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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

You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem

Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract

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.

Bristol Uni Press

Magic Misoprostol

Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America

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.

Bristol Uni Press

Navigating Societal Change through Design

Leading Missions for a Prosperous Future

This book interconnects a group of diverse, but overlapping, professional domains – futures design, mission-oriented innovation, system innovation and leadership – to encourage a new, heightened awareness of systemic change that can lead to societal transformation and a sustainable future.

Policy Press

Abolition in Social Work and Human Services

Visions, Possibilities and Challenges

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.

Policy Press

A Criminology of Popular Music

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.

Bristol Uni Press

Policing in Crisis?

Policing and Resistance in 21st Century Britain

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.

Bristol Uni Press

Collaborative Housing, Ageing and Social Care

Lessons from Europe

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.

Policy Press

The Spatial Limits of Political Community

Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain

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.

Bristol Uni Press

City, Space and Trade Unionism

The Spatiality of Labour in the Metal Industry

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.

Bristol Uni Press

Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse

Current Understandings in Research, Policy and Practice

Since the first edition of Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse, there has been a huge increase in media, research, policy and practice interest on the topic. This second edition explores the impact on individuals, families and communities, extending the field to include neurodiversity, kinship care, adult-aged perpetrators and fatal violence.

Policy Press

International Business as Responsible Business

Theory and Practice

Framed around responsibility, risk and sustainability, this textbook takes a practice-oriented approach to show how global businesses adapt to innovation and regulations while driving growth and competitiveness. Featuring case studies and supplementary teaching resources, it equips students to tackle today’s international business challenges.

Bristol Uni Press