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View book details for Community Action and Planning
Contexts, Drivers and Outcomes
Policy Press
With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at …
View book details for Coercion and Women Co-offenders
A Gendered Pathway into Crime
Policy Press
What role does coercion play in womens involvement in crime? This is the first book to explore coercion as a pathway into crime for co-offending women. Using newspaper articles and case and court files, it analyses four cases of women …
The automotive sector represents more than a simple industry. It embodies the economic and technological power of nations, the lifestyle and consumption patterns of societies, the dynamics of urban and territorial development, and acts as a national barometer of economic …
View book details for Strengthening Child Protection
Sharing Information in Multi-Agency Settings
Policy Press
Following high-profile Serious Case Reviews into the tragic deaths of children, including Victoria Climbie, Peter Connelly and Daniel Pelka, information sharing has now become a moral and political imperative for safeguarding the welfare of children. What prompts information sharing and …
View book details for Policy Change, Public Attitudes and Social Citizenship
Does Neoliberalism Matter?
Policy Press
Neoliberal reforms have seen a radical shift in government thinking about social citizenship rights around the world. But have they had a similarly significant impact on public support for these rights? This unique book traces public views on social citizenship …
The fishing industrys critical dependence on the natural environment makes it very different from other economic sectors. How it can optimally exploit a common resource while ensuring its sustainability raises many economic challenges. This book, suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate …
View book details for Women and Alcohol
Social Perspectives
Policy Press
Issues relating to alcohol 'misuse' can only properly be understood within their social and environmental contexts. This research and practice based book explores social models of alcohol misuse to offer a sociological approach to its treatment. Through considering the social …
View book details for Sex Work and COVID-19 in the New Zealand Media
Avoid the Moist Breath Zone
New Zealands relatively recent decriminalisation of sex work and its unusual success in combatting COVID-19 have both attracted international media interest. This accessibly written book uses the lens of news media coverage to consider the pandemics impacts on both sex …
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Commonwealth and Comparative Insights for Constitutional Reform
Constitutional scholar Elliot Bulmer considers what Britain might learn from Westminster-derived constitutions around the world. Exploring the principles of Westminster Model constitutions and their impact on democracy, human rights and good government, this book builds to a bold re-imagining of …
View book details for Forensic Psychology, Crime and Policing
Key Concepts and Practical Debates
A key resource for students, academics and practitioners, this concise guide brings together various concepts vital to the theoretical, policy and practical debates on forensic psychology and its relationship with crime and policing. Covering issues such as criminal behaviour, police …
View book details for Localism and Neighbourhood Planning
Power to the People?
Policy Press
Governments around the world are seeing the locality as a key arena for effecting changes in governance, restructuring state/civil society relations and achieving sustainable growth. This is the first book to critically analyse this shift towards localism in planning through …
View book details for Education under Siege
Why there Is a Better Alternative
Policy Press
At a time when education is considered crucial to a countrys economic success, recent UK governments have insisted their reforms are the only way to make Englands system world class. Yet pupils are tested rather than educated, teachers bullied rather …
View book details for Social Work and the Transformation of Adult Social Care
Perpetuating a Distorted Vision?
Policy Press
Health and social care reforms and cuts in services and finances are part of the everyday fabric of the social work landscape. This book takes a critical approach to the transformation agenda and the implications for adult health and social …
Policy Press
We live in a world that is increasingly characterised as full of risk, danger and threat. Every day a new social issue emerges to assail our sensibilities and consciences. Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar …
View book details for Implementing Innovative Social Investment
Strategic Lessons from Europe
Policy Press
Introduction and conclusion available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in early childhood. This edited collection brings …
View book details for Zuleikha
The International Bestseller
WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD AND THE BEST PROSE WORK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 READ RUSSIA PRIZE RUNNER-UP FOR THE EBRD LITERATURE PRIZE, 2020 Zuleikha is the model of …
Exquisite (Lisa Barr, New York Times best-selling author of Woman on Fire) and utterly engrossing (Katherine Gray, cohost of the Netflix series Blown Away), The Color of Ice will wrap you in its spell, all the way to its unforgettable …
View book details for Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities
The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era
Berghahn Books
Cultural diversity the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization. Even though it is often used as a slogan it does …
View book details for Aesthetics in Performance
Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience
Berghahn Books
In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Each …
View book details for Religious Plurality at Princely Courts
Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860
Early modern European monarchies legitimized their rule through dynasty and religion, and ideally the divine right of the ruler corresponded with the confession of the territory. It has thus been assumed that at princely courts only a single confession was …
View book details for Momentous Mobilities
Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel
Berghahn Books
Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop …
View book details for Reluctant Skeptic
Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture
Berghahn Books
The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno. Less well known is his earlier work, which offered …
View book details for The Fateful Alliance
German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The <I>Machtergreifung</I> in a New Light
Berghahn Books
On 30 January 1933, Alfred Hugenberg's conservative German National People's Party (DNVP) formed a coalition government with the Nazi Party, thus enabling Hitler to accede to the chancellorship. This book analyzes in detail the complicated relationship between Conservatives and Nazis …
View book details for Democracy's Paradox
Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
Berghahn Books
Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part …
View book details for Histories of a Radical Book
E. P. Thompson and <em>The Making of the English Working Class</em>
For better or worse, E.P. Thompsons monumental book The Making of the English Working Class has played an essential role in shaping the intellectual lives of generations of readers since its original publication in 1963. This collected volume explores the …
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