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People in sport tend to possess rather jaded perceptions of its colour-blindness and thus, they are reluctant to confront the fact that, quite often racism is endemic. Yorkshire cricket in particular, has faced frequent accusations from minority ethnic communities of inveterate and...
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This article examines the political possibilities for an aesthetic disruption of urban space and time. Locating the …
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This article draws on recent research into the architecture of home‐based work, the working practices of the home-based workforce and the range and types of buildings they inhabit. The initial project was conducted in 2005-07. It involved 76 informants, from urban, suburban and rural contexts...
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This paper aims to contribute to, and extend, the emergent Sociology of organizational space. It engages critically … with labour process approaches, which position space within a control-resistance paradigm, suggesting that the … conceptualization of space embedded within these accounts is limited and limiting. Drawing on insights from cultural geography the paper …
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work and leisure are seen as taking place either 'in' or 'away from' the home. The space between home and the place of work …
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practices, and (2) management of sleep across public/private space: safety, surveillance and privacy. The sleep discourses of …
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the 'gaps' in the literature pertaining to 'lesbian and gay' space, and to (de-sexualised) class space, will be identified …. By including empirical data I offer a picture of the ways in which classed spaces is sexualised and sexualised space is … classed and suggest that space is constitutive of identity in terms of where it places people, both materially and emotionally. …
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This article considers how one group of workers, hairdressers, use aspects of their material landscape of work as important resources in the production and re-production of their work identities. It shows how the participants of the study use the spaces, objects and things in their workplaces to...
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The paper focuses on the relations between Mass Observation Reports, and the contemporary sociological valuing of articulacy, salience and coherence in participants' accounts. This is linked with a critique of sociological literariness, to question how participants’ words are transformed...
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Maintaining a ‘critical reflexivity’ (Heaphy 2008) or ‘investigative epistemology’ (Mason 2007) in relation to the sedimented assumptions built up over the course of one’s own research history and embedded in common research boundaries, is difficult. The type of...
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