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From poverty to well-being and human flourishing (volume 2)
Following the highly respected first volume, this book continues to provide a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik’s vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While the previous book introduced the author’s widely adopted Integrated Poverty Measurement Method (IPMM), this ...
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Long-term care and older people in western europe
Based on a comparative study covering 15 Western European countries, this edited volume examines the responses of long-term care homes for older people to the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses the preparedness of governments and residences and the structural weaknesses revealed and exacerbated by t...
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Race, anthropology and (de)coloniality
How has the concept of race shaped anthropology across continents and centuries? This book brings together marginalized voices to offer a decolonial perspective, revealing the entwined histories of race, power and knowledge from the late 19th century to the present. Covering South America, India...
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A posthuman feminist peace
Placing a posthuman-feminist approach to relationalist thinking at the heart of peace and security analysis in Africa, this book argues against the sidelining of marginalized groups and the more-than-human in peacebuilding efforts. It calls for a more intersectional, grounded, embodied and carin...
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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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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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Digital conquest
In an era of exponential digital growth, the physical impact of data flows is reshaping our cities and energy infrastructures. This book uncovers the hidden world of data centres, from vast complexes in Virginia to digital suburbs in Paris and innovative facilities in Sweden. Through twenty insig...
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Trouble with death
Are we accepting of death, or in denial of it? What insights can we gain from the ways death has been imagined, theorized, and organized throughout Western social and intellectual history that might help us respond meaningfully to the climate emergency? This interdisciplinary study begins with th...
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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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Innovations in the modern arts and sciences
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores how lasting forms of change take shape in the modern arts and sciences, which became organized as fields that valued originality and continual innovation between the 17th and 19th centuries. Using comparative case stu...
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Public policy evaluation in the middle east and north africa
This book examines the progress of the development of public policy evaluation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region from multiple perspectives. It describes both past developments and the current state of evaluation across the region, focusing on how political regimes, administrative...
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Street-level bureaucrats in vulnerable contexts
Research on street-level bureaucracy has largely been shaped by perspectives from the Global North, leaving limited understanding of how frontline workers operate in vulnerable, unequal and politically unstable settings. Street-Level Bureaucrats in Vulnerable Contexts addresses this gap through ...
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The mobility trap
This book confronts the persistent problem of transport exclusion in Global South cities, where urban poor populations—reliant almost entirely on walking—face arduous journeys and daily risks to their safety. It reveals that the concerns of local populations are rarely at the forefront of transp...
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Decolonizing critical management studies
How has the post-lockdown world transformed critical scholarship and intensified anti-racist activism and decolonial practice? This collection of essays explores the challenges of sustaining critical scholarship in the business school across economic crises, the rise of neo-fascism and environmen...
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Narrating china and europe in uncertain times
This edited volume examines the crucial, yet overlooked, role narratives play in the rapidly changing relationship between Europe and China. Its contributors analyse the role of narratives in different societies and arenas ranging from economic and foreign policy to history and social media. Emp...
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Beyond woke and anti-woke
Many rail against ‘woke’ ideology. Others dismiss the backlash as a rebranding of conservative concerns. Taking a third way, this book argues that social justice ideology centres identity and direct action and expands concepts of harm, distinguishing it from liberalism. Drawing on the latest data...
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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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Women's ageing and sexuality
Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. How do older women use art and media to resist ageist and sexist norms that regulate their intimacy and sexuality? This book brings the subversive aesthetic strategies of older women to the forefront, using the concept of ‘unruliness’,...
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Discrimination, equality and health care rationing
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. When deciding who to treat, those engaged in priority-setting and resource allocation in health care need to comply with their obligations under the Equality Act 2010. This book provides an in-depth examination of how anti-discrimination...
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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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Rethinking racial and classed inequalities in contemporary education
Racial and classed inequalities in education are relational, yet they are too often studied separately. This edited volume tackles the interlocking systems of disadvantage linked to race and class that shape learning experiences across different stages of education. Through a Bourdieusian lens, ...
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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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Onlife criminology
Digital tools such as smart devices, personal trackers, and social media have become part of daily life for many. ‘Onlife’ (online+life) criminology is the study of crime and social harm produced by the blurring lines between digital engagement and our everyday lives that we may not even be aware...
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Global china
This insightful book explores evolving perceptions of China, contrasting dominant Western narratives with Chinese perspectives. Highlighting the complexities of these discourses, the book critiques three prevailing views of China’s rise: the return of geopolitics, challenges to liberal order and ...
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American environmental history and policy
This timely book explores the rocky trajectory of US environmental history and policy from pre-European settlement to the present. It includes underreported aspects of early history, and the first in-depth synthesis of the framing and outcomes of the groundbreaking environmental laws of the 1970s...
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Analysing education and childhood policy
Demystifying what education and childhood policy is, how it works and how it can be critically interrogated, this textbook supports readers to identify the ideas, values and power relations embedded in policy.
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Why the us struggled to balance china’s rise
Why didn’t the United States act sooner to counter China’s rise? This compelling book unpacks a key puzzle in post-Cold War foreign policy, arguing that a permissive international environment—not just domestic politics—shaped US inaction. At the turn of the 21st century, a relatively peaceful or...
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Interpreting identities
This edited collection brings together social scientists to interpret identity from a wide range of analytical perspectives. Drawing on multiple interpretive traditions from the last 100 years, the book explores how underlying social, cultural and psychological forces shape the dimensions of iden...
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Europe’s world
The EU’s international environment is increasingly characterized by power politics, great-power rivalry, ideological contestation and war. This has challenged the liberal-internationalist identity that has been at the heart of the EU since its birth. This book examines how the EU has responded to...
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Colonial citizenship
Who deserves to be a citizen? Colonial Citizenship reveals how citizenship emerged from empire as a technology of racial and civilisational sorting. Navigating the longest-standing European empire, it analyses colonial policies, citizenship regulations and segregation laws to show how citizenship...
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Social work in slovenia and yugoslavia
What did social work look like under European state socialism – and what can this history teach us today? Darja Zaviršek, the leading scholar on the history of social work in Slovenia and the former socialist countries, uncovers how the profession developed between 1945 and 1990. Drawing on a u...
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The borders within
Geographic divisions that exist internally within countries – ‘the borders within’ – can be seen in how much people earn and levels of economic growth, as well as in health and educational outcomes. With fresh thinking, this book explores what lies beneath these geographic divisions and what mai...
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The power of mentorship
How can organisations use mentorship to attract, develop and retain staff from underrepresented communities? This book uses research from the Aleto Foundation and case studies from D&I experts from the USA, Europe and South Africa to demonstrate how mentoring has the potential to create a...
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The shanghai cooperation organization and china’s vision of international relations
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is the first and most established regional organization initiated by China. This book investigates China’s use of the SCO to shape global norms and argues that self-created regional organizations constitute ideal platforms for emerging powers to promote...
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Gender, peace and post-conflict constitutions
Adopting a feminist lens, this book examines how peace and constitution-making processes shape the transition from war to peace. By moving beyond the legal text to analysing the drafting process itself, the book reveals how peace agreements and constitutions can reinforce or resist patriarchal p...
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Creative construction
Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever. This accessible wor...
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The feral mba
The Feral MBA is a radically re-imagined training course in business for 'artists and others' – meaning anyone thinking about business in a critical, curious or unproven way. This book tells the story of an under-the-radar business scene, using eclectic and inspiring examples of small and micro-e...
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Memory politics after mass violence
This book explores how political actors draw on memories of violent pasts to generate political power and legitimacy in the present. Drawing on fieldwork in post-violence Cambodia, Rwanda and Indonesia, the book demonstrates in what way power is derived from how roles are assigned, exploring who ...
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Disaster and diversity
In this hard-hitting book, the Lower Ninth Ward - ground zero for Hurricane Katrina - becomes a microcosm of what happens when white actors venture into black spaces for humanitarian aid. Through vivid vignettes, Harvey exposes how blacks are often hindered in their efforts to rebuild their neigh...
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Transport truths
Ideal for researchers and practitioners looking for fresh approaches to transport problems, this book combines cutting-edge qualitative and quantitative knowledge to inform transport futures. It uses engaging case studies of the Banjul Airport Expansion in The Gambia, and the Interstate 35 develo...
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Healthcare in transition
Health policy thinking must change. This book explores the fundamental currents and tensions that lie behind recent trends such as shared decision-making, co-production, and personalisation. These are often discussed in relation to an epidemiological transition but this text argues that they embo...
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Anti-racism in higher education
How is your institution enabling Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff and students to thrive? Is your institution effectively tackling racism? Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, the higher education sector has started making bold commitments to dismantling structural racism. Howeve...
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