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This book links criminological, political, moral and philosophical issues to offer a deeper understanding of the problem of social harm within the neoliberal environment. With case studies illustrating the direct and indirect harms that result from neoliberal policies or harmful inaction, it also demonstrates the harms caused by individualism.

Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. This book examines the significance of both historical and contemporary inequality in shaping diplomatic disagreements in international relations.

The first book to provide systematic and comparative empirical insights into a major way that social workers engage with policy – by holding elected office – this book analyses how and why social workers engage in electoral politics in liberal democracies.

Human Resource Management has grown in influence, yet critical examinations remain rare. This book applies psychoanalytic ideas to challenge its core theories, exposing the darker sides of organizational life. Moving beyond Freud and Lacan, it offers fresh insights, reshaping HRM as both a field and practice.

This book examines the military-humanitarian strategies used to manage the movement of refugees, focusing on the Venezuelan migration crisis in northern Brazil. Shedding light on the intersecting logics of aid, security and vulnerability, it reveals the embodied experiences of migration in precarious environments.

With the increasing influence of digital technologies on society, this timely book examines the ways modern technologies can adversely influence human perception and behaviour.

This book examines the evolution of UK skills policy from the 1881 Royal Commission on Technical Instruction to the present day, revealing how shifting political ideologies have shaped workforce development. It challenges conventional thinking and offers insights into how future skills policies can be more effective.

How do academic spaces perpetuate racial and religious inequalities, and what can be done to challenge them? This bold book explores British South Asian Muslim identity, unpacks Islamophobia and sparks conversations about inequality in higher education.

This book explores how the past and future shape our work and aspirations. Offering a fresh perspective on navigating careers amid precarity and planetary crises, this is essential reading for academics, students and anyone rethinking work.

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.