Research

Despite Nigeria’s critical role in African security, global policy makers often overlook the gravity of its security challenges. This book addresses this gap by developing a comprehensive framework for assessing national security in Nigeria.

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.

This book uses a biographical approach to explore the Labour Party's relationship with European integration, moving beyond simple 'pro' or 'anti' labels to showcase the complexity of views that have existed.

What’s it like to work in the male-dominated world of electronic music? This book blends the author’s DJing journey with 6 years of research and artist interviews, revealing the challenges women and gender-expansive DJs face. A must-read for those interested in electronic music, the sociology of club culture or diversity in creative industries.

Kathleen Riach draws on a 10-year study to explore how ageing is experienced at work, an area overlooked in management and organization studies. Introducing a new phenomenological theory, she examines how individuals manage age-biased workplace cultures and adapt to their evolving bodies within the context of financial capitalism.

This book examines how new digital technologies are reshaping and expanding the production and contestation of collective memory. It introduces innovative perspectives on the complex intersections and unexpected trends of memory formation and digitisation in contemporary China.

This book explores the unequal ways that China’s Belt and Road Initiative, commonly called the New Silk Road, is altering livelihoods, places and the environment. From road building projects in Nairobi to grassroots environmental activism in Thailand, researchers from across the globe analyse the project's real-world impacts.

Championing a new critical realist "what matters" approach, this book unveils unique research on the transformative power of listening to children, exploring how they navigate family life and relationships.

Despite increasing legal recognition of animal rights, policy making remains inconsistent, and civil society’s role in shaping governance is underexplored. Applying extensive research and interviews with key animal welfare organisations, this book examines the challenges, progress and future prospects of civil society activism.

This volume provides a theoretically and experientially informed overview and discussion of resexualisation. It covers a range of sexual identities and ageing populations, blending cultural representations and current research to highlight the possible forms and practices that can lead to the creative enabling of pleasure.

Impact investment is the latest trend in ethical finance, but what does it really mean and how is it practiced across different regions and organizations? This book explores the malleability of impact investing, and how it overlaps with the development sphere to give finance a new role.

What if doubt, hesitation and ambivalence weren’t barriers to activism but powerful tools for change? This bold collection reveals how activists harness complex emotions to drive movements in anti-racism, climate justice and beyond.