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Palgrave Studies in Professional and Organizational Discourse

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Discourses of Deficit

Published 1 January 2010
Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances. The book offers examples of how adopting multiple perspectives on research can provide a rich explanatory analysis of the construct of 'deficit' in a range of domains.