Sociology & Social Policy

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This title was first published in 2001. Challenging conventional approaches to the delivery of sustainable "social protection" to the elderly in developing countries (DCs) and assessing their implications, this work discusses the appropriateness of the public management of funded systems in DCs with..

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

People and Buildings..

First published in 1998, this volume takes an international approach theoretical and regional perceptions and experiences of marginality along with some key case studies in Arctic North America, Greenland, Aboriginal Australia and the Republic of Ireland...

This book draws on ethnographic research among a variety of activist groups and initiatives that use art and performance-based art forms as a vehicle for social change, to examine the tensions between aesthetics and politics that lie at the heart of art activism. Bringing together concepts and theor..

A study of the different forms that fantasy can take and its everyday role as part of contemporary Western culture, this book examines fantasy from a performance theory perspective...

This book, first published in 2000, explores the intersections of race, gender and gay identities in writings by contemporary American lesbians of colour. It is the first to analyse creative and theoretical works by African American, Asian American, Latina and Native American writers through the len..

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Moscow and St. Petersburg among the political opposition’s youth group Oborona (Defence), this ground-breaking work brings forward a multifaceted and colourful image of the life of political opposition activists in a restricted political environment. The book illust..

This book examines governments’ successful and unsuccessful uses of performance measurement to improve public services, the social dynamics between managers, professionals and service users that are generated, and the circumstances in which authentic performance can occur. This book was originally p..