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The International Education Board was the dream come to fruition of
one man, Dr. Wickliffe Rose who headed it until its job was done.
`Gray's book tells us an important story, starting from the epistemological and methodological background of a number of key studies in the Birgmingham tradition, it explores how to make use of these research experiences and how to deploy "experience" as a tool for research' - Roberta Sassatelli, School of Economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia How is culture `lived'? What are the best ways of investigating cultural life? This timely, assured and accessible book has three objectives. First, it seeks to give a critical selective account of the main ethnographic methods that have influenced cultural studies. Second, it offers practical guidance on the craft of research, from formulating a topic to presenting it in written form. Third, it provides help with key questions of evaluative criteria and values in the research process. This is one of the first cultural studies books to address the question of the research process in detail. Students who want to do empirical research will find the book to be an indispensable resource that will enable them to focus on the correct issues and ask the right questions for effective research. The book develops a set of research practices that are appropriate to a critical understanding of culture, power and everyday life. It will rapidly establish itself as the lecturer's stand-by and the student's friend for all issues relating to qualitative research in cultural studies.
Designed for psychotherapists and counsellors in training, An
Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame clarifies the concept of the
frame - the way of working set out in the first meeting between
therapist and client. This Classic Edition of the book includes a
brand new introduction by the author. Anne Gray, an experienced
psychotherapist and teacher, uses lively and extensive case
material to show how the frame can both contain feelings and
further understanding within the therapeutic relationship. She
takes the reader through each stage of therapeutic work, from the
first meeting to the final contact, and looks at those aspects of
management that beginners often find difficult, such as fee
payment, letters and telephone calls, supervision and evaluation.
Her practical advice on how to handle these situations will be
invaluable to trainees as well as to those involved in their
training.
In recent years non-fiction history programmes have flourished on
television. This interdisciplinary study of history programming
identifies and examines different genres employed by producers and
tracks their commissioning, production, marketing and distribution
histories. With comparative references to other European nations
and North America, the authors focus on British history programming
over the last two decades and analyse the relationship between the
academy and media professionals. They outline and discuss
often-competing discourses about how to 'do' history and the
underlying assumptions about who watches history programmes.
History on Television considers recent changes in the media
landscape, which have affected to a great degree how history in
general, and whose history in particular, appears onscreen. Through
a number of case studies, using material from interviews by the
authors with academic and media professionals, the role of the
'professional' historian and that of media professionals -
commissioning editors and producer/directors - as mediators of
historical material and interpretations is analysed, and the ways
in which the 'logics of television' shape historical output are
outlined and discussed. Building on their analysis, Ann Gray and
Erin Bell ask if history on television fulfils its potential to be
a form of public history through offering, as it does, a range of
interpretations of the past to and originating from or including
those not based in the academy. Through consideration of the
representation, or absence, of the diversity of British identity -
gender, ethnicity and race, social status and regional identities -
the authors substantially extend the scope of existing scholarship
into history on television History on Television will be essential
reading for all those interested in the complex processes involved
in the representation of history on television.
In recent years non-fiction history programmes have flourished on
television. This interdisciplinary study of history programming
identifies and examines different genres employed by producers and
tracks their commissioning, production, marketing and distribution
histories. With comparative references to other European nations
and North America, the authors focus on British history programming
over the last two decades and analyse the relationship between the
academy and media professionals. They outline and discuss
often-competing discourses about how to 'do' history and the
underlying assumptions about who watches history programmes.
History on Television considers recent changes in the media
landscape, which have affected to a great degree how history in
general, and whose history in particular, appears onscreen. Through
a number of case studies, using material from interviews by the
authors with academic and media professionals, the role of the
'professional' historian and that of media professionals -
commissioning editors and producer/directors - as mediators of
historical material and interpretations is analysed, and the ways
in which the 'logics of television' shape historical output are
outlined and discussed. Building on their analysis, Ann Gray and
Erin Bell ask if history on television fulfils its potential to be
a form of public history through offering, as it does, a range of
interpretations of the past to and originating from or including
those not based in the academy. Through consideration of the
representation, or absence, of the diversity of British identity -
gender, ethnicity and race, social status and regional identities -
the authors substantially extend the scope of existing scholarship
into history on television History on Television will be essential
reading for all those interested in the complex processes involved
in the representation of history on television.
Designed for psychotherapists and counsellors in training, An
Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame clarifies the concept of the
frame - the way of working set out in the first meeting between
therapist and client. This Classic Edition of the book includes a
brand new introduction by the author. Anne Gray, an experienced
psychotherapist and teacher, uses lively and extensive case
material to show how the frame can both contain feelings and
further understanding within the therapeutic relationship. She
takes the reader through each stage of therapeutic work, from the
first meeting to the final contact, and looks at those aspects of
management that beginners often find difficult, such as fee
payment, letters and telephone calls, supervision and evaluation.
Her practical advice on how to handle these situations will be
invaluable to trainees as well as to those involved in their
training.
How and why are European welfare systems and the labour market
changing? How do they affect the daily lives of those facing
unemployment or precarious work? Anne Gray shows how the idea of
unemployment benefits as a right is evolving into a regime closer
to American 'workfare'. She explains how this policy forces the
unemployed into low paid, temporary or part-time jobs associated
with the new 'flexible' labour market. Drawing on unemployed
people's own accounts of their experiences - in the UK, Germany,
France and Belgium - Gray illustrates the job market as seen from
the dole queue. Exploring the changing nature of work in Europe,
Gray reveals why is there a shortage of full-time permanent jobs,
what is to be done, and what the future holds for labour market
regulation in Europe. Providing clear explanations about shifts in
welfare policy, this book is ideal for trade unionists, activists
and students, and makes an important contribution to wider debates
on globalisation and the future of work.
The 1980s saw an explosion in the use of the domestic video
cassette recorder (VCR), arguably the most significant new form of
home entertainment technology since television. In "Video Playtime"
Ann Gray investigates what women themselves felt about the VCR,
both in terms of the ways these entertainment facilities were used
within their households, and what kinds of programmes and films
they themselves particularly enjoyed. The ages, social, economic
and family circumstances of the women differ, but almost all live
with a male partner, and the book draws heavily on verbatim quotes
from the discussions to provide a rich description of different
types of household micro-cultures and to give readers more direct
access to the women themselves and the ways in which they accounted
for their own experience. This particular method of research
revealed the importance of first exploring the social and cultural
context of a new piece of technology in order to understand its
significance. "Video Playtime" addresses questions of domestic
technology as well as those of taste and cultural preference,
particularly in relation to class, addressing the dynamics of power
within existing social and cu
The 1980s saw an explosion in the use of the domestic video cassette recorder (VCR), arguably the most significant new form of home entertainment technology since television. In Video Playtime Ann Gray investigates what women themselves felt about the VCR, both in terms of the ways these entertainment facilities were used within their households, and what kinds of programmes and films they themselves particularly enjoyed. Ann Gray draws heavily on verbatim quotes from discussions to provide a rich description of different types of household micro-cultures and to give readers more direct access to the women themselves and the ways in which they accounted for their own experience. Video Playtime addresses questions of domestic technology as well as those of taste and cultural preference, particularly in relation to class, addressing the dynamics of power within existing social and cultural relations and thereby setting the analysis within a much wider social context.
This collection of classic essays focuses on the theoretical
frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary
Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies
and working practices that the Centre developed for conducting
academic research and examples of the 'grounded studies' carried
out under the auspices of the Centre.
This volume is split into four thematic sections that are
introduced by key academics working in the field of cultural
studies, and includes a preface by eminent scholar, Stuart Hall.
The thematic sections are:
- CCCS Founding Moments
- Theoretical Engagements
- Theorising Experience, Exploring Methods
- Grounded Studies.
This collection of classic essays focuses on the theoretical
frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary
Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies
and working practices that the Centre developed for conducting
academic research and examples of the studies carried out under the
auspices of the Centre.
This volume is split into seven thematic sections that are
introduced by key academics working in the field of cultural
studies, and includes a preface by eminent scholar, Stuart Hall.
The thematic sections are:
- Literature and Society
- Popular Culture and Youth Subculture
- Media
- Women's Studies and Feminism
- Race
- History
- Education and Work.
This book deconstructs and analyzes the impact of education-based
trauma. Drawing on wisdom from the fields of education, psychology,
neuroscience, history, political science, social justice, and
philosophy, Gray connects the dots across different forms of
education trauma that can occur throughout a student's life: from
bullying and anxiety to social inequity and the school-to-prison
pipeline. With respect to learning, memory, social group dynamics,
democracy, and mental health, this book serves as a call-to-arms,
demanding civil rights for all students and for education to
fulfill its ultimate duty as a force for the common good.
This book deconstructs and analyzes the impact of education-based
trauma. Drawing on wisdom from the fields of education, psychology,
neuroscience, history, political science, social justice, and
philosophy, Gray connects the dots across different forms of
education trauma that can occur throughout a student's life: from
bullying and anxiety to social inequity and the school-to-prison
pipeline. With respect to learning, memory, social group dynamics,
democracy, and mental health, this book serves as a call-to-arms,
demanding civil rights for all students and for education to
fulfill its ultimate duty as a force for the common good.
Police power was built on women's bodies. Men, especially Black
men, often stand in as the ultimate symbol of the mass
incarceration crisis in the United States. Women are treated as
marginal, if not overlooked altogether, in histories of the
criminal legal system. In this history-the first on the
relationship between women and police in the modern United
States-Anne Gray Fischer narrates how sexual policing fueled a
dramatic expansion of police power. The enormous discretionary
power that police officers wield to surveil, target, and arrest
anyone they deem suspicious was tested, legitimized, and legalized
through the policing of women's sexuality and right to move freely
through city streets. Throughout the twentieth century, police
departments achieved a stunning consolidation of urban authority
through the strategic discretionary enforcement of morals laws,
including disorderly conduct, vagrancy, and other
prostitution-related misdemeanors. Between Prohibition in the 1920s
and the rise of "broken windows" policing in the 1980s, police
targeted white and Black women in distinct but interconnected ways.
These tactics reveal the centrality of racist and sexist myths to
the justification and deployment of state power. Sexual policing
did not just enhance police power. It also transformed cities from
segregated sites of "urban vice" into the gentrified sites of Black
displacement and banishment we live in today.
`Gray's book tells us an important story, starting from the epistemological and methodological background of a number of key studies in the Birgmingham tradition, it explores how to make use of these research experiences and how to deploy "experience" as a tool for research' - Roberta Sassatelli, School of Economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia How is culture `lived'? What are the best ways of investigating cultural life? This timely, assured and accessible book has three objectives. First, it seeks to give a critical selective account of the main ethnographic methods that have influenced cultural studies. Second, it offers practical guidance on the craft of research, from formulating a topic to presenting it in written form. Third, it provides help with key questions of evaluative criteria and values in the research process. This is one of the first cultural studies books to address the question of the research process in detail. Students who want to do empirical research will find the book to be an indispensable resource that will enable them to focus on the correct issues and ask the right questions for effective research. The book develops a set of research practices that are appropriate to a critical understanding of culture, power and everyday life. It will rapidly establish itself as the lecturer's stand-by and the student's friend for all issues relating to qualitative research in cultural studies.
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