Poverty, inequality and social justice

Rooted in original empirical research, this edited volume argues for collaborative, relationship-based practice. It explores participatory methods, innovative advocacy strategies and emerging trends, including digital platforms and post-COVID-19 developments.

The challenge of standardising social work education remains a much-discussed but under-documented issue, particularly in developing and less-developed countries. This book offers valuable insights into developing a curriculum that equips future social workers with the skills to meet global challenges in an evolving professional landscape.

This book examines the unique forms of activism in Latin America, a region where activists frequently face violent and repressive tactics. Providing insights for scholars in activist organising, politics and social movements, the book analyses the relationship between routine violence and activism in a region characterised by systemic inequalities.

Discussions on children affected by domestic abuse often focus on trauma, risk and social work interventions, leaving little room to explore their everyday lives beyond victimhood. This groundbreaking book challenges dominant narratives by drawing on an 18-month multimodal ethnography with children in an inner London borough.

Using an interdisciplinary framework, this edited volume provides the first comprehensive, comparative analysis of social work professional organisations in 15 countries, bridging Global North and South perspectives.

After over a decade of unprecedented cuts, this important book examines the radical transformation of legal advice funding and delivery in the UK. Using Liverpool as a case study, the authors analyse the impact of these changes on access to justice, social rights and health inequalities.

This book assesses the impact of a unique youth and community space in East London, created to support local young people in addressing the challenges in their lives. It gives clear and practical evidence of the significant benefits of open access youth work, with guidance on replicating best practice in similar urban environments.

A follow-up to Terri Givens’ best-selling book Radical Empathy, this book focuses on using the radical empathy approach to empower ongoing change, taking action and creating a positive environment.

Responsibility and accountability are key concepts in global development, and no less so in the case of south-south cooperation (SSC). This book illustrates how donorship responsibility and accountability are being debated, negotiated and operationalised in the context of rising powers’ development cooperation.

Bringing together researchers from around the world, this book explores the main theoretical insights on ecosocial work and how social workers can already bring the ecological dimension into their daily practice.

Using Norway as a case study, this book examines what role the supranational European Court of Human Rights plays in the development and contestation of child protection and children’s rights as they are laid out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines forced sterilization through various registers, from the ways women speak about reproductive abuse to urban feminist activism and bureaucratic responses. The first ethnography on sterilization cases in Peru, this book contributes to reproduction, Latin American and feminist decolonial studies.