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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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Reckoning
Anti-racist movements have continued to grow worldwide after the death of George Floyd in 2020. Following the BLM protests, many promises were made to deal with the impact of structural discrimination. While this led to more talk than action, there has also been meaningful change, some of which h...
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Incarceration and Older Women
Winner of the American Society of Criminology Division on Feminist Criminology's Best Book Award 2025. Generativity or ‘giving back’ is regarded as a common life stage, occurring for many around middle age. For the first time, this book offers qualitative research on the lives and social relation...
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Under Investigation
While employee relations investigations are an important part of organisational practice for managing workplace issues, there is growing evidence of the significant harm they can cause to individuals being taken through them. This harm can also spread further to those involved in their delivery, ...
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Safeguarding Adults Online
Readers of this evidence-informed, practical guide will develop an understanding of e-safety and online safeguarding and learn how to understand and identify risks for adults online, critically evaluate relevant online safeguarding issues on a case-by-case basis and develop practical and effectiv...
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The Short Guide to Social Work
This updated edition of the bestselling short guide provides an engaging and accessible introduction to the Social Work profession and its value to society. Essential reading for new students and those considering entering the profession, the text provides crucial information on: • the new range ...
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Stigma
What is stigma, and how does it shape social life? This ambitious and accessible introduction to the sociology of stigma examines how shaming and stigmatization operate in 21st century societies, from everyday interactions to wider social structures and cultural processes. It brings together clas...
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Manufacturing the ‘Failure’ of UK Immigration Detention
As the controversy over immigration control continues to unfold on a global level, this timely book explores the widespread involvement of private companies in UK detention and removal policies. Based on original empirical data, the book pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day practices of the ...
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Same-sex Marriage and Heterosexuality in Taiwan
This book explores the narratives of heterosexuality that emerged during Taiwan’s same-sex marriage debate, culminating in the landmark legalization of same-sex marriage in 2019. Drawing on official transcripts from public hearings, forums and deliberative discussions, it treats the debate as a ...
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Planet Plutocracy
For decades, a small elite of financial and corporate barons has secured towering personal fortunes by hijacking the process of wealth creation. This wealth and power grab has turned large parts of the economy into mechanisms of personal enrichment with profound consequences: Britain is now a cou...
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Public Policy as Human Rights Policy
An examination of how human rights bureaucrats, government workers who understand the role of the state as premised on the promotion and protection of human rights, shape state compliance with international norms, act as agents in the transnational policy process, and react to democratic backslid...
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Geopolitics in the Anthropocene
This timely and original book puts the ‘geo’ back into geopolitics, placing environmental resources at the heart of global power, and demonstrating how struggles over energy, water and critical minerals are reshaping the planet. International case studies show how state sovereignty is hollowed ou...
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C. Wright Mills
This book revitalizes the work of one of sociology’s most influential thinkers, C. Wright Mills (1916-1962), showing its continued relevance to today’s global challenges. Organized around three core themes – conflict, security and peace; democracy, power and governance; and society, culture and t...
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The Truth about Culture Wars
Dismissed as manufactured distractions while simultaneously feared as symptoms of deeper social decay, culture wars are widely – and dangerously – misunderstood. Why and how do they tear so many communities apart? And can anything stop them? Drawing on key battlegrounds in the UK, US and beyond,...
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Mobile and Electronic Media Use in Rural South India
This book explores how rural communities engage with communication technologies through “adaptive modernization”, showing how mobile phones, television and digital media are shaped by local contexts and lived experience.
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Vampire AI
AI is sold to us as neutral, inevitable and transformative, but whose interests does it truly serve? Drawing on Marx’s image of capital as a vampire – viciously sucking in living labour – this book shows how AI is deeply entangled with capitalism. From the optimisation choices that embed capital...
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Cultures of Cultures
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Fermentation is more than food; it’s culture, science and politics. From chewing fermented areca nut to making rice brews with wild foraged herbs, this book traces how indigenous knowledge, healing systems and everyday practices intersect...
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Displacement, Time and Connection
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores how time shapes refugees’ social lives under restrictive border regimes. Based on research in Germany and Turkey, it shows how bordering disrupts relationships across space and time while refugees rebuild connections t...
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The Climate Tech Blueprint
Climate ventures face a fundamental tension: mission-driven founders aim to tackle urgent global challenges, yet traditional venture capital models push for short-term, profit-focused returns. This book offers a clear alternative. Combining a practical five-step blueprint with real-world case st...
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Unsettling Sustainability
Why are the voices most shaped by climate change the least heard in sustainability debates? This groundbreaking book explores sustainability issues through the lived experiences, practices and knowledge of Somali and Pakistani diasporic communities in the UK. Drawing on seven years of research, ...
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Researching with Zines
Introducing readers to the fundamentals of zines in research, this book combines a range of case studies with the author’s own experience to demonstrate how zine making cannot be removed from their political and cultural context.
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Learner Engagement in the Age of Distraction
How can schools foster genuine engagement in an age of distraction and complex learning needs? Too often, efforts to motivate students treat engagement as an individual problem, overlooking the social, cultural and organisational systems that shape learning. Drawing on multiple theories of learn...
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Societal Change and Digital Realities
What does it mean to grow up in the digital age? What can individual lives reveal about the forces reshaping an entire society? Drawing on over 80 biographical narrative interviews across three post-transition generations, this book offers a richly grounded account of contemporary Polish society....
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Defending Protest
Over the last decade, Britain has increasingly criminalised non-violent disruptive protest, with new offences, long prison sentences, and the proscription of Palestine Action. This has brought an unprecedented number of activists to trial. Based on a decade of courtroom observation, this book sho...
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Irregularised Migrant Workers in Europe
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What makes migrant workers in Europe irregular, and what is their experience like day to day? This book traces how immigration regimes, labour markets, welfare systems and public narratives combine to produce precarious, insecure working...
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Mobilizing Against All Odds
This book offers a compelling, empirically rich account of how workers in the logistics sector build power against the odds. Focusing on a large furniture retailer in Italy, it traces how initially small, scattered episodes of resistance among precarious, often migrant workers evolved over a deca...
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On Global IR
First articulated by Amitav Acharya in his 2014 International Studies Association presidential address, Global IR challenged the deep-seated Western-centrism of International Relations and called for a genuinely global discipline. Over the past decade, Global IR has emerged as one of the most inf...
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The Teacher Workload and Wellbeing Crisis
The teaching profession is under strain across the Global North. This book looks beyond the often-proposed solutions of hiring new teachers, their preparation and remuneration and exposes the structural pressures driving workload intensification.
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The War on Unions
Across the Americas and Europe, far right governments have turned trade unions into prime political targets. Over the past decade, they have waged coordinated ‘wars’ on labour – cutting resources, reforming welfare, criminalising protest, weaponising labour laws and delegitimizing unions – in pol...
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Inclusive Recovery Cities
This book examines the fast growing Inclusive Recovery Cities (IRC) movement, offering a practical framework for embedding addiction recovery within communities. By shifting focus from individual pathology to Community Recovery Capital, it shows how connection with peers, meaningful activities an...
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Crafting Collective Memory Work
A comprehensive guide to collective memory work as a method of social enquiry, offering practical insights for research and self-study.
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Making Part-Time Work
There is an urgent need for more high-quality part-time jobs, both to get more people into work and to improve worker wellbeing and job performance. Too often, part-time opportunities are badly designed or career-limiting. What would it take to get employers to create more and better part-time jo...
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Visual AI Politics and the Politics of Visual AI
AI-generated images are transforming how politics is seen, shared and contested, yet research on their political effects remains fragmented. This timely edited volume closes that gap, moving beyond simplistic narratives of AI as either a driver of misinformation or a tool of creative resistance. ...
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Sociology’s Moments
What is the role of sociology when universities are under increasing political criticism? This book explores how sociology has developed through different moments of social and political change.The author traces the discipline through early ideas of social reform and the social self, the rise of...
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Beyond Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Child welfare services are under increasing pressure to make faster decisions about families deemed “at risk.” Increasingly, the answer is algorithms that determine when and where interventions are made. Drawing on case studies from Engla...
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Rethinking Participatory Peacebuilding in Colombia
The 2016 Colombian Peace Accord has attracted international praise but faces poor implementation progress and significant domestic dissatisfaction. Focusing on its bottom-up rural development programme (PDETs), this book examines how citizen participation shapes peace agreement implementation. Co...
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Decolonizing Practice Research in Social Work
Drawing on 19 case studies across 10 countries – as well as migrant communities such as the Tibetan diaspora in Canada – this edited collection develops the concept of connective social work practice research: an inclusive framework for fostering genuine dialogue across East and West, South and N...
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Creative Participatory Research
Collaborative inquiry has grown in use and importance across academic disciplines. Researchers now regularly craft processes that bring together multiple stakeholders with varying perspectives to produce original actionable insights. Creative Participatory Research: Experiments with Theory and P...
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The Universalism of Human Rights
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Human rights are often presented as a choice between universal principles and critiques that expose their limitations. This book challenges that divide. Bringing together postcolonial, cultural relativist, collective rights-based and feminist p...
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Same-Sex Marriage and Registered Partnerships
Same-Sex Marriage and Registered Partnerships critiques the interpretive approach of the Strasbourg Court to rights to marriage and registered partnership for same-sex couples under Articles 8, 12, 14 and Article 1 of Protocol 12 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), encompassing the findin...
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Formal and Informal Social Protection in the Global South
The first comprehensive empirical account of the dynamics between formal and informal social protection across major regions of the Global South. The book offers fresh theoretical and practical insights into how these systems shape population wellbeing and where they fall short.
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The Pervasive Nature of Carceral Isolation
This book offers a powerful exploration of isolation in prison, using an innovative letter-writing research methodology with incarcerated men in Scotland. While existing law and policy assumes isolation only takes place in solitary confinement, this book reveals how it in fact permeates everyday ...
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Arbitrating Extraction
As global competition for natural resources intensifies, disputes between corporations and states are increasingly resolved through private international tribunals. This book examines investor–state dispute settlement as a key arena of this scramble, asking who controls resource extraction and at...
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Nationalist State Leaders in Conflict
In recent years, global attention has turned to nationalist leaders such as Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin, raising urgent questions about their impact on political stability and international security. This book offers a systematic account of how nationalist state leaders destabili...
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Life After Release
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This groundbreaking book offers the first in-depth, longitudinal account of release and re-entry into the community, for men serving mandatory life sentences for murder in England and Wales. Drawing on a qualitative study with 20 men inte...
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European Transport Policies
This book traces the evolution of European Union transport policy, exploring how member states’ competing interests and internal EU tensions have shaped its development. Offering a comprehensive, mode by mode overview, it charts the historical background to current policies and highlights future ...
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The Criminalisation of Neurodivergent Children
Children with neurodevelopmental conditions - such as ADHD, autism or acquired brain injury - are overrepresented in youth justice systems worldwide. Through its ‘spiral model’, this book explains how failures to accommodate neurodiversity across education, health, social care and justice turn di...
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Where Governments Take Us
This groundbreaking book explores policy goals – a critical yet often overlooked element of public policy design. It offers an innovative framework for understanding and analysing policy goals through their thematic and technical dimensions.
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Food for Justice
This book explores how social movements and alternative food networks are driving socio-ecological transformation in Brazil and Germany. Using multi-method research, it traces how grassroots coalitions shape the politics of food. These range from community supported agriculture initiatives to pea...
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Violence, Governance and Everyday Life in Colombia
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book offers a rare, bottom-up exploration of everyday violence under criminal governance in Medellín, Colombia. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, it shifts focus from state–organised crime relations to the lived experience...
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Authority in Global Governance
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. In a rapidly transforming global political landscape, the sources, forms, and legitimations of governance authority are increasingly pluralised and contested. This book offers an original and theoretically grounded framework for understanding t...
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Situated Dignity
Drawing on the accounts of unemployed people, this book develops and tests an original framework for understanding dignity not as a fixed state, but as something dynamic, situational and negotiated in everyday life.
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Borders, Surveillance and Technologies
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Building on extensive fieldwork in the Nordic region, this book explores digital borders-in-practice in Denmark, Norway and Sweden amid global shifts towards tighter security and increased surveillance.
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The Energy Transition in Malaysia
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited collection offers the first in-depth study of Malaysia’s complex transition toward a sustainable energy future, exploring the challenges and opportunities faced by middle-income economies in the global energy shift. Bringing t...
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Public Banks and Gender Equality
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Despite decades of gender equality policies, women, girls, and gender diverse people are still the most negatively impacted by the climate crisis and food and housing insecurity. So where will the financing for change come from? This edit...
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Un-Fair Trade and Sustainability Systems
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Voluntary sustainability systems and responsible sourcing promise to address adverse social and environmental outcomes within global value chains. But un-fair trade continues to disadvantage producers and workers in the Global South. Why ...
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Where the Rubber Hits the Road
This book explores how climate policies are reshaping work, focusing on the global transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles. Analysing changes in policy, firms and workplaces, it examines how this shift is transforming jobs and production networks across diverse re...
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Weather Politics and Security in the Caribbean
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean face extreme weather events alongside persistent security challenges, including organised crime, migration and financial vulnerability. Weather Politics and Security in the Caribbean examines these dynamics, bringing together scholarship from...
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City Governance After Dark
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how Australian cities govern and shape their Night-Time Economies (NTEs), focusing on Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart. Blending historical context, policy analysis and original empirical research, it reveals how these cities balance safety, vibrancy and...
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Organizational Learning and Peacebuilding in Israel and Palestine
A study of how Israeli, Palestinian and international advocates for non-violent peacebuilding adapt their strategies, revealing how hybrid NGO/social movement organisations learn while pursuing social and political goals in times of relative peace and war.
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Make Music Matter
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How is live music being reshaped in a platform-driven economy? This book explores the transformation of concerts through the rise of Sofar Sounds, a global startup staging intimate “secret shows” in more than 400 cities worldwide. Drawin...
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Authoritarian Surveillance in the Smart City Age
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Across Central Asia, governments are deploying surveillance technologies in the name of progress. This book offers a sharp, close-up look at digital authoritarianism, state power and everyday life in a region of global significance.
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The Payslip
We’re constantly told AI will change the world of work. But we can build a better future ourselves, starting with the one thing all jobs have in common: pay. Yet pay remains one of the most under-discussed aspects of work. It is about much more than a payslip: it reflects who is valued, who holds...
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The Struggle over Security
Based on over a decade of research across Central America, the United States, Israel, and Spain, The Struggle over Security analyzes Guatemala’s security governance reforms following the end of its civil war in 1996. Drawing on in-depth interviews with police and military officers, policymakers, ...
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Developing Children’s Legal Capability
On paper, children are both empowered and protected by numerous laws and international rights instruments. In practice, however, we know that most children know very little about their legal rights, and how to exercise them. This book combines theoretical insight with practical guidance to propo...
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Sensing Surveillance
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Anti-trans and anti-gender narratives have become increasingly prevalent in social, political and legal landscapes worldwide. From high-profile court rulings to disputes over gender-segregated activities and spaces emerge urgent questions...
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Emotion, Action and Power in the Penal Voluntary Sector
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. From mental health services to family support, the overlooked and often overburdened penal voluntary sector (PVS) provides vital assistance to those impacted by the criminal justice system. This book offers a thorough analysis of PVS prac...
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Borders, Displacement and Higher Education
What happens when universities become both sites of opportunity and extensions of the border? The Higher Education Border (HEB) offers a new way of understanding the collective, multi-layered barriers that exclude forced migrants from university. It explores a central contradiction: universities ...
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A Glossary for Sustainable Transitions
The climate crisis demands new ways of thinking. This lexicon brings together key concepts – from Anthropocene to degrowth to matters of care – to help readers navigate sustainable transitions across science, technology and society. An essential companion for interdisciplinary learning.
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Place-based Inequalities and Disaffection
From the 2024 riots and Operation Raise the Colours to Reform UK’s historic surge, Britain’s “left behind” towns have become the epicentre of political discontent. This book traces how economic decline and government failure to address public concerns – particularly around immigration – have fuel...
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The Trouble with Drinking
Alcohol is everywhere—in our everyday lives, in public debates and, increasingly, at the centre of public health policy. This book critically examines alcohol as a contemporary research and policy object. It argues that drinking is governed through heavily freighted concepts such as risk, wellbe...
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Building Peace for the Pluriverse
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 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 ep...
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The Spatial Limits of Political Community
Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell us about the current political conjuncture and interrogates the possibilities it offers for imagining new, and more just, forms of political community. The book traces the emergenc...
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Sociology for Social Care in Ireland
This textbook shows why sociological enquiry is essential to understanding social care. It explores the socio-historical factors that have shaped the development of social care as a profession and, crucially, highlights the complexity of service users’ everyday lives. Drawing on both classical a...
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Human Narratives and Social Mindsets
This book introduces a critical way of thinking about the narratives around which the human species has shaped itself. It considers the way in which prevailing social mindsets preclude a full understanding of our fundamental interdependency as a species. It offers not a manifesto, but a methodolo...
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Left to Rot
An investigation into the policy choices that led to the UK housing crisis. What is the true cost of Britain’s housing emergency? This is the shocking story of Britain’s appalling housing crisis as it has never been told before – through the people stuck in its grip, living in barely believable a...
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Women, Relationships & Criminal Justice
Women who have been criminalised by the state typically encounter gendered experiences and challenges and are affected by complex and intersecting layers of system failure, marginalisation and stigma. Bringing together diverse perspectives from research, lived experience and frontline practice, t...
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Social Work in Mental Health Settings
Social Work in Mental Health Settings brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore how mental health social work is shaped and practised around the world. In so doing, it responds to a striking lack of comparative literature in the field and offers readers a timely, global persp...
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Period Politics
Periods have always been political, but after centuries of silence and stigma they are finally taking centre stage. Across the world, governments are introducing new laws and policies – from providing free menstrual products in schools and public buildings, to workplace menstrual leave, and scrap...
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Resisting Criminalisation
This book examines how struggles across the world are responding to the escalating criminalisation of dissent. From protest bans to media smear campaigns, feminist night marches to resistance in prisons, its authors discuss techniques of repression and the diversity of subversive tactics deployed...
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Self, Society, and Economy
This book challenges conventional economics by revisiting classical American pragmatism and institutional economics. It shows how economic behaviour is shaped by social institutions, culture and habits, while avoiding both individualism and collectivism. Drawing on thinkers such as Veblen, Dewey,...
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Innovations in Critical Policy Analysis
Public policy is often framed as a response to social problems rather than the cause of them. Carol Bacchi’s influential ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) approach – first published in her 2009 book, Analysing Policy – addresses this contrast and has become an essential methodology fo...
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Soft City Sensing
This book presents a human-centred approach to data-driven urbanism, with case studies illustrating the integration of public values and everyday urban life into planning and policy making.
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The Labour Party and European Integration
This book uses a biographical approach to explore the Labour Party's relationship with European integration, moving beyond simple 'pro' or 'anti' labels to showcase the complexity of views that have existed. Its positioning within the 'biographical turn' emphasizes the importance of formative ex...
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The Philippines Road Home
Housing is a fundamental human need but remains one of the most difficult things for disadvantaged people to obtain. Participatory approaches to accessing housing are often complicated and inconsistent and need to be re-examined. The book explores three cases in the Philippines, revealing how pe...
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States of Innovation
This book unveils the forces behind the dynamic knowledge economy that drove America’s 21st century economic success. Challenging the notion of the US as a singular market-driven economy, the book introduces the concept of the 'Polycentric Innovation State' to explain the critical role federal a...
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Resisting Unemployment Stigma
This book offers a powerful rethinking of long-term unemployment, focusing on everyday lived experiences that reveal how unemployed men make sense of deindustrialisation and prolonged joblessness. The book foregrounds Bakhtin’s theory of resisting power through humour and dialogue, challenging pr...
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AI in Justice Systems
This book offers a clear and engaging account of how AI is reshaping justice systems around the world and why this matters for society. Examining predictive and surveillance technologies used in the UK and US alongside deployments in ten Sub-Saharan African countries, it moves beyond Western–cent...
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Why do some people experience inclusion and opportunity while others face exclusion and disadvantage? Sociological perspectives on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) help us answer this question by examining how power, identity and social structures shape experiences in work and public life....
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