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Neoliberalism in Context: Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Neoliberalism in Context adopts a processual, relational and contextual framework, bringing together contributions from diverse national and disciplinary contexts, and bridging theoretical and methodological approaches to critiquing neoliberalism.

The book presents arguments on the extent to which we are...

Economics and Ageing: Volume III: Long-term Care and Finance

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in health economics and economics of ageing, but policy makers,...

Children in Street Situations: A Concept in Search of an Object (Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research)

Springer, 2019

This book provides new insights on the lives of children in street situations by providing analyses from a qualitative perspective on the sociology of childhood. It proposes some insightful perspectives on the current discussion about the rights of children in street situations. It includes a unique selection of texts, which were...

Community Pest Management in Practice: A Narrative Approach

Springer, 2018

This book presents a collection of practitioner and community stories that reveal how invasive species management is a community issue that can spark community formation and collective action. It combines the unique first-person narratives of practitioners on the frontline of invasive species management in Australia with three case studies of...

Persistent Creativity: Making the Case for Art, Culture and the Creative Industries (Sociology of the Arts)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Recent years have seen the increasing valuation and promotion of ‘creativity’. Future success, we are often assured, will rest on the creativity of our endeavours, often aligned specifically with ‘cultural’ activity. This book considers the emergence and persistence of this pattern, particularly with regards...

Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This volume explores the governance patterns of three cities of the Americas, Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba, which all present different but interesting cases in dealing with sustainable urban transport challenges. The authors study empirical data from these three cities to analyze how specific governmental and...

Inspectors and Enforcement at the Front Line of Government

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book explores the social dynamics of the interaction between inspectors and their inspectees in the public sector. Government inspectors have a crucial role in enforcing rules and standards. The role of inspectors has changed. Their task is no longer to merely inspect and enforce, but also to educate, to negotiate, and to make compromises....

Propaganda in the Information Age

Routledge, 2019

Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself.

2018 marks 30...

Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy: Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture (Mapping Global Racisms)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Finalist for the 2019 Edinburgh Gadda Prize

This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular...

Making the Tunisian Resurgence

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book investigates the socioeconomic factors that triggered Tunisia’s "revolution for dignity” and the current issues and challenges facing its economy while suggesting mechanisms and instruments for their resolution. The author begins by analyzing the roots of the revolution and the post-revolution situation from a...

Rethinking Young People’s Marginalisation: Beyond neo-Liberal Futures? (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society)

Routledge, 2018

In the 21st century myriad earth systems – atmospheric systems, ocean systems, land systems, neo-Liberal capitalism – are in crisis. These crises are deeply related. Taking diverse and multiple forms, they have diverse and multiple consequences and are evidenced in such things as war, everyday violence, hate and...

Youth in Saudi Arabia

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book uses the youth life stage as a window through which to view all domains of life in present-day Saudi Arabia: family life, education, the impact of new media, the labour market, religion and politics. The authors draw extensively on their interviews with 25-35 year olds, selected so as to represent the life...

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