Research publications

Fernandez, Bina. Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers: Migrant Agency and Social Change. Springer International Publishing, 2020.

This book tells the stories of the Ethiopian women who migrate to work as domestic workers in the Middle East. Drawing on qualitative research in Ethiopia, Lebanon and Kuwait, the author reveals how women’s aspirations to migrate are constituted within unequal gendered structures of opportunity in Ethiopia and asks us to consider how gender, race, class and nationality intersect in the construction of migrant subjectivities and agency. By analysing the impact of migration on social reproduction both in Ethiopia and the destination countries, the book offers fresh empirical and theoretical insights into the largest stream of women’s autonomous international migration from Africa. More information...

Fitz-Henry, Erin and Rodriguez, Denisse. “What is in the ‘People’s Interest’?” Discourses of Egalitarianism and ‘Development as Compensation’ in Contemporary Ecuador,” in Gold, Marina and Zagato, Alessandro (eds.,). After the Pink Tide: Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America. Berghahn Books, 2020.

The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized anthropological perspective, this book argues that at a time when the regular structures of political participation have been ruptured, the Latin American context reveals multiple expressions of egalitarian movements that strive (and sometimes momentarily manage) to break through the state’s apparatus. More information...

Hoang, Lan Anh. Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty. Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at Moscow’s wholesale markets from 2013 to 2016, this book provides original insights into how uncertainty shapes social practice, identity and belonging in the context of irregular migration from Vietnam to Russia. The uncertainties examined here are not just social, economic, and political, but also psychological and moral. The study speaks to various debates in migration and mobility studies – particularly those focused on brokerage networks, the political economy of sexuality, and social belonging – deepening our knowledge of how the core social values and cultural logics that underpin Vietnamese personhood are challenged and reconstituted by the ethos of the market economy. More information...

Mattioli, Fabio. Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe. Stanford University Press, 2020.

Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe. Following workers, managers, and investors in the Macedonian construction sector, Fabio Mattioli shows how financialisation can empower authoritarian regimes – not by making money accessible to everyone, but by allowing a small group of oligarchs to monopolise access to international credit and promote a cascade of exploitative domestic debt relations.

Dark Finance chronicles how, one bad deal at a time, Macedonia’s authoritarian regime rode a wave of financial expansion that deepened its reach into Macedonian society, only to discover that its domination, like all speculative bubbles, was teetering on the verge of collapse. More information...

Plueckhahn, Rebekah. Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia – Ulaanbaatar, Dynamic Ownership and Economic Flux. UCL Press, 2020.

What can the generative processes of dynamic ownership reveal about how the urban is experienced, understood and made in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia? Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia provides an ethnography of actions, strategies and techniques that form part of how residents precede and underwrite the owning of real estate property – including apartments and land – in a rapidly changing city. In doing so, it charts the types of visions of the future and perceptions of the urban form that are emerging within Ulaanbaatar following a period of investment, urban growth and subsequent economic fluctuation in Mongolia’s extractive economy since the late 2000s. More information...

Schubert, Violeta. Modernity and the Unmaking of Men. Berghahn Books, 2020.

Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on ageing bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender. It argues that as a critical consequence of demographic rupture, changing values and societal shifts, ageing bachelorhood illuminates and challenges conceptualisations of performativity and social presence. More information...

Wolf, Lesley Pruitt. “Youth, Peace, and Security: Global Trends and a Colombian Case Study,” in Byrne, Sean et al (eds.,). Routledge Companion to Peace and Conflict Studies. Routledge, 2020.

This Companion examines contemporary challenges in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and offers practical solutions to these problems. Bringing together chapters from new and established global scholars, the volume explores and critiques the foundations of Peace and Conflict Studies in an effort to advance the discipline in light of contemporary local and global actors. More information...

de Solier, Isabelle. “Globalized Eating Cultures,” in Dürrschmidt, Jörg, Kautt, York (eds.,). Globalized Eating Cultures: Mediation and Mediatization. Springer International Publishing, 2019.

This innovative volume explores the link between local and regional eating cultures and their mediatization via transnational TV cooking shows, glocal food advertising and social media transfer of recipes. Pursuing a global and interdisciplinary approach, it brings together research conducted in Latin America, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe, from leading scholars in sociology and political science, media and cultural studies, as well as anthropology. More information...

Kikon, Dolly and Karlsson, Bengt. Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

During the last decade, indigenous youth from Northeast India have migrated in large numbers to the main cities of metropolitan India to find work and study... Leaving the Land traces the migratory journeys of these youths and engage with their new lives in cities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram. More information...

Kikon, Dolly. Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India. University of Washington Press, 2019.

The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. Anthropologist Dolly Kikon uses in-depth ethnographic accounts to address the complexity of Northeast India, a region between Southeast Asia and China where boundaries and borders are made, disputed, and maintained. More information...

Kohn, T., Gibbs, M., Ryn, L.V. and Nansen, B. Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured. Routledge, 2019.

This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead, including bodies, materials and digital artefacts. It focuses on how residues of death persist and circulate through different spaces, materials, data and mediated memories, refiguring how the disposal of the dead is understood, enacted and contested across the globe. More information...

de Solier, Isabelle. “Tasting the Digital: New Food Media,” in Lebesco, Kathleen and Naccarato, Peter (eds.,) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

The influence of food has grown rapidly as it has become more and more intertwined with popular culture in recent decades. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture offers an authoritative, comprehensive overview of and introduction to this growing field of research. Bringing together over 20 original essays from leading experts, including Amy Bentley, Deborah Lupton, Fabio Parasecoli, and Isabelle de Solier, its impressive breadth and depth serves to define the field of food and popular culture. More information...

Mustapha, Abdul Raufu, Ehrhardt, David and Diprose, Rachael. “Historical Contexts of Muslim-Christian Encounters in Northern Nigeria,” in Mustapha, Abdul Raufu and Ehrhardt, David (eds.,). Creed & Grievance: Muslim-Christian Relations and Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria. Boydell & Brewer, 2018.

Refuting a “clash of civilizations” between Muslims and Christians, the authors of this new study highlight the multiplicity of Muslim and Christian groups contending for influence and relevance, and the doctrinal, political and historical drivers of conflict and violence between and within them. They analyse three of the most contentious issues: the conflicts in Jos; the Boko Haram insurgency; and the challenges of legal pluralism posed by the declaration of full Sharia law in 12 Muslim majority states. More information...

Fernandez, Bina. “Queer Border Crossers: Pragmatic Complicities, Indiscretions and Subversions,” in Otto, Diane (ed.,). Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities. Routledge, 2018.

This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer legal theory with those critical theories that have a much longer genealogy - notably postcolonial and feminist analyses... The contributors to the book use queer legal theory to critically analyse the basic tenets and operations of international law, with many surprising, thought-provoking and instructive results. More information...

Fitz-Henry, Erin. “Domesticating the U.S. Air Force: The Challenges of Anti-Military Activism in Manta, Ecuador,” in McGranahan, Carole and Collins, John F. (eds.,). Ethnographies of U.S. Empire. Duke University Press, 2018.

From the Mohawk Nation, Korea, and the Philippines to Iraq and the hills of New Jersey, the contributors show how a methodological and theoretical commitment to ethnography sharpens all of our understandings of the novel and timeworn ways people live, thrive, and resist in the imperial present. More information...

Alexeyeff, Kalissa. "Entangled Traditions: Beth Dean and Victor Carell and the 1972 South Pacific Festival of Arts," in Stevenson, K. and Taiwan, K.M. (eds.,). The Festival of Pacific Arts: Celebrating over 40 years of Cultural Heritage. University of the South Pacific Press, 2017.

The Festival of Pacific Arts, initially known as the South Pacific Arts Festival, has grown from the 1st edition with 1000 participants from 20 countries to the Festival of Pacific Arts with close to 3000 delegates from 27 countries. The concept for a regional festival originated from the Fiji Arts Council in 1965. They envisioned a festival put on by and for Pacific peoples; a festival built upon the tradition of both sharing and passing cultural knowledge from one generation to the next.

Fernandez, Bina. “Irregular Migration from Ethiopia to the Gulf States,” in Fargues, Philippe and Shah, Nasra M. (eds.,). Skilful Survivals: Irregular Migration to the Gulf. Gulf Research Centre, 2017.

The overall objective of this volume is to advance existing knowledge about irregular migration to the Gulf, a subject about which huge research gaps remain. The report focuses on the role that legislation, policies and practices play in enabling and sustaining irregular, or undocumented, migration. Case studies highlighting these elements are presented on all the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, namely: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Hage, Ghassan. Le Loup et le Musulman. Wildproject Éditions, 2017.

Dans un monde régi par la domestication, le loup et le musulman apparaissent comme deux grandes figures fantasmatiques menaçant la “civilisation”. Ils ne respectent pas les frontières nationales, qui garantissent le maintien de l’ordre colonial. Pour Hage, le crime écologique et le crime racial reposent sur la même volonté de “gouverner l’ingouvernable”. Parce qu’on ne gouverne ni les âmes, ni le climat, islamophobie et géoingénierie sont deux avatars de la même illusion domesticatrice - aux conséquences également funestes. More information...

Belojevikj, B. and Mattioli, F. “Etnografia di una Crisi Normale. Crisiscape, Vrski, e Riflessione Antropologica a Skopje, Macedonia,” in Lofranco, Z. T. and Pusceddu, A. M. (eds.,). Oltre Adriatico e ritorno. Percorsi antropologici tra Italia e Sudest Europa. Meltemi, 2017.

The last twenty years has seen the rebirth, within Italian anthropology, of an interest in South-Eastern Europe, in line with a widespread public attention, stimulated by the dramatic events following the end of the Cold War. The volume is an unprecedented attempt to reflect on the reasons for this renewed interest, through research paths that explore the mobile scenario in which relations and balances between the two shores of the Adriatic are redefined. More information...

Arnold, M., Gibbs, M., Kohn, T., Meese, J. and Nansen, B. Death and digital media. Routledge, 2017.

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. More information...

Alexeyeff, Kalissa and Taylor, John (eds.,). Touring Pacific Cultures. ANU Press, 2016.

Tourism is vital to the economies of most Pacific nations and as such is an important site for the meaningful production of shared and disputed cultural values and practices. This is especially the case when tourism intersects with other important arenas for cultural production, both directly and indirectly. Touring Pacific Cultures captures the central importance of tourism to the visual, material and performed cultures of the Pacific region. More information...

Decobert, Anne. The Politics of Aid to Burma: A Humanitarian Struggle on the Thai-Burmese Border. Routledge, 2016.

Through an ethnographic study of a cross-border aid organisation working on the Thailand-Burma border, this book focuses on the political and ethical dilemmas of “humanitarian government”. It explores the ways in which aid systems come to be defined as legitimate or illegitimate, humanitarian or “un-humanitarian”, in an international context that has witnessed the multiplication of often-conflicting humanitarian systems and models. More information...

Fernandez, Bina, Gopal, Meena, Ruthven, Orlanda. Land, Labour and Livelihoods: Indian Women’s Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

This book brings together a unique collection of theoretical and empirical analyses of women’s access to land, labour and livelihoods in contemporary India. The authors recognize that gender relations must be viewed intersectionally, along with other social relationships such as caste, ethnicity, religion, sexuality and age, in order to inform an integrated analysis of women’s persistent disadvantage in India. More information...

Gupta, Akhil. “On Structural Violence,” in Kannabiran, Kalpana (ed.,). Violence Studies. Oxford University Press, 2016.

This volume opens out the field of violence studies with a focus on its myriad habitations and experiences in India. It interrogates the numerous ways in which omnipresent violence is interpreted and represented, and delves into the interconnections between the identifiable normative axes of power and the engendering of violence. More information...

McDougall, Debra. Engaging with strangers: Love and violence in the rural Solomon Islands. Vol. 6. Berghahn, 2016.

The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of life - pre-colonial warfare, Christian conversion, logging and conservation, even post-conflict state building. More information...

Fitz-Henry, Erin. US Military Bases and Anti-Military Organizing An Ethnography of an Air Force Base in Ecuador. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

US military presence in twenty-first century in Latin America has recently been characterised by rapidly intensifying militarisation alongside under-supported anti-military activism. This book redirects recent debates about twenty-first century social mobilisation by taking seriously those who actively resist the social movements in their midst. More information...

Hage, Ghassan. Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology, Political Passion and the Radical Imagination. Melbourne University Press, 2015.

This book is a contribution to a long history of critical writing against an increasingly destructive global order marked by an excessive instrumentalisation, exploitation and degradation of the human and non-human environment, and ridden with unacceptable, but also, importantly, avoidable, forms of inequality, injustice and marginalisation. More information...

Kikon, Dolly. Life and Dignity: Women’s Testimonies of Sexual Violence in Dimapur (Nagaland). North Eastern Social Research Centre, 2015.

Dolly manages to show how the Indian state is deeply implicated in escalating the culture of sexual violence and impunity in Nagaland by extending the fields that feminists in conflict regions have explored to date. The arc of violence now must be seen to extend from a militarised nation and a militarised region downwards to the constituent units upon which its edifice is located: home, family and community. More information...

Malik, Nadeem. Corporate Social Responsibility and Development in Pakistan. Routledge, 2015.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has not only become an important concept for corporate organizations but also civil society, community, state and the multilateral and bilateral development agencies... Backed by rich empirical data, based on extensive fieldwork and complemented with the official data sources, this book offers a detailed analysis of the socially responsible corporate policies and practices of companies operating in the emerging economy of Pakistan. More information...

Joubert, Lindy and Schubert, Violeta. “Activating Communal Creativities for Redesigning Higher Education Curricula: Drawing on Intercultural Experience,” in Burnard, Pamela and Haddon, Elizabeth (eds.,). Activating Diverse Musical Creativities: Teaching and Learning in Higher Music Education. Bloomsbury, 2015.

Activating Diverse Musical Creativities analyses the ways in which music programmes in higher education can activate and foster diverse musical creativities. It also demonstrates the relationship between musical creativities and entrepreneurship in higher education teaching and learning. More information...

Balint, Jennifer, Evans, Julie, McMillan, Mark and McMillan, Nesam. Keeping Hold of Justice: Encounters Between Law and Colonialism. University of Michigan Press, 2020.

Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasises the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people’s lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling and sustaining colonial injustice and in recognising and redressing it. In so doing, the book seeks to demonstrate the possibilities for structural justice that still exist despite the enduring legacies and harms of colonialism. More information…

Fileborn, Bianca, Wadds, Phillip and Tomsen, Stephen. “Gender, transgression and sexual violence at Australian music festivals,” in Platt, Louise and Finkel, Rebecca (eds.,). Gendered violence at international festivals: an interdisciplinary perspective. Routledge, 2020.

Gendered Violence at International Festivals is a groundbreaking collection that focusses on this highly important social issue for the first time. Including a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies on the issue, the book contests the widely held notion that festivals are temporal spaces free from structural sexism, inequalities or gender power dynamics. Rather, they are spaces where these concerns are enhanced and enacted more freely and where the experiential environment is used as an excuse or as an opportunity to victim blame and shame. More information…

McMillan, Nesam. Imagining the International Crime, Justice, and the Promise of Community. Cultural Lives of Law, Stanford University Press, 2020.

International crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act. Through an analysis of archival and contemporary data, Imagining the International provides a detailed picture of how ideas of international crime (crimes against all of humanity) and global justice are given content, foregrounding their ethical limits and potentials. Nesam McMillan argues that dominant approaches to these ideas problematically disconnect them from the lived and the specific and foster distance between those who have experienced international crime and those who have not. More information…

Travers, Max, Colvin, Emma, Bartkowiak-Théron, Isabelle, Sarre, Rick, Day, Andrew, Bond, Christine. Rethinking Bail – Court Reform or Business as Usual? Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

This book arises from a research project funded in Australia by the Criminology Research Council. The topic, bail reform, has attracted attention from criminologists and law reformers over many years. In the USA, a reform movement has argued that risk analysis and pre-trial services should replace the bail bond system (the state of California may introduce this system in 2020). In the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, there have been concerns about tough bail laws that have contributed to a rise in imprisonment rates. The book advances a policy argument through presenting descriptive statistics, interviews with practitioners and detailed accounts of bail applications and their outcomes. More information…

Spivakovsky, Claire, Steele, Linda and Weller, Penelope (eds.,). The Legacies of Institutionalisation Disability, Law and Policy in the ‘Deinstitutionalised’ Community. Hart Publishing, 2020.

This is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation. It considers the extent to which some contemporary laws, policies and practices affecting people with disabilities are moving towards the promised end point of enhanced social and political participation in the community, while others may instead reinstate, continue or legitimate historical practices associated with this population's institutionalisation. Bringing together 20 contributors from the UK, Canada, Australia, Spain and Indonesia, the book speaks to overarching themes of segregation and inequality, interlocking forms of oppression and rights-based advancements in law, policy and practice. More information…

Balint, Jennifer. “Prosecuting and partnering for social change: Law, social movements and Australia’s mandatory detention for refugees and asylum seekers,” in Sarat, Austin (ed.,). Studies in Law, Politics and Society Vol. 79. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2019.

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains two sections. In the first, ‘Religious Inspirations and Legal Responses’, contributors examine the interaction between law and religion. The second section, ‘Law and Social Change: Old Questions, New Answers’, examines the ways in which the law simultaneously enhances and inhibits projects of social change. More information…

Balint, Jennifer; Haslem, Neal and Haydon, Kirsten. “The Work of Peace: World War One, Justice and Translation Through Art,” in Erpelding, Michel; Hess, Burkhard and Fabri, Hélène Ruiz (eds.,). Peace Through Law: The Versailles Peace Treaty and Dispute Settlement After World War I. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co. KG, 2019.

With the benefit of hindsight, presenting the Treaty of Versailles as an example of ‘peace through law’ might seem like a provocation… Relying both on legal and on historical research, this book provides a global overview of how the Paris peace treaties impacted dispute resolution in the interwar period, both substantially and procedurally. The book’s accounts of several all-but-forgotten international tribunals and their case law include references to archival records and photographic illustrations. More information…

Fileborn, Bianca and Loney-Howes, Rachel (eds.,). #MeToo and the politics of social change. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

#MeToo has sparked a global re-emergence of sexual violence activism and politics. This edited collection uses the #MeToo movement as a starting point for interrogating contemporary debates in anti-sexual violence activism and justice-seeking. It draws together 19 accessible chapters from academics, practitioners, and sexual violence activists across the globe to provide diverse, critical, and nuanced perspectives on the broader implications of the movement. More information...

Fileborn, Bianca; Wadds, Phillip and Barnes, Ash. “Setting the stage for sexual assault: the dynamics of gender, culture, space and sexual violence at live music venues,” in Strong, Catherine and Raine, Sarah (eds.,). Towards gender equality in the music industry: education, practice and strategies for change. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Gender inequality is universally understood to be a continued problem in the music industry. This volume presents research that uses an industry-based approach to examine why this gender imbalance has proven so hard to shift, and explores strategies that are being adopted to try and bring about meaningful change in terms of women and gender diverse people establishing ongoing careers in music. More information...

Fileborn, Bianca and Barrett, C. “Sexual violence against older women: documenting the practices of aged care service providers,” in Bows, Hannah (ed.). Violence Against Older Women Volume II: Responses. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

This book brings together international research from scholars and activists on the forms of violence that older women experience into a unique, comprehensive two-volume set. This volume is concerned with understanding the consequences and impacts of violence against older women. More information...

Fitzgerald, John. Life in pain: Affective economy and the demand for pain relief. Springer, 2019.

This book explores pain in a number of ways. It proposes a novel theory that approaches pain as a commodity within an affective economy Offers a new framework for framing chronic pain management policy Appraises the growing medicinal cannabis industry from an international criminological perspective. At the heart of the book is an extension of Melzack’s neuromatrix theory of pain into the social, cultural, and economic fields. Specific assemblages involving varied institutions, flows of capital, encounters, and social and economic structures provide a framework for the formation of pain, its perception, experience, meaning, and cultural production. More information…

Johns, Diana F. Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner. Routledge, 2018.

Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison experience have scarcely changed in over a century. Contemporary correctional thinking has congealed around notions of risk and management. This book aims to cast new light on men’s experience of release from prison. More information...

Rush, Peter and Young, Alison. “The Image-characters of Criminal Justice in Tokyo,” in Pearson, Ashley; Giddens, Thomas and Tranter, Kieran (eds.,). Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters. Routledge, 2018.

This volume brings together a range of global scholars to reflect on and critically engage with the place of law and justice in Japan’s popular cultural legacy. It explores not only the global impact of this legacy, but what the images, games, narratives, and artefacts that comprise it reveal about law, humanity, justice, and authority in the twenty-first century. More information…

Spivakovsky, Claire; Seear, Kate and Carter, Adrian (eds.,). Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions: Law, Medicine and Society. Routledge, 2018.

Examining the ethical, social and legal issues involved in coerced care, this book brings together the views and insights of leading researchers from a range of disciplines, including criminology, law, ethics, psychology and public health, as well as legal and medical practitioners, social-service ‘consumers’ and government officials. More information…

Voigt, Thomas; Day, Andrew and Balandin, Susan. “The Unintended Consequences of Heroism or Acts of Bravery on Civilians,” in Efthimiou, Olivia; Allison, Scott T. and Franco, Zeno E. (eds.,). Heroism and Wellbeing in the 21st Century: Applied and Emerging Perspectives. Routledge, 2018.

Offering a holistic take on an emerging field, this edited collection examines how heroism manifests, is appropriated, and is constructed in a broad range of settings and from a variety of disciplines and perspectives... This book applies a critical psychological perspective in synthesising the social construction of heroism and wellbeing, contributing to the development of global wellbeing indicators and measures. More information...

Wood, Mark A. Antisocial Media: Crime-watching in the Internet Age. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to Internet-facilitated crime-watching and examines how social media have shifted the landscape for producing, distributing, and consuming footage of crime... Synthesising criminology, media theory, software studies, and digital sociology, Antisocial Media is media criminology for the Facebook age. More information…

Young, Alison. “llicit interventions in public non-spaces: Unlicensed images,” in Manderson, Desmond (ed.,). Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, Critique. University of Toronto Press, 2018.

In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture between legal and visual culture as witnessed from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries. More information…

Balint, Jennifer. “Too near and too far: Australia’s reluctance to name and prosecute genocide,” in Marczak, Nikki and Shields, Kirril (eds.,). Genocide Perspectives V: A Global Crime, Australian Voices. UTS ePress, 2017.

In this collection of essays, Australian scholars discuss the crime of genocide, examining regimes and episodes that stretch across time and geography. Included are discussions on Australia’s own history of genocide against its Indigenous peoples, mass killing and human rights abuses in Indonesia and North Korea, and new insights into some of the core twentieth century genocides, such as the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. More information...

Day, Andrew and Vess, J. “The importance of personal safety to therapeutic outcome in the prison setting,” in Akerman, Geraldine; Needs, Adrian and Bainbridge, Claire (eds.,). Transforming Environments and Rehabilitation: A Guide for Practitioners in Forensic Settings and Criminal Justice. Routledge, 2017.

How can environments play a role in assisting and sustaining personal change in individuals incarcerated within the criminal justice system? Can a failure to address contextual issues reduce or undermine the effectiveness of clinical intervention? Bringing together a range of leading forensic psychologists, this book explores and illustrates inter-relationships between interventions and the environment in which they take place. More information...

Heseltine, K. and Day, Andrew. “Rehabilitation Programmes in Australian Prisons,” in Deckert, Antje and Sarre, Rick (eds.,). The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Haines, Fiona. “Corporate and White Collar Crime,” in Deckert, Antje and Sarre, Rick (eds.,). The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Ross, Stuart and Polk, Ken. “Violent Crime,” in Deckert, Antje and Sarre, Rick (eds.,). The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

This handbook engages key debates in Australian and New Zealand criminology over the last 50 years. In six sections, containing 56 original chapters, leading researchers and practitioners investigate topics such as the history of criminology; crime and justice data; law reform; gangs; youth crime; violent, white collar and rural crime; cybercrime; terrorism; sentencing; Indigenous courts; child witnesses and children of prisoners; police complaints processes; gun laws; alcohol policies; and criminal profiling. Key sections highlight criminological theory and, crucially, Indigenous issues and perspectives on criminal justice. More information...

Haines, Fiona and Parker, Christine. “Human rights and multinational enterprises A criminological analysis of non-judicial mechanisms of redress,” in Holley, Cameron and Shearing, Clifford (eds.,). Criminology and the Anthropocene. Routledge, 2017.

The Anthropocene signals a new age in Earth’s history, a human age, where we are revealed as a powerful force shaping planetary systems. What might criminology be in the Anthropocene? What does the Anthropocene suggest for future theory and practice of criminology? This book seeks to contribute to this research agenda by examining, contrasting and interrogating different vantage points, aspects and thinking within criminology. More information...

Roberts, Paul and McMillan, Nesam. “For criminology in international criminal justice,” in Jamieson, Ruth (ed.,). The Criminology of War. CRC Press, 2017.

The essays selected for this volume provide an overview of the range of issues confronting scholars interested in the complex and multiple relationships between war and criminality, and map the many connections between war, security, governmentality, punishment, gender and crime. More information...

Rogers, Juliet. “Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community,” in Sheils, Barry and Walsh, Julie (eds.,). Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud’s most important metapsychological papers: ‘On Narcissism: An Introduction’ (1914) and ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ (1917 [1915]). More information...

Thorpe, Rachel; Fileborn, Bianca and Clarke, Laura Hurd. “Framing the sexual rights of older heterosexual women: acknowledging diversity and change,” in Barrett, Catherine and Hinchliff, Sharron (eds.,). Addressing the Sexual Rights of Older People: Theory, Policy and Practice. Routledge, 2017.
Fileborn, Bianca; Barrett, Catherine and Roberto, Karen. “Sexual assault of older women: Breaking the silence,” in Barrett, Catherine and Hinchliff, Sharron (eds.,). Addressing the Sexual Rights of Older People: Theory, Policy and Practice. Routledge, 2017.

The book addresses a gap in research and policy. Using an adaptation of the Declaration of Sexual Rights from the World Association of Sexual Health, it provides readers with an innovative and evidence-based framework for achieving the sexual rights of older people. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, it explores the cultural and social locations of old age and its intersections with sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex status. More information...

Young, Alison and Macdowall, L. “Visual Documentation in Hybrid Spaces: Ethics, Publics and Transition,” in Cruz, Edgar Gómez; Sumartojo, Shanti and Pink, Sarah (eds.,). Refiguring Techniques in Digital Visual Research. Springer, 2017.

This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention. It discusses technological change and technological possibility; theoretical shifts toward processual paradigms; and a respectful ethics of responsibility. More information…

Fileborn, Bianca. Reclaiming the Night-Time Economy: Unwanted Sexual Attention in Pubs and Clubs. Palsgrave macmillan, 2016.

This book explores young adults’ experiences and understandings of sexualised violence within licensed venues. Although anecdotally common, unwanted sexual attention in pubs and clubs has been the focus of relatively little criminological analysis. This text provides the first exploration of how and why unwanted sexual attention occurs in licensed venues. More information...

Fileborn, Bianca et al. “Old and desirable: older women’s accounts of ageing bodies in intimate relationships,” in Bouman, Walter Pierre and Kleinplatz, Peggy J. (eds.,). Sexuality & Ageing. Routledge, 2016.

Across the globe, both in developed and developing countries, the population is rapidly ageing. In the fields of sexual and relationship therapy and sexual health, ageing has not been an issue of priority... This book brings together contributions from those currently writing on and researching ageing as it relates, in a therapeutic context, to gender identity, to sex and sexuality, and to intimate relationships. More information...

Fileborn, Bianca. “Queering safety: LGBTIQ young adults’ production of safety and identity on a night out,” in Ball, Matthew; Crofts, Thomas and Dwyer, Angela (eds.). Queering Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

McDonald, Dave. “Who Is the Subject of Queer Criminology? Unravelling the Category of the Paedophile,” in Ball, Matthew; Crofts, Thomas and Dwyer, Angela (eds.). Queering Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Queer criminological work is at the forefront of critical academic criminology, responding to the exclusion of queer communities from criminology, and the injustices that they experience through the criminal justice system. This volume draws together both theoretical and empirical contributions that develop the growing scholarship being produced at the intersection of ‘queer’ and ‘criminology’. More information...

Haines, Fiona. “Human rights and multinational enterprises A criminological analysis of non-judicial mechanisms of redress,” in Weber, Leanne; Fishwick, Elaine and Marmo, Marinella (eds.,). The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights. Routledge, 2016.

Spivakovsky, Claire. “Human Rights and the Governance of Cognitive Impairment and Mental Illness,” in Weber, Leanne; Fishwick, Elaine and Marmo, Marinella (eds.,). The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights. Routledge, 2016.

The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of criminological topics and perspectives, united by its critical application of human rights law and principles. This collection explores the interdisciplinary reach of criminology and is the first of its kind to link criminology and human rights. More information...

Young, Alison. Street Art World. Reaction Books, 2016.

This strikingly illustrated book explores every aspect of street art, from making and photographing, to stealing and selling it. Artists working in the streets reveal both their passion for street art and ambivalence about its commodification. The rise, fall and rise again of street art in the art market is told through revealing encounters with collectors and auction houses in Paris, London, Melbourne and beyond. More information...

Balint, Jennifer et al. “The Minutes of Evidence Project: Creating Collaborative Fields of Engagement with the Past and Present’,” in Boucher, Leigh and Russell, Lynette (eds.,). Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Victoria. Australian National University Press, 2015.

This collection represents a serious re-examination of existing work on the Aboriginal history of nineteenth-century Victoria, deploying the insights of postcolonial thought to wrench open the inner workings of territorial expropriation and its historically tenacious variability. More information…

Fernandez, E., May, Andrew and Boyle, Greg. “Measures of Anger and Hostility in Adults,” in Boyle, Gregory J., Saklofske, Donald H. and Matthews, Gerald (eds.,). Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Constructs. Academic Press, 2015.

Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Constructs assists researchers and practitioners by identifying and reviewing the best scales/measures for a variety of constructs. Each chapter discusses test validity, reliability, and utility. Authors have focused on the most often used and cited scales/measures, with a particular emphasis on those published in recent years. More information...

Fitzgerald, J. Framing Drug Use: Bodies, Space, Economy and Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture, phenomenology and contemporary theories of affect, illuminates the connections between drugs, bodies, space, economy and crime. More information...

Rogers, Juliet. “Rethinking Remorse - the problem of the banality of full disclosure in testimonies from South Africa,” in Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla (ed.,). Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition: A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma and Memory. Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2015.

The authors in this volume explore the interconnected issues of intergenerational trauma and traumatic memory in societies with a history of collective violence across the globe. Each chapter’s discussion offers a critical reflection on historical trauma and its repercussions, and how memory can be used as a basis for dialogue and transformation. More information...

Wilson, D. and Ross, S. (eds.,). Crime, Victims and Policy: International Contexts, Local Experiences. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

This book provides critically examines how recent international developments in victims theory and policy are experienced within specific local contexts. The chapters approach key criminological issues including the experience of criminal justice agencies, policy formulation, the construction of victim identities and the ‘discovery’ of new victims. More information...

Allison-Reumann, Laura, Matera, Margherita, Murray, Philomena. “Differentiated disintegration and third countries: The implications of Brexit for relations between the EU, the UK and Australia,” in Gänzle, Stefan; Leruth, Benjamin and Trondal, Jarle (eds.,). Differentiated Integration and Disintegration in a Post-Brexit Era. Routledge, 2020.

Assessing the consequences of Brexit on EU policies, institutions and members, this book discusses the significance of differentiation for the future of European integration. This book theoretically examines differentiated integration and disintegration, focuses on how this process affects key policy areas, norms and institutions of the EU, and analyses how the process of Brexit is perceived by and impacts on third countries as well as other organisations of regional integration in a comparative perspective. This edited book brings together both leading and emerging scholars to integrate the process of Brexit into a broader analysis of the evolution, establishment and impact of the EU as a system of differentiation. More information…

Lynch, Timothy. “Defense and Foreign Policy,” in Baker, Paula and Critchlow, Donald T. (eds.,). The Oxford Handbook of American Political History. Oxford University Press, 2020.

The history of American foreign and defence policy is framed by an enduring debate over the appropriate role of federal power in national politics. From the very beginning, parties formed around the role of the armed forces and how America should conduct its diplomacy. Competition between the branches of government, and the parties therein, over who should direct foreign and defence policy is central to their history. This chapter charts the contours of that competition, most notably between the president and Congress, and then considers the ideas that have driven these often overlapping public policies. More information…

Maddison, Sarah and Nakata, Sana (eds.,). Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Springer Nature, 2020.

This book examines contemporary Indigenous affairs through questions of relationality, presenting a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the what, who, when, where, and why of Indigenous-settler relations. It also explores relationality, a key analytical framework with which to explore Indigenous-settler relations in terms of what the relational characteristics are; who steps into these relations and how; the different temporal and historical moments in which these relations take place and to what effect; where these relations exist around the world and the variations they take on in different places; and why these relations are important for the examination of social and political life in the 21st century. More information…

Postnikov, Evgeny. Social Standards in EU and US Trade Agreements. Routledge – Taylor & Francis, 2020.

This book examines the causes and consequences of social standards in US and EU preferential trade agreements (PTAs). PTAs are the new reality of the global trading system. Pursued by both developed and developing countries, they increasingly incorporate labor and environmental issues to prevent a race to the bottom in social regulation and counter-protectionism. Using principal-agent theory to explore why US PTAs have stricter social standards than those signed by the EU, Postnikov argues that the level of institutional insulation of trade policy executives from interest groups and legislators determines the design of social standards. More information…

Rosewarne, Lauren. Why We Remake: The Politics, Economics and Emotions of Film and TV Remakes. Routledge, 2020.

This examination of film and television remakes focuses explicitly on why – since the dawn of cinema – studios have remade films over and over again. Each chapter provides insight into the business of Hollywood, the motivations of filmmakers and also the pleasures for audiences, and offers a separate explanation for the whys of remaking… This unique examination of the industrial activity of remaking will be of great interest to academics and students working in the areas of film and adaptation studies, narrative, media discourse, transmedia storytelling, American cinema and cultural studies. More information…

Breen, Michael. “Constitutional Asymmetry in Multinational Federalism,” in Popelier, Patricia and Sahadžić, Maja (eds.,). Constitutional Asymmetry in Multinational Federalism: Managing Multinationalism in Multi-tiered Systems. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

This edited volume examines the link between constitutional asymmetry and multinationalism in multi-tiered systems through a comprehensive and rigorous comparative analysis, covering countries in Europe, Africa and Asia… This book offers insights into the different types of constitutional asymmetry, the factors that stimulate symmetrisation and asymmetrisation processes, and the ways in which constitutional asymmetry is linked with multinationalism. More information…

Brenton, Scott. “Scandal and Social Theory,” in Tumber, Howard and Waisbord, Silvio (eds.,). The Routledge Companion to Media and Scandal. Routledge, 2019.

Various types of scandals are inextricably linked to both the mass media and social media. Although there have been many technological changes in the news media over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the appetite for scandal news has not abated. More information…

Chwieroth, Jeffrey M. and Walter, Andrew. The Wealth Effect: How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

The politics of major banking crises has been transformed since the nineteenth century. Analyzing extensive historical and contemporary evidence, Chwieroth and Walter demonstrate that the rising wealth of the middle class has generated ‘great expectations’ among voters that the government is responsible for the protection of this wealth. More information…

Lauren, Rosewarne. Sex and Sexuality in Modern Screen Remakes. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Sex and Sexuality in Modern Screen Remakes examines how sexiness, sexuality and revisited sexual politics are used to modernise film and TV remakes. This exploration provides insight into the ever-evolving – and ever-contested – role of sex in society, and scrutinises the politics and economics underpinning modern media reproduction. More information…

Lynch, Timothy. In the Shadow of the Cold War: American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that retell and re-argue the key episodes of the post-Cold War years, Lynch argues that the Cold War cast a shadow on the presidents that came after it and that success came more from adapting to that shadow than in attempts to escape it. When strategic lessons of the Cold War were applied, presidents fared better; when they were forgotten, they fared worse. More information…

Lynch, Timothy. “In the Shadow of the Cold War: American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump,” in Perotti, Rosanna (ed.,). Foreign Policy in the Clinton Administration. Nova Science Publishers, 2019.

To understand “America First,” we must first understand the underpinnings of globalisation and the policy of practical internationalism... The introduction to this edited volume explores these themes, and the remainder of the book’s seventeen chapters, authored by scholars of comparative politics, international relations and history, expand on particular policies. More information…

Meger, Sara. “Gender, violence, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda,” in Shepherd, Laura J. (ed.,). Handbook on Gender and Violence. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.

Containing contributions from leading experts in the field, this Handbook explores the many ways gender and violence interact across different contexts and offers a range of disciplinary perspectives. This comprehensive volume connects micro-level interpersonal violence to macro-level structural forms of violence across three discrete but interrelated sections: concepts, representations, and contexts. Presenting an in-depth overview of the topic, this Handbook on Gender and Violence will be a key resource for researchers who are new to the study of gender and violence. More information…

Waring, Peter; Vas, Christopher and Bali, Azad Singh. "The Transition from Graduation to Work: Challenges and Strategies in Singapore," in Dhakal, S., Prikshat, V., Nankervis, A., Burgess, J. (eds.,). The Transition from Graduation to Work. Springer, 2019.

This book reports on the findings from a research study of vocational and higher education graduates’ employability challenges. The nature and extent of these challenges, their underlying causes, and effective strategies to address the problems in this area are all analysed from a multiple-stakeholder paradigm. More information…

Young, Sally. Paper Emperors The Rise of Australia’s Newspaper Empires. UNSW Press, NewSouth Publishing, 2019.

Before newspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force, especially in Australia – a country of newspaper giants and kingmakers. This magisterial book reveals who owned Australia’s newspapers and how they used them to wield political power. A corporate and political history of Australian newspapers spanning 140 years, it explains how Australia’s media system came to be dominated by a handful of empires and powerful family dynasties. Many are household names, even now: Murdoch, Fairfax, Syme, Packer. Written with verve and insight and showing unparalleled command of a vast range of sources, Sally Young shows how newspaper owners influenced policy-making, lobbied and bullied politicians, and shaped internal party politics. More information…

Bali, Azad; McKiernan, Peter; Vas, Christopher and Waring, Peter. Productivity and Innovation in SMEs: Creating Competitive Advantage in Singapore and South East Asia. Routledge. 2018.

This book analyses the determining factors behind productivity and innovation amongst Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore, and within the context of South East Asia, in order to offer recommendations for increasing productivity and aiding economic growth. More information…

Bali, Azad Singh and Ramesh, M. “Policy Capacity: A Design Perspective,” in Howlett, Michael and Mukherjee, Ishani (eds.,). Routledge Handbook of Policy Design. Routledge, 2018.

Mukherjee, Ishani and Bali, Azad Singh. “Capacities and Customization in Policy Design,” in Howlett, Michael and Mukherjee, Ishani (eds.,). Routledge Handbook of Policy Design. Routledge, 2018.

Uniting theoretical bases and advancements in practice, the Routledge Handbook of Policy Designbrings together leading experts in the academic field of policy design in a pioneering effort of scholarship. Each chapter provides a multi-topic overview of the state of knowledge on how, why, where or when policies are designed and how such designs can be improved. More information...

Breen, Michael. The Road to Federalism in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka: Finding the Middle Ground. Routledge, 2018.

This book charts the origins and evolution of federalism and other approaches to the accommodation of minority ethnic groups in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. It applies a historical institutionalism methodology to understand why federalism has been resisted, what causes it to be established and what design options are most likely to balance otherwise competing centripetal and centrifugal forces. More information…

Brown, Chris and Eckersley, Robyn (eds.,). The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2018.

MacDonald, Kate. “Accountability in global economic governance,” in Brown, Chris and Eckersley, Robyn (eds.,). The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2018.

MacDonald, Terry. “Sovereignty, democracy, and global political legitimacy,” in Brown, Chris and Eckersley, Robyn (eds.,). The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2018.

This Handbook provides an authoritative account of the issues, debates, and perspectives in the field, guided by two basic questions concerning its purposes and methods of inquiry. First, how does IPT connect with real world politics? In particular, how does it engage with real world problems, and position itself in relation to the practices of real world politics? And second, following on from this, what is the relationship between IPT and empirical research in international relations? This Handbook showcases the distinctive and valuable contribution of normative inquiry not just for its own sake but also in addressing real world problems. More information…

Carmody, Michelle Frances. Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and the Reconstruction of Political Order in Latin America. Springer, 2018.

Contextualizing cultural and political shifts in Argentina after the 1976 military coup with comparisons to other countries in the Southern Cone, Michelle Frances Carmody argues that incorporating human rights practices into official policy became a way for state actors to both build the authority of the state and manage social conflict, a key aim of post-Cold War democracies. More information…

Chin, Clayton. The Practice of Political Theory: Rorty and Continental Thought. Columbia University Press, 2018.

Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and social criticism? In The Practice of Political Theory, Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work of Richard Rorty that intervenes in the current surge of methodological debates in political thought, arguing that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational issues. More information…

Merger, Sara. “The political economy of sexual violence against men and boys in armed conflict,” in Zalewski, Marysia; Drumond, Paula; Prugl, Elisabeth and Stern, Maria (eds.,). Sexual Violence Against Men in Global Politics. Routledge, 2018.

This book engages a diverse set of questions and offers fresh analysis on the incidences of sexual violence against men using both new and existing data. Additionally, the authors pay close attention to some of the controversial debates in the context of sexual violence against men, revisiting and asking new questions about the vexed issue of masculinities and related theories of gender hierarchy. More information…

Moodie, Nikki. “Decolonizing race theory: place, survivance & sovereignty,” in Vass, Greg; Maxwell, Jacinta; Rudolph, Sophie and Gulson, Kalervo N. (eds.,). The Relationality of Race in Education Research. Routledge, 2018.

This edited collection examines the ways in which the local and global are key to understanding race and racism in the intersectional context of contemporary education. Analysing a broad range of examples, it highlights how race and racism is a relational phenomenon, that interconnects local, national and global contexts and ideas. More information…

Lauren, Rosewarne. Analyzing Christmas in Film: Santa to the Supernatural. Lexington Books, 2018.

Film plays a vital role in the celebration of Christmas. For decades, it has taught audiences about what the celebration of the season looks like - from the decorations to the costumes and to the expected snowy weather – as well as mirrors our own festivities back to us. More information…

Postnikov, Evgeny. “Environmental Instruments in Trade Agreements: Pushing the Limits of the Dialogue Approach,” in Adelle, Camilla; Biedenkopf, Katja and Torney, Diarmuid (eds.,). European Union External Environmental Policy: Rules, Regulation and Governance Beyond Borders. Palsgrave Macmillan, 2018.

This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders. Using a systematic and coherent approach to cover a range of EU activities, environmental issues, and geographical areas, it charts the EU’s attempts to shape environmental governance beyond its borders. More information…

Althaus, Catherine; Bridgman, Peter and Davis, Glyn. The Australian Policy Handbook: A practical guide to the policy making process. Allen & Unwin, 2017.

The sixth edition of this widely used introduction is fully updated, and includes new material on the professionalisation of politicians, the role of opposition members, loss of corporate memory in the public service, addressing systemic policy failure, nudge economics and the impact of social media and the sharing economy on policy making and government. More information…

Althaus, Catherine. "Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics," in Eberl, Jason T (ed.). Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics. Springer-Verlag, 2017.

This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical research. The Roman Catholic Church has had a significant impact upon the formulation and application of moral values and principles to a wide range of controversial issues in bioethics. More information…

Baekkeskov, Erik. “Deliberate Trust-building by Autonomous Government Agencies: Evidence from Responses to the 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic,” in Six, Frédérique and Verhoest, Koen (eds.,). Trust in Regulatory Regimes. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.

Within political and administrative sciences generally, trust as a concept is contested, especially in the field of regulatory governance. This groundbreaking book is the first to systematically explore the role and dynamics of trust within regulatory regimes. More information…

Dowding, Keith and Martin, Aaron. Policy Agendas in Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project. It sets the project in context, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the changing policy agenda in Australia over a forty-year period, using a unique systematic dataset of governor-general speeches, legislation and parliamentary questions, and then mapping these on to media coverage and what the public believes (according to poll evidence) government should be concentrating upon. More information…

Fawcett, Paul; Flinders, Matthew; Hay, Colin and Wood, Matthew (eds.,). Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance. Oxford University Press, 2017.

This book examines the relationship between these two trends as understood within the broader shift towards governance. It brings together a number of contributions from scholars who have a varied range of concerns but who nevertheless share a common interest in developing the concept of depoliticization through their engagement with a set of theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and empirical questions. More information…

Lewis, Jenny. “Governance change across policy sectors and nations,” in Klassen, Thomas R., Cepiku, Denita and Lah, T. J. The Routledge Handbook of Global Public Policy and Administration. Routledge, 2017.

This book is a comprehensive leading-edge guide for students, scholars and practitioners of public policy and administration. Public policy and administration are key aspects of modern societies that affect the daily lives of all citizens. This handbook examines current trends and reforms in public policy and administration, such as financial regulation, risk management, public health, e-government and many others at the local, national and international levels. More information...

MacDonald, Kate. “Containing conflict: Authoritative transnational actors and the management of company-community conflict,” in Malet, David and Anderson, Miriam J. (eds.,). Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics. Georgetown University Press, 2017.

Transnational Actors in War and Peace provides a comparative examination of a range of transnational actors who have been key to the conduct of war and peace promotion, and of how they interact with states and each other. It explores the identities, organisation, strategies and influence of transnational actors involved in contentious politics, armed conflict, and peacemaking. More information…

McCarthy, Daniel R. (ed.,). Technology and World Politics. Routledge, 2017.

This edited volume provides a convenient entry point to the cutting-edge field of the international politics of technology, in an interesting and informative manner. Technology and World Politics introduces its readers to different approaches to technology in global politics through a survey of emerging fusions of Science and Technology Studies and International Relations. More information…

Taneja, Pradeep and Kassim-Lakha, Salim. "India," in Ogawa, Akihiro (ed.,). Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia. Routledge, 2017.

The Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia is an interdisciplinary resource, covering one of the most dynamically expanding sectors in contemporary Asia. Originally a product of Western thinking, civil society represents a particular set of relationships between the state and either society or the individual. Each culture, however, moulds its own version of civil society, reflecting its most important values and traditions. More information…

Waring, Peter; Vas, Christopher and Bali, Azad Singh. “Work Readiness in Singapore,” in Cameron, Roslyn; Dhakal, Subas and Burgess, John (eds.,). Transitions from Education to Work: Workforce Ready Challenges in the Asia Pacific. Routledge, 2017.

This book brings together national and international perspectives on employability challenges faced by selected countries in the Asia Pacific region. While the region is forecast to enjoy high growth in the coming decade, a recurring challenge is addressing skill shortages and ensuring effective transition from training colleges and universities into employment. More information...

Winston, Carla. “Nonprofit Product Placement: Human Rights Advocacy in Film and Television,” in Pollock, John C. and Winston, Morton (eds.,). Making Human Rights News. Routledge, 2017.

This book explores the impact of new digital technology and activism on the production of human rights messages. It is the first collection of studies to combine multidisciplinary approaches, “citizen witness” challenges to journalism ethics, and expert assessments of the “liberating role” of the Internet. More information…

Althaus, Catherine and Tedds, Lindsay M. User Fees in Canada: A Municipal Design and Implementation Guide. Canadian Tax Foundation, 2016.

User Fees in Canada provides an up-to-date and detailed review of the Canadian case law and academic literature concerning user fees, and it includes a comprehensive, practical guide to the design and implementation of user fees for municipalities. The book integrates the relevant scholarship from law, economics, and public administration in highlighting the key challenges that Canadian municipalities face when planning this kind of levy.

Bali, Azad Singh; McKiernan, Peter; Vas, Christopher and Waring, Peter. “Addressing sustainability challenges through state led innovation,” in Nicolopoulou, Katerina et al (eds.,). Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation. Routledge, 2017.

Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation builds on a theoretical framework that addresses related topics via a combination of insights from sustainability, policy, managerial, strategic, innovation and institutional perspectives. Providing empirical casework as well as a conceptual and theoretical framework, the book takes a global, interdisciplinary approach to the emergent field of sustainable entrepreneurship. More information...

Brenton, Scott. The Politics of Budgetary Surplus. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

This book probes the hollow rhetoric of debt, deficits and austerity. It explores the decisions of parties of the left which have attempted to deflect criticisms of economic mismanagement and gain trust by depoliticising the budget process and financial management with various rules, albeit with elements of discretion. More information…

Eckersley, Robyn. “Responsibility for Climate Change as a Structural Injustice,” in Gabrielson, Teena et al (eds.,). The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, defines, illustrates, and challenges the field of environmental political theory (EPT). More information…

Henning, C. Randall and Walter, Andrew (eds.,). Global Financial Governance Confronts the Rising Powers: Emerging Perspectives on the New G20. CIGI Press, 2016.

Global Financial Governance Confronts the Rising Powers addresses the challenge that the rising powers pose for global governance, substantively and institutionally, in the domain of financial and macroeconomic cooperation. It examines the issues that are before the G20 that are of particular concern to these newly influential countries and how international financial institutions and financial standard-setting bodies have responded. More information…

Lauren, Rosewarne. Cyberbullies, Cyberactivists, Cyberpredators: Film, TV, and Internet Stereotypes. Praeger, 2016.

The Internet has enabled an exponentially larger number of people – individuals who are members of numerous and vastly different subgroups – to be exposed to one other. As a result, instead of the simple “jocks versus geeks” paradigm of previous eras, our society now has more detailed stereotypes of the undesirable, the under-the-radar, and the ostracised: cyberpervs, neckbeards, goths, tech nerds, and anyone with a non-heterosexual identity. More information…

Lauren, Rosewarne. Intimacy on the Internet: Media Representations of Online Connections. Routledge, 2016.

The focus of this book is on the media representations of the use of the Internet in seeking intimate connections – be it a committed relationship, a hook-up, or a community in which to dabble in fringe sexual practices... Both the positive and the negative media representations are categorised and analysed in this book to explore what they reveal about the intersection of gender, sexuality, technology and the changing mores regarding intimacy. More information…

Lewis, Jenny et al. Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership. Routledge, 2016.

The book provides major new insights on how structures, networks and leadership in city governments shape the social innovation capacity of cities. It provides ground-breaking analyses of how governance structures and local socio-economic challenges, are related to the innovations introduced by these cities. More information...

MacDonald, Kate; Marshall, S. and Balaton-Chrimes, S. “Demanding rights in company-community resource extraction conflicts: examining the cases of POSCO and Vedanta in Odisha, India,” in Grugel, J., Nem Singh, J., Fontana, L.B. and Uhlin, A. (eds.,). Demanding Justice in The Global South: Claiming Rights. Palsgrave Macmillan, 2016.

The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume. Theoretically, the authors aims to foster a holistic and multi-faceted understanding of how social and economic justice is claimed, either through formal, corporatist or organised mechanisms, or through ad hoc, informal, or individualised practices, as well as the implications of these distinctive activist strategies. More information...

MacDonald, Terry. “Global political justice,” in Held, David and Maffettone, Pietro (eds.,). Global Political Theory. Polity Press, 2016.

Global Political Theory offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge introduction to the moral aspects of global politics today. It addresses foundational aspects of global political theory such as the nature of human rights, the types of distributive obligations that we have toward distant others, the relationship between just war theory and global distributive justice, and the legitimacy of international law and global governance institutions. More information…

Maddison, Sarah; Clark, Tom and de Costa, Ravi (eds.,). The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation. Springer, 2016.

Little, Adrian. “What is at Stake in Constitutional Recognition?,” in Maddison, Sarah; Clark, Tom and de Costa, Ravi (eds.,). The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation. Springer, 2016.

This book investigates whether and how reconciliation in Australia and other settler colonial societies might connect to the attitudes of non-Indigenous people in ways that promote a deeper engagement with Indigenous needs and aspirations. It explores concepts and practices of reconciliation, considering the structural and attitudinal limits to such efforts in settler colonial countries. More information...

Maddison, Sarah. Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation: Multi-level Challenges in Deeply Divided Societies. Routledge, 2016.

This book examines approaches to reconciliation and peace building in settler colonial, post-conflict, and divided societies. In contrast to current literature, this book provides a broader assessment of reconciliation and conflict transformation by applying a distinctive ‘multi-level’ approach. The analysis provides a unique intervention in the field, one that significantly complicates received notions of reconciliation and transitional justice, and considers conflict transformation across the constitutional, institutional, and relational levels of society. More information...

Meger, Sara. Rape Loot Pillage: The Political Economy of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Much of what has been written on rape as a weapon of war has suggested that the underlying causes stem from a single motivation – whether individual, symbolic, or strategic. Sara Meger argues that it is this approach to sexual violence in war that has rendered ineffective recent attempts by the UN, national governments, and aid and advocacy organisations to address it. Rather than identifying conflict-related sexual violence as an isolated phenomenon, this book argues that sexual violence is a form of gender-based violence (perpetrated against both men and women) and a manifestation of unequal gender relations that are exacerbated by the social, political, and economic conditions of war. More information…

Moodie, Nikki. “Aboriginal Australia,” in Arvanitakis, James (ed.,). Sociologic: Analysing Everyday Life and Culture. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Offering a contemporary approach to sociology, Sociologic: Analysing Everyday Life and Culture introduces students to sociological concepts by examining a variety of theories and theorists, while relating and applying this knowledge to their own life experiences. Exploring society and culture through personal narrative, humour, and examples, the book offers students tools to analyse how society functions, operates, and changes and then challenges them to change it for the better. More information…

Murphy, John. Evatt: A life. New South Books, 2016.

Murphy traces the course of Evatt’s life and places him in the context of a long period of conservatism in Australia. He looks closely at Evatt’s previously unexamined private life and unravels some of the puzzles that have lead Evatt to be considered erratic, even mad. More information...

Young, Sally and Anderson, Fay. Shooting the Picture: Press photography in Australia. Melbourne University Publishing, 2016.

Shooting The Picture is the story of Australian press photography from 1888 to today - the power of the medium, seismic changes in the newspaper industry, and photographers who were often more colourful than their subjects. This groundbreaking book explores our political leaders and campaigns, crime, war and censorship, international events, disasters and trauma, sport, celebrity, gender, race and migration. More information…

Brennan,Louis and Murray, Philomena (eds.,). Drivers of Integration and Regionalism in Europe and Asia: Comparative perspectives. Taylor & Francis, 2015.

This book examines the drivers of regionalism and integration in both Europe and Asia and seeks to forge comparative perspectives between the two regions. Comprising contributions from scholars, analysts and policymakers, this volume explores and debates how and why regional bodies such as the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are formed and sustained. More information…

Considine, Mark; Lewis, Jenny M., O’Sullivan, Siobhan and Sol, Els. Getting Welfare to Work: Street-Level Governance in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands. Oxford University Press, 2015.

Getting Welfare to Work traces the radical reform of the Australian, UK, and Dutch public employment services systems. Starting with major changes from 1998, this book examines how each national system has moved from traditional public services towards more privately provided and market-based methods. More information...

Eckersley, Robyn. “Multilateralism in crisis?,” in Bäckstrand, Karin and Lövbrand, Eva (eds.,). Research Handbook on Climate Governance. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.

Drawing upon contributions from more than 50 internationally renowned scholars, the Handbook assesses the state and direction of climate governance at multilateral, EU, national and local levels. The volume mobilises multiple scholarly traditions ranging from grand theorising to close empirical studies of micro-political practices, and spans the ideational and the material, the historical and the contemporary, the normative and the critical. More information…

Galligan, Brian and Brenton, Scott (eds.,). Constitutional Conventions in Westminster Systems: Controversies, Changes and Challenges. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Conventions are fundamental to the constitutional systems of parliamentary democracies. Unlike the United States which adopted a republican form of government, with a full separation of powers, codified constitutional structures and limitations for executive and legislative institutions and actors, Britain and subsequently Canada, Australia and New Zealand have relied on conventions to perform similar functions. More information...

Fawcett, Paul and Marsh, David. “Depoliticisation, governance and political participation,” in Flinders, Matthew and Wood, Matt (eds.,). Tracing the Political: Depoliticisation, Governance and the State. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Over the past few decades, governments in many nations have increasingly delegated political decisions to expert agencies, portraying the issues they deal with - such as drug policy or monetary policy - as technocratic or managerial in nature… This book offers a nuanced perspective on that situation, charting the dynamics of politicisation and depoliticisation that shape debates about governance, participation, and the liberal democratic state. More information…

Little, Adrian. “Complexity and Real Politics,” in Geyer, Robert and Cairney, Paul (eds.,). Handbook on Complexity and Public Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.

Though its roots in the natural sciences go back to the early 20th century, complexity theory as a scientific framework has developed most rapidly since the 1970s. Increasingly, complexity theory has been integrated into the social sciences, and this groundbreaking Handbook on Complexity and Public Policy has brought together top thinkers in complexity and policy from around the world. More information…

Longo, M. and Murray, P. Europe’s Legitimacy Crisis: From Causes to Solutions. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Sharp in focus and succinct in analysis, this Pivot examines the latest developments and scholarly debates surrounding the sources of the European Union’s crisis of legitimacy and possible solutions. It examines not only the financial and economic dimensions of the current crisis, but also those crises at the heart of the EU integration project. More information...

McCarthy, Daniel R. Power, Information Technology, and International Relations Theory: The Power and Politics of US Foreign Policy and the Internet. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

This book examines the internet as a form of power in global politics. Focusing on the United States’ internet foreign policy, McCarthy combines analyses of global material culture and international relation theory, to reconsider how technology is understood as a form of social power. More information…

Nakata, Sana. Childhood Citizenship, Governance and Policy: The politics of becoming adult. Routledge, 2015.

Debates about children’s rights not only concern those things that children have a right to have and to do but also our broader social and political community, and the moral and political status of the child within it. This book examines children’s rights and citizenship in the USA, UK and Australia and analyses the policy, law and sociology that govern the transition from childhood to adulthood. More information…

Barnwell, Ashley. Critical Affect: The Politics of Method. Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Critical Affect explores the emotional complexity of critique and maps out its enduring value for the turn to affect and ontology. Through a series of vivid close readings, Ashley Barnwell shows how suspicion and methods of decoding remain vital to both civic and academic spaces, where concerns about precarity, transparency, and security are commonplace and the question of how we verify the truth is one of the most polarising of our age. Weaving together both the critical and affective dimensions of ‘paranoid reading’, Critical Affect opens crucial questions about the ethics of practicing theory and offers a new route into the critical study of affect. More information...

Dean, Elizabeth and Knox, Roger. “Roger Knox & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Stranger in My Land (2013); Roger Knox, Give It a Go (1983),” in Dale, Jon; Stratton, Jon and Mitchell, Tony (eds.,). An Anthology of Australian Albums Critical Engagements. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

An Anthology of Australian Albums offers an overview of Australian popular music through the lens of significant, yet sometimes overlooked, Australian albums. Chapters explore the unique qualities of each album within a broader history of Australian popular music. Artists covered range from the older and non-mainstream yet influential, such as the Missing Links, Wendy Saddington and the Coloured Balls, to those who have achieved very recent success (Courtney Barnett, Dami Im and Flume) and whose work contributes to international pop music (Sia), to the more exploratory or experimental (Curse ov Dialect and A.B. Original). More information...

Demant, Jakob and Ravn, Signe. “Actor-network theory and qualitative interviews,” in Järvinen, Margaretha and Mik-Meyer, Nanna (eds.,). Qualitative analysis – eight approaches for the social sciences. Sage Publications, 2020.

Introducing eight analytical approaches that are key to successful social science research, this book helps you get to grips with theory and apply it to qualitative analysis. With two ‘matched chapters’ dedicated to each approach, it provides a balance between theory and analytical method. The first chapter grounds the approach in theory and the second uses real-world examples to show how to conduct your own analysis using the approach. More information...

Laragy, Carmel and Fisher, Karen R. “Choice, Control and Individual Funding: The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme,” in Stancliffe, R.J., Wehmeyer, M., Shogren, K., Abery, B.H. (eds.,). Choice, Preference, and Disability Promoting Self-Determination Across the Lifespan. Springer, 2020.

This book examines choice and preference in the lives of people with disability, focusing on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It provides an overview of choice and examines foundational concepts related to choice and preference, including self-determination and supported decision making. Chapters examine a range of critical service and policy issues, such as guardianship, individualised funding, the health care system, and the situation regarding choices for people with disability in international contexts. More information...

Ravn, Signe and Roberts, Steven. “Young masculinities Masculinities in youth studies,” in Gottzén, Lucas; Mellström, Ulf and Shefer, Tamara (eds.,). Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies. Routledge, 2020.

The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary critical and scholarly overview of theorising and research on masculinities as well as emerging ideas and areas of study that are likely to shape research and understanding of gender and men in the future. The forty-eight chapters of the handbook take an interdisciplinary approach to a range of topics on men and masculinities related to identity, sex, sexuality, culture, aesthetics, technology and pressing social issues. The handbook’s transnational lens acknowledges both the localities and global character of masculinity. A clear message in the book is the need for intersectional theorising in dialogue with feminist, queer and sexuality studies in making sense of men and masculinities. More information...

Woodman, Daniel et al (eds.,). Youth and the New Adulthood Generations of Change. Springer, 2020
Woodman, Daniel. “Social Change and Generation,” in Youth and the New Adulthood Generations of Change. Springer, 2020
Cook, Julia and Woodman, Dan. “Conceptualising Youth and Future Holistically,” in Youth and the New Adulthood Generations of Change. Springer, 2020.

This book investigates the life trajectories of Generation X and Y Australians through the 1990s and 2000s. The book defies popular characterisations of members of the ‘precarious generations’ as greedy, narcissistic and self-obsessed, revealing instead that many of the members of these generations struggle to reach the standard of living enjoyed by their parents, value learning highly and are increasingly concerned about the environment and the legacy current generations are leaving for their children and remain optimistic in the face of considerable challenges.More information...

Zinn, Jens O. Understanding Risk Taking. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

This book outlines and systematises findings from a growing body of research that examines the different rationales, dimensions and dynamics of risk-taking in current societies; providing insight into the different motivations and social roots of risk-taking to advance scholarly debates and improve social regulation. Conceptually, the book goes beyond common approaches which problematise socially undesirable risk-taking, or highlight the alluring character of risk-taking. Instead, it follows a broadly interpretivist approach and engages in examining motives, control, routinisation, reflexivity, skills, resources, the role of identity in risk-taking and how these are rooted in and framed by different social forces. More information...

Barnwell, Ashley and Cummins, Joseph. Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature. Routledge, 2019.

This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology, it explores the relationships between family storytelling, memory, and postcolonial identity. With attention to the political potential of family histories, Reckoning with the Past argues that authors’ often autobiographical works enable us to uncover, confront, and revise national mythologies. More information...

Bengtsson, Tea Torbenfeldt and Ravn, Signe. Youth, Risk, Routine: A New Perspective on Risk-Taking in Young Lives. Routledge, 2019.

Youth, Risk, Routine introduces a new approach to risk-taking activities as being an integral and routinised part of young people's everyday life. By applying social theories of practice, this insightful volume presents a framework for understanding the routinised dimensions of young people's engagement in risk-taking and how this is embedded in, intertwined with, and held in place by other everyday practices. More information…

Bowman, Dina; Mallett, Shelley and Cooney-O’Donoghue, Diarmuid. “Diversion Ahead? Change Is Needed but That Doesn’t Mean That Basic Income Is the Answer,” in Klein, Elise; Mays, Jennifer and Dunlop, Tim (eds.,). Implementing a Basic Income in Australia Pathways Forward. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

This book brings together scholars from the fields of politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and economics, to explore pathways towards implementing a Basic Income in Australia. It is the first book of its kind to outline avenues for implementation of a basic income specifically for Australia and responds to a gap in the existing basic income literature and published titles to provide a distinct standpoint in the exploration of basic income within the Australian contemporary policy landscape. More information…

Craig, Lyn. "The Composition of Grandparent Childcare: Gendered Patterns in Cross-national Perspective," in Timonen, Virpi (ed.,). Grandparenting practices around the world: Reshaping family. University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Grandparenting Practices Around the World presents an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of the increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide who co-exist and interact for longer periods of time with their grandchildren. The book contains analyses of topics that have so far received relatively little attention, such as transnational grandparenting and gender differences in grandparenting practices. More information...

Douglas, Kate and Barnwell, Ashley (eds.,). Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies. Routledge, 2019.

The essays in this collection position auto/biography as a key discipline for modelling interdisciplinary approaches to methodology and ask: what original and important thinking can auto/biography studies bring to discussions of methodology for literary studies and beyond? And how does the diversity of methodological interventions in auto/biography studies build a strong and diverse research discipline? More information...

Essed, P., Farquharson, K., Pillay, K. and White, E.J. (eds.,). Relating Worlds of Racism: Dehumanisation, Belonging, and the Normativity of European Whiteness. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other. The book unmasks and foregrounds the ways in which notions of European Whiteness have found form in a variety of global contexts that continue to sustain racism as an operational norm resulting in exclusion, violence, human rights violations, isolation and limited full citizenship for individuals who are not racialised as White. More information...

Holleran, Max. “How Gentrifiers Gentrify,” in Marcus, Sharon and Zaloom, Caitlin (eds.,). Think in Public: A Public Books Reader. Columbia University Press, 2019.

Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what they mean for the world at large. More information...

Ravn, Signe. “Participation, Positionality and Power: Critical Moments in Research with Service-Engaged Youth,” in Billett, Paulina; Hart, Matt and Martin, Dona (eds.,). Complexities of researching with young people. Routledge, 2019.
Cook, Julia and Woodman, Dan. “Digital modes of data collection in mixed-methods longitudinal youth research,” in Billett, Paulina; Hart, Matt and Martin, Dona (eds.,). Complexities of Researching with Young People. Routledge, 2019.

Currently, most books on youth research available on the market focus on ‘how to’ conduct youth research or the research process itself. This edited collection proposes to take this process a step further and discuss the complexities of youth research from a practical and theoretical context. In total, five themes are examined – conceptualising young people, ethics and consent, the digital, voice, participation and unexpected tensions. In this book, authors from six countries explore the complexities of researching with young people across disciplines and national contexts. More information...

Yerkes, M. And Hewitt, B. "Part-time strategies of women and men of childbearing age in the Netherlands and Australia," in Nicolaisen, Heidi; Kavli, Hanne and Jensen, Ragnhild Steen (eds.,). Dualisation of Part-Time Work: The Development of Labour Market Insiders and Outsiders. Policy Press, 2019.

This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up-to-date understanding of part-time work at national, sector, industry and workplace levels. The contributors critically examine part-time employment in different institutional settings across Europe, the USA, Australia and Korea. More information…

Zinn, Jens O. The UK ‘at Risk’ A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change 1785–2009. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book presents a case study of the proliferation of at risk-language in The Times news coverage from 1785 to 2009, illuminating the changing social experience of risk. Zinn presents an historical examination of the forces which have shaped the language of risk over time, and considers how linguistic developments in recent decades are underpinned by issues such as cultural and structural transformations, the management of infectious and chronic diseases and climate change. He also explores changes in the public sphere, including the production of the news. More information…

Craig, Lyn and Habgood, Ruth. "Cultural Considerations in the Division of Labor," in Shockley, Kirsten; Shen, Winny and Johnson, Ryan (eds.,). The Cambridge Handbook of the Global Work-Family Interface. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Global Work-Family Interface is a response to growing interest in understanding how people manage their work and family lives across the globe. Given global and regional differences in cultural values, economies, and policies and practices, research on work-family management is not always easily transportable to different contexts. More information…

Hewitt, Belinda and Brady, M. "Making and Unmaking Families," in Shaver, Sheila (ed.,). Handbook on Gender and Social Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.

After two decades of feminist challenges to mainstream theorising, gender has become a central element of social policy and the welfare state. A new literature has widened the focus of social policy from state and economy to a three-sided discourse encompassing the state, the market and the family. The Handbook on Gender and Social Policy provides a comprehensive introduction to this field with up-to-date accounts of debates and innovative original research by leading international authors. More information...

Nolan, David, Farquharson, Karen and Marjoribanks, Timothy (eds.,). Australian media and the politics of belonging. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging explores mediated debates about belonging in contemporary Australia by combining research that proposes conceptual and historical frameworks for understanding the concept in the Australian context. A range of themes and case studies make the book a significant conceptual resource as well as a much-needed update on work in this area. More information…

Mooi, Erik; Sarstedt, Marko and Mooi-Reci, Irma. Market Research: The Process, Data, and Methods Using Stata. Springer-Verlag, 2018.

This book is an easily accessible and comprehensive guide which helps make sound statistical decisions, perform analyses, and interpret the results quickly using Stata. It includes advanced coverage of ANOVA, factor, and cluster analyses in Stata, as well as essential regression and descriptive statistics. It is aimed at those wishing to know more about the process, data management, and most commonly used methods in market research using Stata. More information…

Pocius, Joshua . "Of Bodies, Borders and Barebacking: The Geocorpographies of HIV," in Randell-Moon, Holly and Tippet, Ryan (eds.,). Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality. Palsgrave Macmillan, 2016.

This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space and race. Each chapter describes and critiques the ways in which contemporary technologies produce citizens according to their statistical risk or value in an atmosphere of generalised security, both in relation to categories of race, and within the new possibilities for locating and managing bodies in space. More information…

Barnwell, Ashley. "Method Matters: The Ethics of Exclusion," in Kirby, Vicki (ed.,). What if Culture was Nature all Along? Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

New materialisms argue for a more science friendly humanities, ventilating questions about methodology and subject matter and the importance of the non-human. However, these new sites of attention – climate, biology, affect, geology, animals and objects - tend to leverage their difference against language and the discursive... While this collection of essays is in kinship with this radical shake-up of how and what we study, the aim is to re-navigate what constitutes materiality. More information...

Biggs, Simon. Negotiating Ageing: Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life. Routledge, 2017.

The world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, socially and for governments and international organisations requires an act of cultural adaptation. Two key questions arise: What is the purpose of a long life? and How do we adapt to societies where generations are of approximately the same size? In this book Simon Biggs discusses ways of interrogating these questions and the adaptations we make to them. More information…

Craig, Lyn et al. "Is it just too hard? Gender time symmetry in market and nonmarket work and subjective time pressure in Australia, Finland, and Korea," in Connelly, Rachel and Kongar, Ebru (eds.,). Gender and Time Use in a Global Context: The Economics of Employment and Unpaid Labor. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use. Household composition, sexuality, migration patterns, income levels, and race/ethnicity are all considered as important factors that interact with gender and time use patterns. More information…

Farquharson, Karen, Nolan, David and Marjoribanks, Timothy. "'Race' and the lived experiences of Australians of Sudanese background," in Boese, Martina and Marotta, Vince (eds.,). Critical Reflections on Migration, 'Race' and Multiculturalism: Australia in a Global Context. Routledge, 2017.

Migration and its associated social practices and consequences have been studied within a multitude of academic disciplines and in the context of policies at local, national and regional level. This edited collection provides an introduction and critical review of conceptual developments and policy contexts of migration scholarship within an Australian and global context. More information...

Holleran, Max and Holleran, S. "Pop-up Engagement: Design Thinking, Museum 'Labs,' and Urban Problem-Solving," in Iannelli, Laura and Musarò, Pierluigi (eds.,). Performative Citizenship Public Art, Urban Design, and Political Participation. Mimesis International, 2017.

The book moves from the first outcomes of a two-years interdisciplinary research programme on the Italian contemporary Public Art, funded by the Sardinia Region (Italy). Moving beyond the traditional ladders of formal citizen participation to territory governance, the research investigates how public artists have involved citizens in creative performances that aim to modify citizens’ perceptions of the places where they live, to create new relations within and toward the territory, and to transform (often temporarily) the physical spaces. More information...

Biggs, Simon et al. "Age Friendliness, Childhood, and Dementia: Toward Generationally Intelligent Environments," in Moulaert, Thibauld and Garon, Suzanne (eds.,). Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison. Springer-Verlag, 2016.

The supportive role of urban spaces in active ageing is explored on a world scale in this unique resource, using the WHO’s Age-Friendly Cities and Community model. Case studies from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and elsewhere demonstrate how the model translates to fit diverse social, political, and economic realities across cultures and continents, ways age-friendly programs promote senior empowerment, and how their value can be effectively assessed. More information...

Craig, Lyn and Powell, A. "Housework, intergenerational dependency and challenges to traditional gender roles," in Liu, Edgar and Easthope, Hazel (eds.,). Multigenerational Family Living: Evidence and Policy Implications from Australia. Routledge, 2016.

The book sheds fresh light on a range of structural and social drivers that have led multigenerational families to cohabit and the ways in which families negotiate the dynamic interactions amongst these drivers in their everyday lives. It critically examines factors such as demographics, the environment, culture and family considerations of identity, health, care and well-being, revealing how such factors reflect (and are reflected by) a retracting welfare state and changing understandings of families in an increasingly mobile world. More information…

Farquharson, Karen; Waller, Vivienne and Dempsey, Deborah. Qualitative Social Research: Contemporary Methods for the Digital Age. Sage Publications, 2016.

Qualitative Social Research employs an accessible approach to present the multiple ways in which criticism enhances research practice. Packed full of relevant, 'real world' examples, it showcases the strengths and pitfalls of each research method, integrating the philosophical groundings of qualitative research with thoughtful overviews of a range of commonly used methods. More information...

Pedersen, Mads Uffe and Ravn, Signe (eds.,). Unge liv. Tilhør og udfordringer Young Lives. Barriers and belonging. Unipress, 2016.

In Young Lives, a number of professionals explore the complexities of young people's lives and show, among other things, that the distinction between "normal" and "vulnerable" young people may not be as hard as the newspapers make us believe. More information…

Drobni, S. and Ruppanner, L. "Gender Inequalities in the Home," in Scott, Robert A., Buchmann, Marlis C. and Kossly, Stephen M. (eds.,). Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015.

A major new reference work, Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives contains individual essays from both established scholars and rising stars. Links in each entry direct users to other relevant entries, often in other disciplines and specialties, thereby creating an intelligent multidimensional system of cross-referencing. More information…

Hewitt, Belinda. "Relationship dissolution," in Heard, Genevieve, and Arunachalam, Dharmalingam (eds.,). Family Formation in 21st Century Australia. Springer-Verlag, 2015.

This book provides a detailed, up-to-date snapshot of Australian family formation, answering such questions as 'what do our families look like?' and 'how have they come to be this way?' The book applies sociological insights to a broad range of demographic trends, painting a comprehensive picture of the changing ways in which Australians are creating families. More information...

Muir, K., Jenkins, B. and Craig, Lyn. "Young People on or Over the Neet Cliff Edge," in te Riele, Kitty and Gorur, Radhika (eds.,). Interrogating Conceptions of "Vulnerable Youth" in Theory, Policy and Practice. Springer-Verlag, 2015.

Young people who are considered 'vulnerable' or 'at risk' are a particular target of various policies, schemes and interventions. But what does vulnerability mean? Interrogating Conceptions of "Vulnerable Youth" explores this question in relation to various policy fields that are relevant to young people, as well for how this plays out in practice and how it is experienced by young people themselves. More information…

Ruppanner, Leah. "Working Couples: the Dual Income Family," in Quah, Stella R. (ed.,). Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia. Routledge, 2015.

Research on the family has expanded considerably across Asia but studies tend to be fragmented, focusing on narrow issues within limited areas (cities, towns, small communities) and may not be accessible to international readers. These limitations make it difficult for researchers, students, policy makers, and practitioners to obtain the information they need. The Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia fills that gap by providing a current and comprehensive analysis of Asian families by a wide range of experts in a single publication. More information…

Zhou, M. and Lee, Renie. "Traversing ancestral and New Homelands: Chinese immigrant transnational organizations in the United States," in Portes, Alejandro and Fernández-Kelly, Patricia (eds.,). The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents. Berghahn Books, 2015.

Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, from India to Colombia to Vietnam to the Congo, researchers from the United States, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Spain focus their studies on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives.