What happens when the mad are let out of the asylum and there is nowhere for them to go? This work traces the terms on which the mad occupy the city's streets, homeless shelters, shopping centres and fast food outlets. Caroline Knowles situates this social geography of madness within the broader parameters of systems of social welfare and globalization, arguing that the community mental health care system is a system of neglect. A textured visual/spatial ethnography, the author combines photographic images of people and places with an examination of city space and the voices of...
What happens when the mad are let out of the asylum and there is nowhere for them to go? This work traces the terms on which the mad occupy the city's...
'This book is well researched and highly accessible. It is both a useful and much needed addition to the literature on race and social research' - Ethnic and Racial Studies
'The book is well laid out with glossaries of significant new terms and summaries of key points at the end of each chapter, extensive notes and a very useful bibliography. Knowle's book is a welcome contribution to our understanding, and its emphasis on social analysis helps to bridge what sometimes appears to be a widening gap between the academic and policy/practitioner communities. She...
'This book is well researched and highly accessible. It is both a useful and much needed addition to the literature on race and social research' - ...
'This book is well researched and highly accessible. It is both a useful and much needed addition to the literature on race and social research' - Ethnic and Racial Studies
'The book is well laid out with glossaries of significant new terms and summaries of key points at the end of each chapter, extensive notes and a very useful bibliography. Knowle's book is a welcome contribution to our understanding, and its emphasis on social analysis helps to bridge what sometimes appears to be a widening gap between the academic and policy/practitioner communities. She...
'This book is well researched and highly accessible. It is both a useful and much needed addition to the literature on race and social research' - ...
This collection of original pieces brings together critical perspectives on the intersection of ethnic and gender identities as spatialized forms of embodied social practice, tackling important recent themes such as whiteness, masculinity, the body, sexuality, diaspora and globalization. Designed to bring these debates to students in a way that bridges contemporary theory with vivid case material, this is a lively and wide-ranging text of relevance to a range of social sciences.
This collection of original pieces brings together critical perspectives on the intersection of ethnic and gender identities as spatialized forms of e...
In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. "Hong Kong" is a tour of the city s postcolonial urban landscape, innovatively told through fieldwork and photography. Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper s point of entry into Hong Kong is the unusual position of the British expatriates who chose to remain in the city after the transition. Now a relatively insignificant presence, British migrants in Hong...
In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and i...
This book follows the global trail of one of the world s most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation s back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts of globalisation. Rather than orderly product chains, the book shows that globalisation along the flip-flop trail is a tangle of unstable, shifting, ad hoc and contingent connections. This book displays both the instabilities of the chains and the complexities, personal topographies and skills...
This book follows the global trail of one of the world s most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Kn...
