Dangerous Encounters Genealogy and Ethnography

The Editors: Maria Tamboukou is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London and author of Women, Education and the Self: A Foucauldian Perspective. Her research interests are the sociology of gender and space, the exploration of Foucauldian analytics, and the use of auto/biographies in research. Writing genealogies is the main focus of her publications and current research work.
Stephen J. Ball is the Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of London, Institute of Education, where he is also Director of the Education Policy Research Unit. His books include The Micro-Politics of the School; Politics and Policymaking in Education; and Education Reform: A Critical and Post-Structural Approach. He edited the collection Foucault and Education, which has been translated into Spanish, Polish, and Japanese.