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.
Crack Cocaine Users: High Society and Low Life in South London
1st Edition
By Daniel Briggs
October 24, 2013
Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the ...
City, Street and Citizen: The Measure of the Ordinary
1st Edition
By Suzanne Hall
June 21, 2013
How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don’t know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city’s public parts, ...
Dirty Dancing: An Ethnography of Lap Dancing
1st Edition
By Rachela Colosi
March 16, 2012
Based on ethnographic research conducted in 'Starlets', a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the 'deviant', and 'stigmatized' world of lap-dancing. As well as the relationships between dancers, the author offers a unique insider's account of ...
Families Shamed: The Consequences of Crime for Relatives of Serious Offenders
1st Edition
By Rachel Condry
April 04, 2011
This book examines the experiences of relatives of those accused or convicted of serious crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and sex offences. A broader literature exists on prisoners' families, but few studies have looked specifically at those related to serious offenders, or considered ...