ABSTRACT
This volume is concerned with the social contexts of interaction, and related issues
of theory and practice, explanation and justification. Many of the contributions
here are focused on the face-to-face relationships of individuals, as practitioners
with service-users, offenders, clients and so forth. This chapter aims to explore the
same range of issues, but with respect to a different set of problems, concerning the
relationship of different social groups within the specific historical and geographical
context provided by the city of Bradford in West Yorkshire, UK over the past few
years. It thus focuses on the collective dimensions of experience, and deals with
some issues that are directly political.
