Tom Henri

http://tomhenri.blogspot.com Social work lecturer and sociology PhD student A brief abstract of my doctoral research:This thesis utilises the lens of critical theory to examine the impact of the policies and practice of emerging framework of community cohesion on young people in East Leeds with regard to the lived experience of racial hostility and racial victimisation. By problematising the policy paradigm in this way, this paper considers the influence of socio-economic factors and related public policy in constructing racial difference and therefore reinforcing young people’s racial hostility and the concomitant potential for racial violence.