Research

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is the first and most established regional organization initiated by China. This book investigates China’s use of the SCO to shape global norms and argues that self-created regional organizations constitute ideal platforms for emerging powers to promote their normative views internationally.

As populations age around the world, there is an urgent need to address inadequate provision of care for older and disabled people. This is the first collective effort to use the concept of care poverty to analyse inequalities in care at an international level and from a social policy perspective.

The first full-length ethnography of debt problems in Britain, this book uses long-term fieldwork on a southern English housing estate to give a sensitive retelling of the everyday lives of indebted people.

This book explores the futures of work with an in-depth analysis of Australia’s industrial relations policies. Tackling issues like gender, wage theft and work and family as well as universal challenges posed by the climate change, the pandemic and technological advances, expert authors reshape our understanding of labour markets.

This book delves into the intricate landscape of citizenship practices in Central and Eastern Europe, an area often overlooked in research. By addressing both the challenges and opportunities of citizenship in this dynamic region, it contributes to broader debates on democracy and civic participation across Europe and beyond.

Based on interviews with British stepmothers, this book uses a feminist sociological lens to reimagine their roles and practices. Combining firsthand accounts, it explores stepfamily dynamics and how stepmothers navigate them, offering new insights into gendered and social structures in contemporary stepfamilies.

Based on in-depth fieldwork with Belgian children aged 10 to 16, this book examines how children in shared physical custody define and negotiate their place within the household of each parent. Challenging stereotypes, the book provides valuable insights for practitioners and scholars to better understand and support children and their parents.

The need for healthier, more resilient societies has never been more urgent. This timely book reveals how empowered and organized communities can lead this change. It offers policymakers, academics and activists real-world examples of organizing and collective actions from across the global North and South.

Ideal for researchers and practitioners looking for fresh approaches to transport problems, this book combines cutting-edge qualitative and qualitative knowledge to inform transport futures. It uses engaging case studies based in The Gambia and the US to show how and why a transdisciplinary approach can result in better planning decisions.

Following the highly respected first volume, this book outlines Julio Boltvinik’s Marxian approach to poverty and human flourishing.

This book develops a theoretically rigorous and politicized concept of the planetary to intervene in contemporary debates on global development, and to enhance our critical understanding of development as we approach the second quarter of the twenty-first century.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book reviews the social, political, cultural, ethical and military dimensions of lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS). The book uncovers the practices that construct LAWS as both a technological reality and a futuristic possibility in military and political contexts.