Research

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.

This book explores the complex ways in which Islamophobia pervades the daily lives of Muslims, drawing upon first-hand accounts and exploring the strategies that can be taken to challenge and resist Islamophobia.

How is AI reshaping democracy? From data commodification to algorithmic control, this book exposes the hidden costs of AI on political identities—and shows how to resist being ‘factory farmed’ in the digital age.

This book develops three conceptual lenses around abortion access: reproductive justice, mobility politics and geographies of knowledge to tell the story of the success of the misoprostol pill. The book demonstrates how misoprostol, and the people who have mobilized it, has transformed abortion safety, knowledge and practices with global effects.

The first to apply abolitionist theory from international perspectives to social work, this book explores whether social work has a future as a profession that challenges the perpetuation of unjust social structures. It questions whether it is possible for social work to become radical while it is located within the state.

This book takes common themes in popular music and analyses them through a harms-based critical criminology of music. It analyses the sexism and homophobia of the music industry but also the role of music in bringing hope, whether on a personal or political level worldwide.

As ageing populations continue to grow worldwide, the increased need for adequate housing and social care comes into stark focus. This multi-disciplinary book explores how emerging citizen-led innovations in Collaborative Housing and care are challenging mainstream ways of living and ageing.

This timely book challenges current thinking on UK policing from both abolitionist and reformist perspectives, offering a fresh take on recent crises and attempts at reform.

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.