SPS - Virtual Bookshelf
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SPS academics are prolific authors, with more than 30 books published across our subject areas over the last couple of years alone. We're collating some of their books here, with an initial selection below and more to come. Take a look and learn about our academics' influential, world-leading research.
Englishness:
The Political Force Transforming Britain
Ailsa Henderson, Richard Wyn Jones
For a topic that until recently was presumed not to exist, English nationalism has transformed into an apparently obvious explanation for the Brexit result in England. Subsequent opinion polls have also raised doubts about the extent of continuing English commitment to the union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet, even as Englishness is apparently reshaping Britain’s place in the world and - perhaps - the state itself, it remains poorly understood, in part because of its unfamiliarity.
Oxford University Press, 2021
Legitimation as Political Practice
Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania
Kathy Dodworth
Legitimacy has long been perceived through a Westernized lens as a fixed, binary state. In this book, Kathy Dodworth offers an exploration of everyday legitimation practices in coastal Tanzania, which challenges this understanding within postcolonial contexts. She reveals how non-government organizations craft their authority to act, working with, against and through the state, and what these practices tell us about contemporary legitimation.
Cambridge University Press, 2022
Culture is bad for you
Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien and Mark Taylor
Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture.
Manchester University Press, 2021
Embodiment and Everyday Cyborgs
Gill Haddow
Using a range of social science methods and drawing on the sociology of the body, biomedicine and technology, Haddow invites readers of Embodiment and Everyday Cyborgs to consider whether they might prefer organs from other humans or non-human animals (known as xenotransplantation), or implantable ‘cybernetic’ technologies to replace their own? In discovering that individuals have a very clear preference for human organs but not for the non-human, Haddow suggests that the inside of our bodies may be more important to our sense of identity than may have previously been thought.
Manchester University Press, 2021
Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal
Jeevan R. Sharma
Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal is an accessible contemporary political economic analysis of social change in Nepal. It considers whether and how Nepal's political economy might have been transformed since the 1950s while situating these changes in Nepal's modern history and its location in the global economic system. It assembles and builds on the scholarship on Nepal from a multidisciplinary and synoptic perspective.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
Research Handbook on Energy and Society
Edited by Janette Webb, Professor of Sociology of Organisations; Faye Wade, Chancellor’s Fellow; and Margaret Tingey, Honorary Fellow - School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Structured in four thematic parts, the Research Handbook begins with an analysis of the evolution of large-scale energy production and consumption using coal, oil and gas. Chapters then explore social divisions and inequalities in energy systems in different countries, before moving on to discuss energy governance, policy and politics, along with strategies to achieve transformation. In the final part, the Research Handbook investigates forms of knowledge, stories and public engagement being used to re-make energy futures, concluding that social sciences are identifying the inter-locking societal and technical changes needed to enable rapid systemic changes in energy.
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021
The Routledge International Handbook of Domestic Violence and Abuse
Edited By John Devaney, Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Rebecca J. Macy, Carolina Øverlien, Stephanie Holt
This book makes an important contribution to the international understanding of domestic violence and shares the latest knowledge of what causes and sustains domestic violence between intimate partners, as well as the effectiveness of responses in working with adult and child victims, and those who act abusively towards their partners.
Drawing upon a wide range of contemporary research from across the globe, it recognises that domestic violence is both universal, but also shaped by local cultures and contexts.
Divided into seven parts:
• Introduction.
• Theoretical perspectives on domestic violence and abuse.
• Domestic violence and abuse across the life-course.
• Manifestations of domestic violence and abuse.
• Responding to domestic violence and abuse.
• Researching domestic violence and abuse.
• Concluding thoughts.
It will be of interest to all academics and students working in social work, allied health, sociology, criminology and gender studies as well as policy professionals looking for new approaches to the subject.
Routledge, 2022