Decoding Discrimination: Papers from a Conference Held at University College Chester, November 2002: 1 - Softcover

Mark Bendall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902275497 ISBN 13: 9781902275499

Publisher: Chester Academic Press, 2006

Synopsis

Papers from a conference organised for undergraduates at University College Chester, November 2002. The papers explore the nature of discrimination in a variety of different contexts. Topics covered include religion and belief in relation to ethnicity, the portrayal of old age by the media, gender in post-industrial Britain, stigma in health care settings, social class in contemporary Britain, disability and alternative lifestyle. Contributors: Marie Parker-Jenkins, Tim Healey and Karen Ross, Sara Delamont, Tom Mason and Elizabeth Whitehead, Mike Savage, Colin Barnes, and Joanna Elloy.

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About the Author

Dr Mark Bendall (editor) was awarded a First Class Honours degree and then a PhD from Cambridge University in 1997, has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Southampton and is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chester. He has published on sexuality for the American publishers Fitzroy Dearborn and has long had a curiosity about questions of discrimination, inspired by an interview with Quentin Crisp in New York - a topic for future publication. Research interests have circled around issues of representation and responsibility, resulting in publications such as Fall of an American Adam: the Death of John F. Kennedy Junior, in R. Brown and A. Neal, (Eds.), Ordinary Reactions, Extraordinary Events, Bowling Green University Press (2001), and (with J. Bendall) Stakeholder Roles and Connections , in Steven K. May (Ed.), Communication and Corporate Responsibility: Perspectives and Arguments, Oxford University Press (2006). Brian Howman (editor) is a social and political historian, with a strong attachment to interdisciplinary approaches. His specialist research area is the slave abolition movement. This interest broadens into early industrial society and the effects of hegemonic structures, both historically and (with especial interest in discrimination against motorcyclists) in contemporary contexts. Having taken his first two degrees at University College Chester, Brian's doctoral thesis (supervised at the University of Warwick), examining the activities of slave abolitionists in the North West of England, is due for completion in early 2006.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chester Academic Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1902275497
• ISBN 13: 9781902275499
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 225
• Editor: Mark Bendall, Brian Howman