Regional, state and other local government

This book puts together grounded research on the discourses that counter Islamophobic tropes in North America.

This book brings together the work of more than 25 scholars from different parts of the world who analyze the challenges posed by the new coronavirus and how it can transform the lives of the cities.

This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts.

This handbook provides a comprehensive treatise of the concepts and nature of technology-facilitated gendered violence and abuse, as well as legal, community and activist responses to these harms.

This book highlights the emerging research and policy development efforts to address child and adolescent behavioral health in Sub-Saharan Africa, where mental health policy is at an early stage and in need of context-specific attention to its successes and shortcomings.

This book seeks to break new ground in the way in which adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse is understood.

This book's point of departure rests on the premises that dimensions of the mainstream inclusive city discourse fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children, and the aging), the minority clusters (i.

This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events, cultural infrastructures, public resources, and cultural traditions in the city of Valencia, Spain.

This book provides a framework for understanding the creation of public value in urban environments.

This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This scoping review furnishes the reader with a contemporary overview of research about employment conditions related to persons on the autism spectrum.

This is the first book length study of performance activism.

Insurance Economics brings together the economic analysis of decision making under risk, risk management and demand for insurance among individuals and corporations, objectives pursued and management tools used by insurance companies, the regulation of insurance, and the division of labor between private and social insurance.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

This book explores the ways in which the state and private security firms contribute to the direct and structural harm of asylum seekers through policies and practices that result in states of perpetual destitution, exclusion, and neglect.

The European Parliament (EP) - a powerful actor in today's European Union - was not intended to be more than a consultative assembly at first.

This book addresses the political effects of the massification of higher education and intellectual labor in the neoliberal state.

This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development.

This book argues that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable crossfire between two competing discourses: those around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting.

The focus of this book is on the experiences of government-sponsored refugees in the early stages of integrating into Canadian society.

This book is an up-to-date analysis of the issues facing the future of the social work profession in the face of rising political authoritarianism, economic inequality and insecurity, class and racial conflicts, fiscal pressure and the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book contributes to the multidisciplinary debate about social-ecological systems (SES) within the perspective of rethinking the nature of interaction between these systems, especially in the Anthropocene Era.

This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts.

The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism.

The book presents governance with a particular focus on the social and spatial aspects of climate responsiveness and reads the practice of governance across different scales.

Honorable Mention: 2022 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies (ASEEES)This book examines Ukrainian state gender politics and investigates how gendered subject positions and policy discourses are constructed within and through social policies.

Over the past two decades, society has been witnessing how technological, political, and societal changes have been transforming individual and collective urban mobility.

In thirteen chapters, the contributors to this volume analyse the different dimensions of a new form of collaboration, termed collective co-production, in the Scandinavian countries.

This book is an earnest effort in understanding the slums and their needs by taking a case study of Kalaburagi, India.

This book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies.

The third, thoroughly revised and enhanced edition of this bestselling book analyses and discusses the most up-to-date research on the psychology of quality of life.

This interdisciplinary book provides a cross-sectoral and multi-dimensional exploration and assessment of the urban geography perspectives in Zimbabwe.

In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result.

This book provides information on data-driven infrastructure design, analytical approaches, and technological solutions with case studies for smart cities.

This book distinguishes conceptually between indigenous and constructed social capital and the associated spontaneous and induced collective action for rural development and natural resource preservation.

This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media.

This book explores the consequences of the last three decades' substantial neoliberal securitisation of freedom of speech, democracy and social security of racialised groups.

This full-colour textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life.

This textbook provides students across Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, and International Studies with an in-depth understanding of the issues, policies, and strategies for addressing the symptoms and root causes of violence against women (VAW) in sub-Saharan Africa.

For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making.

This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers.

This handbook highlights a range of ground breaking, radical and liberatory clinical and critical community psychology projects from around the world.

This edited collection brings together the social dimensions of three key aspects of recent biomedical advance in HIV research: Treatment as Prevention (TasP), new technologies such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and the Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) movement.

This book provides the first comparative assessment of the energy-efficiency retrofit programs in the social housing sector of Canadian cities, focusing on program efficiency and effectiveness.

This timely book looks critically at the policy response to AIDS and its institutionalization over time.

The book reflects on how intelligent urban regeneration can be an extraordinary driver of sustainable social and economic progress.

This edited volume discusses the development of the new social and impact economy in ten countries around the globe.

This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state's fast track land reform programme.