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Chapter 4 Styles of Theorizing International Practice
(2022)
The digital pdf of Chapter 4 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This collection brings together leading figures in the study of international relations to explore praxis as a perspective on international ...
Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance
(2020)
EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The globalized era is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents and this includes human migration. This has led to new governance ...
Faces of Precarity
(2022)
The digital PDF of the Introduction, Chapter 3, Chapter 8 and the Afterword of this title are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The word ‘precarity’ is widely used when discussing work and employment, social ...
Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research
(2024)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited volume discusses the methodological and ethical challenges that researchers are currently facing whilst attempting to document the impact of the ...
Faces of Precarity
(2022)
The digital PDF of the Introduction, Chapter 3, Chapter 8 and the Afterword of this title are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The word ‘precarity’ is widely used when discussing work and employment, social ...
Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance
(2020)
EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The globalized era is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents and this includes human migration. This has led to new governance ...
Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research
(2024)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited volume discusses the methodological and ethical challenges that researchers are currently facing whilst attempting to document the impact of the ...
Nanny families
(2019)
Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. Using Sweden as a case study, this book combines theories of family practices, care and childhood studies with the personal perspectives of nannies, au pairs, parents and ...
Retail and Community
(2024)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Retail has never existed in a vacuum. This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn ...
Behind the Science
(2025)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Some of the largest quantities of data produced today occur as the result of experiments taking place at Big Science facilities. This book tells the story of a ...
Social Movements and Politics during COVID-19
(2022)
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Bringing together leading authors in the sociology and social movement fields from all continents, this unique book explores both the global echoes of the ...
Navigating the European Migration Regime
(2022)
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Anna Wyss’ survey of the heavily politicised group of male migrants in Europe provides insightful analysis of both masculinity and the European migration crisis. ...
Controversial Encounters in the Age of Algorithms
(2024)
EPUB and EPDF available open access 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 ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2021)
"Chapter 1 available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Western culture has ‘faith’ in the labour market as a test of the worth of each individual. For those who are out of work, welfare is now less of a ...
Social Movements and Politics during COVID-19
(2022)
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Bringing together leading authors in the sociology and social movement fields from all continents, this unique book explores both the global echoes of the ...
Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective
(2023)
With contributions from an international team of experts, this collection provides a much-needed international, comparative approach to mental capacity law.
The book focuses particularly on exploring substantive commonalities ...
Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa
(2022)
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This book takes an expansive view of vocational education and training. Drawing on case studies across rural and urban settings in Uganda and South Africa, ...
Comparisons in Global Security Politics
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Comparative practices are integral to global security politics. The balance of power politics, status competitions and global security governance would not be ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2022)
The digital pdf of Chapter 1 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This collection brings together leading figures in the study of international relations to explore praxis as a perspective on international ...
Chapter 10 Values and Participation of Individuals Without Mental Capacity in Hong Kong
(2023)
The digital PDF and EPUB versions of chapter 10 are available Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons ...
Chapter 8 The Social Foundations of Precarious Work:
(2022)
The digital PDF of Chapter 8 of this title is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The word ‘precarity’ is widely used when discussing work and employment, social conditions and lived experiences, and social ...
Chapter 8 The Social Foundations of Precarious Work:
(2022)
The digital PDF of Chapter 8 of this title is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The word ‘precarity’ is widely used when discussing work and employment, social conditions and lived experiences, and social ...
Retail and Community
(2024)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Retail has never existed in a vacuum. This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn ...
The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has functioned without interruption for over a century, yet its intermediate position can obscure the importance of its ...
Chapter 3 Reform
(2021)
"Chapter 3 available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Western culture has ‘faith’ in the labour market as a test of the worth of each individual. For those who are out of work, welfare is now less of a ...
Chapter 16 Acting, Representing, Ruling
(2022)
The digital pdf of Chapter 16 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This collection brings together leading figures in the study of international relations to explore praxis as a perspective on international ...
Infrastructuring Urban Futures
(2023)
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Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and ...
The European Union and the United Nations in Global Governance
(2022)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book analyses the complex relations between the European Union (EU) as a regional organization and the United Nations ...
Chapter 15 Praxis, Humanism and the Quest for Wholeness
(2022)
The digital pdf of Chapter 15 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This collection brings together leading figures in the study of international relations to explore praxis as a perspective on international ...
Planetary Justice
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together interdisciplinary climate change scholarship and grassroots activism, this book considers the possibilities of planetary justice across human ...
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?
(2019-02-01)
The failure of a number of programmes and ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and post-neoliberal forces have resulted in growing social instability in Latin America. This book examines cultural responses to this instability. ...
Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa
(2024)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This volume brings together an international team of contributors to provide a much-needed examination of climate litigation in Africa. The book outlines how ...
The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Transhumanism is a philosophy which advocates for the use of technology to radically enhance human capacities. This book interrogates the promises of transhumanism, ...
Data Power in Action
(2024)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, the intensive use of data is changing politics, power relations and everyday life. Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this ...
Race and Sociocultural Inclusion in Science Communication
(2023)
Conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion in science communication are in danger of generating much concern without effecting change and systematic transformations.
This radical volume addresses these ...
Biomedical Innovation in Fertility Care
(2024)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book delves into the complex and controversial realm of fertility care. It analyses the clash between evidence-based medicine and market dynamics in fertility ...
COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic’s Development Impact
(2022)
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This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South.
With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, it investigates ...
The Public and Their Platforms
(2021)
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As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology ...
Belief in Marriage
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book draws on the accounts of 170 individuals who had, or led, a wedding ceremony outside the legal framework. The authors examine what these ceremonies ...
Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home
(2022)
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During adolescence, young people are exposed to a range of risks beyond their family homes including sexual and criminal exploitation, peer-on-peer abuse ...
Chaper 12 “I’ve Got People’s Spit All over Me!”
(2022)
The digital pdf version of Chapter 12 is available Open Access under CC-BY licence. This transdisciplinary collection engages with key issues of social exclusion, inequality, power and knowledge in the context of COVID-19. ...
Chapter 3 Conceptualizing Precariousness:
(2022)
The digital PDF of Chapter 3 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The word ‘precarity’ is widely used when discussing work and employment, social conditions and lived experiences, and social classes. There ...
Dialogues in Data Power
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book presents emerging themes and future directions in the interdisciplinary field of critical data studies, loosely themed around the notion of shifting ...
Children’s Work in African Agriculture
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines children’s involvement in African agricultural work. It argues that framing all children’s engagement in economic activity as ‘child labour’, ...
Children’s Work in African Agriculture
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines children’s involvement in African agricultural work. It argues that framing all children’s engagement in economic activity as ‘child labour’, ...
Chapter 5 Practising Theorizing in Theorizing Praxis
(2022)
The digital pdf of Chapter 5 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This collection brings together leading figures in the study of international relations to explore praxis as a perspective on international ...
Chapter Introduction
(2022)
The digital PDF of the Introduction of this title are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The word ‘precarity’ is widely used when discussing work and employment, social conditions and lived experiences, and ...
Chapter Introduction
(2022)
The digital PDF of the Introduction of this title are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The word ‘precarity’ is widely used when discussing work and employment, social conditions and lived experiences, and ...
Remaking Money for a Sustainable Future
(2024)
EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Money is central to capitalism and to our many sustainability crises. Could we remake money so as to advance sustainable economies and fair societies? A growing ...
Global Neoliberal Capitalism and the Alternatives
(2023)
The digital PDF and EPUB versions of Chapters 3 and 16 are available Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/license ...
Chapter Introductory Essay
(2023)
Introduction essay and Chapter 1 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This groundbreaking reader is designed to lower the barriers to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in research. Edited by ...
New Directions in Women, Peace and Security
(2020)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, associated with the United Nations Security Council resolutions of a similar name, is widely recognized as the most significant ...
New Directions in Women, Peace and Security
(2020)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, associated with the United Nations Security Council resolutions of a similar name, is widely recognized as the most significant ...
Chapter Introduction
(2022)
The first chapter is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. Evan Easton-Calabria’s critical history of refugee self-reliance assistance brings new dimensions to refugee and international development studies.
The ...
Chapter Introduction
(2022)
The first chapter is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. Evan Easton-Calabria’s critical history of refugee self-reliance assistance brings new dimensions to refugee and international development studies.
The ...
The Sun Also Rises in Portugal
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Portugal is among the best-placed European countries to take advantage of solar power, having achieved a five-fold increase in installed capacity during 2017-2023 despite ...
Activists in the Data Stream
(2024)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-ND licence This book pulls back the curtain on the link between technology and activism. It explores the intricate ways activists from Italy, Spain and Greece interact with data ...
Poverty and Prejudice
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book offers a comprehensive overview of how efforts to achieve SDGs can be enhanced by paying greater attention to freedom of religion and belief. In ...
COVID-19 in the Global South
(2020)
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Bringing together a range of experts across various sectors, this important volume explores some of the key issues that have arisen in the Global South with the COVID-19 ...
The Personal Life of Debt
(2025)
As the cost of living rises, British households face unprecedented levels of debt. But many commentators characterise those who stash away envelopes, leave telephones ringing, or hide from debt collectors as irresponsible. ...
Cities of Banal Warfare
(2025)
“Banal warfare” describes the ways in which the vision of the city perpetually ridden with conflicts, terrorist attacks, and disease infuses everyday urban life to the point of becoming invisible or taken for granted. The ...
Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This unique research paints a vivid picture of migrant workers' experiences following Brexit and COVID-19. Based on a longitudinal study, it explores their legal ...
Democratizing Science
(2023)
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This book examines potential remedies for improving public trust and the legitimacy of science. It reviews different policy approaches adopted by governments ...
Chapter 9 ‘Putting the Fun Back into Fundamentalism’
(2022)
EPDF of Chapter 9 available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This thought-provoking collection takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject of humour in Islam. It ranges across sociological, cultural, theological ...
Time, Migration and Forced Immobility
(2019)
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This book is concerned with the effects of migration policy making in Europe on migrants in the Global South and links insights on immobility to social theories ...
Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics
(2022)
The digital pdf of Chapters 1, 4, 9, 13, 15 and 16 available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This collection brings together leading figures in the study of international relations to explore praxis as a perspective ...
Arctic Justice
(2023)
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Offering a unique introduction to the study of justice in the European, North American and Russian Arctic, this collection considers the responsibilities ...
Time, Migration and Forced Immobility
(2019)
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book is concerned with the effects of migration policy making in Europe on migrants in the Global South and links insights on immobility to social theories ...
Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics
(2022)
The digital pdf of Chapters 1, 4, 9, 13, 15 and 16 available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This collection brings together leading figures in the study of international relations to explore praxis as a perspective ...
Conceptualising Arbitrary Detention
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book examines what happens when states and other authorities use detention to abuse their power, deter dissent and maintain social hierarchies. Written by an ...
Conceptualising Arbitrary Detention
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book examines what happens when states and other authorities use detention to abuse their power, deter dissent and maintain social hierarchies. Written by an ...
The Reformation of Welfare
(2021)
"Western culture has ‘faith’ in the labour market as a test of the worth of each individual. For those who are out of work, welfare is now less of a support than a means of purification and redemption. Continuously reformed ...
Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course
(2021)
"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 ...
Global Domestic Workers
(2021)
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Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across nine countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions ...
Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia
(2022)
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Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It uses ...
Access to Social Justice
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book proposes a conception of social justice according to international human rights law. Social rights include everyday rights such as housing, food, fuel ...
Global Development and Environment
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.
Development and environmental challenges are often framed at the global or planetary scale, but in a vague or apolitical manner. This book develops a theoretically ...
ASEAN Resistance to Sovereignty Violation
(2019)
Examining how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) has responded to external threats over the past 50 years, this book provides a compelling account of regional state actions and foreign policy in the face ...
Observing Dark Innovation
(2024)
Why does scholarship on innovation fixate on certain classes of technology? Could our research tools and techniques be concealing as much as they reveal?Ryan T. MacNeil shows how the common instrumentalities of innovation ...
Pathways to Sustainable Welfare
(2025)
Cities face the challenge of providing welfare within planetary boundaries. As climate change accelerates and has led to a phase of climate emergency, more efforts are needed to handle the dual challenge of adapting to ...
Contested Civil Society in Myanmar
(2023)
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 ...
Capitalism Reloaded
(2025)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. In Capitalism Reloaded, Peter Bloom charts a pivotal shift from the well-known military-industrial complex to a new ‘Authoritarian-Financial Complex’. Unlike its ...
Feminism in Public Debt
(2024)
EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As many developing countries are facing increasingly higher levels of debt and economic instability, this interdisciplinary volume explores the intersection ...
Algorithms and the End of Politics
(2021)
EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This timely study considers the growing impacts of digital technologies on populism in the US and beyond. Analysing the rise of digital devices, social networks and the ...
Emotion and Proactivity at Work
(2021)
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Individuals’ behaviours at work are known to be shaped by cold, or cognitive-motivational, processes as well as hot, or affect-motivational, processes. To ...
Ecological Justice and the Extinction Crisis
(2020)
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction.
The ...
Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Using the analytical framework of reproductive justice, this book examines migrant women’s experiences of pregnancy and maternity care within the broader ...
Studying Generations
(2024)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This collection introduces and explores the growing field of generational studies, providing a comprehensive overview of its strengths and limitations. With ...
Public Health and International Economic Law
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Although non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancers, diabetes, and heart diseases are preventable, they have risen dramatically over the last 30 years. This ...
Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation
(2022)
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This volume explores why, despite numerous programmes, women continue to constitute a minority in tech-driven research and innovation areas in the Nordic ...
Youth Beyond the City
(2022)
This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world, dismantling the privileging of urban youth, urban locations and urban ways of life in youth studies ...
Trafficking Chains
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. This book offers a theory of trafficking and modern slavery with implications for policy. Despite economic development, modern slavery persists all around the ...
Subjectivism in Economics and Philosophy
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Following on from The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand and A Realist Philosophy of Economics, this new book drawn from Karl Mittermaier’s writings examines the ...
Feminist Conversations on Peace
(2022)
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What is feminist peace? How can we advocate for peace from patriarchy? What do women, globally, advocate for when they use the term 'peace'? This edited ...
Rights and Social Justice in Research
(2025)
Whom do we conduct research with and for? What kinds of questions do we ask of the social world, and how do we question how knowledge is produced? In what ways do our approaches to research and our manner of carrying out ...
Challenging Legal Core Values
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book presents the first ethnographic study into a new consent-based rape law in Sweden and shows how the implementation of this legislation challenges outdated ...
A Realist Philosophy of Economics
(2023)
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With contributions from Alan Kirman and Rod O'Donnell, Karl Mittermaier's posthumously published work establishes a conceptual framework that will help economic ...
The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand
(2020)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Using Adam Smith’s notion of an 'invisible hand', this extraordinary contribution identifies dogmatic versus pragmatic views of free markets. Published posthumously, with ...
Children’s Voices, Family Disputes and Child-Inclusive Mediation
(2024)
ePDF and ePUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Recent legislative changes in England and Wales have eroded children’s ability to exercise their article 12 UNCRC rights to information, consultation and ...
Discrimination, Equality and Health Care Rationing
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. When deciding who to treat, those engaged in priority-setting and resource allocation in health care need to comply with their obligations under the Equality Act ...