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  • Vibes as value

    Young workers and affective labour in the service economy

    by David Farrugia, Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold, Megan Sharp, Lena Molnar ...
    Vibes as value explores the relationship between subjectivity, labour and value in the hospitality industry, and thereby how youth, gender, sexuality, race and social class are embodied and made productive in the service economy. It shows that the key product of hospitality labour is ‘vibes’, or moments of enjoyment and relationality co-produced through exploitative relationships amongst workers ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism

    Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies

    Edited by Professor Penny Jane Burke, Julia Coffey, Professor Rosalind Gill, Dr Akane Kanai ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Gender and Education
    What does it mean to be pedagogical in a post-truth landscape? How might feminist thought and action work to intervene in this environment?Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism draws together leading feminist scholars of gender and education to explore the current significance of the rise of populist policies and discourses and the challenges it poses to the hard-won battles regarding the rights ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Everyday Embodiment

    Rethinking Youth Body Image

    by Julia Coffey ...
    This book offers an innovative conceptual and methodological approach to one of the most significant health and wellbeing challenges for contemporary youth: body image. The social and cultural dimensions shaping body ideals and young people’s body image concerns have not been adequately explored in the current landscape of social media and youth body cultures. The author provides a sociological ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Youth Sociology

    by Alan France, Julia Coffey, Steven Roberts, Catherine Waite ...
    Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition. It can be difficult to define and make sense of this period in one's life.However it is categorised, young people face a number of challenges and issues growing up in today's world. From the pressures created by social media to the increasing precarity of employment, the major social, cultural and economic ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Body Work

    Youth, Gender and Health

    by Julia Coffey ...
    Series series Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
    The rise of the health, beauty and fitness industries in recent years has led to an increased focus on the body. Body image, gender and health are issues of long-standing concern in sociology and in youth studies, but a theoretical and empirical focus on the body has been largely missing from this field. This book explores young people’s understandings of their bodies in the context of gender and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Learning Bodies

    The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies

    Edited by Julia Coffey, Shelley Budgeon, Helen Cahill ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    'Learning Bodies’ addresses the lack of attention paid to the body in youth and childhood studies. Whilst a significant range of work on this area has explored gender, class, race and ethnicity, and sexualities – all of which have bodily dimensions – the body is generally studied indirectly, rather than being the central focus. This collection of papers brings together a scholarly range of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Action Research

    Living Theory

    by Jean McNiff, A Jack Whitehead ...
    In Action Research: Living Theory, Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead set out their vision for action research in the 21st Century.This is a passionate, and compelling book, that defines the philosophy behind action research and the process of doing action research for all those interested in this fast growing area. It sets in place the foundations of action research as a discipline, and roots action ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Woman's Relationship with Herself

    Gender, Foucault and Therapy

    by Helen O'Grady ...
    Series series Women and Psychology
    Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how this relationship is often dominated by debilitating practices of self-surveillance. Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady illuminates the link between this kind of self-surveillance and the broader mechanisms of social control, arguing that these negative practices ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory

    Edited by Scott Eacott, Colin Evers ...
    Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory
    Educational leadership has a rich history of epistemological debate. From the ‘Theory Movement’of the 1950-1960s, through to Greenfield’s critique of logical empiricism in the 1970s, the emergence of Bates’ and Foster’s Critical Theory of educational administration in the 1980s, and Evers’ and Lakomski’s naturalistic coherentism from1990 to the present time, debates about ways of knowing, doing, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Gender and Language Theory and Practice

    by Lia Litosseliti ...
    The book introduces both theoretical and applied perspectives, identifying and explaining the relevant frameworks and drawing on a range of activities/examples of how gender is constructed in discourse.The book is divided into three parts. Part I covers the historical background to the study of gender and language, moving on through past theoretical approaches to a discussion of current debates in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • On Language and Sexual Politics

    by Deborah Cameron ...
    This collection of articles presents a selection of Deborah Cameron’s work on language, gender and sex in one single volume. Arranged thematically, this book covers major developments in Anglo-American feminist linguistics, and Cameron’s responses to these, spanning the last twenty years.The collection’s overarching theme is the political relationship between language and gender: four distinctly ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Beyond Bourdieu

    by Will Atkinson ...
    Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have receded. Now, however, his intellectual enterprise faces a new set of challenges unearthed by decades of sympathetic research: how to conceive the relationship between society and place, particularly in an increasingly global ... Read more

    $19.00 USD