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This is an up to date text on the state of social exclusion. It provides insight into contemporary issues and manifestations of this academic area. Essential for anyone currently researching social exclusion.
Winlow and Hall have now long proved to be amongst the most astute academic commentators on contemporary social conditions. In 'Rethinking Social Exclusion' they have once again produced a truly innovative, engaging and provocative text full of new insight and original thinking. This will no doubt become the guide for social scientists looking to heed their call and think anew on the blunt imbalances inherent in contemporary capitalism, and the stark marginalisation at the ever expanding social fringes that characterise these turbulent times.
This is particularly scary characterization of social exclusion... Instructors looking for a graduate-level text for a theory or policy-oriented class in sociology or criminology will not be disappointed. I hope that this vital contribution for understanding today’s world is read by many and debated vigorously.
The importance of Winlow and Hall's elaboration of this thesis should not be left understated... the book successfully engages with a broad range of sociological, political and criminological literatures, underlining the authors' ability to transcend disciplinary boundaries. Overall, this is a useful, insightful and engaging book which succeeds in its aim to provide a theoretical framework for thinking through possible opposition to the current neoliberal hegemony.
As an intervention in the contemporary theory of poverty, Winlow and Hall’s work is powerful.
Important subject. Well written and interesting perspective.
Excellent text for students in social work programmes - relevant across many areas of practice, policy and theory. Highly recommended.
Such a refreshing, engaging text, especially in the advancing tide of neoliberal discourse permeating many aspects of social life. I particularly liked the call for social researchers to resist acting as mere 'gun dogs, flushing out and retrieving' data for funders to fit neatly into their pre-determined agendas.
A provocative and engaging critical approach that expands the debate on social exclusion beyond the disappointingly narrow bounds within which it is usually conducted.
This is an uncompromising, and in places bleak, book that puts the concept of social exclusion on a new plane of understanding. It challenges the reader to consider whether we are facing the end of the social as a space of human existence. Anyone who wants a new understanding of social exclusion, who is concerned with the impact of social disintegration on people and communities, and is committed to the struggle for a just society, should read it.
Of late analysis of social exclusion has been trapped by debilitating political and academic inertia. This book is a game-changer; it engages in stunningly acerbic analysis to re-catalyse critical debate regarding issues that policy-makers and society alike will ignore at their peril.
good book which explores the root cause of exclusion and helps student to think beyond. Sections of the book used to prepare lectures and student reading
A very impressive text. Thorough coverage of a great deal of information and thought provoking concepts.Writing style engages readers throughout.
I have had a skim read of the book and feel that it is really contemporary and answers a lot of policy questions of the present day. It is an interesting read and I can't wait to delve into it a bit more. However, it may be a little beyond undergraduates understanding so I will recommend this book to my students rather than make an essential text as I am sure some of my students will find it as interesting as I do.
This is an excellent book that highlights the key debates in society.
The book was well reviewed on CrimeTalk and it will make a welcome addition to my sociology of crime and deviance reading lists because of its contemporary and strong analysis of social exclusion.
Useful for generating discussion
Hardly any other criminologists have addressed the question of the end of the social with the range of creativity and imagination in today's epoch of the post-financial economic crash that Simon Winlow and Steve Hall can assemble. Rethinking Social Exclusion maps a precise route between and beyond the dual traditions of Europe - social exclusion as a phenomenon produced by the rise of neoliberalism - and the United States - social exclusion as an experience shaped by urban segregation.
Rethinking Social Exclusion is classic Winlow and Hall - bleak, brilliant and unmatched in the art of fundamentally rethinking crucial social issues in a way that is simultaneously enlightening and, at times, rather scary. They nail down and fundamentally reconstruct the concept of 'social exclusion' with such intellectual flair, originality and precision that we must now wonder why we haven't been thinking about it like this all along. This outstanding book is more than simply 'ground-breaking', it shakes the conceptual foundations of the social scientific discipline.
I had long regarded 'social exclusion' to be another zombie-concept, a notion so inflected with the ideological baggage of the discredited New Labour hegemonic project that it retained no analytic or political purchase whatsoever. This book has changed my mind. The 'rethinking' of the concept offered here is so fundamental and done with such theoretical verve that I am sure many others will be similarly convinced.
