This paper seeks to extend geographic thinking on the changing constitution of the UK
welfare state, suggesting the need to supplement ideas of the “shadow state” with an …

The Unfinished Politics of Race argues that the past few decades have seen important
transformations in the politics of race. Contending that existing accounts have focused …

Introduction Responsibility is one of the concepts that has been intensively used and
analysed in social sciences during the last three decades. In this chapter, our interest is …

This paper explores the impact of legal rights to housing for homeless people, focusing on
the capacity of such rights to 'empower'those experiencing homelessness. Lukes'(2005) …

In a context of increasing welfare conditionality, governmental responses to homelessness
in Australia continue to be influenced by neoliberal discourses of personal responsibility …

Abstract Since its launch, David Cameron's flagship Big Society agenda has attracted
hostility and incomprehension in roughly equal measure. An important criticism of the Big …

The fostering of a critically engaged citizenry and robust civil society are championed as
cornerstones of democratisation and development, particularly in partially free or unfree …

This is not a book about sex-work/prostitution. This is a book about how some relatively
influential people talk and write about sex-work/prostitution. These two things are related but …

Introduction Vulnerable citizens are increasingly supported, treated and regulated in the
community, in normal housing and in neighbourhoods. Inclusion and normal life in the …

With the recognition that communication networks in general and the Internet in particular
are not only infrastructural but socio-technical in nature comes the responsibility to think …