Collection: Bristol University Press
-
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Combatting disability harassment at work
Persons with disabilities report high levels of harassment worldwide, often based on intersectional characteristics such as race, gender and age. However, while #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter have highlighted ongoing experiences of sexual and racial harassment, disability harassment has received li...
Read MoreRegular price $67.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $67.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Death, family and the law
When a death is investigated by a coroner, what is the place of the family in that process? This accessibly written book draws together empirical, theoretical and historical perspectives to develop a rich, nuanced analysis of the contemporary inquest system in England and Wales. It investigates t...
Read MoreRegular price $135.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $135.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
More-than-human aesthetics
In a present marked by planetary crisis, a radical rethinking of aesthetics is necessary. This inspirational collection proposes a new way of thinking about aesthetics as fundamental to cultivating more liveable futures. Drawing on the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Félix Guattari, t...
Read MoreRegular price $41.95Regular price $41.95 Sale price $41.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
University audit cultures and feminist praxis
Being ‘REF-able’. The impact agenda. The student experience. University audit culture has infiltrated academic life, but how should we respond? Drawing on a five-year Institutional Ethnography of UK universities, the author provides a feminist take on the neoliberal university and abolitionist r...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The immobility turn
This book looks at the changes that have taken place in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, following the lockdown of societies and imposition of border controls in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus. Using empirical evidence from Portugal, a geopolitically important point of intersectio...
Read MoreRegular price $67.95Regular price $67.95 Sale price $67.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Life and labour
What makes human activity meaningful? This book explores how social, economic and political forces have shaped the meaning of ‘occupation’ throughout history. Tracing the shift from industrial capitalism’s division of ‘work’ and ‘life,’ it analyses how movements for gender equality, labour rights...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Unchecked power?
Is the government really acting for the people? Or does this rhetoric simply justify an executive power-grab? For some, Boris Johnson’s premiership epitomised how far the UK’s democracy has been captured by populism and the Prime Minister seemed more concerned about fulfilling the wishes of the B...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Regular price $22.95 Sale price $22.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Researching happiness
In the past, happiness studies has been dominated by the work of philosophers, economists and psychologists, but more recently there has been a growing interest from social scientist into the natures of happiness and wellbeing. This original collection draws on the latest empirical research to ex...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Contested civil society in myanmar
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book centres on various contestations in Myanmar society and illustrates the ways in which these are reflected in civil society. The book offers a concise overview of recent political developments in the country, from the short-live...
Read MoreRegular price $41.95Regular price $41.95 Sale price $41.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Covert violence
Covert violence occurs in all social institutions—including families and close relationships, education, workplaces, politics, mass media, and healthcare—each with its own unique power dynamics that shape the incidence and patterns of these vicious acts. This book focuses on the types of surrepti...
Read MoreRegular price $41.95Regular price $41.95 Sale price $41.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Arctic justice
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Offering a unique introduction to the study of justice in the European, North American and Russian Arctic, this collection considers the responsibilities and failures of justice for environment and society in the region. Inspired by ...
Read MoreRegular price $41.95Regular price $41.95 Sale price $41.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Cities demanding the earth
This urgent book brings our cities to the fore in understanding the human input into climate change. The demands we are making on nature by living in cities has reached a crisis point and unless we make significant changes to address it, the prognosis is terminal consumption. Providing a radical...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Disrupting rape culture
Pussy grabbing; hot mommas; topless protest; nasty women. Whether hypersexualised, desexualised, venerated or maligned, women’s bodies in public space continue to be framed as a problem. A problem that is discursively ‘solved’ by the continued proliferation of rape culture in everyday life. Inde...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Wronged and dangerous
Recent years have seen the rapid spread of far-right movements across the globe. Far beyond Donald Trump, these movements are reshaping the physical world in ways that pose danger to everyone, regardless of their politics. But how is this happening, and why with such speed? The shocking answer t...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Liquid racism
Bauman argues that our lives are ruled by ambivalence. In this ambiguous world, liquified social structures can create an anxiety towards the ‘other.’ This innovative book takes Bauman’s notions of ‘liquid modernity’ one step further to develop a theory of ‘liquid racism’. The authors show that w...
Read MoreRegular price $38.95Regular price $38.95 Sale price $38.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Mental capacity law, sexual relationships, and intimacy
Questions as to the mental capacity of an individual to consent to sex are an increasingly important aspect of legal scholarship and professional practice for those working in care. Recent case law has added new layers of complexity, requiring that a person must be able to understand that the oth...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Organizing women
This book explores the representation of women and their interests in the world of work across four trade unions in France and the UK. Drawing on case studies of the careers of 100 activists and a longitudinal study of the trade unions' struggle for equal pay in the UK, it unveils the social, or...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Transforming protection
Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) is practised globally by civilians protecting fellow civilians without the use of weapons. This book argues that while UCP is useful and transformative in its own right, its principles and values mean it has the potential to transform our responses in a range of ...
Read MoreRegular price $40.95Regular price $40.95 Sale price $40.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Pandemic societies
From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new challenges but the responses are often similar. This important book explores the dimensions, dynamics and implications of emerging pandemic societies. ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
What are markets for?
A new perspective on the role of the market, and its future place in society. Markets are apparently straightforward: they connect buyers to sellers. But their operation is complex, depending on places, things, networks and performances. Belief in markets is a cultural and political ideology. The...
Read MoreRegular price $13.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $13.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The encyclopedia of rural crime
The key reference guide to rural crime and rural justice, this encyclopedia includes 85 concise and informative entries covering rural crime theories, offences and control. It is divided into five complementary sections: • theories of rural crime; • rural crime studies; • rural criminal justice ...
Read MoreRegular price $44.95Regular price $44.95 Sale price $44.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Dark tourism and rural crime
Bringing a unique rural lens to the analysis of dark tourism in Australia, this book covers a range of sites including convict museums, sites of serial killings and colonial violence, ghost tours and the emerging tourism of bushfire sites. While some rural communities develop a ‘dark tourism stra...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Menopause transitions and the workplace
The symptoms of menopause transitions have profound implications for work and are, in turn, affected by work. Despite this, the topic is rarely discussed in management and organization studies. Providing an overview of existing knowledge in the field of menopause in the workplace, this collectio...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Introduction to convict criminology
Convict criminology (CC) is based on the belief that the convict’s voice has been traditionally ignored or marginalized in scholarship and policy debates, and that its inclusion can positively impact the fields of corrections, criminology, criminal justice, and policy making. Designed for student...
Read MoreRegular price $41.95Regular price $41.95 Sale price $41.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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...
Read MoreRegular price $104.95Regular price $104.95 Sale price $104.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Decolonizing queer migration
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What happens to sexual and gender identities when crossing borders under duress? This book offers an unprecedented account of how forced migration shapes the lives of queer Iranian individuals. Tracing movements from Iran through transiti...
Read MoreRegular price $44.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $44.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Gender-based violence and rurality in the 21st century
Gender-based violence (GBV) can take many forms and have detrimental effects across generations and cultures. The triangulation of GBV, rurality and rural culture is a challenging and essential topic and this edited collection provides an innovative analysis of GBV in rural communities. Focusing...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
European white-collar crime
From corporate corruption and the facilitation of money laundering, to food fraud and labour exploitation, European citizens continue to be confronted by serious corporate and white-collar crimes. Presenting an original series of provocative essays, this book offers a European framing of white-c...
Read MoreRegular price $135.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $135.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
What is the welfare state for?
Most states in the world make some provision for the welfare of their citizens. Every state engages with health care provision, almost all provide education services, and, after an explosion of interest in recent years, a substantial majority now have national schemes in place for cash assistanc...
Read MoreRegular price $13.95Regular price $13.95 Sale price $13.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Work and industrial relations policy in australia
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the institutions and processes shaping work, labour markets and industrial relations policies in Australia. It explores traditional industrial relations issues and examines social change and policy failures in areas such as gender, work and family ...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Politics and policy making in the uk
Over the past decade, the UK has experienced major policy and policy making change. This text examines this shifting political and policy landscape while also highlighting the features of UK politics that have endured. Written by Paul Cairney and Sean Kippin, leading voices in UK public policy a...
Read MoreRegular price $40.95Regular price $40.95 Sale price $40.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Nato’s northern enlargement
Europe’s security environment was fundamentally altered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which gave fresh impetus to states to apply for NATO membership. This book, written by leading experts on European defence, analyses NATO’s northern expansion, detailing the unique dynamics that forged Finland...
Read MoreRegular price $67.95Regular price $67.95 Sale price $67.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Higher education in small islands
This collection pinpoints the intersecting concerns of higher education studies and island studies. It argues for the value of the small island for exploring research and practice in higher education. Presenting analysis of higher education provision in a range of island contexts from across the ...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Social media and the automatic production of memory
Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They repackage our past content as ‘memories’ and deliver them back to us. But how does that change the way we remember? Drawing on original qualitative research as well as industry documents and reports, this book cr...
Read MoreRegular price $67.95Regular price $67.95 Sale price $67.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Sharing milk
The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this d...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Constitutional fracture
This book presents cutting-edge analysis of one of the most significant constitutional crises in recent British history: the prolonged and intense struggle between government and parliament for control over Brexit. It argues the crisis was very largely caused by the emergence of an Executive-cent...
Read MoreRegular price $128.00Regular price $0.00 Sale price $128.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Street life as labour
Drawing from the stories of survival within the cities of the Global South like Accra, Ghana, this book sheds light on the extraordinary resolve of street and working children and redefines the street as a resource on which they build their lives.
Regular price $38.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $38.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Working through ageing
Growing up and older at work is something we all experience, yet it remains surprisingly overlooked and under theorized in management and organization studies. In this groundbreaking book, Kathleen Riach draws on a 10 year longitudinal study to offer fresh theoretical and empirical insights into...
Read MoreRegular price $38.95Regular price $38.95 Sale price $38.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Reluctance in world politics
Why do international actors, including powerful states, often fail to develop clear foreign policies and instead adopt indecisive, ‘muddling-through’ approaches? This book develops a concept and a theory of reluctance in world politics. Applying it to the study of regional crisis management by l...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The soul of a university
What is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence. The current obsession with rankings and league tables has perpetuated inequality and is preventing social mobil...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Regular price $22.95 Sale price $22.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Russia, the council of europe and the european convention on human rights
In March 2022, following the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe after 26 years as a member. This timely and in-depth analysis explores Russia's tumultuous relationship with the Council of Europe and European Court of Human Rights. It examines Russia’s membership ...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Intersections of housing precarity, health and wellbeing in diverse global settings
This book examines the specific manifestations and causes of housing precarity across a diverse range of geographic settings and housing types. Housing has been in crisis across the globe for decades. Precarious housing is defined as that which fails to provide an adequate standard of living to ...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Lawless borders
Immigration control in the West has increasingly focused on preventing migrants from reaching the external border and the territory of states. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the evolving preventive immigration control system and highlights the many ways in which contemporary border co...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Middle powers in asia pacific multilateralism
Drawing on insights from differentiation theory, this book examines the participation of middle powers in multilateralism. Taking Australia, Indonesia and South Korea as examples, the book examines these countries’ roles in regional organizations, and particularly during the creation of the Asia...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
City, space and trade unionism
How does collective action shape economic landscapes? This book examines the transformation of the workers' movement in Spain’s metal sector, one of the country’s most unionised industries. Having faced restructuring, delocalization, subcontracting and increasing precarity, metalworkers in Cádiz ...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Shaping peacebuilding in colombia
During the second half of the 20th century, Colombia suffered extreme levels of political violence. This book explores the involvement of the international community in peacebuilding efforts in Colombia since 2016. In particular, it examines how interventions were framed in order to promote and s...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
A hierarchical vision of order
China’s vision for international order is a matter of great global interest. This book analyses China’s vision for foreign policy and how it is seeking to achieve its goals with its immediate neighbours. The book provides a historically informed account by examining the legacy of China’s imperia...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Postgrowth digital futures
How can digital technologies help address ecological crises instead of making them worse? This book offers a bold vision for a fairer, greener digital future. Drawing on degrowth and postgrowth ideas, it challenges capitalism’s model of endless growth by focusing on limits, sharing and radical a...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $34.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The trust gap
The idea that a wave of distrust has swept over established democracies in recent years is commonly accepted. This book presents a contrary view. Drawing on various datasets, it reveals a disconnect between the popular commentary and the empirical reality. The Trust Gap suggests that the most ext...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Property in contemporary capitalism
Amid the shift towards neoliberalism and the privatization of resources, this book provides a radical new lens to view property and property theory. Boldly challenging the conventional theories of property law that have shaped our understanding for centuries, leading expert Paddy Ireland explores...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The criminology of boxing, violence and desistance
Can the boxing gym be recognised as an effective space for supporting desistance? Exploring the psychosocial manifestations of boxing, this enlightening study reviews conflicting evidence to determine boxing’s place in the criminal justice system. Drawing upon the empirical insights, with case ...
Read MoreRegular price $45.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $45.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Interpretive sociology and the semiotic imagination
Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields have productively incorporated semiotic models, sociology still needs to engage with semiotic mediation. Written by a diverse group of authors in interpretive socio...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The practice of collective escape
Escape is an enticing idea in contemporary cities across the world. Austerity, climate breakdown and spatial stigma have led to retreatist behaviours such as gated communities, enclave urbanism and white flight. By contrast, urban community growing projects are often considered by practitioners a...
Read MoreRegular price $40.95Regular price $40.95 Sale price $40.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The south asia to gulf migration governance complex
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Gulf is a major global destination for migrant workers, with a majority of these workers coming from South Asia. In this book, a team of international contributors examine the often-overlooked complex governance of this migration ...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Crimes of the powerful and the contemporary condition
The ultimate expression of power is the ability to act beyond the confines of law, with contemporary society enabling elite groups to wield “panoramic power”. From the murderous crimes of the corporate giants that provide us with life’s luxuries and necessities to the data gathering activities of...
Read MoreRegular price $41.95Regular price $41.95 Sale price $41.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Care-politics
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores the many ways care shapes design and technology. With a new typology of care-politics and real-world case studies, it offers fresh ideas and practical tools for rethinking ethics, creativity and collaboration in resear...
Read MoreRegular price $44.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $44.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Mundania
Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Digital services, platforms and arrangements are often promoted as smooth and convenient, smart or intelligent. When introduced, devices can appear utterly fascinating or awkward, even disquieting. Eventually, however, they soon disappe...
Read MoreRegular price $38.95Regular price $38.95 Sale price $38.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Law and society in a populist age
The law-based, political institutions in many democratic societies are being challenged by fast-growing populist movements, parties, and leaders. In other nations, the state is failing. These seismic changes call for greater attention to be paid to the role society plays in forming and challengin...
Read MoreRegular price $14.95Regular price $14.95 Sale price $14.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Criminal women
Accounts of female offenders’ journeys into the criminal justice system are often silenced or marginalized. Featuring a Foreword from Pat Carlen and inspired by her seminal book ‘Criminal Women’, this collection uses participatory, inclusive and narrative methodologies to highlight the lived exp...
Read MoreRegular price $38.95Regular price $38.95 Sale price $38.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
How to build a stock exchange
Why is finance so important? How do stock markets work and what do they really do? Most importantly, what might finance be and what could we expect from it? Exploring contemporary finance via the development of stock exchanges, markets and the links with states, Roscoe mingles historical and tech...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Life and strife in the urban night
This book offers a vivid, critical exploration of young adults’ experiences of the contemporary night-time economy, drawing on rich ethnographic research from Stoke-on-Trent. Adopting recent conceptual advancements in ultra-realism, critical criminology and psychoanalytic theory, it examines how ...
Read MoreRegular price $67.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $67.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Life and death in latin american cities
The infrastructure of death is an undeniable part of urban life, yet it is often overlooked in the study of cities. This book explores the intricate dynamics between the living and the dead in six Latin American cities: Bogotá, Medellín, Lima, Buenos Aires, Quetzaltenango and Cuenca. Drawing on m...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Capitalism’s dark complexion
Has capitalism always partnered with race? This book examines how capitalism operates through racialised structures across different moments in global history. Moving beyond conventional class-based analyses, the book deepens our understanding of capitalism’s effects by exploring how race has be...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Why minor powers risk wars with major powers
Through a range of case studies spanning the post-Cold War period in Iraq, Moldova and Serbia, this innovative book breaks new ground in its study of asymmetric conflicts where warring sides exhibit vast power differentials. It uses multiple theories to examine the different pathways that encoura...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Social movements and politics during covid-19
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply shaken societies and lives around the world. This powerful book reveals how the pandemic has intensified socio-economic problems and inequalities across the world whilst offering visions for a better ...
Read MoreRegular price $134.95Regular price $134.95 Sale price $134.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Post-corona capitalism
The COVID-19 pandemic is a Rorschach test for society: everyone sees something different in it, and the range of political and economic responses to the crisis can leave us feeling overwhelmed. This book cuts through the confusion, dissecting the new post-coronavirus capitalism into several polic...
Read MoreRegular price $38.95Regular price $38.95 Sale price $38.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The trouble with jokes
We’re accustomed to seeing humour as a diversion from the serious side of life, but humour also permeates some of the most troubling political developments in recent years. From the resurgence of white nationalism to the erosion of democratic norms, jokes force-feed us objectionable ideologies wh...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Island criminology
Winner of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Christine M. Alder Book Award 2025. Ten percent of the world’s population lives on islands, but until now the place and space characteristics of islands in criminological theory have not been deeply considered. This book moves beyond...
Read MoreRegular price $35.95Regular price $35.95 Sale price $35.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Beyond the biopolitics of development
This book offers a thoughtful, original critique of how contemporary development practices govern life under global capitalism. Drawing on Heideggerian historical ontology and decolonial thought, it rethinks the foundations of biopolitical critique and explores how development discourse operates...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Civil society and intergovernmental negotiations at the united nations
EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-governmental organizations have increased at the United Nations (UN) since the 1990s. Yet few studies discuss the notion of inclusion and what it entails in intergovernmental negotiations. Th...
Read MoreRegular price $44.95Regular price $44.95 Sale price $44.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
What is the monarchy for?
Does the British monarchy still have a place in today’s society? Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ‘exit’ cast light on institutional racism, multiple allegations around Prince Andrew highlighted troubling attitudes to gender and power, while the abolition of monarchy in Barbados accentuated its ...
Read MoreRegular price $13.95Regular price $13.95 Sale price $13.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Global neoliberal capitalism and the alternatives
The twentieth century was an era of socialist revolutionary transformations and significant social-democratic reforms. By the twenty-first century, these socialist inspired movements have largely disappeared, their ideologies have been disavowed, and their institutions dismantled and replaced by ...
Read MoreRegular price $32.95Regular price $32.95 Sale price $32.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The sociology of contemporary work
This book injects a burst of energy into the sociology of work, offering a perspective that is both innovative and deeply informed. Leading sociology of work scholar, Marek Korczynski, praises the discipline’s comprehensive approach to theory, its focus on uncovering power dynamics and its abilit...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $119.95 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Being human during covid-19
Cutting across disciplines from science and technology studies to the arts and humanities, this thought-provoking collection engages with key issues of social exclusion, inequality, power and knowledge in the context of COVID-19. The authors use the crisis as a lens to explore the contours of con...
Read MoreRegular price $67.95Regular price $67.95 Sale price $67.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The logic of professionalism
This book discusses common management and work practices in professional service organizations. Alvehus opens important discussions on what it means to work, manage, and be managed in such professional organizations, casting light on classic conflicts. He takes everyday work as a starting point ...
Read MoreRegular price $40.95Regular price $40.95 Sale price $40.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Ricardo’s dream
From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from? Ricardo’s Dream tells the fascinating story of David Ricardo, Adam Smith’s only real rival as the ‘founder of economics’. The wealthiest stock tra...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Regular price $22.95 Sale price $22.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Sustainable human development across the life course
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today but also provide a window into the future for all of us. This book presents impactful findin...
Read MoreRegular price $44.95Regular price $44.95 Sale price $44.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Refugees, self-reliance, development
Evan Easton-Calabria’s critical history of refugee self-reliance assistance brings new dimensions to refugee and international development studies. The promotion of refugee self-reliance is evident today, yet its history remains largely unexplored, with good practices and longstanding issues oft...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The limits of europe
Is the European Union (EU) in a state of crisis? Over recent years, a series of systemic and spontaneous challenges, including Brexit, the rise of Euroscepticism and the Eurozone and refugee crises, have manifested in landmark moments for European integration. First published as a special issue ...
Read MoreRegular price $135.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $135.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Human perception and digital information technologies
Computational media govern our experiences by externalizing our knowledge and memories, mining data from our behaviour to influence our decision-making, and creating emotionally rewarding and sensory pleasures. But does that mean human perception is becoming a product of human-machine symbiosis i...
Read MoreRegular price $127.95Regular price $127.95 Sale price $127.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Lost in transition
This book examines the contradictions in the narratives surrounding the post-socialist transition in Eastern Europe. While countries such as Poland and Hungary are hailed as successful transitions to liberal democracies, they are also seen as semi-authoritarian regimes undermining democracy. The...
Read MoreRegular price $119.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $119.95Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Nigerian security
Despite Nigeria’s critical position in African security, academics and policymakers globally often overlook the gravity of its security challenges. This book examines Nigeria’s survival and its implications on international security. It uses the Nigerian case to contribute to a broader understan...
Read MoreRegular price $41.95Regular price $41.95 Sale price $41.95Unit price / per

































































































































































