Showing 1 - 10 of 14
This paper considers the construction of young people's experiences in city schools through a new curriculum subject, Citizenship Education, in secondary schools in England. It demonstrates how citizen identities are constructed through discursive practices in the classroom and are shaped by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890339
This article outlines the recent circulation of media images and discourse relating to characters pre-figured as ‘welfare dependents’ and reaction to Benefits Street. The article provides a brief overview of sociological analysis of such representations of apparently spiralling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144970
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711405
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012280508
Goodwin M., Jones M. and Jones R. (2005) Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: explaining and understanding the new institutional geographies of the British state, Regional Studies 39 , 421-436. This paper is concerned with the new institutional geographies of devolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005491471
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778853
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005638311
Jones R. and Fowler C. (2007) Where is Wales? Narrating the territories and borders of the Welsh linguistic nation, Regional Studies 41, 89-101. The paper shows how different organizations in the post-devolution period have erected internal borders within Wales, which reflect Welsh linguistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008603663
Issues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across much of Western Europe, but these general processes of restructuring take on different inflections in different countries. This paper will concentrate on the case of the UK, and in particular will explore the ways in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692789
The sustainable city has now become a leading paradigm of urban development throughout the world. Although the practices, discourses and ideologies associated with the sustainable city have been widely disseminated, analyses of sustainable urban development remain surprisingly anodyne. Drawing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010826892