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.

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.

Why are liberation and independence movements often betrayed when their leaders get into government? Peter Hain offers a gripping exploration of why they often succumb to bad governance and corruption once in power, using global examples ranging from Africa to Latin America, Russia, the Caribbean, and Malaysia.

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.

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.

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.

Drawing on interviews with contacts in Washington, Belfast, Dublin and London, the authors of this book explore how Irish-American advocacy groups reshaped US policy towards the UK and Ireland and defended Irish peace from threats posed by Brexit.

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.

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.

A follow-up to Terri Givens’ best-selling book Radical Empathy, this book focuses on using the radical empathy approach to empower ongoing change, taking action and creating a positive environment.