It is often claimed that the UK is unusually attached to its National Health Service, and the last decade has seen increasingly visible... Læs mere
Drawing on a range of international research projects, this book documents a broad spectrum of unpaid work performed by residents, relatives, volunteers and staff in nursing homes. It provides insights which will be critical in planning for nursing home care post-pandemic.
By analysing the conceptual frameworks and methodologies used from a meta-theoretical perspective, this book provides a panoramic picture of the perspectives and challenges of policy analysis in Argentina.
This timely book addresses an overlooked area of criminal justice by focusing on the reality of pregnancy and new motherhood in prison. Based on the experiences of... Læs mere
Matthew Quinn plots a landmark reimagination of governance and public administration, underpinned by sustainable development and civic republicanism.
This book seeks to understand the motivation behind retirement migration and how precarity in later life contributes to this trend.
Applying sociological and ethnographic research to adult safeguarding for the first time, this book considers how... Læs mere
This book highlights how the social experience of caring for, and relating to, a parent in later life has a significant impact on the adult child.
Detroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and policy-makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a 'new... Læs mere
This book, offering in-depth analysis from a native scholar, is a critical examination of the world-renowned community Auroville located in Tamil Nadu, South India as a site of spiritually prefigurative utopian practice.
Presenting in-depth accounts of North Korean women defectors living in the UK, this book examines how the harrowing experiences they endured and their utopian dream of a better future for fellow North Korean women have become an impetus for their activism.
Drawing on theoretical and empirical studies, this book offers a unique and timely reformulation of socialism adapted to current challenges. It makes explicit the 'silent utopia' of intersectionality theory and lays the conceptual groundwork for an emancipatory politics.