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This book examines the impact of World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) economic restructuring programmes during active conflicts. Using a critical political economy perspective, the book explores how these restructuring efforts affect vulnerable communities' survival amid violence.
Drawing on the multinational qualitative study 'Children's Understandings of Well-being' (CUWB), this book offers practical insights into conducting fieldwork across diverse contexts. Featuring experts from thirteen countries, the book provides valuable perspectives for researchers across a wide range of academic settings.
In an era of exponential digital growth, this book shows how data centers are transforming urban landscapes and energy systems. Offering twenty case studies from Europe and the USA, it reveals the hidden impacts of our digital world, making essential reading for those shaping sustainable futures.
This interdisciplinary book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine this intriguing phenomenon in different political and cultural contexts. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, it sets state-of-the-art agendas for understanding and strengthening the voluntary sector's influence in place leadership.
Between August 2022 and July 2024, GMB Union membership at Amazon's BHX4 Coventry warehouse skyrocketed, with 37 days of strike action resulting in a 28.5% pay rise. Yet despite this, the union narrowly lost a ballot that would have forced Amazon to grant formal recognition.
Based on ethnographic research and reflective essays from worker-leaders and organizers, this book offers a rich case study of the factors contributing to the union's successes and setbacks. It provides a practical organizing model applicable beyond Amazon, offering strategies to engage the workforce, sustain support and develop leadership. An essential toolkit for those navigating the complexities of evolving labour practices, with particular relevance for precarious workers and workplaces where access is limited.
Recent years have seen a rise in far-right activity and protest in Ireland, with an increase in the number of attacks and harassment episodes against minorities, as well as politicians, journalists and activists.
Addressing a lack of research on the subject, this book is the first to analyse the rapidly escalating situation. Contributions from diverse sources, including journalists and former Irish police officers, explore the fundraising and online activities of far-right groups in their opposition to the politics of gender, sexual diversity and multiculturalism. In exposing the rising threat from violent far-right actors, the book promotes a debate on how civil society can prevent and counteract the spread of such ideas.
This timely book challenges current thinking on UK policing from both abolitionist and reformist perspectives, offering a fresh take on recent crises and attempts at reform.
Bringing together a broad team of contributors, this book argues for a new interdisciplinary field of crisis studies. Covering a range of cases, the book critically explores the intersections of socio-economic, political, climate, and health factors to unravel the dynamic and transformative forces of crisis.
As ageing populations continue to grow worldwide, the increased need for adequate housing and social care comes into stark focus. This multi-disciplinary book explores how emerging citizen-led innovations in collaborative housing and care are challenging mainstream ways of living and ageing.
This book explores human rights oversight in asylum decision-making through a socio-legal lens, focusing on the Nordic countries. It examines how institutional contexts shape interactions between national and international law, highlighting how national decision-makers navigate and contest international norms.
Pay-as-you-go water dispensers are used in many areas in the Global South: this book examines the increasing influence of private corporations in the supply of water kiosks within Kenya. It shows how remote regions are being opened to market-based development, while excluding local approaches and actors.
The no-fly zone is a frequently used instrument in the US foreign policy arsenal, despite detrimental, or even catastrophic, results. This book examines why the instrument has such a hold on leaders' imaginations and rhetoric despite its patchy record in practice.
Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell us about the current political conjuncture and interrogates the possibilities it offers for imagining new, and more just, forms of political community.
This book takes a deep dive into the ways families and communities are, or could be, impacted by transition to Net Zero and provides a practical roadmap towards a truly just transition.
How is AI reshaping democracy? From data commodification to algorithmic control, this book exposes the hidden costs of AI on political identities - and shows how to resist being 'factory farmed' in the digital age.
This book explores the evolving preventive immigration control system, analysing its impact on the rule of law. Examining state practices, EU agency operations and digital innovations like AI, it offers a critical look at how these layers erode legal norms and sheds light on modern border management challenges.
This edited collection brings together academics, practitioners, activists, parents and young people to explore the nature and causes of parent blame. It interrogates its prevalence, impact and potential pathways for reform.
Onlife criminology is the study of crime and social harm produced by the blurring lines between digital engagement and our everyday lives. This thought-provoking book analyses the threats of surveillance, indoctrination and abuse of personal data that can potentially affect us all.
This book shows how urban community campaigns across London have challenged exclusionary regeneration projects. It tells the stories of groups that have taken radical democratic action to resist top-down change and make their voices heard in local decision-making.