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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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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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The Nature Delusion
"A pathbreaking synthesis" Gus Speth "Rigorous and compelling" Michael Foley Why our current fixes for the environmental crisis are making things worse, and what we need to do about it. Does the future of humankind lie in colonising a new planet, or uploading our minds to a digital metaverse? Li...
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What Is Music For?
Why do we have music? Why do we love music, and have such a deep, human need for it? It is just vibrating air, yet it is at the heart of so many of our rituals; weddings, funerals, parties and all kinds of gatherings. Fleur Bouwer is both a musician and a cognitive neuroscientist, and in this fas...
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Qualitative Fieldwork with Children
Drawing on the multinational qualitative study ‘Children’s Understandings of Well-being’ (CUWB), this unique edited collection offers practical insights into conducting fieldwork across diverse geographical, social and cultural contexts, using the same basic protocol. The book explores the practi...
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Outdoor-Based Dementia Support and Care
Rethinking dementia care through nature, this book explores how outdoor activities can enhance wellbeing. It combines global research, practice and lived experience to shape future policy and care.
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Ageing and Technoscience
Ageing in the digital age isn’t just biological, it’s technoscientific. This book reveals how technoscience is transforming later life in profound ways. Offering a bold rethinking of ageing, it challenges readers to reconsider the boundaries between body, technology and society.
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What Are the Police For?
As an institution, our police force is under increasing strain and frequently faces criticism. Yes it is hard to imagine what could conceivably replace it? Police and policing are always contested. For some, police deserve unquestioning support as a bulwark against crime; for others, abolition as...
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Making War Safe for Capitalism
This book examines the impact of World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) economic restructuring programmes during active conflicts. Using a critical political economy perspective, the book explores how these restructuring efforts affect vulnerable communities’ survival amid violence. Ch...
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The Idea of Academic Responsibility
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Academic freedom has long defined higher education. But what about academic responsibility? This thought-provoking book makes the case for the missing half of the debate and redefines the university's role in society.
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Young Parents, Housing and Home
Young parenthood cannot be understood without attention to housing. Where young parents live, and the support available to them, shapes how care is organised, relationships are sustained and homes are made. And yet, young parenthood is too often viewed through a lens of deficit, obscuring how par...
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The Alumni Way (second edition)
Was your degree truly worth it? How can you build your network to maximise the value of your time at university? Does the alumni strategy in your organisation need an inspired boost? This second edition of The Alumni Way reimagines your alumni status as a lifelong gateway to opportunity. Drawi...
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Social Work Professional Organizations
Despite their long history and growing influence, social work professional organisations (SWPOs) remain underexplored in social work research. Created and fully or partly governed by professionals for professionals, SWPOs comprise millions of practitioners worldwide – some groups having existed f...
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The No-Fly Zone in Us Foreign Policy
The no-fly zone is a frequently used instrument in the US foreign policy arsenal, despite detrimental, or even catastrophic, results. This book examines why the instrument has such a hold on leaders’ imaginations and rhetoric despite its patchy record in practice. Examining detailed historical c...
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Policing in Crisis?
Are the recent scandals around UK policing the product of a temporary crisis or rather inscribed deep in the police institution? This timely book presents a critical perspective on key areas of current controversy: policing and communities; policing and protest; and policing and gender. Bringing ...
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Ageing in Contemporary China
How does rapid urbanisation reshape the experience of ageing, and who is left behind? This book provides one of the first systematic sociological analyses of stratified ageing and later-life inequality in contemporary China since the 1940s. Adopting an intersectional life-course perspective and ...
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Everyday Qualitative Analysis
The richest insights in qualitative projects often emerge not from established or formulaic analytic approaches but from everyday, improvised ways of working with data. Everyday Qualitative Analysis reveals these often-unseen creative practices, showing how researchers think, feel and make meanin...
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Policy Successes in Central Asia and Caucasus
Mainstream academic literature, international reports and media coverage have long portrayed the post-Soviet governments as corrupt, ineffective and unaccountable. However, this unyielding narrative obscures a more complex and diverse reality. Drawing on policy success frameworks, this edited co...
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Transpacific Mirrors
How have Chinese thinkers viewed American democracy and federalism across more than a century of turbulent change? This book offers a fascinating exploration of Chinese perceptions of the US political system from the late Qing dynasty to the aftermath of Tiananmen and the rise of China as a globa...
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Climate Harms and Criminal Justice
Climate change is reshaping every part of society — and criminal justice is no exception. This groundbreaking book examines how the climate crisis is transforming policing, courts, corrections and communities, from disaster responses and harm prevention to criminalisation of protest and prison de...
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Labour Law and the Gender of Work
Care work is essential. And yet, Western capitalist societies are organised in a way as to neglect care work and make it invisible. Building on feminist critiques of labour law, this book analyses how private care work has been socially constituted as the Other in relation to work on labour mark...
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Creating Safer Space
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited book offers original insights into communities’ nonviolent strategies to keep themselves and others safe amidst armed violence. Drawing on a unique breadth of original research across eleven countries in Africa, Latin America...
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The Cost of Othering
Othering in the workplace - where employees seen as ‘different’ are pushed to one side despite relevant skills and knowledge - carries a high cost for both the individuals involved and the organisations that hire them. Drawing on the insights of a diverse range of contributors, this book unpick...
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Every Student Has Their Price
Over the past four decades, English higher education has been fundamentally remade – from a heavily subsidised public good into a competitive neo-market driven by full-cost tuition fees, uncapped student numbers and new commercial providers. What are the consequences of treating university educat...
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Challenging Prosecutorial Discretion
This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of the three key mechanisms through which victims can challenge decisions not to prosecute: the Crown Prosecution Service Victims’ Right to Review (VRR), judicial review and private prosecutions. Assessing each route against criteria of accessib...
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Protecting Children under the Online Safety Act
As children and teenagers spend more time immersed in digital spaces, their exposure to online harms has intensified. Policy makers present the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) as a landmark response; yet its effectiveness in protecting under-18s remains uncertain. This book traces the way that enga...
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Between Friends
Community twinning gained traction after World War II as national governments in Europe sought to promote goodwill and cooperation among communities torn apart by conflict. In recent decades, twinning has become an increasingly global practice, extending beyond Europe, municipal relations and pea...
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Agentic Misrecognition
Agentic Misrecognition offers a critical examination of how misrecognition shapes power, agency and conflict in world politics. Conceptualizing misrecognition as a graded spectrum of visibility and value across world order, the volume examines how actors systematically diminish the agency of oth...
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Gender, Power and Sexual Violation at University
This powerful book explores women university students’ experiences of sexual violation and critically examines institutional responses to the issue. Drawing on original research, it applies a feminist lens to the legal, neoliberal, punitive and ‘fun-focused’ discourses which shape experiences and...
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Understanding Young Fatherhood
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What does it mean to become a father at a young age today? This volume brings together research about the lived experiences of fathers aged 25 and under. Drawing on diverse contexts across the Global North and South, it explores how youn...
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Turning Global Rights into Local Realities
Focusing on Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from European colonial rule and the first in the world to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this book explores how dominant children's rights principles interact with the lived realities of a range ...
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Wild Yeast Economies
Wild Yeast Economies uses the culinary metaphor of fermentation to explore the nuts and bolts of social change. It asks whether there can be recipes for organizing on a neighbourhood level in ways that respond to widespread societal challenges such as democratic erosion. The book takes the reade...
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Disabling Capitalism
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. This book offers a fresh and critical take on the relationship between disability, work, and capitalism in the UK. Challenging the idea that disabled people are ‘non-workers’, it shows how society is dependent upon their everyday paid and unpai...
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Queer Insights on Negotiating Sex
Sexual consent is often framed as the boundary between sex and sexual violence, frequently upheld as the key to transforming unethical sexual cultures. But what of the factors shaping people’s positive experiences of negotiating sex, beyond the minimal threshold of avoiding sexual violence? This ...
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Couples at Work
This book offers a unique look into how couples manage paid employment, housework, and childcare. The author explores how employment structures, policies, and practices intersect with individual attitudes to either reinforce or challenge gender inequalities in the domestic sphere through the ‘doi...
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Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure
Children’s leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured parenting practices, too. However, our current understandings of these processes are race-blind and based mostly on the experiences of white middle-cla...
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Understanding Muslim Family Life
This book offers an innovative perspective on Muslim family life in British society. Drawing on recent debates, the book considers how theories of family have overlooked Muslim families and offers a comprehensive framework to address this oversight. Informed by decolonizing approaches, the book ...
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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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The Limits of Immersion
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Virtual Reality promises immersion for all, yet it is built around assumptions of able-bodied users that leave many disabled people behind. Drawing on original research with users, care providers and developers, this book examines how m...
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Gentrified Labour
What counts as ‘good’ work under contemporary Western capitalism? As middle-class occupations demand greater attachment to work amid structural insecurity, many workers turn to manual and material work in search of meaningful work. The book shows how jobs previously considered as low-status are ‘...
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Relationships in Community Work
In community development, relationships are the driving force behind meaningful change—yet they are rarely explored in depth. This textbook unpacks the complex, creative and often subtle relational work at the heart of effective practice. From building trust with participants to collaborating wit...
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The Sustainability Blueprint
This book shows businesses and individuals how to take practical steps on sustainability. As the urgency around climate change intensifies, businesses and individuals are grappling with the need for meaningful action with enlightened self-interest. The book breaks down key sustainability concep...
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Divorce Migration
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Focusing on women’s experiences of divorce among migrant communities from the Middle East and South Asia in Denmark, this book traces how gendered power operates across families, communities and state institutions. Through rich first-per...
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Out of Control
Dyke uses a planetary perspective on the sustainability challenges we face to think about human civilization in a new way, providing a clear route to a flourishing future for humanity.
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Whistleblowing and Retaliation in the United Nations
The United Nations aims to maintain international peace and security, while protecting human rights and upholding international law. However, United Nations whistleblowers over the years have revealed deep dysfunction within the organisation. This illuminating book combines first-hand accounts o...
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Apocalypse Capitalism
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? Drawing on extensive archival research in the UK and the US, this book uncovers how Cold War planners planned to keep capitalism alive even after a nuclear apocalyp...
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Women and Political Participation
This book explores the gendered effects of devolution and its ramifications in terms of new institutionalism, social movement theory and ideas of social justice and political citizenship. The authors expand upon research from central and local government in Wales and situate it in a wider context...
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Personalisation in Public Services
What happens when public services get personal? From healthcare to criminal justice, policy makers increasingly champion tailored and individualised approaches. Digital advances have helped forge these ambitions into reality, yet the promises of greater efficiency, better outcomes, and meaningful...
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Transforming Society 2e
Social work and welfare services are being transformed in the wake of political and economic upheaval and increasing social inequality. This fully updated text enables students to relate sociology to daily lives and shows how structural factors impact upon social work service users and profession...
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Digital Solidarity Economy in Latin America
Could digital platforms be more than just apps for short-term gigs and on-demand jobs? This book shows how the digital solidarity economy offers a bold alternative, where cooperation, fairness, and sustainability reshape work and technology. Through Latin American case studies, it uncovers inno...
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Carceral Arts
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This interdisciplinary collection examines the thriving world of arts and creativity within prisons and other sites of confinement, revealing the complex terrain of ‘carceral aesthetics’. Set within environments marked by repression, cont...
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The Good Business School
What makes a ‘good’ business school amid culture wars, inequality, and rising right-wing populism? This book argues that business schools cannot hide behind technocratic or scholarly neutrality. As social impact and stakeholder capitalism moved from boardrooms into lecture theatres, they became l...
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Disability, Education and International Development
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can the international development community better support inclusive education for children with disabilities in low and lower-middle income countries? This timely book critically examines current approaches to disability and educatio...
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Creative Value Chains
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Creative industries are increasingly dominated by digital platforms, yet the distribution of value within these sectors, from music and video games to visual arts, remains deeply unequal. Recent examples include the remuneration of artist...
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Policy Expertise in Times of Crisis
From financial shocks and health pandemics to climate change and national security threats, crises expose the faultlines in how policy expertise is sought, filtered and acted upon. This edited collection offers a rigorous, comparative analysis of governmental policy advisory systems under pressur...
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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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Legal Education in the Classroom
Can children master legal concepts while having fun? This innovative book explores two groundbreaking educational initiatives which bring legal education to primary schools across the UK and Ireland. It uniquely draws upon the fields of Law and Education to present best practice in engaging child...
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Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs
How do young people develop through youth arts programs and how can these programs reflect and extend young people’s personal interests? How can youth arts support participatory democracy and social change? Frances Howard puts forward a powerful case for the value of youth arts programs, whilst ...
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Youth Work
Youth and community work is a long-contested profession which has been challenged and required to adapt in order to address social and political priorities. ‘Open access’ youth work – which is informal, youth-centred and open-ended – has faced the most criticism in favour of target-driven approac...
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AI in Higher Education
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping university learning, both challenging and empowering educators and students. Covering the history, technology, ethics and educational applications of AI, this book provides concrete examples of how students and teachers are already integrating these tools in mea...
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Health for All
This book advances an argument for global health justice: a just world in which everyone, regardless of nationality or place of birth, has genuine opportunities to be healthy. It presents a comprehensive vision of health equity beyond borders, which takes seriously the complex reality of global ...
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A Care Manifesto for the Early Years
Amid increasing policy and funding pressures, and a dangerously overstretched workforce, the early years sector in the UK is facing a profound crisis. A focus on education at the expense of care has contributed to the complexities of childcare practice being overlooked and undervalued. Drawin...
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Tea and the Queen?
The Government has named the ‘fundamental British values’ (FBV) as democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths. Since 2014, teachers in England have been required to promote these values in schools to all pupils. What are the imp...
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Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean
In the face of enduring global inequalities and colonial legacies, social scientists in the Anglo-Caribbean navigate complex challenges in their research and career-making. This book reveals how academics in the Global South negotiate global asymmetries in their daily work. Through fieldwork and ...
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Social Policy Review 38
In the latest volume of the long-established Social Policy Review series, leading experts critically assess key developments and debates in social and public policy over the past year. Offering a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary issues – including labour market transitions, migrant experi...
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Managing Trauma in the Workplace
People who have experienced trauma can often find it challenging to talk about it and to seek support from their workplaces when needed. Managing Trauma in the Workplace brings together expert advice from industry and academia to address the gap for organisations and decision-makers in understand...
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The Dynamics of Young Fatherhood
Around 1 in 10 children born in the UK are fathered by men under the age of 25. These men are often from socially disadvantaged areas and frequently overlooked in both research and practice settings. Using findings from a major Economic and Social Research Council study, supplemented with additio...
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Belonging and Belongings
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Based on in-depth fieldwork with Belgian children aged 10 to 16, this book examines how children in shared physical custody define and negotiate their place within the household of each parent. The authors analyse how family practices wit...
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The Children of Looked After Children
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Based on groundbreaking original research, this book provides a comprehensive account of the issues surrounding pregnancy and parenthood for young people in and leaving care. Featuring the voices of care-experienced parents, together wi...
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Diverse Voices in Intellectual Property Law
Who gets to control culture, knowledge, and innovation? From patents over Indigenous traditional knowledge to appropriation of LGBTQ+ symbols, and copyright over translated fan works, intellectual property law sits at the heart of struggles over power, identity, and belonging. Yet these intersect...
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Reimagining Voluntary Sector Leadership
The voluntary sector plays a crucial role in shaping place, and is in turn shaped by that context, yet this ‘place leadership’ role has been underexplored in research. This interdisciplinary book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine this intriguing phenomenon in different...
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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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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 polit...
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Faith-Based Youth Work
Christian youth work is the largest sub-section of the youth work sector, with Christian youth workers having outnumbered secular youth workers in the UK for decades. Despite this, faith-based practice remains critically under-theorised and existing frameworks struggle to capture what truly disti...
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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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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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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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Youth Arts
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 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 Austral...
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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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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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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 multidisciplinary analysis of the problems generated by council tax and stamp duty, this book stres...
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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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Transdisciplinary Approaches in Social Work
Rooted in Eurocentric and North American beliefs, conventional social work theory increasingly fails to address the interconnected, global nature of contemporary social problems. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from across environmental studies, gender studies, philosophy, anthropolo...
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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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