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Working through Ageing

Experiencing Growing up and Older at Work

Kathleen Riach draws on a 10-year study to explore how ageing is experienced at work, an area overlooked in management and organization studies. Introducing a new phenomenological theory, she examines how individuals manage age-biased workplace cultures and adapt to their evolving bodies within the context of financial capitalism.

Bristol Uni Press

What Is Truth For?

This optimist’s guide to truth contends that truth is the best device we have for coordinating collective decisions and actions, and the concept of truth is a target ideal to strive for . This longstanding problem will not be solved with modern technology or regulations, but with mindfulness, humility, cooperation and optimism.

Bristol Uni Press

The Resilient Entrepreneur

From Crisis to Enlightenment

What makes entrepreneurs more or less resilient to adversity? This illuminating case study brings together resilience, adaptation and crisis management evidence to offer invaluable lessons and interventions for entrepreneurs, managers and other stakeholders.

Bristol Uni Press

The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative

Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road

This book explores the unequal ways that China’s Belt and Road Initiative, commonly called the New Silk Road, is altering livelihoods, places and the environment. From road building projects in Nairobi to grassroots environmental activism in Thailand, researchers from across the globe analyse the project's real-world impacts.

Bristol Uni Press

The Digitalisation of Memory Practices in China

Contesting the Curating State

This book examines how new digital technologies are reshaping and expanding the production and contestation of collective memory. It introduces innovative perspectives on the complex intersections and unexpected trends of memory formation and digitisation in contemporary China.

Bristol Uni Press

Listening to Children about Kinship Care, Child Welfare and Permanence

A Child-Centred Approach to Navigating Relational Spaces

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.

Policy Press

Civil Society Activism and Animal Welfare Rights

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.

Policy Press

Welcoming Cities

How Newcomers Shape Urban Policy Making

This book outlines a comprehensive framework for the inclusion of newcomers locally, drawing on learning and examples from 12 UK cities and international partners as well as innovative research findings.

Policy Press

Resexualising Later Life

Performances of Older Sexual Citizenship

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.

Policy Press

Varieties of Impact Investing

Creating and Translating a Label in Local Contexts

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.

Bristol Uni Press

Ambivalent Activism

Working with Contradiction, Hesitation and Doubt for Social Change

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.

Bristol Uni Press

Everyday Islamophobia

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.

Bristol Uni Press