Research

Championing a new critical realist "what matters" approach, this book unveils unique research on the transformative power of listening to children, exploring how they navigate family life and relationships.

Despite increasing legal recognition of animal rights, policy making remains inconsistent, and civil society’s role in shaping governance is underexplored. Applying extensive research and interviews with key animal welfare organisations, this book examines the challenges, progress and future prospects of civil society activism.

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 can embrace radical change while operating within state structures.

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.

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.

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.