{"product_id":"class-place-and-higher-education-alexandra-coleman-9781350256217","title":"Class, Place, and Higher Education: Experiences of Homely Mobility","description":"Higher education is seen to be a means to \"the\" good life and is a dominant way societies distribute hope for social mobility. But does higher education deliver on its promise? This book attends to the hopes, experiences, and trajectories of working-class students and graduates from Western Sydney - an area that is imagined, from the outside, to be a place of lack and stagnation, the \"other\" Sydney. This book challenges the myth that participation in higher education necessarily leads to upward social mobility and traces how the rewards of higher education are unevenly distributed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It considers how visions of a good life are class differentiated and makes an argument for the significance of place when examining experiences of higher education. Rather than focus on university as a means to becoming middle class, \u003ci\u003eClass, Place, and Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003eexamines how university becomes a means to \"a\" good life, not \"the\" good life, a good life that is embedded in place, in working-class places like Western Sydney, and one that becomes more complex and ambivalent through the process of going to university.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through an attention to the existential and social dimensions of mobility, Alexandra Coleman develops the term \"homely mobility\" to describe the pull of people and place, and small-scale degrees of mobility in place - to a better street, the suburb next door, the university down the road. Structural inequalities are an embodied dimension of social being and action, and through the lens of homely mobility, this book affords insights into broader processes of social reproduction and transformation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexandra Coleman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350256218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350256217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Alexandra Coleman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44075589075199,"sku":"9781350256217","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_920ca61f-a6e5-4854-b29d-4206834f8d53.jpg?v=1685460317","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/class-place-and-higher-education-alexandra-coleman-9781350256217","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}