Negotiating cohesion, inequality and change

"Focusing on the how rather than the what, this incisive and challenging account explores community cohesion policy as practice, exploring how it is embedded in particular places and in the narratives and emotional biographies of its practitioners."---Professor Claire Alexander, University of Manchester. "Hannah Jones sympathetically and persuasively brings the politics of local government to life far beyond the mechanics of service delivery, showing how politicians and bureaucrats make up places as they make policy."---Allan Cochrane, The Open University. "This important book delivers fresh thinking on cohesion as a policy approach to complex, diverse communities. It elegantly extends our understandings of emotion and policy work and makes a significant contribution to public sociology debates."---Dr Sarah Neal, University of Surrey. "A beautifully written book that gets right to the heart of negotiations over community relations in contemporary Britain."---Ben Rogaly, University of Sussex. "This book provides an original and critical analysis with significant implications for public policy and will be essential reading for those concerned with cohesion, inequality and social change."---Marjorie Mayo, Emeritus Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London.