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Radical empathy
Structural racism has impacted the lives of African Americans in the United States since before the country’s founding. Although the country has made some progress towards a more equal society, political developments in the 21st century have shown that deep divides remain. The persistence of ineq...
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Out of control
Dyke uses a planetary perspective on the sustainability challenges we face to think about human civilization in a new way, providing a clear route to a flourishing future for humanity.
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Whistleblowing and retaliation in the united nations
The United Nations aims to maintain international peace and security, while protecting human rights and upholding international law. However, United Nations whistleblowers over the years have revealed deep dysfunction within the organisation. This illuminating book combines first-hand accounts o...
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Apocalypse capitalism
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? Drawing on extensive archival research in the UK and the US, this book uncovers how Cold War planners planned to keep capitalism alive even after a nuclear apocalyp...
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Women and political participation
This book explores the gendered effects of devolution and its ramifications in terms of new institutionalism, social movement theory and ideas of social justice and political citizenship. The authors expand upon research from central and local government in Wales and situate it in a wider context...
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Personalisation in public services
What happens when public services get personal? From healthcare to criminal justice, policy makers increasingly champion tailored and individualised approaches. Digital advances have helped forge these ambitions into reality, yet the promises of greater efficiency, better outcomes and meaningful ...
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Transforming society 2e
Social work and welfare services are being transformed in the wake of political and economic upheaval and increasing social inequality. This fully updated text enables students to relate sociology to daily lives and shows how structural factors impact upon social work service users and profession...
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Digital solidarity economy in latin america
Could digital platforms be more than just apps for short-term gigs and on-demand jobs? This book shows how the digital solidarity economy offers a bold alternative, where cooperation, fairness and sustainability reshape work and technology. Through Latin American case studies, it uncovers innov...
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Carceral arts
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This interdisciplinary collection examines the thriving world of arts and creativity within prisons and other sites of confinement, revealing the complex terrain of ‘carceral aesthetics’. Set within environments marked by repression, cont...
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The good business school
What makes a ‘good’ business school amid culture wars, inequality, and rising right-wing populism? This book argues that business schools cannot hide behind technocratic or scholarly neutrality. As social impact and stakeholder capitalism moved from boardrooms into lecture theatres, they became l...
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Disability, education and international development
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can the international development community better support inclusive education for children with disabilities in low and lower-middle income countries? This timely book critically examines current approaches to disability and educatio...
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Creative value chains
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Creative industries are increasingly dominated by digital platforms, yet the distribution of value within these sectors, from music and video games to visual arts, remains deeply unequal. Recent examples include the remuneration of artist...
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Policy expertise in times of crisis
Governments are often confronted with crises beyond their control. This book examines the relationship between policy advisory experts and political decision-makers in these critical moments, offering fresh insights into how power and expertise intersect.
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Safeguarding boys and young men from child criminal exploitation
Safeguarding policy on child criminal exploitation (CCE) offers growing protections for both girls and boys, yet significant limitations persist. For boys and young men, this often includes being suspected as perpetrators, leaving many experiencing CCE – particularly those from marginalised and m...
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Legal education in the classroom
Can children master legal concepts while having fun? This innovative book explores two groundbreaking educational initiatives which bring legal education to primary schools across the UK and Ireland. It uniquely draws upon the fields of Law and Education to present best practice in engaging child...
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Youth work
Youth and community work is a long-contested profession which has been challenged and required to adapt in order to address social and political priorities. ‘Open access’ youth work – which is informal, youth-centred and open-ended – has faced the most criticism in favour of target-driven approac...
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Global perspectives on youth arts programs
How do young people develop through youth arts programs and how can these programs reflect and extend young people’s personal interests? How can youth arts support participatory democracy and social change? Frances Howard puts forward a powerful case for the value of youth arts programs, whilst ...
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A care manifesto for the early years
Amid increasing policy and funding pressures, and a dangerously overstretched workforce, the early years sector in the UK is facing a profound crisis. A focus on education at the expense of care has contributed to the complexities of childcare practice being overlooked and undervalued. Drawin...
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Social policy review 38
In the latest volume of the long-established Social Policy Review series, leading experts critically assess key developments and debates in social and public policy over the past year. Offering a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary issues – including labour market transitions, migrant experi...
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The dynamics of young fatherhood
Around 1 in 10 children born in the UK are fathered by men under the age of 25. These men are often from socially disadvantaged areas and frequently overlooked in both research and practice settings. Using findings from a major Economic and Social Research Council study, supplemented with additio...
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The children of looked after children
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Based on groundbreaking original research, this book provides a comprehensive account of the issues surrounding pregnancy and parenthood for young people in and leaving care. Featuring the voices of care-experienced parents, together wi...
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Diverse voices in intellectual property law
This book explores intellectual property’s underexamined relationship with marginalised communities. Drawing on diverse disciplines, it integrates perspectives on race, gender, religion and disability across core IP areas, challenging claims of neutrality and bringing these perspectives into focus.
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Ai in higher education
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping university learning, both challenging and empowering educators and students. Covering the history, technology, ethics and educational applications of AI, this book provides concrete examples of how students and teachers are already integrating these tools in mea...
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Health for all
This book advances an argument for global health justice: a just world in which everyone, regardless of nationality or place of birth, has genuine opportunities to be healthy. It presents a comprehensive vision of health equity beyond borders, which takes seriously the complex reality of global ...
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Tea and the queen?
The Government has named the ‘fundamental British values’ (FBV) as democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths. Since 2014, teachers in England have been required to promote these values in schools to all pupils. What are the imp...
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Colonial legacies and global inequalities in the anglo-caribbean
In the face of enduring global inequalities and colonial legacies, social scientists in the Anglo-Caribbean navigate complex challenges in their research and career-making. This book reveals how academics in the Global South negotiate global asymmetries in their daily work. Through fieldwork and ...
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Managing trauma in the workplace
People who have experienced trauma can often find it challenging to talk about it and to seek support from their workplaces when needed. Managing Trauma in the Workplace brings together expert advice from industry and academia to address the gap for organisations and decision-makers in understand...
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Belonging and belongings
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Based on in-depth fieldwork with Belgian children aged 10 to 16, this book examines how children in shared physical custody define and negotiate their place within the household of each parent. The authors analyse how family practices wit...
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Reimagining voluntary sector leadership
The voluntary sector plays a crucial role in shaping place, and is in turn shaped by that context, yet this ‘place leadership’ role has been underexplored in research. This interdisciplinary book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine this intriguing phenomenon in different...
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Deconstructing anti-trans politics
This book offers a sociological analysis of organized transphobia, examining its strategies, historical and social roots, and implications for trans liberation, while fostering solidarity between marginalized groups and challenging conventional thinking about anti-trans activism and prejudice-bas...
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Relational degrowth
How can humanity navigate the environmental crisis beyond the pursuit of economic growth? Drawing on diverse philosophical and political traditions and from ecological economics to environmental social sciences, this book offers a bold alternative: relational degrowth, which recognises people, co...
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The moralizing corporation
Over the past two decades corporations have increasingly used crises to portray themselves as institutions that fundamentally care about people and the planet, not just private wealth. Deploying ‘carewashing’ to moralize operations, they seek to obscure the social, political and environmental dam...
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Barriers of belief
Muslims face barriers in labour markets across Western democracies, but how severe are these penalties and do they vary by national or local context? Comparing the latest census data across Muslim communities, majority populations and other religious minorities from the UK, Australia and Canada,...
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Knowing digital technologies
AI, quantum computing, big data and digital twins are transforming how we understand and produce knowledge in the social sciences. What are the implications of such technologies for what we know - and how we know it? This book explores these critical questions, examining the epistemology of the ...
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Community development theories
This book is grounded in Afrocentric community development theoretical framing and perspectives. It curates nuanced perspectives, experiences and case studies to anchor the discipline and practice in traditional worldviews, values, and knowledge systems that draw on ubuntu-based interconnectednes...
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