Politics

What is the state? And what's it ever done for you? More than you think. The state houses us, educates us, employs us, protects us on the street and in the wider world. It is the country we created together, and a part of our national identity.

`A handbook for these troubled times' Psychologies Magazine 'Engaging and informative ... highlights our common humanity' Kofi Annan `A passionately written polemic' You Magazine The truth is, inclusion is better for everyone.

This book introduces students to anti-oppressive social work, its historical and theoretical roots and the specific contexts of anti-oppressive social work practice.

In this accessible and lively new book, historian Sean Beattie explores the dramatic impact of the congested Districts Board (CDB) on the economic, political and cultural life of Co. Donegal.

Here, available for the first time in the UK, is the book in which Claudia Rankine first developed the 'American Lyric'

Remorseless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Relentless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is broken. But can it be fixed?

What does poverty mean today? Writer Matthew Small seeks to answer this question and witness the similarities and differences between poverty in the UK and India.

Since Britain's 2016 referendum on EU membership, the nation has been profoundly split: one side fantasizing that the referendum will never be acted upon, the other entrenched in questionable assumptions about reclaimed sovereignty and independence.

Expert analysis of an illegal and immoral practice. The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected terrorists; the Obama administration assassinates them.

Identity politics is everywhere, polarising discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media. 'A thinker on fire' - Robin D. G. Kelley