Publications
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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 ...
Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change
(2024)
This book investigates and analyses places in Europe, North America and Asia that are facing the immense challenges associated with climate change adaptation. Presenting real-world cases in the contexts of coastal change, ...
Mundania
(2024)
Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.
Digital services, platforms and arrangements are often promoted as smooth and convenient, smart or intelligent. When introduced, devices can appear utterly ...
Education as and for Justice in the Global South
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores the transformative potential of education in achieving Sustainable Development Goals 13 (climate action), 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions) ...
The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative
(2025)
EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or creating new trading ...
The International Relations of the North–South Divide
(2025)
Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. This book examines the significance of both historical and contemporary inequality in shaping diplomatic disagreements in international relations. The author ...
White-Collar and Organizational Crime
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. ‘White-collar’ and organizational crimes such as fraud and corruption receive relatively little attention from researchers. This edited collection redresses the ...
Post Growth Innovation
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Post growth and degrowth scholars argue that we cannot reduce CO2 emissions fast enough to keep global warming below 2 degrees while continuing economic growth. ...
Platform Politics
(2024)
The ‘sharing economy’, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo, promised to revolutionize the way we work and live. But what changes have come about, and why? This book shows how platform capitalism is not ...
Governing Climate Mobility in Africa
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC BY NC ND licence. Climate change is often understood as a main driver of human mobility in Africa, but this book demonstrates the many other factors that also come into play in ...
Understanding Digital Responsibilities
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we make the digital world safer, more responsible and accountable? This innovative book offers an original framework for understanding digital responsibility, ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Working in the Context of Austerity
(2020)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How to do more with less? This is, essentially, austerity’s onerous question. Its default answer, in turn, has been to defer, download and outsource the burden of being ...
New Directions in Women, Peace and Security
(2020)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is rooted in international law – notably international humanitarian law, human rights and international criminal law. UNSCR 1325 ...
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 ...
Chapter 9 I Think, Therefore IR? Psychology, Biology and the Notion of Praxis
(2022)
The digital pdf of Chapter 9 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 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 ...
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 ...
Chapter 13 Practising Academic Intervention
(2022)
The digital pdf of Chapter 13 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 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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Being Human During COVID-19
(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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Refugees, Self-Reliance, Development
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance
(2023)
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With Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas. This book focuses on ...
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 ...
Peer Relationships at School
(2024)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book draws on ethnographic research in two UK secondary schools, considering the shifting roles of migration status, language, ethnicity, religion and precarity ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Feeding People in a Crisis
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. ‘Panic buying’ at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic generated enduring media images of empty supermarket shelves and calls for food rationing. The fragility of ...
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 ...
Civil Society and Intergovernmental Negotiations at the United Nations
(2025)
EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-governmental organizations have increased at the United Nations (UN) since the 1990s. Yet few studies discuss the ...
The Realities of Autonomous Weapons
(2025)
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The realities of autonomous weapons are a complex blend of both existing military technologies and visions of their future capabilities. The expected ramifications ...
Contested Civil Society in Myanmar
(2023)
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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 ...
Exit Threats in Regional International Organizations
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of why and when member states threaten to withdraw from regional international organizations (RIOs). A unique dataset ...
Against Youth Violence
(2022)
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For many children and young people, Britain is a harmful society in which to grow up. This book contextualizes the violence that occurs between a small ...
The Ethics of AI
(2025)
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In a world where artificial intelligence increasingly influences the fabric of our daily lives, this accessible book offers a critical examination of AI and ...
Varieties of Impact Investing
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. A new trend in ethical finance, impact investing aims to generate positive social or environmental impacts alongside financial returns. But what does it really ...
Subjectivism in Economics and Philosophy
(2025)
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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 ...
Defamation in the Digital Age and the ‘Right to be Forgotten’
(2025)
With 98 per cent of UK households online and over 4.9 billion social media users globally, the potential for individuals to spread defamatory content has surged. This compelling book considers the effects of the digital ...
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 ...
Contested States in War and Law
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The precarious status of contested states both reflects and begets conflict. From Taiwan to Western Sahara and from Nagorno-Karabakh to the Liberation Tigers of ...
Everyday Islamophobia
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC BY NC ND licence. Everyday experiences of anti-Muslim racism include accounts of Islamophobia in public spaces, in the school playground, on social media and on public transport. ...
Paradoxes of PrEP for HIV Prevention
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug taken by HIV-negative people that reduces the risk of getting HIV. Comparing two case studies in Denmark and Zimbabwe, this ...
Magic Misoprostol
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can a stomach ulcer drug transform abortion access? This book tells the story of misoprostol, a medication that was ‘discovered’ as a cheap and safe method for ...
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 ...
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 ...
Refugee Reception and Camps
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited collection provides new insights into refugee reception and camps by focusing on the overlap between local and global dynamics in the governance of ...
The Visual Life of Climate Change
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Images can play a key role in communication – but climate change imagery can be formulaic and narrow in perspective. Going beyond polar bears and wildfires, this ...
Exemplarity in Global Politics
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. How is political change claimed and recognized? How is it attached to actors and transferred between them? This volume gives a new account of a mechanism that is celebrated ...
Former Prime Ministers in Japan
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Despite growing international interest in the position and power of the Japanese prime minister, there is little existing research on what happens after these ...
Climate Justice in Action
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Climate Justice in Action celebrates the activism and adaptations of Eastern Africa, one of the most climate vulnerable regions of the world. Contributions from ...
European Climate Pact Ambassadors
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As an outcome of the European Green Deal, European Climate Pact Ambassadors (ECPAs) were established to promote climate action within their networks at both a local ...
Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This volume brings together key scholars from across the globe to explore anti-colonial and anti-imperial perspectives to help transform our ways of the looking ...
Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy
(2025)
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Using the analytical framework of reproductive justice, this book examines migrant women’s experiences of pregnancy and maternity care within the broader ...
Social Connection in Everyday Spaces
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do we hold onto friends and communities in a world that feels increasingly fragmented? This timely collection explores how social connection unfolds across ...
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 ...
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. ...
Belonging and Belongings
(2025)
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Based on in-depth fieldwork with Belgian children aged 10 to 16, this book examines how children in shared physical custody define and negotiate their place ...
Post-Brexit Student Mobilities
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Since the UK’s dramatic departure from the European Union, student mobility has become a frontline issue in the reshaping of higher education. This book investigates ...
Displacement Urbanism
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC BY NC ND licence. At a time when the annihilation of places to live and to imagine a future is unfolding—through the violent return of war, aggressive capitalism, and biopolitical ...
The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Our global energy system needs radical and speedy transformation in order to meet climate change targets. This shift is currently conceived in two ways: a ‘high ...
Platform Politics
(2024)
Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. The ‘sharing economy’, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo, promised to revolutionize the way we work and live. But what changes have come about, ...
Atmospheres and Digital Media
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. From parenting and pilgrimage to activism and mourning, this thought-provoking book explores how digital connection—and disconnection—shapes the emotional texture ...
Understanding Digital Responsibilities
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we make the digital world safer, more responsible and accountable? This innovative book offers an original framework for understanding digital responsibility, ...
Migration, Crisis and Temporality at the Zimbabwe–South Africa Border
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. Only 15 kilometres away from the border of Zimbabwe, Musina is an obscure town in South Africa that the media cast into the public eye in the wake of the 2008 ...
The App Economy
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Mobile apps have transformed how we live, work and connect – but at what cost? This book examines the immense power Apple and Google wield over society, arising ...
Revealing Relations
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC BY-NC-ND licence. Do our tools for knowing about the world actually obscure important knowledge? This book uncovers how knowledge infrastructures—including satellite tracking, climate ...