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The politics of crime, punishment and justice: Exploring the lived reality and enduring legacies of the 1980's radical right (2024)
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Farrall, S., & Gray, E. (2024). The politics of crime, punishment and justice: Exploring the lived reality and enduring legacies of the 1980's radical right. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328339

This book explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the criminal justice system, and attitudes towards punishment in Britain. Grounded in a rigorous analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys such as the British Social Attitude... Read More about The politics of crime, punishment and justice: Exploring the lived reality and enduring legacies of the 1980's radical right.

Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain (2024)
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Gregory, L., & Iafrati, S. (2024). Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain. Policy Press

Recognising diverse groups within society is a vital part of policy research and analysis, yet few texts have drawn together the breadth of experiences of welfare provision from a diverse group of citizens. This book fills this gap, by exploring h... Read More about Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain.

Researching animal research: What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare (2024)
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Davies, G., Greenhough, B., Hobson-West, P., Kirk, R. G., & Palmer, A. (Eds.). (2024). Researching animal research: What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526165770

Every year around 80 million scientific procedures are carried out on animals globally. These experiments have the potential to generate new understandings of biology and clinical treatments. They also give rise to ongoing societal debate. This bo... Read More about Researching animal research: What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare.

Gendering Green Criminology (2023)
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Milne, E., Davies, P., Heydon, J., Peggs, K., & Wyatt, T. (Eds.). (2023). Gendering Green Criminology. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529229646

The first volume in green criminology devoted to gender, this book investigates gendered patterns to offending, victimisation and environmental harms. Including feminist and intersectional analysis, and with original case studies from the Global Nort... Read More about Gendering Green Criminology.

Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia: Queer Muslims and their Allies (2023)
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Garcia Rodriguez, D. (2023). Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia: Queer Muslims and their Allies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003302490

Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia explores gender, sexuality and religion in contemporary Indonesia. It is the first book-length analysis of the experiences of queer Muslims in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country and the world’s... Read More about Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia: Queer Muslims and their Allies.

Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change (2022)
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Grundmann, R. (2022). Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003320227

Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of Expertise instead proposes a conceptual framework for the study of expertise in order to facilitate a m... Read More about Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change.

Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK: Ultra-sacrificial Motherhood, Religion and Reproductive Rights in the Public Sphere (2022)
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Lowe, P., & Page, S. (2022). Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK: Ultra-sacrificial Motherhood, Religion and Reproductive Rights in the Public Sphere. Emerald

Drawing from extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, this book explores the beliefs, motivations and practices of UK anti-abortion activists. Whilst they represent a tiny minority, there is recent evidence of an increase... Read More about Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK: Ultra-sacrificial Motherhood, Religion and Reproductive Rights in the Public Sphere.

Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice (2022)
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Papadopoulos, D., Puig de la Bellacasa, M., & Myers, N. (Eds.). (2022). Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice. Duke University Press

The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, socia... Read More about Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice.

Abolishing The Police (2021)
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DUFF, K., ROSSDALE, C., SHAHVISI, A., KEMP, T., AMIS, P., WOODMAN, C., …THOMPSON, V. E. (2021). K. DUFF (Ed.). Abolishing The Police. Dog Section Press

“This is the first time we are seeing… a conversation about defunding, and some people having a conversation about abolishing the police and prison state. This must be what it felt like when people were talking about abolishing slavery.” – Patrisse C... Read More about Abolishing The Police.

Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Empowerment, Gender and Development in an African Movement (2021)
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Chingarande, S. D., Thondhlana, J., Madziva, R., & Anderson, A. H. (Eds.). (2021). Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Empowerment, Gender and Development in an African Movement. The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers

In Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism, the fourteen contributors to this multidisciplinary collection reflect on how Pentecostalism contributes to the empowerment of marginalised societies, how it empowers women in particular through the... Read More about Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Empowerment, Gender and Development in an African Movement.

Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control (2021)
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Herrity, K., Schmidt, B. E., & Warr, J. (2021). K. Herrity, B. E. Schmidt, & J. Warr (Eds.). Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control. Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781839097263

Sensory Penalties aims to reinvigorate a conversation about the role of sensory experience in empirical investigation. It explores the visceral, personal reflections buried within forgotten criminological field notes, to ask what privileging these se... Read More about Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control.

Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture (2020)
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Dauncey, S. (2020). Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture. Cambridge University Press

Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to the present. Through the analysis of a wide variety of Chinese sources, from film and documentary to literature and lif... Read More about Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture.

The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance (2020)
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Fitzpatrick, A. (2020). The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance. Cambridge, Mass: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press). https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11739.001.0001

How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good. Drones are famous for doing bad things: weaponized, they implement remote-control war; used for surveillance, they threaten civil liberties... Read More about The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance.

Drones for Good: How to Bring Sociotechnical Thinking into the Classroom (2020)
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Hoople, G. D., & Choi-Fitzpatrick, A. (2020). Drones for Good: How to Bring Sociotechnical Thinking into the Classroom. San Rafael, California (USA): Morgan & Claypool Publishers LLC. https://doi.org/10.2200/s00984ed1v01y202001ets024

What in the world is a social scientist doing collaborating with an engineer, and an engineer with a sociologist, and together on a book about drones and sociotechnical thinking in the classroom? This book emerges from a frustration that disciplinary... Read More about Drones for Good: How to Bring Sociotechnical Thinking into the Classroom.

Religion and Sexualities: Theories, Themes and Methodologies (2020)
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Page, S., & Shipley, H. (2020). Religion and Sexualities: Theories, Themes and Methodologies. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315145945

This book examines key themes and concepts pertaining to religious and sexual identities and expressions, mapping theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions. It explores the ways in which debates around sexuality and religion have been fra... Read More about Religion and Sexualities: Theories, Themes and Methodologies.

Buddhist Responses to Christianity in Postwar Taiwan: Awakening the World (2020)
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Pacey, S. (2020). Buddhist Responses to Christianity in Postwar Taiwan: Awakening the World. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

After the Communist victory in China's civil war, Taiwan, then governed by the KMT (or Nationalist Party), became a focal point for both Buddhist and Christian activity in the Chinese world. Focusing on some of the most influential monastics of the t... Read More about Buddhist Responses to Christianity in Postwar Taiwan: Awakening the World.

Sustainable Development as Environmental Harm: Rights, Regulation and Injustice in the Canadian Oil Sands (2019)
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Heydon, J. (2019). Sustainable Development as Environmental Harm: Rights, Regulation and Injustice in the Canadian Oil Sands. (1). Routledge

In this in-depth analysis of First Nations opposition to the oil sands industry, James Heydon offers detailed empirical insight into Canadian oil sands regulation. The environmental consequences of the oil sands industry have been thoroughly explored... Read More about Sustainable Development as Environmental Harm: Rights, Regulation and Injustice in the Canadian Oil Sands.