Embedded in personal experiences, this collection explores ableism in academia. Through theoretical lenses including... Læs mere
Addressing the rapidly shifting politics of the minimum wage in six English-speaking countries, Shaun Wilson analyses... Læs mere
Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban... Læs mere
This book provides a culturally nuanced analysis of key issues relating to youth unemployment. Examining the causes and consequences of youth unemployment, it assesses ways forward to promote economic self-sufficiency.
Taking a transformative approach, this exciting new textbook bridges the gap between... Læs mere
This book examines dementia from a social citizenship perspective. It looks at rights, status(es) and participation and shows how this framework can be applied in practice.
Drawing on interviews with women in precarious work, this text explores the everyday problems they face balancing work and care... Læs mere
This innovative book uses examples from around the world to examine the spread of draconian and nationalistic forms of government - 'authoritarian... Læs mere
Though now largely a forgotten figure, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri was a celebrated Indian politician and diplomat in the early 20th Century. This book rehabilitates Sastri and offers a diplomatic biography of his years as India's roving ambassador in the 1920s.
Drawing on classical and emerging research perspectives, this comprehensive book provides an up-to-date review of local government in Europe.
Dan Newman and Jon Robins combine investigative journalism and academic scholarship to examine how the lives of people suffering problems with benefits, debt, family, housing and immigration are made harder by cuts to the civil justice system.
This book explores Chinese young men's views of manhood and develops a new concept of 'elastic masculinity' which can be stretched and forged differently in response to personal relationships and local realities.