Unsettling Welfare addresses the changing relationship between social welfare, its 'recipients' and the state. In particular, the book explores the direction an

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This book opens the series with a consideration of the social construction of social difference. Taking the body as the point of departure, it deals with the pr

Stuart Hall’s retirement from the Open University in 1997 provided a unique opportunity to reflect on an academic career which has had the most profound impac