This book reviews the formative years of the United Nations (UN) under its first Secretary-General Trygve Lie.
Using a critical postcolonial feminist lens, this book provides a contextualised exploration of English legal responses to polygamy.
This compelling account charts the historical emergence of vicarious warfare and its contemporary prominence. It contrasts its tactical advantages with its hidden costs and potential to cause significant strategic harm.
This ground-breaking and compelling book shows in fine detail the life struggles of those who live on a public... Læs mere
Many people living in rural areas face hardship but the UK's welfare system is poorly adapted to meet their needs, with the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and cutbacks exacerbating pressures. This book combines person-based and place-based approaches to tackling rural poverty.
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores the labour market integration of migrants,... Læs mere
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Building on research in public health, social epidemiology and the social determinants of health, this book presents complexity theory as an alternative basis for an outcome-oriented public management praxis.
This book shows why we need, and can create, a progressive politics that is profoundly informed by insights from the psychotherapeutic and psychological domain, moving us from a politics of blame to a politics of understanding.
This book introduces reablement, a radical new integrated care approach which seeks to empower older people to regain and maintain functioning and independence.
Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into... Læs mere
This book explores what happened to the 'Romanian orphans' of the 1990s, including those who stayed in institutions as... Læs mere
Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability... Læs mere