Research

This book examines how Anglo-Caribbean scholars navigate global inequalities and colonial legacies in their research and career-making. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork, it offers an empirical and practice-based approach to global asymmetries in academia.

This book considers young people’s conceptions of social justice and offers inspiring insights into their approaches to challenging injustices.

True crime is a huge cultural industry yet behind it lies the real-life victims and a disconnect between representations of violent crime and its reality. This book is a go-to guide for students and researchers in understanding the development of this phenomenon and its social and cultural impacts.

This book explores the complex relationships between the living and the dead in six Latin American cities. Focusing on urban death infrastructures, public health and neoliberal policies, it offers a critical Global South perspective on death in the city.

This book explores the diverse challenges faced by Pride organisers globally, particularly post-COVID-19, focusing on accessibility, grassroots politics and environmental sustainability, while rethinking how Pride reshapes notions of modernity in the Global North and South.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What shapes our sense of connection in today’s world? This book explores the broader social forces that shape our interactions and experiences to tackle loneliness and foster belonging. It offers visionary ideas for reshaping policy and research, paving the way for a more connected future.

Responsibility and accountability are key concepts in global development, and no less so in the case of South-South cooperation (SSC). This book illustrates how donorship responsibility and accountability are being debated, negotiated and operationalised in the context of Southern rising powers’ development cooperation.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited collection provides new insights into refugee reception and camps by focusing on the overlap between local and global dynamics in the governance of camps, providing valuable insights to understand the complex realities of refugee camps around the world.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What does it mean to age in a world shaped by inequity? This book explores the challenges faced by marginalized older adults and their carers in high-income countries—offering insights for policy and actionable steps for inclusive ageing futures.

Bringing together researchers from around the world, this book explores the main theoretical insights on ecosocial work and how social workers can already bring the ecological dimension into their daily practice.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Examining both pre-war and post-war Japan, this book investigates what Japanese prime ministers have done after stepping down from office and what influence they have continued to exert.