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  • Social Constructionism in Housing Research

    by Jim Kemeny ...
    By stressing the importance of subjectivity and interpretation, social constructionism offers a different conception of reality from the traditional approach to housing policy analysis. This book provides an up-to-date review of the social constructionist perspective and considers its philosophical basis. It discusses how social problems are constructed and, in turn, how this informs policy-making ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Philosophy and the City

    Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives

    Edited by Keith Jacobs, Jeff Malpas ...
    Philosophy has its origins in the city, and in the context of our own highly urbanised modes of living, the relationship between philosophy and the city is more important than ever. The city is the place in which most humans now play out their lives, and the place that determines much of the cultural, social, economic, and political life of the contemporary world. Towards a Philosophy of the City ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy

    A Study of Council Housing Renewal in the London Borough of Hackney

    by Keith Jacobs ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1999, this study features Keith Jacobs examining housing practice through a detailed analysis of processes that surround a large-scale housing regeneration initiative in the London Borough of Hackney. It forms part of a series incorporating a wide range of approaches to urban and regional studies, with an emphasis on original research linking theory and practice. The series is ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Housing?

    by Rowland Atkinson, Keith Jacobs ...
    Series series What Do We Know and What Should We Do About
    The UK housing market is in crisis. House-prices are spiralling out of control, rents are rising faster than wages, and there is a serious shortage of new affordable homes. But what caused this crisis and what can we do about it?In this book, established housing policy experts Rowland Atkinson and Keith Jacobs expose the true economic forces behind Britain’s housing crisis. Urging readers to see ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Neoliberal Housing Policy

    An International Perspective

    by Keith Jacobs ...
    Series series Explorations in Housing Studies
    Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role of public housing; the problem of homelessness; the ways that housing accentuates social and economic inequality; and how suburban housing has transformed city life. The empirical focus ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Experience and Representation

    Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia

    by Keith Jacobs ...
    Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia provides a critical overview of influential theoretical perspectives and recent empirical material in the fields of migration, race, culture and politics. With a primary focus on Australia, the book explores the complexities surrounding migration; sets out the most appropriate frameworks to understand ethnicity and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Building Better Societies

    Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart

    by Michael Orton, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Sam Burgum, Alan Walker, Steve Corbett, Paul Ward, Kate Pahl, Richard Williams, Gretel Taylor, Deborah Joy-Warr, Martin Coward, Anthony Ellis, Keith Jacobs, Iain Wilkinson ...
    What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert contributors outlining what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.The book looks at what is needed to prevent the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Changing Family Values

    Difference, Diversity and the Decline of Male Order

    Edited by Gill Jagger, Caroline Wright ...
    Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • (Mis)recognition, Social Inequality and Social Justice

    Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu

    Edited by Terry Lovell ...
    Series series Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
    Nancy Fraser’s work provides a theory of justice from multiple perspectives which has created a powerful frame for the analysis of political, moral and pragmatic dilemmas in an era of global capitalism and cultural pluralism. It has been developed through dialogue with key contemporary thinkers, including an extended critical exchange with Axel Honneth that touches importantly upon the work of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rethinking Industrial Relations

    Mobilisation, Collectivism and Long Waves

    by John Kelly ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment Relations
    This original book is a wide-ranging, radical and highly innovative critique of the prevailing orthodoxies within industrial relations and human resource management. It covers:central problems in industrial relationsthe mobilization theory of collective actionthe growth of non-union workplaces and the prospects and desirability of a new labour-management social partnershipan historical account of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Intersectionality and Beyond

    Law, Power and the Politics of Location

    Edited by Emily Grabham, Davina Cooper, Jane Krishnadas, Didi Herman ...
    Series series Social Justice
    This collection addresses the present and the future of the concept of intersectionality within socio-legal studies. Intersectionality provides a metaphorical schema for understanding the interaction of different forms of disadvantage, including race, sexuality, and gender. But it also goes further to provide a particular model of how these aspects of social identity and location converge – ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Bourdieu: The Next Generation

    The Development of Bourdieu's Intellectual Heritage in Contemporary UK Sociology

    Edited by Jenny Thatcher, Nicola Ingram, Ciaran Burke, Jessie Abrahams ...
    Series series Sociological Futures
    This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues. It will provide a discussion of the working mechanisms of thinking through and/or with Bourdieu when analysing data. In each chapter, individual authors discuss and reflect upon their own research and the ways in which they put Bourdieu to work. The aim of this book is ... Read more

    $65.99 USD