All Outputs (2)

Creating 'Opportunity for All'? New Labour, new localism and the opportunity society (2006)
Journal Article
Ellison, N., & Ellison, S. (2006). Creating 'Opportunity for All'? New Labour, new localism and the opportunity society. Social Policy and Society, 5(3), 337-348. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746406003022

Since coming to office, New Labour has made much of a ‘public philosophy’ that stresses the importance of equal access to opportunities. This article does not so much criticise this fairly modest understanding of social justice as ask whether the kin... Read More about Creating 'Opportunity for All'? New Labour, new localism and the opportunity society.

Sorting Places Out? Towards a Social Politics of Neighbourhood Informatization (2004)
Journal Article
Burrows, R., & Ellison, N. (2004). Sorting Places Out? Towards a Social Politics of Neighbourhood Informatization. Information, Communication and Society, 7(3), 321-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118042000284588

This paper examines some of the possible consequences of the introduction of online Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the social politics of neighbourhoods and the public sphere more generally. Summarizing a number of recent theorizations of... Read More about Sorting Places Out? Towards a Social Politics of Neighbourhood Informatization.