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With the increasing influence of digital technologies on society, this timely book examines the ways modern technologies can adversely influence human perception and behaviour.
This book examines how Anglo-Caribbean scholars navigate global inequalities and colonial legacies in their research and career-making. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork, it offers an empirical and practice-based approach to global asymmetries in academia.
This groundbreaking book provides an account of how Traveller and other minoritized women understand, assess and experience local politics in Ireland. Drawing from a comparative analysis of minoritised women and politics from the USA, UK, and beyond, the book offers valuable lessons for fostering political inclusion.
This book challenges existing myths about the international mafia and explores mafia mobility, emphasizing mafias' interconnectivity and ubiquity, while setting out the policy and practice implications for combatting organized crime.
This book explores how the past and future shape our work and aspirations. Offering a fresh perspective on navigating careers amid precarity and planetary crises, this is essential reading for academics, students and anyone rethinking work.
After over a decade of unprecedented cuts, this important book examines the radical transformation of legal advice funding and delivery in the UK. Using Liverpool as a case study, the authors analyse the impact of these changes on access to justice, social rights and health inequalities.
This provocative book exposes the colonial roots of tech-driven climate policies and highlights global resistance to resource extraction through Ireland’s land-based struggles.
Today, new technologies are creating an even newer version of the profession—Lawyer 3.0—that could be more affordable and effective than the one that currently exists. This work not only describes this phenomenon but shows how lawyers cannot just survive but thrive in this new reality.
Brexit deepened tensions in Northern Ireland and created rifts between Ireland and the UK. Drawing on interviews in Washington, Belfast, Dublin and London, the authors in this book explore how the lobby shaped US policy towards Brexit in order to prevent the reimposition of a hard border on the island of Ireland and preserve peace.
This book examines the military-humanitarian strategies used to manage the movement of refugees, focusing on the Venezuelan migration crisis in northern Brazil. Shedding light on the intersecting logics of aid, security and vulnerability, it reveals the embodied experiences of migration in precarious environments.
Why are some harms defined as crimes while others are not? This pioneering collection disrupts the boundaries of criminology, offering a bold, innovative exploration of crime, state power and social harm across historical and global contexts.
Collaboration is the key to solving global challenges, but are research groups trained in the team dynamics that drive success? This book offers practical strategies to strengthen team dynamics, foster innovation and meet funder expectations. It’s an indispensable guide for researchers in any discipline.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines forced sterilization through various registers, from the ways women speak about reproductive abuse to urban feminist activism and bureaucratic responses. The first ethnography on sterilization cases in Peru, this book contributes to reproduction, Latin American and feminist decolonial studies.
Drawing on observations and transcripts of trials and interviews with judges, advocates and intermediaries, the book provides an evaluation of cross-examination in trials involving vulnerable witnesses and the extent to which reforms are producing meaningful change.
Challenging the notion that populism is an anomaly in European politics, this book argues that the main threat to democracy is the exclusionary nature of European democratic traditions. It makes a bold case: populism is not our main problem (or solution), but simply another facet of the ills of liberalism.
This book uses ordinary citizens’ opinions of military intervention as a lens to examine state-society dynamics and identity formation in Chad. It offers a fresh perspective by highlighting how local actors, not just elites, shape fractured identities through their engagement with political and military events.
Reflective practice is at the heart of probation training and the continual professional development of practitioners. Using case studies, this book will equip the reader to develop their own reflective practice in order to make defensible, ethical decisions and benefit their career progression in this challenging profession.
This book examines the evolution of UK skills policy from the 1881 Royal Commission on Technical Instruction to the present day, revealing how shifting political ideologies have shaped workforce development. It challenges conventional thinking and offers insights into how future skills policies can be more effective.
This is a one-stop guide to systematic evaluation. With real-world case studies and practical tools, it offers straightforward advice on overcoming common challenges and delivering effective, fit-for-purpose evaluations across public, academic and voluntary sectors.
Drawing on extensive empirical research, this book examines paternal involvement in caregiving practices and asks what is currently happening to ‘involved’ fatherhood? The book investigates fatherhood in various everyday settings, such as outdoor spaces, workplaces and the home, while considering the influence of policy frameworks across different European countries. By analysing fathers’ experiences and the impact of policy on familial roles, it provides fresh insights into the concept of ‘involvement’ and progression towards practices of more equitable fatherhood. Encouraging new thinking on paternal engagement, this is a critical look at how fatherhood is navigated, negotiated and understood within diverse cultural and policy contexts in everyday life.