Deborah Chambers is a Reader in Sociology of Culture and Communication, Department of English and Media Studies, at Nottingham Trent University. My research interests focus on the ways in which the mobility of individuals, goods and ideas is reshaping the world. Most of the work I have done so far has focused on how people experience and negotiate globalisation, especially as they move as gendered workers in sectors where the ′knowledge′ of global knowledge societies is embodied and embedded: sectors such as medicine, education and the IT sector. The mobility and meanings of goods is an area I have explored in my work on Asian women and fashion. In the future I would like to examine how these mobilities are underlain by ideas such as developmentalism in order to explore how they reproduce, alter and challenge gendered subjectivities of migrants. My key concern here is to understand the implications of these ways of thinking for class and race politics and the ways in which postcolonial theory can provide a route into such thinking. Alongside these issues I have also kept up an interest in methodological and epistemological issues.

• SECTION IIntroductionCultural Studies and the Study of CultureDisciplines and Dialogues Multiplying MethodsFrom Pluralism to CombinationMethod and the Researching SelfThe Research Process: Moments and Strategies SECTION IITheory in the Practice of ResearchMake Space! Spatial Dimensions in Cultural ResearchTime Please! Historical PerspectivesCulture, Power and the EconomicSECTION IIIIntroductionReading Popular NarrativesFrom Structure to ContextReading Texts of/for DominanceReading Fictions, Reading HistoriesSECTION IV Introduction MeetingsResearching OthersFrom Auto/Biography to EthnographyRepresenting the OtherInterpretation and Cultural ReadingsIntegrating Methods: From Audiences to Subjectivities

This book is outstanding- I have found students (at MA & beginning PhD level) are inspired by its creative approach and helped by guidelines on structure; not many books do both!

Deborah Chambers is a Reader in Sociology of Culture and Communication, Department of English and Media Studies, at Nottingham Trent University. My research interests focus on the ways in which the mobility of individuals, goods and ideas is reshaping the world. Most of the work I have done so far has focused on how people experience and negotiate globalisation, especially as they move as gendered workers in sectors where the ′knowledge′ of global knowledge societies is embodied and embedded: sectors such as medicine, education and the IT sector. The mobility and meanings of goods is an area I have explored in my work on Asian women and fashion. In the future I would like to examine how these mobilities are underlain by ideas such as developmentalism in order to explore how they reproduce, alter and challenge gendered subjectivities of migrants. My key concern here is to understand the implications of these ways of thinking for class and race politics and the ways in which postcolonial theory can provide a route into such thinking. Alongside these issues I have also kept up an interest in methodological and epistemological issues.

• SECTION IIntroductionCultural Studies and the Study of CultureDisciplines and Dialogues Multiplying MethodsFrom Pluralism to CombinationMethod and the Researching SelfThe Research Process: Moments and Strategies SECTION IITheory in the Practice of ResearchMake Space! Spatial Dimensions in Cultural ResearchTime Please! Historical PerspectivesCulture, Power and the EconomicSECTION IIIIntroductionReading Popular NarrativesFrom Structure to ContextReading Texts of/for DominanceReading Fictions, Reading HistoriesSECTION IV Introduction MeetingsResearching OthersFrom Auto/Biography to EthnographyRepresenting the OtherInterpretation and Cultural ReadingsIntegrating Methods: From Audiences to Subjectivities

This book is outstanding- I have found students (at MA & beginning PhD level) are inspired by its creative approach and helped by guidelines on structure; not many books do both!

Deborah Chambers is a Reader in Sociology of Culture and Communication, Department of English and Media Studies, at Nottingham Trent University. My research interests focus on the ways in which the mobility of individuals, goods and ideas is reshaping the world. Most of the work I have done so far has focused on how people experience and negotiate globalisation, especially as they move as gendered workers in sectors where the ′knowledge′ of global knowledge societies is embodied and embedded: sectors such as medicine, education and the IT sector. The mobility and meanings of goods is an area I have explored in my work on Asian women and fashion. In the future I would like to examine how these mobilities are underlain by ideas such as developmentalism in order to explore how they reproduce, alter and challenge gendered subjectivities of migrants. My key concern here is to understand the implications of these ways of thinking for class and race politics and the ways in which postcolonial theory can provide a route into such thinking. Alongside these issues I have also kept up an interest in methodological and epistemological issues.

• SECTION IIntroductionCultural Studies and the Study of CultureDisciplines and Dialogues Multiplying MethodsFrom Pluralism to CombinationMethod and the Researching SelfThe Research Process: Moments and Strategies SECTION IITheory in the Practice of ResearchMake Space! Spatial Dimensions in Cultural ResearchTime Please! Historical PerspectivesCulture, Power and the EconomicSECTION IIIIntroductionReading Popular NarrativesFrom Structure to ContextReading Texts of/for DominanceReading Fictions, Reading HistoriesSECTION IV Introduction MeetingsResearching OthersFrom Auto/Biography to EthnographyRepresenting the OtherInterpretation and Cultural ReadingsIntegrating Methods: From Audiences to Subjectivities

This book is outstanding- I have found students (at MA & beginning PhD level) are inspired by its creative approach and helped by guidelines on structure; not many books do both!