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Making freelance work
Over 80% of practitioners in the UK arts sector work on a freelance basis. While freelancing offers scope for autonomy and creative freedom, it is also characterized by widespread precarity, low pay, long hours and systemic inequalities. Funding cuts and recent challenges have only intensified th...
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Children, poverty and education
Educational inequality is not an unfortunate inescapable by-product of poverty, but the predictable outcome of long-standing policy failure. Combining rigorous critique with cautious optimism, this timely book identifies the political, fiscal and educational pathways through which entrenched ineq...
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The power of place-based leadership in social value creation
This book explores the role of leadership in shaping places and driving sustainable urban and regional development. Moving beyond the traditional organisational focus of leadership studies, it uses inspiring case studies to show how place-based leadership can become more attuned to local needs, a...
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Incarcerated juveniles in ghana
This book presents a rare ethnographic account of young people’s experiences within Ghana’s custodial and correctional institutions. From an actor-oriented perspective and grounded in fieldwork and interviews, it uncovers how juvenile and young offenders navigate and resist the corrective intenti...
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The labour government and social policy
In 2024, following years of austerity, political instability and external shocks including Brexit, COVID-19 and the cost-of-living crisis, the Labour Party was voted into power in the UK. This book is the first in-depth analysis of the Labour government from a social policy perspective. Through e...
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Aging and climate change
Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Climate change is transforming the lives of older people, who face increased risks from extreme heat, climate-related disasters, air pollution and shifting disease patterns. This groundbreaking volume examines why older adults are disp...
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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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The battles to save the nhs
Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. NHS activism sits at the heart of some of the most urgent political struggles in Britain today. Drawing on rich ethnographic insight, this book depicts the NHS as both a public service and a powerful moral reference point. It follows ca...
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Sri lanka and the international financial system
This book traces Sri Lanka’s engagement with international financial actors from a unique vantage point: as a small country in the global South that previously attempted to achieve self-sufficiency, Sri Lanka's experience exposes the contradictions within the international financial system. The a...
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Postcolonial education and development in peripheral malaysia
This book offers a compelling examination of Malaysia's ambitious ‘60:40 policy’ which prioritises science education as a pathway to national development. Drawing on personal narratives and rural experiences, including the author's own family stories, this ethnographically rich study reveals how ...
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Generative justice
This edited collection explores the concept of Generative Justice and how it might help us reimagine conventional responses to crime and state punishment. With case studies from the Global North and South, it offers insights into how, within different cultural contexts, justice-involved people fi...
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Labouring women
Offering a powerful critique of contemporary visions of women’s empowerment, this book traces the shift from its radical feminist roots to a market-driven model of inclusion. Focusing on Southeast Asia, where women’s labour has long underpinned economic growth, it examines how empowerment projec...
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The consequences of unfinished institutions
This book examines the shifting dynamics of global trade governance in an era of uncertainty. Michael Sampson introduces a new framework to explain why rising powers like China have favoured flexible, low-detail agreements, while relatively declining powers such as Japan seek comprehensive deals ...
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The emotions of social workers
Emotions are central to our humanity and yet, when it comes to social work, the experiences of joy are often forgotten or overlooked, while ‘difficult’ emotions like shame, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness are often dismissed as unprofessional. This groundbreaking book challenges the taboo aroun...
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Black women academics at the intersections
Black women academics often navigate higher education systems that render them hyper(in)visible or intellectually disposable. This book explores their experiences in British and postcolonial British Caribbean universities, drawing on intersectional frameworks and qualitative research. Through in...
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The formation of legal consciousness
Everyday encounters with law, including securing access to public services, navigating workplaces, exercising rights or avoiding unwanted legal consequences, are rarely straightforward. We still know too little about how people actually ‘get things done’ both formal informal ways, and how these i...
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Local government and the territorial constitution
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As devolution transforms governance across the UK, local authorities face unprecedented challenges in delivering services whilst managing severe budgetary constraints. This book investigates and provides insights into how local government...
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The heyday of the empire-system
This volume charts the rise and fall of a distinct empire-system in the period between the end of the Crimean War in 1856 and the Bandung Conference in the 1955. The Heyday of the Empire System argues that the late 19th and early 20th centuries were defined by the coexistence, competition and hy...
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Rural heritage
This book offers the first comprehensive study of heritage crime in rural contexts, focusing on a broad range of international case studies. From vandalism and illegal treasure-seeking to the erosion of cultural traditions, it examines both legally defined crimes and broader harms to tangible and...
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Time, politics and place
Time, Politics and Place critically explores time as a political and strategic resource shaping urban governance, planning processes and planning system reform across the UK and Europe. Bringing together leading researchers, it demonstrates how time has been undervalued in spatial planning and ad...
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Global workers and entangled crises
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The early 2020s brought a torrent of disruptions – COVID-19, war-amplified inflation and migration blockages – that reshaped global labour in uneven and deeply unequal ways. Across the Global North and South, vulnerable workers faced dete...
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Transitions
We all go through transitions in life: some are small and seemingly mundane, while others are big and more obviously life changing. In everyday life, we talk about transitions without thinking too much about the term. Offering a clear, concept-led framework, this book provides a fresh way of und...
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Understanding the complexity of pacing in long covid
For millions with Long Covid and energy-limiting conditions, pacing is not self-care; it is survival. While most research focuses on causes and treatments, this book examines the overlooked long of Long Covid and its many temporal disruptions. Drawing on complex realism and thousands of social me...
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Singled out: single parent discrimination and what to do about it
In this powerful exposé, single parent campaigner and policy expert Ruth Talbot weaves together statistics, real life stories and policy analysis to reveal the true extent of single parent discrimination in Britain today. Drawing on new research, interviews and her own lived experience, Talbot d...
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Girlhoods and social action
Working-class girls make vital contributions to society through social action, yet their efforts are too often rendered invisible or unrecognised. Girlhoods and Social Action confronts the persistent inequalities shaping participation, revealing how intersecting power relations related to gender,...
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How to be an anticapitalist city
How do we find new ways of urban being and doing? This edited collection explores how global capitalism has shaped cities into sites of inequality, precarity and alienation—spaces designed to serve profit rather than people. Drawing on diverse examples, the book analyses how urban life is failing...
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Modi and india’s invented traditions
India’s official nationalism has been reshaped under Narendra Modi’s leadership, with national traditions recast to align with his political vision. The modification of existing rituals, introduction of new commemorative events and promotion of museums and historical references in political speec...
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Navigating stigma
This edited volume brings together first person accounts from scholars, activists and policy workers who have directly navigated the stigmas attached to being labeled a so-called ‘criminal offender’ or ‘victim’. Using reflexive, phenomenological analysis of autoethnographic stories, the collectio...
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Precarity and parenthood
This book traces the lives of an emigrant Moroccan couple and their eight France-born children over several years. Through interviews with the family and others in their social world, it shows the power of life-story narratives to reveal true lived experience and social context.
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Agonistic transitional justice and the pursuit of post-liberal peace
The liberal approach to transitional justice and peacebuilding has been widely critiqued for its shallow approach to gendered inclusion and inattention to local context, yet has historically remained dominant. This book puts forward an alternative framework: agonistic transitional justice. Agonis...
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The reactionary web
Digital platforms have become a critical stage for far-right movements in the US. This book shows how white nationalist networks, including the Alt-Right, exploit the Internet’s openness and techno-publicity to spread ideology, organize and maintain visibility online. Analyzing interfaces, websit...
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Communities and urban regeneration in the uk
Community control can be a powerful means of limiting the injustices of gentrification and allowing more socially just regeneration to take place. The book is about how we can make and retain places and community assets for people, rather than for capital, and the real-world policy interventions ...
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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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Breaking up with birth control
An essential resource for women navigating their own reproductive healthcare and making decisions as active participants with fully informed consent Women are staging a reproductive rebellion. For decades, public health has organised reproduction around a simple premise: women should prevent preg...
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Precarious citizenship in brexit britain
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What happens when the promise of European free movement collides with the realities of neoliberal governance in Brexit Britain? This timely study examines the experiences of racialised Roma EU citizens in the UK, focusing on Sheffield an...
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Breaking down barriers to rights for unaccompanied children in migration
Although there is no precise figure reflecting the number of children on the move globally, almost 400,000 unaccompanied children applied for asylum in Europe between 2014 and 2024. As ‘foreign’ children without families or caregivers, this group are often racialised and dehumanised and face uniq...
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Time pressures in contemporary society
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Feeling constantly rushed isn’t only your problem - it’s a social issue. This book examines how societal norms, the disappearance of collective rhythms and constant connectivity create chronic time pressure. Combining international compar...
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Ecologies of security
In a time of climate breakdown, everyday security is shaped as much by ecological degradation as by familiar forms of disorder. Drawing on two research encounters with a northern English town, set 25 years apart, this book reveals how local concerns about chronic environmental damage blur the bou...
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Unarmed civilian self-protection and peacebuilding in cameroon’s ‘anglophone’ conflict
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book reveals how communities protect themselves when external support is absent. Drawing on participatory research from Cameroon's conflict zones, the authors document the remarkable agency and creativity of conflict-affected civili...
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Cohabitants and the european court of human rights
This book examines the development, or lack thereof, of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in cases involving cohabitants. Cohabitation is increasingly common across Council of Europe member states, yet cohabitants are typically treated less favourably than spouses or civil partners,...
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The data politics of housing, property and planning
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This groundbreaking book is the first to put housing, property and planning data at the centre of critical analysis. While such data shape key decisions about housing and urban development, little attention has been paid to the politics a...
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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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