
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the total labour market in almost every country of the world. They construct, repair and maintain the vital physical infrastructure of our societies, and we rely upon and trust their achievements every day. Yet we know surprisingly little …
City, Street and Citizen
The Measure of the Ordinary
Av Suzanne Hall
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don’t know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city’s public parts, …
Migrant City
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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Migrant City tells the story of contemporary London from the perspective of thirty adult migrants and two sociologists. Connecting migrants’ private struggles to the public issues at stake in the way mobility is regulated, channelled and managed in a globalised world, this volume explores what …
Young Homeless People and Urban Space
Fixed in Mobility
Av Emma Jackson
Inbunden, 2015
2504 kr
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This ethnographic exploration of contemporary spaces of homelessness takes an expanded view of homeless space, threading together experiences of organizational spaces, routes taken through the city and the occupation of public space. Through engaging with participants' accounts of movement and …
UK Hip-Hop, Grime and the City
The Aesthetics and Ethics of London's Rap Scenes
Inbunden, 2015
2578 kr
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Young people in London have contributed to the production of a distinctively British rap culture. This book moves beyond accounts of Hip-Hop’s marginality and shows, with an examination of the production, dissemination and use of rap in London, how this cultural form plays an important role in the …
Boy Racer Culture
Youth, Masculinity and Deviance
Häftad, 2014
718 kr
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On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the ‘respectable’ motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths’ acclaimed propensity to engage in deviant and dangerous driving …
Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town
Ghetto Chameleons
Av Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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Cape Town has some of the highest figures of violent crime in the world, but how is it that young men avoid and enact physical aggression and navigate stressful and dangerous situations?Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town offers an ethnographic study of young men in Cape Town and …
Strong and Hard Women
An ethnography of female bodybuilding
Häftad, 2014
762 kr
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Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has caused a significant rupture on feminist ground. Whilst proponents claim that female bodybuilding is a way of empowering …
Crack Cocaine Users
High Society and Low Life in South London
Häftad, 2013
617 kr
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Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the …
