Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
Homelessness and Housing Stress: Acts of Homefullness
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By Neal Haslem, Marcus Knutagård, Keely Macarow
June 26, 2026
This title offers cross-disciplinary visions and insights into the implications of housing policy across continents, through accounts of the lived experience of homelessness and housing stress. Consisting of twenty chapters, visual essays and manifestos from a range of viewpoints inspired by the ...
Narratives of Youth Homelessness: Stories from Paris and New York
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By Julien Billion
March 19, 2026
This book explores the daily lives of 20 young people experiencing homelessness in Paris and New York. Drawing on detailed observations and personal testimonies, it reveals their living conditions, survival strategies, and the rhythms that shape their days and nights. Beyond hardship, this book ...
Showing Social Solidarity with Future Generations
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By Marianne Takle
September 10, 2024
Today’s generations can affect the future ecosystem more than any previous generations and aggravate the welfare of future people. People who have not yet been born are excluded from political decisions important to their lives. Due to the future generations’ lack of influence, current generations ...
Responding to Domestic Violence: Difficult Conversations
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By Kate Seymour, Sarah Wendt, Kristin Natalier
August 26, 2024
This book reflects on the problem of domestic violence by thinking critically about policy and practice responses. Moving beyond accounts of men’s violence embedded in metaphors of ‘good’ and ‘bad men’, or as the expressions of particular structures and practices, it initiates challenging ...
Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: State Power, Logics and Resistance
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By Karen Soldatic, Louise St Guillaume
January 29, 2024
This book provides a rich synthesis of research and theory of nascent and emergent critically engaged work examining changing welfare structures, regimes and technologies and the social suffering that is generated in everyday lives. By rigorously examining social security restructuring with the ...
Child and Youth Participation in Policy, Practice and Research
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By Deirdre Horgan, Danielle Kennan
September 25, 2023
This book showcases rights based participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research with children and youth. Throughout its three parts, the book conceptualises a rights-based participatory approach; showcases constructive and innovative rights based participatory approaches across ...
Charity and Poverty in Advanced Welfare States
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By Cameron Parsell, Andrew Clarke, Francisco Perales
May 31, 2023
This book conceptualises the role of charity to people who are poor in wealthy countries and outlines a set of practical and conceptual ideas for how it could be reimagined. Despite professionalised welfare states and strong economies, in many advanced industrialised nations, charity continues to ...
Death, Grief and Loss in the Context of COVID-19
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By Panagiotis Pentaris
May 31, 2023
This book provides detailed analysis of the manifold ways in which COVID-19 has influenced death, dying and bereavement. Through three parts: Reconsidering Death and Grief in Covid-19; Institutional Care and Covid-19; and the Impact of COVID-19 in Context, the book explores COVID-19 as a reminder ...
Igniting Justice and Progressive Power: The Partnership for Working Families Cities
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By David B. Reynolds, Louise Simmons
January 09, 2023
A progressive resurgence is happening across the United States. This book shows how long-lasting coalitions have built progressive power from the regional level on up. Anchored by the "think and act" affiliate organizations of the Partnership for Working Families (PWF) these regional power building...
Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care: Photovoice, Photography and Poetry in Action
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By Evonne Miller
September 26, 2022
This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregivers, and how they approach, in different ways, the reality that this place is where they will die. ...
Aging Veterans with Disabilities: A Cross-National Study of Policies and Challenges
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By Arie Rimmerman
May 06, 2022
The number of older war veterans receiving disability benefits is steadily growing and is predicted to rise in the next decade. This book provides comprehensive knowledge about health and psychosocial concerns of veterans aging with disabilities and unmet needs and compares policy in three ...
Critical Discourses of Old Age and Telecare Technologies
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By Gizdem Akdur
May 06, 2022
This book makes an enquiry into policies surrounding old age and telecare. It contextualises telecare within the wider history of health and social care in England to build the case that there are grand narratives of old age embedded in policies. Divided into four sections, the book covers: • ...