Publications
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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 ...
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 ...
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 10 Places of Belonging, Places of Detachment
(2022)
Chapter 10 of this ePDF is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world, dismantling the ...
Youth Beyond the City
(2022)
This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world, dismantling the privileging of urban youth, urban locations and urban ways of life in youth studies ...
Infrastructuring Urban Futures
(2023)
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Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and ...
Children’s Work in African Agriculture
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines children’s involvement in African agricultural work. It argues that framing all children’s engagement in economic activity as ‘child labour’, ...
Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance
(2020)
EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The globalized era is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents and this includes human migration. This has led to new governance ...
Algorithms and the End of Politics
(2021)
EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This timely study considers the growing impacts of digital technologies on populism in the US and beyond. Analysing the rise of digital devices, social networks and the ...
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, ...
Arctic Justice
(2023)
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Offering a unique introduction to the study of justice in the European, North American and Russian Arctic, this collection considers the responsibilities ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Feminism in Public Debt
(2024)
EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As many developing countries are facing increasingly higher levels of debt and economic instability, this interdisciplinary volume explores the intersection ...
Architectures of Inequality
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The gender pay gap is economically irrational and yet stubbornly persistent. Focusing on the UK finance industry which is known for its gender pay disparity, this ...
Children’s Voices, Family Disputes and Child-Inclusive Mediation
(2024)
ePDF and ePUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Recent legislative changes in England and Wales have eroded children’s ability to exercise their article 12 UNCRC rights to information, consultation and ...
The Sun Also Rises in Portugal
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Portugal is among the best-placed European countries to take advantage of solar power, having achieved a five-fold increase in installed capacity during 2017-2023 despite ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Climate Technology and Law in the Anthropocene
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As climate change accelerates, our window for action is closing. To stay within the "Anthropocene" - an epoch in which humankind as the dominant force shaping the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...