Qualitative Fieldwork with Children
Context and Participation in Child Well-Being Research across Nations
Drawing on the multinational qualitative study ‘Children’s Understandings of Well-being’ (CUWB), this book offers practical insights into conducting fieldwork across diverse contexts. Featuring experts from 13 countries, the book provides valuable perspectives for researchers across a wide range of academic settings.
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Public Health and International Economic Law
Preventing Non-communicable Diseases and Promoting Better Health for All
This book tackles crucial and timely questions regarding the impact of international trade and investment law on state regulatory autonomy in crafting and executing measures to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
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Providing Public Space in a Contemporary Metropolis
Dilemmas and Lessons from London and Hong Kong
Contrasting London with Hong Kong, this book tells the story of the two cities’ public and private sector forms of public space governance. The authors consider the challenges and impacts that different forms of provision have on those with a stake in them, and on the cities as a whole.
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Property in Contemporary Capitalism
This timely book contributes to discussions about the nature of property and capital in an era dominated by neoliberalism and resource privatization.
Raising broad questions about the distribution of wealth and wealth inequality, this timely book will set the agenda in modern property theory.
The Privatization of Immigration Detention
Actors, Practices, and Effects
This timely book explores the widespread involvement of private companies in UK detention and removal policies. Based on original empirical data, the author pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day practices of the Home Office and private service providers, offering critical insights about the inner workings and failings of their processes.
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Private Renting in the Advanced Economies
Growth and Change in a Financialised World
This edited collection analyses recent changes in the private rental housing market, using case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA, and assesses the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation
Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
This essential reference book offers best practice strategies for practitioners, researchers and policy makers working on deradicalisation and preventing violent extremism.
A Practical Guide to Community Social Work Practice in the UK
What does community social work mean when applied to practice? Colin Turbett explores the erratic history of community social work, demonstrating how this preventative and relationship-based model can work for the individuals and communities served, and also provide an answer to recruitment and retention issues.
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Post-Carbon Inclusion
Transitions Built on Justice
This collection pays unique attention to the problems of addressing inequality within decarbonisation, such as high consumption, degrowth approaches and perverse outcomes. Illustrated with case studies from the city to the household, this timely book looks at ways to quicken the transition from high carbon inequalities to post-carbon inclusion.
The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain
Class Struggle, Labour Market Restructuring and Welfare Reform
Advancing a class-centred approach, this book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023.
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The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom
This book takes a critical political economy approach to understanding food insecurity in Canada and the UK. It provides a vision of a future whereby public control over the distribution of resources –including food – will eliminate food insecurity and other conditions that threaten health.
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The Politics of Fiscal Welfare
Towards a Social Division of Welfare and Labour
The use of fiscal welfare has been growing over the past decades in European welfare states. This book sheds light on the use and effects of fiscal welfare in welfare and labour market reforms in both countries and examines the introduction of a 50% tax deduction on domiciliary care and household services.
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