Publications
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Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People: Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965-1975
(2017)
This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health ...
Housing Market Dynamics in Africa
(2018)
This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security ...
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?
(2017)
This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf ...
Introduction: 'Address as Social Action Across Cultures and Contexts' from book: Address Practice as Social Action: European Perspectives
(2015)
This is the introductory chapter of Address Practice as Social Action: European Perspectives. It is open access under a CC BY license. How we address one another says a great deal about our social relationships and which ...
Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices
(2017)
This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole host ...
The Making of Islamic Heritage: Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents
(2017)
Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts, this volume considers how Islamic heritages are constructed through texts and practices which award ...
Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
(2014)
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Japan has recently promoted a number of initiatives that can be termed an opening to the world and the Asia-Pacific in particular. These have origins in Japan's globalization ...
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England
(2017)
This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two ...
Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe
(2015)
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ...
Promoting Active Citizenship: Markets and Choice in Scandinavian Welfare
(2017)
This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and social services, in the Scandinavian countries. The chapters compare countries, service areas, and ...
The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing
(2017)
This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient ...
Rising Powers and Peacebuilding: Breaking the Mold?
(2017)
This edited volume examines the policies and practices of rising powers on peacebuilding. It analyzes how and why their approaches differ from those of traditional donors and multilateral institutions. The policies of the ...
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead: Posthumous Punishment, Harm and Redemption over Time
(2017)
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst ...
The Restless Compendium: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites
(2017)
This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, ...
Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015
(2017)
This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction ...
The Third Sector as a Renewable Resource for Europe: Concepts, Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities
(2018)
This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations alongside an overview of its major contours, ...
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change
(2017)
This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called ...
Chapter: 'Kazakhstan: Civil Society and Natural Resource Policy in Kazakhstan' from book: Public Brainpower: Civil Society and Natural Resource Management
(2017)
In Kazakhstan, civil society is held back and has had a limited role in the management of the petroleum sector. As this chapter notes, civil society has had little experience of promoting its own interests vis-à-vis the ...
Chapter: 'Introduction' from book: Public Brainpower: Civil Society and Natural Resource Management
(2017)
This introductory chapter establishes the analytical framework for the edited volume. The literature on the resource curse and institutions is briefly discussed, along with the work on civil society and the public sphere ...
Chapter: '‘Sex and History’: Talking Sex with Objects from the Past' from book: The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education
(2017)
This chapter describes the ‘Sex and History’ project which uses objects from the past as the basis for discussions with young people about sexuality, as part of sexuality education. The chapter outlines key aspects of a ...