Routledge Advances in Ethnography
About the Book Series
Ethnography is a celebrated, if contested, research methodology that offers unprecedented access to people's intimate lives, their often hidden social worlds and the meanings they attach to these. The intensity of ethnographic fieldwork often makes considerable personal and emotional demands on the researcher, while the final product is a vivid human document with personal resonance impossible to recreate by the application of any other social science methodology. This series aims to highlight the best, most innovative ethnographic work available from both new and established scholars.
Hip Hop Versus Rap: The Politics of Droppin' Knowledge
1st Edition
By Patrick Turner
July 16, 2019
'What is the real hip hop?' 'To whom does hip hop belong?' 'For what constructive purposes can hip hop be put to use?' These are three key questions posed by hip hop activists in Hip Hop Versus Rap, which explores the politics of cultural authenticity, ownership, and uplift in London’s post-hip hop...
Migrant City
1st Edition
By Les Back, Shamser Sinha
July 16, 2019
Migrant City tells the story of contemporary London from the perspective of thirty adult migrants and two sociologists. Connecting migrants’ private struggles to the public issues at stake in the way mobility is regulated, channelled and managed in a globalised world, this volume explores what ...
Policing the 2012 London Olympics: Legacy and Social Exclusion
1st Edition
By Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti, Dick Hobbs
July 12, 2019
The summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world’s biggest single-city cultural event. While the Olympics and other sport mega-events have received growing levels of academic investigation from a variety of disciplinary approaches, relatively little is known about how such occasions ...
Flashback: Drugs and Dealing in the Golden Age of the London Rave Scene
1st Edition
By Jennifer Ward
January 17, 2019
This book is a detailed and close examination of the rave club drugs market as it took place in nightclubs, dance parties, pubs and bars and among friendship networks in London, in the mid to late 1990s. It focuses on the organizational features of drugs purchasing and selling and differentiates ...
UK Hip-Hop, Grime and the City: The Aesthetics and Ethics of London's Rap Scenes
1st Edition
By Richard Bramwell
June 28, 2018
Young people in London have contributed to the production of a distinctively British rap culture. This book moves beyond accounts of Hip-Hop’s marginality and shows, with an examination of the production, dissemination and use of rap in London, how this cultural form plays an important role in the ...
Narratives of Neglect
1st Edition
By Jacqui Karn
June 23, 2015
This book tells the story of the process leading up to the demolition of a small council estate in the north of England and its subsequent regeneration. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it addresses the local governance of security and the ways in which the community engaged with attempts ...
Holding Your Square
1st Edition
By Christopher W. Mullins
May 21, 2015
This book is about the meanings of masculinities within the social networks of the streets of an American city (St Louis, Missouri), and how these shaped perceptions and enactments of violence. Based on a large number of interviews with offenders the author provides a rich description of life on ...
Strong and Hard Women: An ethnography of female bodybuilding
1st Edition
By Tanya Bunsell
July 11, 2014
Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has caused a significant rupture on feminist ground. Whilst proponents claim that female bodybuilding is a way of empowering ...
Sport, Difference and Belonging: Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport
1st Edition
By James Rosbrook-Thompson
June 16, 2014
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more generally), ...
Boy Racer Culture: Youth, Masculinity and Deviance
1st Edition
By Karen Lumsden
May 28, 2014
On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the ‘respectable’ motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths’ acclaimed propensity to engage in deviant and dangerous driving ...
Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys: Drug Taking Decisions from Adolescence to Adulthood
1st Edition
By Lisa Williams
March 19, 2014
This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their perceptions of different drugs, it situates their ...
Builders: Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry
1st Edition
By Darren Thiel
November 08, 2013
Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the total labour market in almost every country of the world. They construct, repair and maintain the vital physical infrastructure of our societies, and we rely upon and trust their achievements every day. Yet we know surprisingly little...