Regional Government

This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a va...

This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a va...

Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and suggesting novel ways of approaching the phenomenon of European Islam and the continent's Muslim communities, ...

Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common for states to e...

Focusing on care workers for the elderly, this book examines the paradoxical position of irregular migrants in European society, who are often labe...

By explaining the role of evaluation in modern societies and its historical development in the USA and Europe this book highlights the scientific r...

While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle existing political and ...

Why are some conflicts managed better than others? Social scientists have used various disciplinary lenses to answer this question but until now, p...

This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it ill...

This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples against the domination of the settler imaginary in Australia, Canad...

This collection brings together international contributors from multiple disciplines to discuss the current public, social and governmental underst...

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Black Masculinity in the Obama Era provides an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the ...

This book covers arguments made by various sides of the political-religious divide from the past 30 years, showing what the actual differences are ...

This accessible book is about local democracy, civic engagement, political participation and community in Britain. It rejects the many pessimistic ...

The provision of care has been widely referred to as facing a 'crisis'. International migrants are increasingly relied upon to provide care as dom...

Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in the UK. This book critically explores women's elite football from a sociological per...

The Little Rock Crisis frames the story of the Little Rock 1957 desegregation crisis through the lens of memory. Over time, those memories individ...

The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space in between. The volume brings tog...

Asian security institutions have struggled to adapt to the so-called 'non-traditional' security issues that characterise the strategic landscape of...

The past twenty years have witnessed a renewal of interest in feminist activism on both sides of the Atlantic. In part this has been a response to ...

This study focuses on the field of security studies through the prism of migration. Using ethnographic methods to illustrate an experiential theory...

Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our ...