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UberTherapy is the essential guide to the rise of digital therapy for anyone working in, researching or using mental health services. Arguing for the irreplaceable value of human therapists, this book offers a roadmap to preserve real therapy in an increasingly digital world.

This provocative book exposes the colonial roots of tech-driven climate policies and highlights global resistance to resource extraction through Ireland’s land-based struggles.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. How is political change claimed and recognized? How is it attached to responsible actors and transferred between them? This volume explores a mechanism that is celebrated in liberal discourse but is trickier in practice: the performance and uptake of examples.

This book examines how Anglo-Caribbean scholars navigate global inequalities and colonial legacies in their research and career-making. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork, it offers an empirical and practice-based approach to global asymmetries in academia.

This book considers young people’s conceptions of social justice and offers inspiring insights into their approaches to challenging injustices.

Brexit deepened tensions in Northern Ireland and created rifts between Ireland and the UK. Drawing on interviews in Washington, Belfast, Dublin and London, the authors in this book explore how the lobby shaped US policy towards Brexit in order to prevent the reimposition of a hard border on the island of Ireland and preserve peace.

True crime is a huge cultural industry yet behind it lies the real-life victims and a disconnect between representations of violent crime and its reality. This book is a go-to guide for students and researchers in understanding the development of this phenomenon and its social and cultural impacts.

This book explores the complex relationships between the living and the dead in six Latin American cities. Focusing on urban death infrastructures, public health and neoliberal policies, it offers a critical Global South perspective on death in the city.

This book explores the diverse challenges faced by Pride organisers globally, particularly post-COVID-19, focusing on accessibility, grassroots politics and environmental sustainability, while rethinking how Pride reshapes notions of modernity in the Global North and South.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What shapes our sense of connection in today’s world? This book explores the broader social forces that shape our interactions and experiences to tackle loneliness and foster belonging. It offers visionary ideas for reshaping policy and research, paving the way for a more connected future.

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.