Publications
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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)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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)
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 ...
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)
Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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)
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 ...
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)
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 ...
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)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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 ...
The Powerful Norm for Climate Change Action
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do international climate and energy organizations survive and thrive despite powerful contestation? This analysis reveals how the United Nations Framework ...
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 ...
The Global Governance of Harmful Practices
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. While gender-based violence is not new, it has only recently come to the centre of global policy efforts. This book examines three pervasive forms of harmful ...
What is a Family?
(2026)
Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How families are formed, lived and understood has shifted dramatically—yet legal frameworks often still reflect outdated norms. This collection brings together a diverse ...
Decolonizing Queer Migration
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What happens to sexual and gender identities when crossing borders under duress? This book offers an unprecedented account of how forced migration shapes the lives ...
Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Published as part of the Creating Safer Space Network that seeks to strengthen civilian capacities for nonviolent protection in conflict-affected areas. This book ...
Digital Access to the Performing Arts
(2026)
How can we make the digital performing arts truly accessible? Written by experts at metaLAB at Harvard, this pioneering study explores the urgent need to rethink digital access in the performing arts. Drawing on comparative ...
Cyber Risk
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What does it mean to live in a world where our most essential systems are digital—and vulnerable? This book takes readers beyond the technical aspects of cybersecurity ...
The Repair Mindset
(2026)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Solar power is a renewable technology with huge benefits for both the Global North and South – but with an unavoidable byproduct: waste. This book – the first to ...