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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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Mothering and motherhood in academia
Can I be a good scientist and a good mother? This haunting question shapes the lives of many academic women. This book examines the double-lock linking maternity and academic careers in contemporary Italy: how motherhood—and even its anticipation—shapes recruitment, evaluation and stabilization,...
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Public policies for inclusive democracy
In an era dominated by technocratic debates about efficiency, effectiveness and the economy, the fundamental purposes of public policy are too often left unquestioned. This narrow focus risks obscuring the democratic and redistributive aims that give state action its legitimacy. Drawing on politi...
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Faith-based youth work
This book examines the experiences of young people and youth workers in Northern Ireland who are involved in Christian, faith-based youth work. It considers the purpose and distinctiveness of this work through the eyes of those actively engaged in it.
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Psycho-social methods in social work research
There is a growing interest in the use of psycho-social research methods but what is involved when researchers get up close and personal to human feelings, activities and interactions in a social work setting? This book brings together the work of academics, post-doctoral and doctoral researchers...
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Reversing the gaze
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Drawing on postcolonial and decolonial approaches, this volume investigates both the theoretical foundations and the practical challenges of 'reversing the gaze' as a strategy for re-orienting global knowledge production. It brings togethe...
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Beyond risk in adolescent safeguarding
From sexual violence within friendship groups to being groomed in community contexts for transporting drugs, extra-familial risks and harms continue to challenge traditional safeguarding approaches in the UK. These issues inhibit young people’s safety and well-being and reduce their opportunities...
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Managing and leading for social justice
This essential textbook prepares future managers and leaders to drive positive social change across non-profit, public and for-profit organizations. From experts in social justice-oriented management studies, chapters examine how effective management and leadership can tackle poverty, economic in...
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A feminist political economy of trade
Providing a comprehensive feminist political economy analysis of gender and global trade, this book challenges existing approaches to gender in global trade governance that prioritise market-based solutions to inequality. The authors reveal how the power dynamics shaping trade governance unfold o...
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Feminist urban policies and grassroots initiatives in latin america
This groundbreaking collection examines how feminist urbanism is transforming Latin American cities through innovative care policies and grassroots organizing. Drawing on cases from Mexico City, Bogotá, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and beyond, the book reveals how feminist activists, bureaucrats an...
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Comparative and international education
Navigate the complex landscape of Comparative and International Education (CIE) with this essential guide. Written by the GLACIER Collective, this comprehensive text covers fundamental topics whilst embracing the field's rich diversity and ongoing debates. Perfect for newcomers, whether students...
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Collaborative housing, ageing and social care
As ageing populations continue to grow worldwide, the increased need for adequate housing and social care comes into stark focus. This multi-disciplinary book explores how emerging citizen-led innovations in Collaborative Housing and care are challenging mainstream ways of living and ageing. Comb...
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African labour studies
This volume brings together established scholars and early-career researchers to foreground African contributions to labour studies. Spanning historical and contemporary developments, it examines youth employment, gendered labour, migration, informality, labour politics and emerging forms of work...
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Youth arts
Collaboration, critical thinking and cultural competency are essential skills that shape young people’s futures. These key skills are often cultivated in the informal, creative spaces that society easily overlooks. Drawing on the Australian Research Council and industry co-funded Vital Arts proj...
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The burnout cure
As a SME leader, there is a constant pressure to grow the business, but most of the time, it can feel like running to stand still. Feeling reactive and time pressured seem to be part of daily life. Unchecked this can lead to burnout which is an all-time high and still on the rise. In The Burnout ...
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Electoral disinformation
Across the globe, major concerns have been raised about how about the dissemination of false, inaccurate or misleading information is affecting elections. The phenomenon is posing a threat to voter trust and satisfaction, perceptions of electoral actors and voter turnout, vote choice and other fo...
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Resolving the workforce problem in health and social care services in europe
Europe’s health and social care systems are suffering from chronic staff shortages, rising inequalities and the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. These issues pose urgent questions about the sustainability and resilience of public services across the continent. This edited volume ...
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Unfolding coded artworks
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do we position ourselves in relation to our digital cultural heritage when every software update threatens its very survival? This book confronts the fragility of computer- and network-based art in an age of relentless technological ...
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Building peace for the pluriverse
Building Peace for the Pluriverse explores how Indigenous, Afrocolombian, Black, Palenquero, Raizal, and Rrom activists in Colombia reshape state-led peacebuilding by challenging coloniality in peacebuilding and asserting ancestral epistemologies and worldings. The book traces activists’ efforts...
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Access to justice, health inequalities and poverty
After over a decade of unprecedented cuts, this important book examines the radical transformation of legal advice funding and delivery in the UK. Using Liverpool as a case study, the authors analyse the impact of these changes on access to justice, social rights and health inequalities. The boo...
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Transforming education for sustainable futures
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines how education can drive change for marginalized communities across the Global South. Drawing on evidence from 67 projects in India, Rwanda, Somaliland/Somalia and South Africa, the book shows how education can expand yo...
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Libraries, archives and collective grief
Libraries and archives are liminal spaces between what once was and what might be remembered. This edited collection explores this dynamic through international case studies, theoretical discussions and practical guidance, considering how these spaces activate moments of grief through preservatio...
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Queer migration and european colonial bordering
The governance of queer migration and asylum in Europe has been shaped by colonial legacies of racial, sexual, and gendered othering. Central to these legacies is the demand - reproduced in humanitarianism and beyond - that queer migrants render their private lives visible to receive hospitality,...
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Another dawn
What happens when a long-dominant world order begins to shift and new centres of power arise to take its place? Another Dawn charts the acceleration towards an increasingly multipolar system, examining how geopolitical realignment, decolonization debates and the growing influence of Global South...
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Negotiating global crisis in everyday life
This book explores the multifaceted social, political, and ethical dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic through longitudinal research in 22 European and Latin American countries. It offers a novel, bottom-up perspective on crisis emerging from the SolPan(+) project.
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Policy analysis in india
What drives policy choices in the world’s largest democracy, and how do analysts shape decisions that affect more than a billion people? Bringing together leading scholars and seasoned practitioners, Policy Analysis in India maps the evolution of policy analysis since the country became independe...
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Working with values in organizations
Many contemporary organizations claim to be “values-led”. But what is the role of these values, where do they come from and how they are enacted in practice? Humphrey Bourne helps leaders and managers navigate values from inception to incorporation. Exploring the tensions between the values champ...
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Childhood and governance
This edited volume offers in-depth analyses of childhood as a social technology of governance. Contributions explore the ways in which dominant ideas about childhood bear on governance in a range of specific contexts, spanning the personal, the local and the global. Each chapter reveals importan...
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Council tax and wider property taxation reform
For decades, British housing taxation has fuelled inequality, distorted housing markets and undermined local government finance. This urgent book makes the case for clear, evidence-based reform. A multi-disciplinary analysis of the problems generated by Council Tax and stamp duty, this book stre...
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Making co-production sustainable
Public services increasingly rely on co-production to tackle complex social challenges, yet many initiatives struggle to endure beyond short-term success. Making Co-production Sustainable bridges the gap between academic theory and real-world implementation, offering a comprehensive roadmap for ...
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Integrating restorative justice
Restorative justice (RJ) has become a vital part of responses to crime and harm across the world, yet its potential extends far beyond the criminal justice system. This pioneering book explores how RJ is being embedded across whole-country systems, from policing, education and healthcare to socia...
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Geographies of poverty in china
Critically examining China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation campaign, this book challenges the dominant narrative of a complete victory over poverty. Drawing on extensive fieldwork across multiple provinces, it examines how the Chinese state conceptualizes and acts upon poverty as a technical, de-p...
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Transdisciplinary approaches in social work
A critical, decolonial exploration of transdisciplinary social work, this book brings together global scholars and practitioners to connect grassroots justice movements, Indigenous knowledges and academic activism. In doing so, it reimagines education and practice for transformative social change.
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Credibility assessment in queer asylum cases
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Across many jurisdictions in the Global North, lack of credibility is the primary basis for rejecting sexual orientation, gender identity/expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) asylum applications. This edited collection examines how...
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Stakeholders in modern cities
This book examines how stakeholder theory can inform urban governance in an era of rapid change, sustainability challenges and digital innovation. Combining theoretical and practical insights, it explores how power dynamics, engagement strategies and decision-making processes shape modern cities....
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Situating and safeguarding young people in the caribbean
This interdisciplinary collection draws on the insights of poets, academics, policy makers and practitioners to offer new ways of understanding and responding to the social, psychological and structural challenges facing Caribbean youth today. Using decolonial and social ecological frameworks, t...
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