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Over the past thirty years, the United Kingdom's poor have become increasingly stigmatised, while many poor communities have become the subject of great public concern and media scorn. In this book, Lisa McKenzie offers rare insight into life in one of these neighbourhoods, St Ann's Estate...
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Policy Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Bristol, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Over the past thirty years, the United Kingdom's poor have become increasingly stigmatised, while many poor communities have become the subject of great public concern and media scorn. In this book, Lisa McKenzie offers rare insight into life in one of these neighbourhoods, St Ann's Estate in Nottingham. Notorious for containing many of the city's gangs, guns, and drugs, the area is also known as the place where the unemployed and the feckless take up as long-term residents. As a former inhabitant of St Ann's, McKenzie is able to delve into a community often wary of outsiders, providing an i |
| Item Description: | Lisa Mckenzie has lived on the notorious St Ann's estate in Nottingha. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781447309956 (paperback) : 1447309952 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | HT133 |
| CLC: | C912.81-156.1 |
| Call Number: | C912.81-156.1/M156 |