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Routledge Advances in Ethnography

Series Editor: Dick Hobbs, Geoffrey Pearson

Ethnography is a celebrated, if contested, research methodology that offers unprecedented access to people's intimate lives, their often hidden social worlds and the meanings they attach to these.　 The intensity of ethnographic fieldwork often makes considerable personal and emotional demands on the researcher, while the final product is a vivid human document with personal resonance impossible to recreate by the application of any other social science methodology.　 This series aims to highlight the best, most innovative ethnographic work available from both new and established scholars.

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  1. Builders

    Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry

    By Darren Thiel

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    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...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge

  2. City, Street and Citizen

    The Measure of the Ordinary

    By Suzanne Hall

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    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,...

    Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Dirty Dancing

    An Ethnography of Lap Dancing

    By Rachela Colosi

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    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...

    Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Crack Cocaine Users

    High Society and Low Life in South London

    By Daniel Briggs

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    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...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Flashback

    Drugs and Dealing in the Golden Age of the London Rave Scene

    By Jennifer Ward

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    This book is a detailed and close examination of the rave club drugs market as it took place in nightclubs, dance parties, pubs and bars and among friendship networks in London, in the mid to late 1990s. It focuses on the organizational features of drugs purchasing and selling and differentiates...

    Published April 30th 2010 by Willan

  6. Families Shamed

    The Consequences of Crime for Relatives of Serious Offenders

    By Rachel Condry

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    This book examines the experiences of relatives of those accused or convicted of serious crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and sex offences. A broader literature exists on prisoners' families, but few studies have looked specifically at those related to serious offenders, or considered...

    Published December 31st 2008 by Willan

  7. Narratives of Neglect

    By Jacqui Karn

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    This book tells the story of the process leading up to the demolition of a small council estate in the north of England and its subsequent regeneration. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it addresses the local governance of security and the ways in which the community engaged with attempts...

    Published February 28th 2007 by Willan

  8. Holding Your Square

    By Christopher Mullins

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    This book is about the meanings of masculinities within the social networks of the streets of an American city (St Louis, Missouri), and how these shaped perceptions and enactments of violence. Based on a large number of interviews with offenders the author provides a rich description of life on...

    Published August 31st 2006 by Willan

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Changing lives, changing drug journeys: Drug taking decisions from adolescence to adulthood
    By Lisa Williams
    To Be Published August 15th 2012
  2. Sport, Difference and Belonging: Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport
    By James Rosbrook-Thompson
    To Be Published December 14th 2012
  3. Night Clubbing
    By Daniel Silverstone
    To Be Published December 31st 2012
  4. Tac: Young People, Gender and Neighbourhood Drug Markets
    By Kate O'Brien
    To Be Published January 31st 2013
  5. Youth Gangs in an English City
    By Judith Aldridge, Juanjo Medina, Robert Ralphs
    To Be Published February 28th 2013
  6. Strong and hard women: An ethnography of female body-building
    By Tanya Bunsell
    To Be Published February 28th 2013
  7. Boy Racer Culture: Youth, Masculinity and Deviance
    By Karen Lumsden
    To Be Published March 14th 2013

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