All Outputs (43)

Thinking with the Harrisons. (2023)
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DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. [2024]. Thinking with the Harrisons. Leuven: Leuven University Press. (Forthcoming)

This book asks a fundamental question around the place of the arts in the global environmental crises. In arguing that the arts have an important role, we are also suggesting that the arts need to be rethought, reimagined and reconfigured through new... Read More about Thinking with the Harrisons..

States and welfare states: government for the people. (2022)
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SPICKER, P. 2022. States and welfare states: government for the people. Bristol: Policy Press [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447367383

Most governments in the world – including many that are autocratic or authoritarian – have taken responsibility for social policy and elected to develop services in health, education and social security. This book explores the role of government and... Read More about States and welfare states: government for the people..

Sports law in Zimbabwe. (2022)
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MADEBWE, T., PFUMORODZE, J., CHITSOVE, E. and KHUMALO, T.F. 2022. Sports law in Zimbabwe. Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International [online]. Available from: https://law-store.wolterskluwer.com/s/product/sports-law-in-zimbabwe/01t4R00000OknfaQAB

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of sports law in Zimbabwe deals with the regulation of sports activity by both public authorities and private sports organizations. The growing intern... Read More about Sports law in Zimbabwe..

Making sense of the paranormal: the interactional construction of unexplained experiences. (2021)
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IRONSIDE, R. and WOOFFITT, R. 2021. Making sense of the paranormal: the interactional construction of unexplained experiences. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88407-9

This book is a study of how people collaboratively interpret events or experiences as having paranormal features, or as evidence of spiritual agency. The authors study recordings of paranormal research groups as they conduct real life investigations... Read More about Making sense of the paranormal: the interactional construction of unexplained experiences..

Just energy transitions and coal bed methane: the case of Indonesia. (2021)
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SUMARNO, T.B. 2021. Just energy transitions and coal bed methane: the case of Indonesia. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85490-4

This book discusses how Coal Bed Methane (CBM) could help the acceleration of the energy transition in a ‘just’ way in Indonesia, due to the country's potential CBM reserves (and current dependence on climate damaging coal). Developing countries face... Read More about Just energy transitions and coal bed methane: the case of Indonesia..

Overcoming art. (2021)
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BLACKWOOD, J., SAMANDOVA, I., VITANOVSKA, A. and IVANOV, B. 2021. Overcoming art. Skopje: Mala Galerija. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1481532

The origins of this project are in the pre-COVID world. It grew in part out of a desire to map and understand visual culture beyond Skopje; the conflation of contemporary art in North Macedonia with contemporary art in Skopje has been something of a... Read More about Overcoming art..

Berlin: a city awaits: the interplay between political ideology, architecture and identity. (2020)
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MAIR, N. and ZAMAN, Q.M. 2020. Berlin: a city awaits: the interplay between political ideology, architecture and identity. Springer geography. Cham: Springer [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51449-5

This book is a companion to an earlier book ("Potsdamerplatz: the reshaping of Berlin") also by Quazi Mahtab Zaman. Political meaning in architecture has been a subject of interest to many critics and writers. The most notable of these include Charle... Read More about Berlin: a city awaits: the interplay between political ideology, architecture and identity..

The poverty of nations: a relational perspective. (2020)
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SPICKER, P. 2020. The poverty of nations: a relational perspective. Bristol: Policy Press [online]. Available from: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-poverty-of-nations

In this persuasive study, social welfare and policy expert Paul Spicker makes a case for a relational view of poverty. Poverty is much more than a lack of resources. It involves a complex set of social relationships, such as economic disadvantage, in... Read More about The poverty of nations: a relational perspective..

Thinking collectively: social policy, collective action and the common good. (2019)
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SPICKER, P. 2019. Thinking collectively: social policy, collective action and the common good. Bristol: Policy press [online]. Available from: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/thinking-collectively

In this book, well-respected author Paul Spicker lends a complementary voice to his Reclaiming Individualism, reviewing collectivism as a dimension of political discourse. Breaking down his analysis to examine collectivism through substantive, moral... Read More about Thinking collectively: social policy, collective action and the common good..

Redistributing power? A poetics of participation in contemporary arts. (2018)
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DOUGLAS, A. 2018. Redistributing power? A poetics of participation in contemporary arts. Bristol: University of Bristol/AHRC Connected Communities Programme [online]. Available from: https://connected-communities.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Contemporary_Arts_2.pdf

Imagine a man standing in a covered market place. Other stallholders around him sell fruit and vegetables, clothes and household goods. However, he is undertaking an altogether different kind of exchange. He offers to insure the shoppers and other st... Read More about Redistributing power? A poetics of participation in contemporary arts..

Designing usable and secure software with IRIS and CAIRIS. (2018)
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FAILY, S. 2018. Designing usable and secure software with IRIS and CAIRIS. Cham: Springer [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75493-2

Everyone expects the products and services they use to be secure, but 'building security in' at the earliest stages of a system's design also means designing for use as well. Software that is unusable to end-users and unwieldy to developers and admin... Read More about Designing usable and secure software with IRIS and CAIRIS..

Digital participation and collaboration in architectural design. (2018)
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LAING, R. 2018. Digital participation and collaboration in architectural design. Abingdon: Routledge [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315161488

The emergence of new digital and visualisation technologies in recent years has led to rapid changes in the field of architecture. Current drives to incorporate building information modelling as a part of architectural design are giving way to the in... Read More about Digital participation and collaboration in architectural design..

The sociology of everyday life peacebuilding. (2018)
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BREWER, J.D., HAYES, B.C., TEENEY, F., DUDGEON, K., MUELLER-HIRTH, N. and WIJESINGHE, S.L. 2018. The sociology of everyday life peacebuilding. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78975-0

This chapter gives voice to our sample of South African victims and explains the South African sample of victims. The chapter begins with a history of South Africa and the development of policies of racial segregation under the British and apartheid... Read More about The sociology of everyday life peacebuilding..

Principles of social welfare: an introduction to thinking about the welfare state. (2017)
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SPICKER, P. 2017. Principles of social welfare: an introduction to thinking about the welfare state. Translated to Arabic by H.M.I. Matter. Berlin: Democratic Arabic Centre [online]. Available from: http://democraticac.de/?p=46477

This book is about social policy and administration, which is a field of study mainly concerned with 'social welfare' and the 'social services'. Social policy is not a self-contained academic discipline. The book attempts to draw material together an... Read More about Principles of social welfare: an introduction to thinking about the welfare state..

Caroline Phillips: Aberdeen suffragette and journalist. (2017)
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PEDERSEN, S. 2017. Caroline Phillips: Aberdeen suffragette and journalist. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University.

Aberdeen Art Gallery holds a unique collection of correspondence that belonged to a woman journalist called Caroline Phillips. As honorary secretary of the Aberdeen branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), otherwise known as the Suffr... Read More about Caroline Phillips: Aberdeen suffragette and journalist..

The Scottish suffragettes and the press. (2017)
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PEDERSEN, S. 2017. The Scottish suffragettes and the press. London: Palgrave Macmillan [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53834-5

This work approaches the Scottish women's suffrage campaign from the point of view of the popular press. It investigates how the press engaged with the women's suffrage movement; how suffragettes were portrayed in newspapers; and how different groups... Read More about The Scottish suffragettes and the press..

Megaproject risk analysis and simulation: a dynamic systems approach. (2017)
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BOATENG, P., CHEN, Z. and OGUNLANA, S.O. 2017. Megaproject risk analysis and simulation: a dynamic systems approach. Bingley: Emerald [online]. Available from: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Megaproject-Risk-Analysis-and-Simulation/?k=9781786358318

Providing new knowledge on risk analysis and simulation for megaprojects, this book is essential reading for both academics and practitioners. Its focus is on technical descriptions of a newly developed dynamic systems approach to megaproject risk an... Read More about Megaproject risk analysis and simulation: a dynamic systems approach..

Arguments for welfare: the welfare state and social policy. (2017)
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SPICKER, P. 2017. Arguments for welfare: the welfare state and social policy. London: Rowman and Littlefield International Ltd [online]. Available from: http://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/arguments_for_welfare/3-156-b8676521-173c-4557-9489-01d73d466f67

This book makes the case for the welfare state. Nearly every government in the developed world offers some form of social protection, and measures to improve the social and economic well-being of its citizens. However, the provision of welfare is und... Read More about Arguments for welfare: the welfare state and social policy..

The European Union and other international institutions. (2017)
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MORRISON, J. 2017. The European Union and other international institutions. In Morrison, J. (ed.) Essential public affairs for journalists. Fifth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press [online]. Available from: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/essential-public-affairs-for-journalists-9780198785514?q=essential%20public%20affairs%20for%20journalists&lang=en&cc=gb

Essential Public Affairs for Journalists is the definitive handbook for journalism students and practising journalists. It guides readers through the constitutional framework and the governing institutions of the United Kingdom before considering the... Read More about The European Union and other international institutions..

What's wrong with social security benefits? (2017)
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SPICKER, P. 2017. What's wrong with social security benefits? Bristol: Policy Press [online]. Available from: https://policypress.co.uk/whats-wrong-with-social-security-benefits

In this thought-provoking book, Paul Spicker challenges readers to rethink social security benefits in Britain. Putting a case for reform of the system, Spicker argues that most of the criticisms made of social security benefits – that spending is ou... Read More about What's wrong with social security benefits?.