Research

Adopting a spatial approach to labour and social movements, this book explores how collective action shapes economic landscapes by examining the workers' movement in Spain’s metal sector, one of the country’s most unionised industries.

Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell us about the current political conjuncture and interrogates the possibilities it offers for imagining new, and more just, forms of political community.

Since the first edition of Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse, there has been a huge increase in media, research, policy and practice interest on the topic. This second edition explores the impact on individuals, families and communities, extending the field to include neurodiversity, kinship care, adult-aged perpetrators and fatal violence.

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.

Key reading for housing researchers and policy makers, this book explains the root causes of the UK’s housing crisis and proposes useful ways forward.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together perspectives from a range of disciplines, this book explores the precarious situation of so-called ‘de facto’, ‘unrecognised’ or ‘contested’ states that are either at or threatened by war as they blur traditional categories of international law.

This book examines the impact of World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) economic restructuring programmes during active conflicts. Using a critical political economy perspective, the book explores how these restructuring efforts affect vulnerable communities’ survival amid violence.

This book explores human rights oversight in asylum decision-making through a socio-legal lens, focusing on the Nordic countries. It examines how institutional contexts shape interactions between national and international law, highlighting how national decision-makers navigate and contest international norms.

Bringing together a broad team of contributors, this book argues for a new interdisciplinary field of crisis studies. Covering a range of cases, the book critically explores the intersections of socio-economic, political, climate, and health factors to unravel the dynamic and transformative forces of crisis.

The no-fly zone is a frequently used instrument in the US foreign policy arsenal, despite detrimental, or even catastrophic, results. This book examines why the instrument has such a hold on leaders’ imaginations and rhetoric despite its patchy record in practice.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores the concept of reflexivity in science and technology studies and how it can be applied to address practical and ethical issues in research.

Exploring the profound harms which stem from corporate crime, this book is a state-of-the-art handbook for researchers and policy-makers in understanding and controlling this ever-evolving phenomena.