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.

MICHELLE ALDRIDGE Cardiff University, UK MATS ALVESSON Lund University, Sweden and University of Queensland, Australia ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG Edith Cowan University, Australia ANDREW BENGRY-HOWELL University of Bath, UK SALLY CANDLIN Macquarie University, Australia MARIANNE GROVE DITLEVSEN Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark EDITH ESCH University of Cambridge, UK ALISON FERGUSON University of Newcastle, Australia ARTHUR S FIRKINS Macquarie University, Australia CHRISTINE GRIFFIN University of Bath, UK CHRIS HACKLEY Royal Holloway, University of London, UK CHRISTOPHER HALL Durham University, UK RODNEY JONES City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong PETER KASTBERG Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark TINA KOCH University of Surrey, UK DANA KOVARSKY University of Rhode Island, USA JUNE LUCHJENBROERS Bangor University, Wales, UK JENNIFER MACFARLANE University of Melbourne, Australia LENORE MANDERSON Monash University, Australia TIM MCNAMARA University of Melbourne, Australia WILLM MISTRAL University of Bath, UK LYNNE MORTENSEN Macquarie University, Australia ANGELA SCARINO University of South Australia, Australia THOMAS SCHEFFER Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany STEF SLEMBROUCK Gent University, Belgium LESLEY STIRLING University of Melbourne, Australia STEFAN SVENINGSSON Lund University, Sweden ISABELLE SZMIGIN University of Birmingham, UK IRENE WALSH Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland MICHAEL WALSH University of Sydney, Australia