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Gender, Work and Community After De-Industrialisation
Walkerdine, Valerie; Jimenez, Luis
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Description for Gender, Work and Community After De-Industrialisation
Hardcover. This book explores the processes of community, regeneration, relationality and affect in a small Welsh town after the closure of its iron and steel works - an industry at the heart of this community. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; JFSF; JFSJ; JHBL; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threats, insecurities and closure? How did people weather the storms and how do they face the future now? While attempts to regenerate communities are everywhere, we do not often hear from the people themselves just how they managed to create safe collective spaces or how the fall of the whole house of cards brought with it effects which can be felt by young people who never knew the town when it was ... Read more
How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threats, insecurities and closure? How did people weather the storms and how do they face the future now? While attempts to regenerate communities are everywhere, we do not often hear from the people themselves just how they managed to create safe collective spaces or how the fall of the whole house of cards brought with it effects which can be felt by young people who never knew the town when it was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230247062
SKU
V9780230247062
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Ref
99-15
About Walkerdine, Valerie; Jimenez, Luis
VALERIE WALKERDINE Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. She is editor of the journal Subjectivity. Her previous books include Growing up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class and Children, Gender, Videogames: Towards a Relational Approach to Multimedia. She is also a practising mixed media and installation artist. LUIS JIMENEZ Senior Lecturer ... Read more
Reviews for Gender, Work and Community After De-Industrialisation
“Gender, Work and Community After De-Industrialisation is a moving discernment of the social suffering of the inhabitants of Steeltown in the wake of enduring community trauma and an original ethnographic study. … It should be of particular interest to those concerned with the many matters the research touches upon … as well as those involved with the many people whose ... Read more