Regional Government

Despite committed effort to integrate postcolonial theory and decolonizing practices in human rights education in social work, there is scant liter...

Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions, and one where the implementation of the SDGs is particularly urgent. Underinvestments in natural cons...

This book provides a thorough guide to building resilient cities, through the use of smart solutions enabled by information and communication techn...

 This book offers a unique and much-needed perspective on disability and accessibility in urban context in South Africa. Drawing on lived experienc...

This book includes peer reviewed article from the 2nd International Conference on Trends in Architecture and Construction (ICTAC-2024) held at Chan...

As unique as is Utahs formative history of civil and religious conflict, its political institutions today broadly resemble those found in other Ame...

Urban Climate Change Adaptation is a timely and informative book that delves into the complex challenges posed by climate change and explores the p...

English local government is in a state of decline after 40 years of incremental but cumulative centralisation by central government. This book is t...

Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state instit...

This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that assisted socially marginalised people in interwar Europe, namely the state, local authorit...

The author writes from the experience of thirty years working in the Jerusalem municipality, including 21 years as a public official and ten years ...

The book utilises Gramscis concepts of hegemony, counter-hegemony, organic intellectuals, and integral state to interrogate how modes of engagement...

This short book focuses on the Disappearances that occurred during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Using in-depth interviews with thirteen famili...

This book looks at the governmental interregnum from August 1947 to the start of the first general election in October 1951, and is a narrative of ...

This book analyses labour inspectors discretionary practices in handling complex cases of labour exploitation in the Italian context. By outlining ...

'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ...