Drawing on the words and stories of queer Turkish activists, this book aims to unravel the complexities of queer lives in Turkey. In doing so, it challenges dominant conceptualizations of the queer Turkish experience within critical security discourses.
This book offers a blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome the defects COVID-19 has exposed in our political-economic... Læs mere
Giving voice to the lived experiences of people with dementia across the globe, this text highlights the challenges presented as dementia care... Læs mere
Challenging the ethics of care as a tradeable commodity, this book introduces the concept of ailment as a framework for understanding social care.... Læs mere
This book reconsiders traditional policy-analytic concepts, and re-develops and extends new ones, in a melded approach defined as systemic institutionalism. This links policy with governance and the state and suggests how real-world issues might be substantively addressed.
Incorporating the experiences of service users, academics, state and grassroots practitioners, this volume considers how... Læs mere
Based on deep ethnographic research, this book explores new practices and ideas about activism in the fight against social... Læs mere
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9... Læs mere
Reimagining the alumni-university relationship, Maria Gallo explores graduates’ alumni status as a gateway to immense professional and personal networks and opportunities.
In this book, Chris Pierson argues that we will need to think quite differently about the British welfare state after COVID-19. He looks back to the welfare state's origins and development as well as forwards, unearthing some surprising solutions in unexpected places.
Drawing on the authors' extensive experience as educators, this book puts forward a new model of social work practice that both supports and protects service users across the lifecourse.
Bryan Fanning traces the development of European welfare states in this accessible analysis of social change from the... Læs mere