Classed intersections: spaces, selves, knowledges

"Classed Intersections examines the salience, transformation and tension of class analysis at a crucial juncture when class investigation is returning to, and reinventing sociological agendas. The contributors, including both established and emerging academics, examine class as produced through combined social, cultural and economic practices, but they are clear not to reify class over and above other paradigms; instead a number of key intersections are foregrounded including ethnicity and sexuality.

The collection draws on a variety of methodological approaches, including in-depth interviews, ethnographies, and auto-biographical approaches, and it scrutinises classed intersections across a wide range of social spheres and practices including education and the workplace, everyday life and citizenship struggles, consumption, the family and sexuality. Taken together, this collection will enhance efforts to establish 'new' working class studies both in the UK and around the world."--Pub. desc.

Classed intersections: spaces, selves, knowledges / Yvette Taylor -- Part I Class, the Self and the Space In-Between: -- Working capital: ownership and (some) means of production / Sue Parker -- Is there such a thing as a working-class academic? / Paul Wakeling -- Becoming 'somebody': examining class and gender through higher education / Sarah Evans -- The significance of bonding capital: class, ethnicity, faith and British Muslim women's routes to university / Jody Mellor -- Part II Mapping Class: Location, Distinction and Belonging: -- Asdatown: the intersections of classed places and identities / Ben Gidley and Alison Rooke -- Betwixt and between: managing marginalised, classed identities / Emma Clavering -- Making working-class neighbourhoods posh? Exploring the effects of gentrification strategies on working-class communities / Kirsteen Paton -- Privileged locations? Sexuality, class and geography / Yvette Taylor -- Part III Transformations and Intersections: -- Even poor gays travel: excluding low income gay men from understandings of gay tourism / Mark Casey -- 'I wanted to be totally true to myself': class and the making of the sexual self / Elizabeth McDermott -- Class an…