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Bringing together authors from a diverse range of countries, this book argues that more flexible, community/relationship/partnership-based approaches are required to meet the needs of parents and children experiencing difficulties and risk of harm.

This new edition of the milestone book Education, Disability and Social Policy outlines critical debates in education concerning the position and experiences of disabled children and young people within a contemporary policy context.

This groundbreaking ethnographic study lifts the lid on the dark side of beauty – revealing why young people are willing to inflict self-harm in the pursuit of ‘perfection’ and exploring the motivations for using, buying and selling counterfeit beauty products and services.

Exploring the 'authoritarian–financial complex' that shapes modern capitalism, this book unveils how neoliberalism fosters state and corporate repression in our lives. Bloom shows how financial securitisation fuels oppression by exploiting social inequalities. This is must-read on capitalism's drive for profit and authoritarian power.

Using cutting-edge research and analysis, this book states the case for studying ineffective policies, demonstrates their harmful effects across policy fields and provides policy makers with the tools to reflect, identify and act upon them.

This book examines ‘land-grabbing’ - its colonial roots and the fraught relationship between capital and nature amid the current global socio-ecological crisis. Based on ethnographic research, the author sheds light on how European policies impact indigenous communities and how contemporary capital–nature relationships perpetuate ecological crises.

This book combines Western history of death with sociology and philosophy to explore our approach to death. It examines sociological debates, the cultural construction of death and uses existential phenomenology and Freudian psychology to examine the search for meaning in our finite lives.

This volume provides a well-rounded analysis of the practical opportunities and challenges posed by digital welfare, reconnecting and reconciling technical possibilities and political ambitions with what is socially necessary as welfare systems undergo radical change.

What will the world be like in 2050? This book explores possible future worlds through eight speculative fiction stories, taking in automation, big data, climate catastrophe and government dysfunction. It will encourage all those interested in a positive future for public mobility to take the steps to ensure we get there.

This edited volume examines the crucial, yet overlooked, role narratives play in the rapidly changing relationship between Europe and China.

This book traces the origins of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the broader context of universalism since the beginning of the 20th century. Drawing on rich first-hand data, including expert interviews and archival research, this book adopts a historical–sociological methodology to analyse some of UHC’s key political dynamics.