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Volume 1: Community and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Volume 1: Community and Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-07-22
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation. It was already clear before the pandemic that cities around the world were divided and becoming increasingly unequal. The pandemic has torn back the curtain on many of these pre-existing inequalities. Contributions to this volume engage directly with different urban communities around the world. They give voice to those who experience poverty, discrimination and marginalisation in order to put them in the front and center of planning, policy, and political debates that make and shape cities. Offering crucial insights for reforming cities to be more resilient to future crises, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers alike.

What is International Relations?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

What is International Relations?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-08
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

As International Relations enters its second century as an academic discipline, leading expert Knud Erik Jørgensen provides a provocative assessment of its past, present and future. The result is a concise and challenging appraisal of the discipline, one which both celebrates its value and maps possible future directions.

Evidence, Policy and Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 138

Evidence, Policy and Practice

This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence, policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should influence the policy process. It critiques the notion of 'evidence-based practice', suggesting instead a more inclusive idea of 'knowledge-base practice', based in part on the lived experience of service users. It will be of interest to everyone in health and social care policy, practice and research.

Creative Universities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Creative Universities

In this wide-ranging book, Anke Schwittay argues that, in order to inspire and equip students to generate better responses to global challenges, we need a new high education pedagogy that develops their imagination, creativity, emotional sensibilities and practical capabilities.

Praxis As a Perspective on International Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Praxis As a Perspective on International Politics

Bringing together leading figures in the study of international relations, this collection explores praxis as a perspective on international politics and law. It builds on the transdisciplinary work of Friedrich Kratochwil to reveal the scope, limits and blind spots of praxis theorizing.

Data Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Data Lives

The word ‘data’ has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake? In Data Lives, renowned social scientist Rob Kitchin explores the intricacies of data creation and charts how data-driven technologies have become essential to how society, government and the economy work. Creatively blending scholarly analysis, biography and fiction, he demonstrates how data are shaped by social and political forces, and the extent to which they influence our daily lives. He reveals our data world to be one of potential danger, but also of hope.

Unsustainable
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Unsustainable

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-10-13
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This book is an urgent call to reimagine our social, political and economic systems so that we might transform to a sustainable society. It assesses the roles of governments, business and individuals, and shows how barriers to change can be overcome through a rethinking of our societal and economic values.

Applying Social Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Applying Social Science

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-02-16
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This important book examines how social science is applied now and how it might be applied in the future in relation to social transformation in a time of crisis.

The Future Is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The Future Is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-02-13
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This edited collection analyses the unique characteristics of urban gardens, worker-owned coops, ecological communities, occupied factories and other social movements to demonstrate what we can learn from them in order to rethink our economies and societies.

Growing Up with Risk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Growing Up with Risk

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-05-16
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This book provides a critical analysis of ways in which risk assessment and management are defined and applied in policy, theory and practice in relation to children and young people. It explores the complexities of balancing responsibility for protecting the young with the benefits of risk-taking and the need to allow experimentation.