Publications
Now showing items 41-60 of 169
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study into a new consent-based rape law in Sweden and shows how the implementation of this legislation challenges outdated ...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)
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 ...
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)
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 ...
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 ...
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)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license.
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)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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, ...