This work contributes to teachers' and academic researchers' understanding of the varied and complex ways inclusion and exclusion can be understood. It provides a lucid, coherent analysis into the nature of categorization, labeling and discursive practices within official discourse and procedures as well as the positional relationships between space, place and identities in relation to the experience of marginalized people including disabled pupils and young people.

Researching the Practices and Processes of Policy Making.- Space, Place and Policy Making: Developing a Theoretical Framework.- Process, Practice and Emotion: Researching Policy and Space within a Cross-Cultural Framework.- The History of Special Education: Humanitarian Rationality or 'Wild Profusion of Entangled Events'?.- Space, Place and Exclusion: Constructing Alternative Histories.- Four Settings: Dividing Spaces.- Discourse, Power and Policy Making: Uncovering the Politics of Social Practice in England.- Landscapes of Naming and Placing: Structures and Practices of Selection and Sorting in France.- Conclusion: Space, Place and the Production of the Other.