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Foucault and Aging (2006, Nova Science Press, New York). He also serves on several
editorial boards notably Sociological Research On-Line and Journal of Sociology and Social
Welfare. His current work focuses on understanding relationship of discourse and sub-
jectivity to performance of ageing identity in public spaces.

Derek Robbins is Professor of International Social Theory in the School of Social
Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London where he also
is Director of the Group for the Study of International Social Science. He is the author
of The Work of Pierre Bourdieu (1991) and of Bourdieu and Culture (2000); the editor of
two 4-volume collections of articles on Bourdieu in the Sage Masters of Contemporary
Social Thought series (2000 and 2005) and of a 3-volume collection of articles on
Lyotard in the same series (2004). His On Bourdieu, Education and Society was published
by Bardwell Press in July, 2006, and he was the editor of the special number of Theory,
Culture and Society on Bourdieu (23, 6, November, 2006). He is currently writing The
Internationalization of French Social Thought, 1950–2000 for publication by Sage.

Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology & Culture at Nottingham Trent University. His
most recent books are Celebrity (2001), Stuart Hall (2003), Frank Sinatra (2004) and
Leisure Theory: Principles and Practice (2005).

John Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, having previously been
Professor at the University of Leicester. Specialising in social stratification, economic
sociology, and social theory, his most recent books include Power (Polity Press, 2001),
the Oxford Dictionary of Sociology (editor, Oxford University Press), and Sociology (with James
Fulcher, Third Edition, Oxford University Press, 2007), and he has edited Sociology: The
Key Concepts, Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists, and Fifty Key Sociologists: The
Contemporary Theorists (Routledge, 2007).With Sage he has published Social Theory:
Central Issues in Sociology (2006).

Nick Stevenson is a Reader in Cultural Sociology at the University of Nottingham. His
recent publications include Understanding Media Cultures (2002) for Sage, Cultural
Citizenship (2003) for Open University Press and more recently David Bowie (2006) for
Polity Press. He is currently working on the question of European identity in the con-
text of cultural and political change.

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