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OPEN ACCESS CHAPTERS Handbook of Research Methods in Migration Second Edition Edited by William L. Allen, University of Southampton and Carlos Vargas-Silva, University of Oxford, UK ‘In the rapidly expanding field of migration studies the editors and contributors have done a fantastic job in creating this treasure trove of information, guidance and insight into both the methods and practice of migration research that will be an invaluable resource for migration researchers.’ – Andrew Geddes, European University Institute, Italy Oct 2024 394 pp Hardback 978 1 80037 802 5 £195.00 / $275.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Handbooks in Migration How to be a Successful Academic Researcher Reflections and Tips From a Veteran Social Science Researcher Jim Macnamara, University of Technology Sydney, Australia ‘This is exactly what we need – a practical guide to living a good academic life written by somebody who understands how to communicate. It’s grounded, human, insightful, easy to read and offers a lot of great hacks. Buy it for any Early Career Researchers in your life and learn from it yourself.’ – Alan McKee, University of Sydney, Australia Oct 2024 236 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 4165 8 £90.00 / $130.00 eBook • Elgaronline How To Guides Varieties of Equality in European Welfare States A Multidisciplinary Approach to Redistribution Davide Orsitto, PhD, formerly at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy ‘After three decades of neoliberalism, it may be time to rethink the European Welfare State. This book makes an important contribution by questioning the philosophical, political and economic foundation of the European model.’ – Stefan Collignon, London School of Economics, UK Oct 2024 170 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 4367 6 £80.00 / $110.00 eBook • Elgaronline Globalization and Welfare series Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies Edited by Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna, Austria and Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School and Aarhus University, Denmark ‘What is STS? The editors and authors seek answers to this question seriously and honestly. Readers are invited to engage with the field through the various frames, themes and topics. In parallel, this is a journey to explore the identity of STS. The Encyclopedia provides a unique overview and clear signpost for newcomers to STS as well as senior researchers.’ – Yuko Fujigaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Oct 2024 642 pp Hardback 978 1 80037 798 1 £280.00 / $390.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series 3 For our electronic content, visit: elgaronline.com SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL POLICY NEW TITLES, OCT – DEC 2024
Handbook of Case Study Research in the Social Sciences Edited by Peter Rule, Stellenbosch University and Vaughn M. John, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ‘Case study research is ubiquitous in the field of adult and continuing education. The editors did a great service to the field through their book, Your Guide to Case Study Research (2011). This Handbook takes understandings of case study research to a new level by expanding and deepening engagement with case study research across disciplines and fields. This is a welcome addition to the literature and will, like their previous book, become an indispensable reference for case study researchers globally.’ – Shirley Walters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Oct 2024 368 pp Hardback 978 1 80392 031 3 £195.00 / $275.00 eBook • Elgaronline OPEN ACCESS CHAPTERS Handbook of Technology Assessment Edited by Armin Grunwald, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany ‘This is a stunning collection of narratives, analyses, methodologies, and critical philosophical takes on technology assessment theory and practice across as many venues as can be imagined. Impossible to offer any future discourse without referencing this volume.’ – Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, USA Oct 2024 c 492 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 1067 8 £220.00 / $310.00 eBook • Elgaronline Research Handbooks in Science and Technology Studies series Research Handbook on Hate and Hate Crimes in Society Edited by James Hawdon, Virginia Tech and Matthew Costello, Clemson University, US This comprehensive Research Handbook places the study of hate and hate crimes into historic and cross-national contexts, examining the reasons behind, and the effects of, the reported increase in hate crimes in recent years. James Hawdon and Matthew Costello bring together a diverse array of experts to highlight the ongoing empirical and conceptual challenges that scholars and practitioners face when studying this topic. Oct 2024 366 pp Hardback 978 1 80392 572 1 £195.00 / $275.00 eBook • Elgaronline Research Handbook on Innovations in Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education Implications for Teaching and Learning Edited by Carol Evans, Cardiff University and Michael Waring, University of Leeds, UK ‘Evans and Waring have made a significant contribution by bringing together leading researchers worldwide to present their model of self-regulatory assessment and feedback. The Handbook serves as an empirical basis for elevating self-regulation in higher education and guides educators toward creating a more engaging, empowering, and successful learning experience for their students.’ – John Hattie, Emeritus Laureate Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia Oct 2024 c 596 pp Hardback 978 1 80088 159 4 £245.00 / $345.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Handbooks in Education Handbook on Inequality and Social Capital Edited by Steve McDonald, North Carolina State University, US, Rochelle Côté, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada and Jing Shen, University of Toronto, Canada ‘The Handbook on Inequality and Social Capital admirably achieves its editors’ goals of comprehensiveness, inclusiveness and usefulness. Rather than attempting to define the concept of social capital, the editors embrace its multi-level, sprawling meaning in 28 chapters that cover the field, with authors from every continent and a multitude of disciplines. It should be useful for established scholars and those just entering the field.’ – Lynn Smith-Lovin, Duke University, US Oct 2024 c 488 pp Hardback 978 1 80220 236 6 £220.00 / $310.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Handbooks on Inequality NEW IN PAPERBACK How to Think Like a Realist A Methodology for Social Science Ray Pawson, University of Leeds, UK ‘Realist methodology is blossoming, and realist studies are burgeoning. This is no flash in the pan. Ray Pawson’s work is both the product and the source of this intellectual evolution. The book makes the proposition that realist principles underpin science in all its guises and makes tiny, tentative steps in tracing the common realist tenets. If he is correct, we will be reading this manifesto for many years to come.’ – Frans L. Leeuw, Maastricht University, the Netherlands May 2024 304 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 2109 4 £105.00 / $145.00 Nov 2024 Paperback 978 1 0353 5480 1 c £33.95 / c $48.95 eBook • Elgaronline How to Research Guides For our electronic content, visit: elgaronline.com SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL POLICY NEW TITLES, OCT – DEC 2024 4
Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work Global Production Networks, Global Disassembly Networks, and the Circular Economy Al Rainnie, Curtin University and Adelaide University, Australia, Andrew Herod, University of Georgia, Athens, USA and Susan McGrath-Champ, The University of Sydney, Australia ‘Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work takes us to the frontiers of the restructuring economy, where rapid technological advances are transforming employment relations. This is an insightful, wide-ranging, and accessible book that provides the critical analysis we need as we grapple with the possible future(s) of work … and of workers.’ – Nik Theodore, University of Illinois Chicago, USA Nov 2024 320 pp Hardback 978 1 80037 536 9 c £110.00 / c $155.00 eBook • Elgaronline Social Justice, Welfare and EU Law Measuring Integration in the Visegrád Countries Sára Hungler, Centre for Social Sciences and ELTE, Hungary ‘Based on Nancy Fraser’s theory of social justice, Sara Hungler’s eye-opening book delves into both the achievements and the loopholes of the European social model. Through a masterful combination of legal analysis and a social science approach, the author provides an insightful, integrated inquiry into the Visegrad Countries highlighting the current and prospective impact of EU policies aiming at reducing poverty and curbing social exclusion in the European Union.’ – Marco Biasi, University of Milan, Italy Nov 2024 c 280 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 2377 7 c £100.00 / c $140.00 eBook • Elgaronline OPEN ACCESS Silent Pain and Public Policy Suicide and Social Welfare in the Middle East and North Africa Edited by Anis Ben Brik, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar ‘Silent Pain and Public Policy offers a profound if troubling exploration of the intersection between political stability, economic crises, and mental health. Examining stable monarchies to conflict regimes, this book reveals how sociopolitical contexts shape suicide rates and social welfare responses, providing new critical insights and fresh policy recommendations for addressing this pressing, though often shrouded, public health issue.’ – Leslie A. Pal, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Nov 2024 c 306 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 3879 5 c £105.00 / c $145.00 eBook • Elgaronline Encyclopedia of Technological Hazards and Disasters in the Social Sciences Edited by Duane A. Gill, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, State University and Oklahoma State University, Liesel Ritchie, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Nnenia M. Campbell, The William Averette Anderson Fund for Hazard and Disaster Mitigation Education and Research, USA ‘Hazards and disasters are the flipside of technological systems’ ability to funnel natural forces into social processes, with increasingly complex and far reaching implications. This is a much needed, impressively comprehensive and compelling guide to navigating concepts, theories and events.’ – Luigi Pellizzoni, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy Nov 2024 c 765 pp Hardback 978 1 80088 219 5 c £345.00 / c $485.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series OPEN ACCESS Reproduction Policy in the Twenty-First Century A Comparative Analysis Edited by Hannah Zagel, WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Technical University Dortmund, Germany ‘This book is truly going somewhere new, elucidating reproduction policy as a field of study and critically integrating it into comparative welfare state research. It shines an original light on an understudied dimension of welfare state regulation.’ – Mary Daly, University of Oxford, UK Nov 2024 c 212 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 2415 6 c £85.00 / c $120.00 eBook • Elgaronline Teaching Online Classes Exercises and Techniques Elina Kallas, Adult Educator and Researcher, Estonia With the recent boom in online education causing a rapid change in mainstream learning methodologies, this prescient book examines how to teach adults in synchronous virtual classes. Elina Kallas details essential advice for improving learner interaction and engagement in these unique remote environments. Nov 2024 c 170 pp Hardback 978 1 80220 490 2 c £80.00 / c $110.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Guides to Teaching 5 For our electronic content, visit: elgaronline.com SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL POLICY NEW TITLES, OCT – DEC 2024
The Elgar Companion to Applied AI Ethics Edited by Christoph Lütge, Alexander Kriebitz, Raphael Max and Caitlin C. Corrigan, Technical University of Munich, Germany ‘This timely book provides an overview of morality and the underpinning ethical theories, and debates the universal validity and the context sensitivity of these largely principle-based perspectives and moral choices. It explores the role of the observer and specific cultural norms in this emerging popular paradigm underpinned by the rapid and socially impactful technological progress of Artificial Intelligent Systems, through the lens of Applied Ethics.’ – Ali Hessami, Vega Systems, UK Nov 2024 c 438 pp Hardback 978 1 80392 823 4 c £205.00 / c $285.00 eBook • Elgaronline Handbook on Border Criminology Edited by Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford, UK, Katja Franko, University of Oslo, Norway, Maggy Lee, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR and Rimple Mehta, Western Sydney University, Australia ‘An excellent, interdisciplinary Handbook produced “in the shadow” of Ukraine and Gaza, this volume places before us the challenges of building critical decolonial knowledge in the field of border criminology, through a deep engagement with different types of borders across different regions globally.’ – Kalpana Kannabiran, Council for Social Development, India Nov 2024 c 412 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 0797 5 c £200.00 / c $280.00 eBook • Elgaronline Unemployment and Activation Policies in Europe and the US Edited by Henning Jørgensen, University College North Jutland, Denmark and Michaela Schulze, University of Applied Labour Studies, Germany ‘This group of highly qualified scholars present cutting-edge research on the development of active labour market policies in a large variety of countries with different welfare regimes. A solid and very welcome update to our understanding of what active labour market policy is and how it has developed over time.’ – Bent Greve, University of Roskilde, Denmark Nov 2024 c 298 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 2560 3 c £105.00 / c $145.00 eBook • Elgaronline The Future of Work and Employment series OPEN ACCESS The Labour Crisis in Long-term Care The Right to Care Edited by Pat Armstrong, York University, Hugh Armstrong, Carleton University and Jacqueline A. Choiniere, York University, Canada ‘The contributing authors, all eminent experts on the political economy of care, provide a refreshing look at current problems in their respective countries, and offer persuasive arguments for treating the right to care and dignity in work for care providers as two sides of the equation in meeting new challenges.’ – Miriam Glucksmann, Essex University, UK Nov 2024 c 174 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 4029 3 c £80.00 / c $110.00 eBook • Elgaronline Fragmenting Cities The State, Territorial Stigmatization and Urban Marginality Troels Schultz Larsen and Kristian Nagel Delica, Roskilde University, Denmark ‘Fragmenting Cities is a bold and original contribution to the political sociology of urban marginality inspired by Pierre Bourdieu and grounded in a deep historical case study of the making and unmaking of the so-called “ghettos” of Denmark. It is packed with sharp observations, smart theorizing and lucid policy elaborations reaching far beyond its national borders: in short, a must-read for serious students of the neoliberal metropolis.’ – Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley, US Dec 2024 c 270 pp Hardback 978 1 78990 693 6 c £100.00 / c $140.00 eBook • Elgaronline Cities series Handbook on Labour Markets in Transition Promoting Resilience in a World in Flux Edited by Stéphane Carcillo, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Sciences Po, Paris, France and Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Germany and Stefano Scarpetta, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), France, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Germany and Mercatorum University, Italy ‘In a world of accelerating labor market transitions, fixing what gets broken after it has happened is no basis for policy. We must anticipate change, support adaptation, and build resilience. Staggering in its scope and ambition, this Handbook offers evidence and tools to policymakers striving to envision and shape the future of work.’ – David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Dec 2024 c 528 pp Hardback 978 1 83910 694 1 c £230.00 / c $320.00 eBook • Elgaronline 6 For our electronic content, visit: elgaronline.com SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL POLICY NEW TITLES, OCT – DEC 2024
Just Transitions Advancing Environmental and Social Justice Éloi Laurent, Sciences Po and Ponts Paris Tech, France and Stanford University, US ‘Éloi Laurent invites us to boldly imagine the institutions necessary for a resilient, just, democratic, sustainable, and achievable social-ecological state. Just Transitions integrates real existing practices collected from around the globe with political, economic, and philosophical underpinnings from key 20th and 21st century thinkers to project a nascent, realistic and hopeful vision of social-ecological prevention and protection. The book is wonderful and I recommend it in the strongest terms.’ – Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Dec 2024 c 128 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 1840 7 c £70.00 / c $99.00 eBook • Elgaronline OPEN ACCESS From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios Edited by Jakub Bijak, University of Southampton, UK ‘Migration is not easy to predict but this excellent book covers all the issues that researchers and practitioners need to know to do the difficult job. Central to the message is the embracement of uncertainty about things we both understand and do not understand.’ – James Raymer, The Australian National University, Australia Dec 2024 c 194 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 1979 4 c £85.00 / c $120.00 eBook • Elgaronline OPEN ACCESS The Rise of Knowledge Brokers in Global Education Governance Edited by Chanwoong Baek, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland and Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Columbia University, US and Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland ‘The notion that in the formulation and enactment of education policy and governance a range of new knowledge brokers emerged, beyond the traditional producers of knowledge, is now widely recognized. What is less well understood however is how and why has their influence grown so rapidly, and with what consequences. The essays in this important and timely book interrogate these questions in ways that are empirically grounded and analytically astute. They also examine how the various knowledge brokers, both traditional and emerging, collaborate and compete, and how their emergence has created a complicated and highly contested space of knowledge production in education, giving rise a range of important issues that policy makers and researchers can ill afford to overlook.’ – Fazal Rizvi, The University of Melbourne, Australia and The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US Dec 2024 c 192 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 2641 9 c £90.00 / c $125.00 eBook • Elgaronline Children’s Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youth Tara M. Collins, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada ‘In this book, Tara Collins makes a breakthrough in the narrative on children’s rights by shifting the focus from legalistic approaches to embedding it as a footprint in a rights-based and child-centered humanist praxis. Highly recommended as a guide for childcare professionals, social workers, parents, teachers and child rights advocates.’ – Victor P. Karunan, former Chief, Adolescent Development and Participation, UNICEF Headquarters, New York and Member, Inter-Generational Advisory Committee, International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership Dec 2024 c 238 pp Hardback 978 1 80220 234 2 c £90.00 / c $130.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Studies in Human Rights Digital Entrepreneurship in Science, Technology and Innovation Challenges and Prospects Edited by Marina Dabić, University of Zagreb and University of Dubrovnik, Croatia and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Jadranka Švarc, Institute Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia and Tugrul U. Daim, Portland State University, US ‘This book masterfully delves into the complex interplay of digitalization and AI, offering insightful perspectives on business models, sustainability, and innovation. An essential read for understanding the profound implications of our rapidly evolving technological landscape.’ – Charla Griffy-Brown, Arizona State University, US Dec 2024 c 400 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 1141 5 c £135.00 / c $190.00 eBook • Elgaronline Science, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship series OPEN ACCESS Social Cohesion and Resilience through Citizen Engagement A Place-Based Approach Edited by Frank Othengrafen, TU Dortmund University, Sylvia Herrmann, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, Divna Pencic, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University and Stefan Lazarevski, TAJFA Architects LLC, Skopje, North Macedonia ‘In a very inspiring manner and through meticulously presented international case examples, the authors empower the role of citizens and their togetherness in deliberating and acting towards sustainable and resilient yet ever-changing spatial and socio-cultural components of places.’ – Saja Kosanović, University of Priština in Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia Dec 2024 c 288 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 1709 7 c £110.00 / c $155.00 eBook • Elgaronline 7 For our electronic content, visit: elgaronline.com SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL POLICY NEW TITLES, OCT – DEC 2024
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