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My ethnographic research examines how language and literacy practices mediate social and power relations in literacy events. My recent research brings theoretical perspectives from critical geography to examine the spatiality of literacy in a global information economy. I recently edited a second edition of Literacy as Snake Oil: Beyond the Quick Fix (Lang, 2007). I am co-editor of Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy (Sage, 2003), which provides an overview of contemporary research into early childhood literacy. In Making Literacy Real: Theories and Practices in Learning and Teaching (2005) Jackie Marsh and I explore the breadth of the complex and important field of literacy studies, orientating literacy as a social practice grounded in social, cultural, historical, and political contexts. The book also presents a detailed and accessible discussion of the theories presented and their application in the primary classroom.Specialties: Ethnography, literacy