Publications
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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study into a new consent-based rape law in Sweden and shows how the implementation of this legislation challenges outdated ...
Recalibrating Stigma
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Stigma has long been a central concern for social scientists studying health and illness. Yet, in existing work, stigma often escapes definition and clarification, ...
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 ...
Governing Nature and the Making of World Order
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How have efforts to govern nature and address urgent global environmental challenges shaped, transformed or undermined processes of world ordering? Chapters in ...
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 ...
Global Development and Environment
(2025)
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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 ...
Adult Social Care Law and Policy
(2025)
Adult social care in England has been under sustained pressure for decades. The sector has long functioned in crisis mode due to cuts and chronic under-resourcing but, since early 2020, those using and providing adult ...
Revisiting Reflexivity
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we nurture more liveable worlds in today’s neoliberal academia and beyond? This collection revisits the notion of reflexivity from a science and technology ...
Rethinking Migration
(2025)
Rethinking Migration brings together researchers across multiple disciplines to investigate how we can rethink migration and movement. It explores mobility beyond the human and across time, from the movement of soil in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Epigenetics and Responsibility
(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 ...
Using Participatory Methods to Explore Freedom of Religion and Belief
(2023)
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Examining countries where religious pluralism is in decline, including Iraq, India, Pakistan and Nigeria, this book brings together reflections, knowledge ...
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 ...
Theorising Justice
(2023)
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Bringing together divergent approaches to justice theorising, this volume connects normative and philosophical theories with the more empirically focused ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 16 Afterword
(2022)
The digital PDF of 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 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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex
(2022)
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The Gulf is a major global destination for migrant workers, with a majority of these workers coming from South Asia. In this book, a team of international ...
Inside High-Rise Housing
(2022)
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Condominium and comparable legal architectures make vertical urban growth possible, but do we really understand the social implications of restructuring city ...
Muslims and humour
(2022)
muslims; humour; essays
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 ...
Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution
(2022)
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During the 20th century the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was not always accompanied by liberation from ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...