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By Bruce Cohen
February 07, 2019
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health offers the most comprehensive collection of theoretical and applied writings to date with which students, scholars, researchers and practitioners within the social and health sciences can systematically problematise the practices, ...
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By Stephen Webb
January 28, 2019
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work brings together the world’s leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject. Comprised of 48 chapters divided into six parts: Historical, social, and political ...
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By Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Patricia Daley
December 13, 2018
South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states, policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means of ‘sharing the burden’ in funding and undertaking development, assistance and protection ...
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By Julie Cupples, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha, Manuel Prieto
December 10, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development seeks to engage with comprehensive, contemporary, and critical theoretical debates on Latin American development. The volume draws on contributions from across the humanities and social sciences and, unlike earlier volumes of this kind, ...
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By Simon Chadwick, Daniel Parnell, Paul Widdop, Christos Anagnostopoulos
December 03, 2018
Soccer is the world’s most valuable sport, generating bigger revenues, as well as being watched and played by more people, than any other. It is virtually impossible to understand the business of sport without understanding the football industry. This book surveys contemporary football in ...
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By Richard Wortley, Aiden Sidebottom, Nick Tilley, Gloria Laycock
November 26, 2018
Crime science is precisely what it says it is: the application of science to the phenomenon of crime. This handbook, intended as a crime science manifesto, showcases the scope of the crime science field and provides the reader with an understanding of the assumptions, aspirations and methods of ...
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By Susan Dewey, Isabel Crowhurst, Chimaraoke Izugbara
November 22, 2018
The Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research unites 45 contributions from researchers, sex workers, activists, and practitioners who live and work in 28 countries throughout the world. Focusing tightly on the contemporary state of sex industry research through eight carefully ...
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By Justin Beaumont
November 13, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Postsecularity offers an internationally significant and comprehensive interdisciplinary collection which provides a series of critical reviews of the current state of the art and future trends in philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual terms. The volume likewise ...
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By Walter S. DeKeseredy, Callie Marie Rennison, Amanda K. Hall-Sanchez
November 07, 2018
Violence is a serious public health problem. The number of violent deaths tells only part of the story, and many more survive violence and are left with permanent physical and emotional scars. Violence also erodes communities by reducing productivity, decreasing property values, and disrupting ...
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By Laura Grindstaff, Ming-cheng Lo, John R. Hall
November 06, 2018
The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the ...
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By Kirsten Drotner, Vince Dziekan, Ross Parry, Kim Christian Schrøder
October 25, 2018
Museums today find themselves within a mediatised society, where everyday life is conducted in a data-full and technology-rich context. In fact, museums are themselves mediatised: they present a uniquely media-centred environment, in which communicative media is a constitutive property of their ...
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By Clive L. Spash
October 18, 2018
Since becoming formally established with an international academic society in the late 1980s, ecological economics has advanced understanding of the interactions between social and biophysical reality. It initially combined questioning of the basis of mainstream economics with a concern for ...