Publications
Now showing items 161-200 of 214
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)
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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)
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 ...
Arctic Justice
(2023)
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 ...
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)
"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.
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)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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)
"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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)
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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)
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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 ...