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A leader-centered theory of foreign policy change
Foreign policy analysis is a major part of international relations scholarship, yet many models are ill-equipped to examine the effects of individual leadership on policy. Written by a leading figure in the field, this innovative account challenges traditional views in international relations by ...
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All roads lead to serfdom
Liberal democracies are under increasing pressure. Growing discontent about inequality, lack of political participation and identity have rekindled populism and a shift away from liberal values. This book argues that liberalism’s reliance on a utilitarian policy framework has resulted in increas...
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The material geographies of the belt and road initiative
EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or creating new trading routes and large developments across the globe. It is estimated to cost up to U...
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Infrastructuring urban futures
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infra...
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Disability, education and international development
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 education in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, offering a roadmap for ...
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One woman’s story of violence
What can we learn from those who have acted violently and what can be gained from giving them a voice? This book, translated from the Italian, takes readers inside the rarely heard world of violent offenders, exploring the story of Stefania Albertani who was convicted of killing her older sister ...
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Key issues in african diplomacy
Africa’s unique position as an international diplomatic actor has not always been given the attention it deserves. This volume bridges this gap by offering a fresh, comprehensive and realistic overview of African diplomacy. The book examines African diplomatic practice. Chapters explore how diff...
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Giving voice to diversity in criminological research
The people most impacted by criminal justice policies and practices are seldom included in the decision-making processes that affect their lives. Building on the ‘nothing about us without us’ social movement, this edited volume advocates an inclusive approach to criminology that gives voice to hi...
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Deprivation of liberty in the shadows of the institution
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the 20th century the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was not always accompanied by liberation from restrictive practices. In 2014 a UK Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of ‘d...
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Responsibility beyond growth
Critically assessing growth-based models of innovation policy, this enlightening study sparks new debate on the role and nature of responsible innovation. Drawing on insights from economics, politics, and science and technology studies, it proposes the concept of 'responsible stagnation' as an ex...
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Resisting ai
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current crises, AI causes divisions that limit people’s life chances, and even suggests fascistic solutions to social problems. This book provides an analysi...
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Reimagining black art and criminology
It is time to disrupt current criminological discourses which still exclude the perspectives of black scholars. Through the lens of black art, Martin Glynn explores the relevance black artistic contributions have for understanding crime and justice. Through art forms including black crime fiction...
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Rural criminology in global perspective
This timely collection crosses international boundaries to highlight criminological issues with a rural focus. Using a variety of different perspectives, the contributors offer lessons from research on rural crime, justice and security from the seven continents with a macroscopic perspective on ...
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Job insecurity and life courses
The relationship between unstable work careers and family transitions into adult life can vary according to the personal circumstances of individuals, as well as the welfare state system of the country. Drawing from interviews and survey data across the EU and the UK, this in-depth study explore...
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Critical perspectives on research with children
This collection explores leading values and concepts in global child-based research through the lens of reflexivity. The book considers issues such as the identities and roles of researchers, as well as the burdens, boundaries, and ethical frameworks which govern their activities. Using empirical...
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Governing climate mobility in africa
Available open access digitally under CC BY NC ND licence. Climate change is often understood as a main driver of human mobility in Africa, but this book demonstrates the many other factors that also come into play in households´ mobility practices including those linked to gender, finance and li...
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The life of a number
Do numbers have a life of their own or do we give them meaning? How do data play a role in constructing people’s perceptions of the world around them? How far can we trust numbers to speak truth to power? The COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique moment to answer these questions. This book examines ...
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Labour conflicts in the digital age
From Deliveroo to Amazon, digital platforms have drastically transformed the way we work. But how are these transformations being received and challenged by workers? This book provides a radical interpretation of the changing nature of worker movements in the digital age, developing an invaluable...
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Science societies
What role do science and technology play in society? What is the nature of expert knowledge? What is science’s relation to democracy? This introduction to science, technology, and society answers these questions, and more, by exploring contemporary research on topics such as expertise, activism, ...
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The public and their platforms
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world. It recon...
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Surviving everyday life
Moving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is experienced, what people consider existential t...
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Generative justice
This edited collection explores the concept of Generative Justice and how it might help us reimagine conventional responses to crime and state punishment. With case studies from the Global North and South, it offers insights into how, within different cultural contexts, justice-involved people fi...
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Realism and the climate crisis
In the teeth of climate emergency, hope has to remain possible, because life insists on it. But hope also has to be realistic. And doesn’t realism about our plight point towards despair? Don’t the timid politicians, the failed summits and the locked-in consumerism all just mean that we have left ...
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Suicide in popular media and culture
Popular media are powerful mirrors and makers of meaning around suicide. This book brings together scholars from across disciplines to examine how suicide is mythologized, politicized and challenged across film, TV, young adult literature, digital platforms, online communities, and more. From new...
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What is space exploration for?
Argues that space exploration offers numerous benefits to scientific understanding including climate change and that expansion beyond Earth may have other, long-term advantages for civilisation In an era of unprecedented climate challenges, should we still be trying to explore space or should al...
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Can migration studies be decolonized?
What does it really mean to ‘decolonize’ migration studies? Often the term is used as a slogan, without asking whether it genuinely changes research or simply replaces one dominant framework with another. This book explores when decolonial approaches create new openings and when they risk shuttin...
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Neoliberalism and urban regeneration
London is a major global city which attracts a massive influx of capital while concentrating power and wealth in the hands of the few. Meanwhile, many communities suffer housing shortages, poverty and dispossession. How can its diverse communities fight back against exclusionary regeneration proj...
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The ethics of ai
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In a world where artificial intelligence increasingly influences the fabric of our daily lives, this accessible book offers a critical examination of AI and its deep entanglement with power structures. Rather than focusing on doomsday sce...
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Nanny families
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence Paying privately for childcare is a growing phenomenon worldwide, a trend mirrored in Sweden despite the prevalence there of publicly funded daycare. This book combines theories of family practices, care and childhood studies with the personal perspect...
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Legacies of the lost in criminology
This powerful and reflective book explores the losses encountered during social research—of people, communities and environments—collectively referred to as The Lost. Drawing on the contributors’ varied research experiences, it gives voice to lives marked by marginalisation, trauma or quiet disap...
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Chess club, drama club
Uses real-life stories, business insights and practical exercises to harness the power of inclusive teams that balance creativity and structure using the concept of 'Club Mix' Chess Club or Drama Club: which would you rather join? Do you focus on the detail or prefer to imagine the bigger pictur...
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Making eu foreign policy go round
This book provides fresh insight into multilateral diplomacy, revealing how informal cooperation—not just formal mechanisms —drives EU foreign policy success. Drawing on interviews with diplomats and analysis of critical cases, including sanctions against Russia and Ukraine response coordination,...
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Algorithms of war
Shows the human impact of war through the voices of the victims themselves. AI and algorithms now drive modern warfare, shaping surveillance and targeting. While promising precision, these systems often mask significant, hidden civilian harm. Algorithms of War moves past the binary debate of proh...
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Embodying irish abortion reform
Embodying Irish Abortion Reform has been shortlisted for the 2025 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Offering a unique perspective, this book explores the lived, embodied and affective experiences of reproductive rights activists living under, and mobilizing against, Ireland’s constitutional abort...
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The global governance of harmful practices
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. While gender-based violence is not new, it has only recently come to the centre of global policy efforts. This book examines three pervasive forms of harmful practices prevalent across the world: child marriage, female genital mutilation,...
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Adult social care law and policy
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book provides an in-depth sociolegal examination of adult social care law and policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the tensions between legislation, policy, and practice in what was already an under-resourced and overstre...
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Politics and administrative justice
In recent years, failures in health and social care, mental health services, public housing and education have dominated headlines and been the subject of much public debate. The means for addressing such concerns remain notably legalistic and subject to a particular brand of liberal legalism tha...
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Revealing relations
Available open access digitally under CC BY-NC-ND licence. Do our tools for knowing about the world actually obscure important knowledge? This book uncovers how knowledge infrastructures—including satellite tracking, climate models, machine learning and citizen science apps—shape our understand...
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Controversial encounters in the age of algorithms
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we have meaningful public conversations in the algorithmic age? This book explores how digital technologies shape our opinions and interactions, often in ways that limit our exposure to diverse perspectives and fuel polarization....
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You must become an algorithmic problem
In the age of AI, where personal data fuels corporate profits and state surveillance, what are the implications for democracy? This incisive book explores the unspoken agreement we have with tech companies. In exchange for reducing the anxiety of an increasingly complex online world, we submit t...
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Exploring the use of electronic monitoring for women
The use of electronic monitoring (EM) in England and Wales has largely been driven by technological advances rather than a consideration of the specific needs of criminal justice-involved women. This is the first book to explore the impact EM has on women, using interview data to analyse complian...
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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...
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Envisioning abolition
Abolitionist thought visualizes a world without prisons – or a radical reduction or transformation of prisons and punishment. This fascinating book explores the abolitionist ideas of key early socialists and anarchists, writing from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. It considers how thes...
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Abolitionist voices
Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment? And why have their ideas been so difficult to popularize or garner the political will for change? This book outlines several different approaches to penal abolitionism and showcases their calls for the ending...
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The politics of intersectional practice
The Politics of Intersectional Practice has been shortlisted for the 2025 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize and Mackenzie Book Prize. It is increasingly recognized that, to achieve social justice, policies and organizations need to apply an intersectional approach, rather than addressing inequalit...
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Analysing contemporary society through lived utopia
Winner of the Thomas A. Herz Prize for Qualitative Research and the Habilitation Prize. What if utopia wasn't a distant dream, but already unfolding around us? Focusing on South Africa, this compelling book rethinks utopia not as a fictional unreachable future, but as a lived practice – emerging...
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The dilemma of nationalism in central and eastern europe
This book delivers a compelling analysis of how Central and Eastern European nations work to reclaim their political and national identities after decades of communist rule. It reveals the historical, cultural and political factors that make nationalism particularly salient in the region, examini...
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Enacting citizenship and solidarity
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How are urban social movements engaging in local politics to tackle the multiple crises in Europe? This timely volume explores how grassroots actors across eleven European cities forge new forms of solidarity and enact citizenship at loca...
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Genetically edited children and the risks to equality
Advances in heritable genome editing, such as with CRISPR-Cas9, promise to ensure that some possible future children with genetic disorders are not created — but at what cost to equality? If only certain kinds of people are brought into existence, do we risk undermining the very foundations of so...
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International organizations and small states
International Organizations (IOs) are vital institutions in world politics in which cross-border issues can be discussed and global problems managed. This path-breaking book shows the efforts that small states have made to participate more fully in IO activities. It draws attention to the challe...
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Education in emergencies
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book provides a critical reflection on the relationship between education, conflict, war and peace and the global actors and practitioners that have devised strategies to engage and support education systems in conflict-affected cont...
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Governing nature and the making of world order
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How have efforts to govern nature and address urgent global environmental challenges shaped, transformed or undermined processes of world ordering? Chapters in this book explore how efforts to govern nature have transformed – or are tran...
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All we want is the earth
Sixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism. In subsequent decades, environmentalism consolidated into forms of management and business strategy that aimed to tackle ecological degradation while enabling new forms of green economic growt...
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Parents, children, and the ripples of transitional justice
This pioneering collection breaks new ground by examining how post-atrocity justice affects and is informed by familial relationships, particularly between parents and children. Moving beyond traditional discussions of victims and perpetrators, this volume centres the dynamics of care, responsib...
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Comparative foreign policy analysis revisited
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Moving beyond Western-centric perspectives, this book presents novel theoretical angles on Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). Chapters demonstrate how comparative analysis can decentre scholarship traditionally dominated by US political cont...
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Mapping good work
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence In this enlightening study of modern working lives in Britain, leading experts on the sociology of work draw on detailed statistical analyses to assess job quality and job satisfaction. Drawing on decades of research data on hundreds of occupational...
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The waste of the world
Despite frequent claims that waste is being reduced, consumer-reliant economies, everyday consumption and the waste industry continue to produce and demand more waste. Combining a lucid style with robust empirical and theoretical research, this book examines the root causes of the global waste pr...
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Capital and the international
The modern globalised world is composed of two universal structures, the capitalist world-market and the international states-system. The fundamental question for understanding this globalised condition is why these two structures, capital and the international, exist together, forming a single s...
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Post-carbon inclusion
This collection pays unique attention to the highly challenging problems of addressing inequality within decarbonisation – particularly under-explored aspects, such as high consumption, degrowth approaches and perverse outcomes. Contributors point out means and possibilities of the transition fr...
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African perspectives on school leadership, management and governance
Addressing colonial legacies that dislodged Indigenous cultural values, identities and linguistic connections, this book presents groundbreaking solutions for contemporary African education challenges. Bringing together contributors across Africa, including researchers, practitioners and policy m...
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