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Hostility by design
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Technologies are not created hostile, but they can become so. Through neglect, austerity or repurposing, the systems that shape our lives can cause profound harm to people, animals, and physical and social environments in ways their creat...
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Hegel, tragedy and international relations
This book offers a reintroduction of Hegelian philosophy to International Relations (IR) theory. Moving beyond conventional realist and constructivist interpretations, Gkoutzioulis draws on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Encyclopedia, Philosophy of Right and analysis of ancient Greek tragedy to...
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Women politicians online
Women Politicians Online examines the complex relationship between gender, politics and digital media, focusing on how women politicians both navigate and are shaped by online platforms. Taking a mixed methods approach, the book examines the disproportionate hostility women politicians face onlin...
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Why research leadership matters
What makes some research teams thrive while others falter – even when talent and funding are comparable? Why Research Leadership Matters is the first focused, extensive and evidence-based analysis of research leadership – what it is, why it matters and how it can be fostered. Moving beyond manage...
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Too much news
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. We live in an age of relentless information. The news pings, scrolls and streams into every corner of daily life and for many of us, it has simply become too much. This book explores the growing phenomenon of news saturation: why ordinary...
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Feminist machine learning
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Machine learning shapes what we see, know and decide, yet the processes through which it operates often remain obscure. This bold and original book brings feminist theories of knowledge into direct dialogue with algorithmic systems desig...
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In the aftermath of empire
In the Aftermath of Empire examines the impact of colonial lawfare on embodied, gendered subjects across Ireland, India and Pakistan, countries that are all shaped by British imperial rule. By giving voice to queer and trans legal subjects, the book examines the impact of colonial laws on the ma...
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Unearthing stevia’s promise
What can one small, powerfully sweet plant reveal about the future of our food? This book unearths the story of one of the world’s favourite ‘natural’ sugar substitutes—following Stevia’s journey from Indigenous medicine to cash crop to the frontier of lab-grown biotechnology. As corporations rac...
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Reclaiming utopia in international relations
Bringing together a diverse list of contributors from Europe, Australia and North America, this book challenges conventional wisdom about utopian thinking in International Relations. The volume demonstrates how utopian thinking has shaped a range of IR theories through its resolutely realistic fo...
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The mental health of care-experienced children and young people
Care-experienced children and young people are nearly five times more likely than their peers to experience mental health difficulties, with close to half meeting criteria for a diagnosable disorder. Social workers play a central role in improving the mental health of care-experienced children an...
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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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Understanding intersectional agency
Grounded in phenomenological conversations with feminist activists in São Paulo, this book develops a pioneering theory of ‘intersectional agency’, revealing how privilege, disadvantage and cognitive, moral and emotive elements interact in action and inaction.
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Global crises
In today’s world, there are interwoven crises affecting us at every level. This book explores the impact of these crises on applied social research. It shows how using a complexity framework in research is key to tackling global challenges effectively. By featuring illustrative examples from the ...
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Buildings of refuge and the postcoloniality of asylum infrastructure
This book offers a fresh perspective on the European migration crisis, chronicling its everyday realities in a central Italian province. Through vivid ethnographic accounts, it reveals how the forces and relations animating this crisis are reproduced and transformed in the rooms of ordinary build...
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Story-making as collaborative artistic research
This book boldly reframes story-making as a form of artistic research grounded in creative practice. Through vivid examples, it demonstrates how collaborative artistic processes can unsettle entrenched hierarchies, open up alternative forms of knowledge-making and attend more sensitively to issue...
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Diaspora governance in practice
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on ethnographic research across Canada, Switzerland, the UK, the US and Sri Lanka, this book offers a compelling account of how diaspora politics unfold within complex international systems. Catherine Craven reveals how Tamil dia...
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Engaged publics
This book presents an ethnography of a community empowerment programme called Big Local. Following three community groups as they navigated the Covid-19 pandemic, it offers timely insights into how groups change when crisis hits and explores implications for our collective capacity to address soc...
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External powers and southeast asia in an era of us–china strategic competition
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Beijing and Washington’s Southeast Asia policy, and moves beyond the superpower dyad to examine how multiple external actors — including the EU, UK, Japan, India and Australia — are seeking to project power into the region. Vital for scholars and s...
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Contemporary public administration in new zealand
This book provides an up-to-date account of New Zealand public administration, including insider stories of leading reform. Hailed for its distinctiveness and high performance, New Zealand’s radical public service reforms of the 1980s were studied, praised, criticised, and emulated around the wor...
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A genealogy of international relations in asia
Challenging the Western-centric foundations of International Relations (IR), this groundbreaking edited volume places Asian perspectives at the forefront of IR scholarship. Spanning nine countries across Asia, this rigorous examination reveals how concepts of sovereignty and internationalism have...
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Intersectionality in higher education
For staff and students across higher education, intersecting identities, legacies, cultures and challenges shape opportunities to participate, stay and succeed. Yet, institutions continue to treat inequalities in isolation, exacerbating the widening gaps through which marginalised communities con...
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Rethinking citizenship in central and eastern europe
This book explores the diverse landscape of citizenship practices in Central and Eastern Europe, an area often overlooked in research. Through an interdisciplinary lens, the contributors explore how education and political participation shape these practices in a region marked by historical and ...
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Democracy, participation and public administration
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The democratic state is unravelling. Authoritarians exploit its deficits to disguise attacks on democracy as democratic renewal, while Silicon Valley searches for ways to replace public service with private technology. Countering these th...
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Understanding child sexual abuse disclosure
This text sets out the various challenges and opportunities associated with disclosure of sexual abuse. It proposes a social model response that examines the barriers within our society, shifting attention away from individuals being expected to “come forward” and towards collective responsibility.
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Radical food geographies
This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales. With case studies from around the globe, Radical Food Geographies explores interconnections between power structures and the social and ecological dynamics tha...
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The harms of beauty
The beauty industry thrives on creating a sense of dissatisfaction with appearance, with social media adding pressure to conform to idealized images of beauty. This has led to a growing use of products for bodily improvement such as facial injectables and weight loss drugs, which have arguably be...
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Research ethics in the real world (second edition)
How can researchers navigate ethical dilemmas in an era of rapid technological change and growing calls for decolonisation? This fully revised second edition addresses the evolving landscape of research ethics, equipping social science researchers with the tools to conduct rigorous, responsible ...
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Housing debt and home loss
The threat of losing a home can have profound consequences for personal health and wellbeing, yet little is known about how occupiers experience the repossession process. Many of those affected are not able to engage effectively with this process, which raises serious concerns about access to jus...
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Drug policy revolutions
Coinciding with a wave of drug policy liberalization around the world, this book analyzes the experiences of Argentina, Portugal, and Uruguay in their efforts at depenalization, decriminalization, and legalization/regulation of recreational drugs. The authors present the successes and challenges ...
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Leadership to save the world
With a focus on real-world problems, the book argues for new leadership mindsets to tackle the great challenges of our time and will help build an understanding of leadership to address key issues such as climate change, technological advancement, inequality, housing and alienation. We are hurtli...
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Work and welfare in the digital age
Is digitalisation threatening the future of work and welfare? Drawing on cutting-edge research from the EU-funded project BEYOND 4.0, this major empirical study explores how digital technologies are transforming work and welfare across Europe. Moving beyond speculative forecasts, it offers ground...
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Reparative pedagogies
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can education about histories of conflict and atrocities repair harm and division whilst avoiding the pitfalls of universal, decontextualised approaches? Presenting illuminating research from the Education, Justice and Memory Network...
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City of bots
Urban planning has moved online, transforming community engagement into a digital process—but this shift has opened the door to disruption. Automated social media accounts, or bots, now infiltrate forums, surveys and virtual meetings, skewing debates and disrupting development projects. This boo...
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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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State, capitalism, and finance in emerging markets
What role do emerging markets play in the global financial system? Are they subordinated within global financial hierarchies? Or do they have autonomy, even power, to use finance to pursue state objectives? In this edited volume, leading scholars explore these questions, focusing on state–financ...
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Youth unemployment and devolution
Youth unemployment and work insecurity have been prevailing issues for governments across Western Europe since the 2008 financial crisis. These issues have intensified after Brexit and the pandemic, with young people consistently overrepresented in the gig economy and all forms of work insecurity...
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The future of behavioural science
Behavioural science has never been a static field. From its roots in psychology and economics, it has borrowed ideas, adapted methods and reinvented itself in response to new challenges. Today, the field is undergoing another transformation, shaped by debates about diversity and inclusivity, met...
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A criminology of popular music
Music explores the deepest experiences of the human condition – love, violence, religion, hedonism, protest and politics. This book takes common themes in popular music and analyses them through a harms-based critical criminology of music, while staying focused on its aesthetic and sensory elemen...
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Key texts on interdisciplinary higher education
Higher education is changing rapidly in response to the global challenges of the twenty-first century, but for disciplinarily trained lecturers interdisciplinary curriculum and course design is a time-consuming process fraught with difficult pedagogical choices. This reader is the first book to...
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Rising demand and distress in emergency care
As emergency departments and ambulance services face rising demand, a considerable share of patients present with needs deemed “non-urgent”, generating strain, frustration and moral judgement across care systems. The first of its kind to apply Bourdieusian field theory to emergency care, this boo...
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Reimagining stepmother
Stepmothers often battle with a range of negative myths and stereotypes, with Cinderella’s wicked stepmother being the most infamous. Drawing on 20 in-depth interviews with British stepmothers, this book reimagines the expectations, practices and position of stepmothers through a feminist sociolo...
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Ageing and technology
Ageing and technology are shaping each other in profound ways, yet they are often treated as separate in current thinking. This book brings social gerontology into conversation with science and technology studies to show how ageing and technology are co-constituted. Drawing on empirical cases fr...
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