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Negotiating Cohesion, Inequality and Change - Uncomfortable Positions in Local Government (Hardcover)
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Negotiating Cohesion, Inequality and Change - Uncomfortable Positions in Local Government (Hardcover)
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How are multiculturalism, inequality and belonging understood in
the day-to-day thinking and practices of local government?
Examining original empirical data, this book explores how local
government officers and politicians negotiate 'difficult subjects'
linked with community cohesion policy: diversity, inequality,
discrimination, extremism, migration, religion, class, power and
change. The book argues that such work necessitates 'uncomfortable
positions' when managing ethical, professional and political
commitments. Based on first-hand experience of working in urban
local government and extensive ethnographic, interview and
documentary research, the book applies governmentality perspectives
in a new way to consider how people working within government are
subject to regimes of governmentality themselves, and demonstrates
how power operates through emotions. Its exploration of how
'sociological imaginations' are applied beyond academia will be
valuable to those arguing for the future of public services and
building connections between the university and wider society,
including scholars and students in sociology, social policy, social
geography, urban studies and politics, and policy practitioners in
local and central government. Winner of the BSA Philip Abrams
Memorial Prize 2014
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