Publications
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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)
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 ...
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 ...