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Broken Records
This timely book examines the lasting impact of criminal records and punishment in Canada, focusing on the barriers that prevent criminalized people from moving forward in their lives. It explores the flawed reliance on criminal records to predict risk and the social exclusion this creates, parti...
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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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Feminist Urban Policies and Grassroots Initiatives in Latin America
This groundbreaking collection examines how feminist urbanism is transforming Latin American cities through innovative care policies and grassroots organizing. Drawing on cases from Mexico City, Bogotá, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and beyond, the book reveals how feminist activists, bureaucrats an...
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City Governance After Dark
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how Australian cities govern and shape their Night-Time Economies (NTEs), focusing on Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart. Blending historical context, policy analysis and original empirical research, it reveals how these cities balance safety, vibrancy and...
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Geopolitics in the Anthropocene
This timely and original book puts the ‘geo’ back into geopolitics, placing environmental resources at the heart of global power, and demonstrating how struggles over energy, water and critical minerals are reshaping the planet. International case studies show how state sovereignty is hollowed ou...
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Same-sex Marriage and Heterosexuality in Taiwan
This book explores the narratives of heterosexuality that emerged during Taiwan’s same-sex marriage debate, culminating in the landmark legalization of same-sex marriage in 2019. Drawing on official transcripts from public hearings, forums and deliberative discussions, it treats the debate as a ...
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Borders, Displacement and Higher Education
What happens when universities become both sites of opportunity and extensions of the border? The Higher Education Border (HEB) offers a new way of understanding the collective, multi-layered barriers that exclude forced migrants from university. It explores a central contradiction: universities ...
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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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Queer Migration and European Colonial Bordering
The governance of queer migration and asylum in Europe has been shaped by colonial legacies of racial, sexual, and gendered othering. Central to these legacies is the demand - reproduced in humanitarianism and beyond - that queer migrants render their private lives visible to receive hospitality,...
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Girlhoods and Social Action
Working-class girls make vital contributions to society through social action, yet their efforts are too often rendered invisible or unrecognised. Girlhoods and Social Action confronts the persistent inequalities shaping participation, revealing how intersecting power relations related to gender,...
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Platforms, Sex, Work
How is online sex work being reshaped by the rise of platform labour and the gig economy? In this book, Helen Rand examines the legal, economic, cultural and technological forces shaping online sex markets and the lived experiences of those working within them. Drawing on qualitative interviews ...
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Feminist Machine Learning
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Machine learning shapes what we see, know and decide, yet the processes through which it operates often remain obscure. This bold and original book brings feminist theories of knowledge into direct dialogue with algorithmic systems desig...
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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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The Debt Cycle
This book exposes how, in our increasingly fintech-dominated societies, money quietly governs our everyday lives. Exploring digital payments, cashless systems and the growing reach of financial surveillance, it reveals a new form of power rooted in the risks, obligations and visibilities attached...
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Ethics, Equity and Community Development
This book offers a unique focus on the everyday ethics of community development practice in the context of local and global struggles for equity and social justice. Contributors from around the world (from India to the Netherlands and USA) grapple with ethical dilemmas and tensions, including ho...
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The Politics of Pride Events
Pride events have become a powerful global symbol of LGBTQIA+ visibility, celebrated in settings ranging from urban centres to remote villages across the Global North and South. Drawing on decolonial theories, this book examines the complex relationship between Pride and modernity while addressin...
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Beyond Pro-life and Pro-choice
Examining the changing pluralities of contemporary abortion debate in Britain, this innovative and important book shows why it is necessary to move beyond an understanding of abortion politics as characterised in binary terms by ‘pro-choice’ versus ‘pro-life’. Amery traces the evolution of polit...
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The Politics of Children's Services Reform
Drawing on unique access to prominent policy makers including ministers, senior civil servants, local authority directors, and the leaders of children’s sector NGOs, Purcell re-examines two decades of children’s services reform under both Labour and Conservative-led governments. He closely examin...
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A Child’s Day
We routinely judge how well children are doing in their lives by how they spend their time, yet we know remarkably little about it. This rigorous review of four decades of data provides the clearest insights yet into the way children use their time. With analysis of changes in the time spent on f...
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What Matters in Policing?
Policing is at a turbulent turning point: the pace of change is accelerating with renewed emphasis on crime reduction yet with austerity. This topical book examines what matters in policing, rather than just what works. It compares the implications of restructuring in the UK and The Netherlands, ...
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Non-Binary Genders
Methodologically innovative in its use of mixed-media diary research, this timely book offers a focused sociological study of non-binary people’s identities and experiences in the UK. From negotiating a sense of legitimacy when ‘not feeling trans enough’ to how identities can shift over time, it...
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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...
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Troublemakers
The launch of the Troubled Families Programme in the wake of the 2011 riots conflated poor and disadvantaged families with anti-social and criminal families. The programme aimed to ‘turn around’ the lives of the country’s most ‘troubled families’, at a time of austerity and wide-ranging welfare r...
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Podcasting as a Research Method
This pioneering guide explores podcasting as a powerful tool for data collection and knowledge production, demonstrating the value of the medium as a qualitative research method. The book introduces three novel approaches: podcasting as participatory action research, enabling collaboration and pu...
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End of the Road
Since the earliest days of civilization, streets have played an important role in shaping society – but what is a street? Is it a living ecosystem, a public space, a social space, an economic space or a combination of these? The focus on automotive travel over the past century has changed the rol...
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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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Imagining Society
Re-examining C.Wright Mills’s legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline. It makes a case for the importance of developing a sociological imagination and provides the steps for how...
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Migration, Asylum and Exploitation
Beginning with the forced deportation of refugee women from Rome to Lagos in 2015, this book builds a compelling case for an intersectional rethinking of migration and refugee law. Grounded in women’s lived experiences of borders, it exposes the deep interconnections between mobility, labour and ...
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Detention and Deportation in Europe
This powerful volume brings together scholars, activists, artists and experts-by-experience offering a radical critique of immigration detention and border carceral regimes more broadly, testifying to their inherent harms. The contributors critically examine how COVID-19 intensified state control...
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Prison Education in England and Wales
This timely book examines education in Young Offenders Institutions and adult prisons in England and Wales, addressing concerns raised in recent inspection reports about quality and inclusivity. It explores barriers to learning, with a unique focus on reading development and the implications of t...
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Funding, Power and Community Development
This edited collection critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice. International contributions from activists, practitioners and academics consider the evolution of funding in community development and how ...
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Managing Community Practice
Community involvement is now at the centre of the UK government's social inclusion, neighbourhood renewal and health development programmes, resulting in many challenges for managers involved in such work. The bestselling first edition of this book discussed the meaning, principles and applicatio...
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Insights Into Creative and Participatory Research
As social scientists increasingly turn to creative and participatory methods, this timely book explores their power to democratise research, amplify participant voices and drive meaningful impact. Bridging theory and practice, it offers a critical overview of methodological innovation and showca...
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Housing Inequality in the 21st Century
Why does housing inequality persist in one of the world’s wealthiest nations? This book exposes how deep-rooted political and economic forces continue to shape unequal housing outcomes in the UK. Moving beyond headlines and policy snapshots, it uncovers how housing inequality is embedded more bro...
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Migrant, Habitus
Every migrant journey reshapes both the people undergoing it and the places it encounters. This book explores how Lebanese-Australians navigate settlement as they rework the resources they bring and acquire new ones. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research across generations, it highlights th...
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The Modern World After Colonialism
What does it mean for the social sciences to take colonialism seriously – not just as an issue of the past, but in terms of its continuing consequences in the present? While calls to decolonize the curriculum are increasing, few resources show what this means in terms of the everyday categories a...
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Why Detroit Matters
Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger. Why Detroit ...
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How to Tackle Poverty with Co-Produced Activism
Can we truly address poverty without centring the voices of those who live it? Bringing together voices from academia, grassroots activism, NGOs and the UK voluntary sector, this timely and accessible book explores how participatory approaches to activism can drive genuine, inclusive change. Thr...
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Food Porn
Is food porn a vibrant and democratic new expression of modern food culture or a superficial addition to an image-saturated world? Tracing its origins from the 1970s to today, this timely book examines the evolution of food porn as a desire-inducing aesthetic practice and a visually extravagant f...
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Infrastructures of Informal Care
Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices. Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governan...
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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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Adultism
Despite global advances in children’s rights, young people are routinely disregarded, overpowered and excluded. This persistent discrimination – known as adultism – permeates family life, education, urban design, legal systems and political discourse. In this groundbreaking book, the authors pro...
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Beyond Woke and Anti-Woke
Many rail against ‘woke’ ideology. Others dismiss the backlash as a rebranding of conservative concerns. Taking a third way, this book argues that social justice ideology centres identity and direct action and expands concepts of harm, distinguishing it from liberalism. Drawing on the latest data...
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Global Agenda for Social Justice 3
The Global Agenda for Social Justice 3 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems and proposes public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the boo...
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Human Growth and Development in Adults
Uniquely wide-ranging in its coverage of key concepts, themes and issues relating to human growth and development in adults, this textbook explores the crucial challenges and transitions that adults negotiate in their lives. It examines key topics and issues within professional practice with adul...
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Enhanced Interviews
Qualitative interviews offer rich opportunities to explore people's lived experiences, emotions and perspectives with depth and nuance. This accessible and practical guide equips researchers with innovative techniques to enhance interview-based research. From incorporating objects, documents and ...
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The Approved Mental Health Professional Practice Handbook
Approved Mental Health Professionals are specialist professionals authorised to make ethically complex and difficult decisions on the behalf of people with severe mental health difficulties. In this complex and challenging role, AMHPs must possess and deploy a range of skills, knowledge and value...
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A Criminology of Videogames
This innovative book examines how videogames engage with crime and its control. It treats games as ideological representations, in which ideas about policing, justice, and criminality are formed and reproduced. Covering over fifty videogames and blending insights from criminology, game studies, a...
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Journalism in the Anthropocene
What role does journalism play in shaping how we understand climate change and the planet we live on? This thought-provoking book explores how media systems have helped construct our idea of the ‘human' Earth, from early nature reporting to today’s digital climate dashboards. Drawing on insights...
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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 ...
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Transforming Probation
Written by an established author in the field, this book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of probation in the criminal justice system. It is unique in drawing upon innovative social theories and moral perspectives to analyse changes in the probation service by including d...
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Disaster and Diversity
In this hard-hitting book, the Lower Ninth Ward - ground zero for Hurricane Katrina - becomes a microcosm of what happens when white actors venture into black spaces for humanitarian aid. Through vivid vignettes, Harvey exposes how blacks are often hindered in their efforts to rebuild their neigh...
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Trauma, Grief, and Remembrance in the Aftermath of Terrorism
What does it mean to grieve a child lost to an act of terrorism? This book offers a powerful and deeply human exploration of traumatic bereavement, grounded in parents’ first-hand accounts of losing a child to political violence. Drawing on research in France, the book explores how such loss di...
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History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement
Acclaimed activist and scholar Gill Hague recounts the inspiring story of the domestic violence movement in the UK and beyond from the 1960s onwards in this captivating book. Memories, poems and interviews with activists, practitioners and abuse survivors shed new light on a period of immense cha...
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Menopause Discrimination across Institutional Contexts
What happens when the menopause becomes a source of inequality? This groundbreaking book exposes the rising tide of menopause-related discrimination across workplaces, healthcare settings and the justice system, clearly establishing the urgency of the issue. Through an intersectional lens, the c...
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Co-operative Inquiry
Conventional research methods often marginalise the voices of those most affected by the issues being studied, limiting the potential for meaningful, transformative change. In education, health, social care, community development and many other fields, there is a growing need for research that is...
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Ageing and Technology
Ageing and technology are shaping each other in profound ways, yet they are often treated as separate in current thinking. This book brings social gerontology into conversation with Science and Technology Studies (STS) to show how ageing and technology are co-constituted. Drawing on empirical cas...
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Ageing, Sex and Disability
What if we reimagined ageing, illness and disability not as barriers to sexuality – but as starting points for new forms of desire, intimacy and pleasure? This groundbreaking book challenges the silence and stigma surrounding the sexuality of older, ill and disabled people. Drawing from sociology...
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Impoverished
A deeply researched look at how UK poverty levels skyrocketed, and how the crisis can be fixed. Almost a third of children in Britain today live in poverty. But how did we get here – and what can be done to turn the tide? Joanna Mack traces the roots of Britain’s poverty crisis to political choic...
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Why Face-to-Face Still Matters
What makes a great city? Why do people and businesses still value urban life and buildings over a quiet life in the suburbs or countryside? Now might seem a difficult time to make the case for social contact in urban areas – so why is face-to-face contact still considered crucial to many 21st-ce...
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Social Work with Sex Offenders
This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. It addresses the emotional impacts of ‘facing the sex offender’, the importance of values and ethics in practice, and reviews popular and academic understandings of sex of...
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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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Criminalized and Disabled
This groundbreaking book offers a powerful sociological and criminological exploration of disability, autism and mental health within the criminal justice system (CJS). Through life stories and critical analysis, it exposes the stigmatisation, miscommunication and injustices faced by neurodiverge...
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Race and Labour among Russian Migrants
As racial boundaries are constantly negotiated in Europe and across the globe, this book explores how Russian migrant workers navigate racial capitalism in the Nordic region. Challenging the idea of a ‘race-neutral’ Eastern Europe, the book reveals how Russian migrants actively claim whiteness, o...
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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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Why Travel?
Supported by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC): a registered charity Why travel? What motivations underpin the journeys we make? And how can we make decisions that improve our travel experiences? Arguing that the desire to move is a purpose in itself, this book brings together leading ex...
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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...
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Navigating Stigma
This edited volume brings together first person accounts from scholars, activists and policy workers who have directly navigated the stigmas attached to being labelled a so-called ‘criminal offender’ or ‘victim’. Using reflexive, phenomenological analysis of autoethnographic stories, the collecti...
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Power and Control in Mental Health Social Work
Power and control sit at the heart of statutory social work. In a profession grounded in social justice, practices of control are often positioned as reinforcing inequality and oppression. Yet normative critiques of control embedded within conflictual theories of power can lead to overlooking the...
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Mothers, Prison and Parental Rights
This timely book offers a powerful exploration of how incarcerated mothers in the UK respond to separation from their children and manage their parental rights while in custody. Drawing on in-depth interviews and a participatory theatre project, the book gives voice to women navigating complex fa...
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Interrogating the Global Social Challenges
How can sociological thinking help us make sense of today’s biggest global challenges? In the midst of an ‘age of crisis’, headlines are dominated by topic such as climate change, migration, radicalization and inequality. These topics are core to sociology, yet sociological insights are drowned ...
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Managing Cities at Night
This accessible guide provides a stimulating analysis of the governance of the night-time economy in cities for practitioners and newcomers alike. Drawing on a wide range of case studies of after dark activity in cities around the world, it reviews labour, environmental services, healthcare, the ...
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Exploring Social Work
Exploring various aspects of social work from an anthropological perspective, this original book uses an ‘outsider’ position to develop a reflexive dialogue with social workers from England and elsewhere in Europe. Bell, an anthropologist, worked alongside social work educators and social worker...
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Research and the Social Work Picture
There’s a growing pressure for social workers to engage with research and draw on this in practice. But why is this research important? This first book in the Research in Social Work series, published in association with the European Social Work Research Association, provides an accessible way to...
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