Politics of waiting

Politics of waitingThis book is a political ethnography that examines how welfare programmes for the unemployed function as a contemporary form of state control.

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How do various forms of comedy – including stand-up

Capital and popular cinema responds to the need for a more solid academic approach by situating 'low' film genres in their economic and culturally-specific contexts and by exploring the interconnections between those contexts

studied dentistry in Glasgow

This book offers a new critical framework for understanding the processes of politicising and gendering care for older people and their manifestations in different European contexts

feminism and postmodernism to offer readers an understanding of performance studies that is grounded in personal narrative and lived experience

'presentation' and 'reception' are fused together to make up the overall 'performance'

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Plotting links between the spheres of the political and the personal

A response to the political vagaries of his time

From this position the monograph surveys the major organisational changes of the Labour Party in their period of opposition: the Policy Review (1987–92)

his stay in South Africa and his subsequent residence in London where he became the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and a well-known editor