As a mission-led, not-for-profit university press, we embrace the 2023 International Open Access Week theme: Community over commercialization.
To celebrate the week and the dedicated efforts of scholarly communities to promote equitable knowledge sharing, we have curated this compelling collection of open access books and journal articles from our Global Social Challenges publishing program.
Transforming Africa’s food systems: a smallholder farmers’ perspective from the Global Social Challenges Journal
By Vine Mutyasira
This paper argues that to be truly successful food systems transformation must include smallholder farmers, their lived experiences, socio-economic circumstances, aspirations and production goals.
Poverty and Prejudice
Edited by Mariz Tadros, Philip Mader, and Kathryn Cheeseman
A comprehensive overview of how efforts to achieve SDGs can be enhanced by paying greater attention to freedom of religion and belief.
Inclusive, sustainable economic transformation: an analysis of trends and trade-offs from the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
By Vidya Diwakar
Explores advances made in low- and middle-income countries around economic transformation; poverty and inequality reduction; and environmental sustainability and how these three objectives have worked with or against each other.
COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic’s Development Impact
Edited by Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra, and Pádraig Carmody
With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, this book investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights.
Long-term care as a policy issue for the European Union and United Nations organisations
from the International Journal of Care and Caring
By Mary Daly
This article critically assesses the recent European Care Strategy, the European Union’s most significant policy statement yet on long-term care. Comparing the European Union approach with that of several United Nations entities shows that other approaches are possible.
Translating and disseminating a localised economic model to support implementation of the ‘Ending the HIV Epidemic’ initiative to public health policymakers from Evidence and Policy
By Matthew P. Abrams, Janet Weiner et al.
This article analyses the implementation of economic models for HIV prevention and treatment by local policymakers. This paper identifies barriers to the uptake of economic model recommendations by local public health decision-makers and suggests ways to overcome them.
Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa
By Simon McGrath, George Openjuru Ladaah et al.
Takes an expansive view of vocational education and training that goes beyond the narrow focus of much of the current literature and policy debate.
Re-Imagining Sexual Harassment
Edited by Maja Lundqvist, Angelica Simonsson and Kajsa Widegren
Brings researchers, writers and policy makers into dialogue, moving beyond the juridical definitions of justice, coloniality, exploitation and work, to offer knowledge that is immediately implementable into policy making.
Exploring women’s vision(s) of peace: towards feminist peace in Myanmar and Georgia? from the European Journal of Politics and Gender
By Magda Lorena Cárdenas
This article asks what feminist peace means to activists in different contexts. By analysing the work of three women’s organisations in Myanmar and Georgia, it highlights the diverse concepts of feminist peace.
Climate Change and Poverty – A New Agenda for Developed Nations
By Tony Fitzpatrick
Offers a timely new perspective on the ‘ecosocial’ understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel poverty, food poverty, housing, transport and air pollution.
Mapping Good Work
By Mark Williams, Ying Zhou and Min Zou
Reviews notions of good work and job satisfaction in the UK, charts disparities in fulfilment potential across professions and sets out fresh ideas for improving satisfaction at work nationally.
Comparative Urban Research From Theory To Practice
Edited by David Simon, Henrietta Palmer and Jan Riise
Reports on the innovative, transdisciplinary co-production on sustainable urbanisation undertaken by Mistra Urban Futures, a highly influential research centre based in Sweden. A significant contribution to evolving theory about comparative urban research.
Using Participatory Methods to Explore Freedom of Religion and Belief
Edited by Jo Howard and Mariz Tadros
Brings together reflections, knowledge and learning about the experiences of religious minorities, showcasing
the participatory methodologies implemented by its contributors.
Beyond ‘equitable partnerships’: the imperative of transformative research collaborations with Africa from the Global Social Challenges Journal
By Isabella Aboderin, Divine Fuh et al.
Argues that the current mode of Africa-Global North research partnerships perpetuate power imbalances in scientific knowledge production, reflecting colonial legacies. We must go beyond equitable research partnerships and institute a transformative mode of joint inquiry, which ensures fair collaboration.
Infrastructuring Urban Futures – The Politics of Remaking Cities
Edited by Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward et al.
With a focus on health crises and climate change, this book argues that paying attention to infrastructures’ past, present and future allows us to understand and respond to the current urban condition in the global North and South.
Algorithms and the End of Politics – How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life
By Scott Timcke
A powerful demonstration of how algorithms have come to shape everyday life and political legitimacy in the US and beyond, offering bold new thinking across data politics and digital and economic sociology.
Welfare within planetary limits: deep transformation requires holistic approaches from Consumption and Society
By Max Koch and Anders Rhiger Hansen
This piece calls for politicians to drop the idea of green growth and instead focus on holistic approaches
to transform society and its exchanges with nature.
Arctic Justice – Environment, Society and Governance
Edited by Corine Wood-Donnelly and Johanna Ohlsson
Highlights the practical consequences of postcolonial legacies and climate change while championing a sustainable future for Arctic development and governance. A unique introduction to the study of justice in the European, North American and Russian Arctic.
Politics, voice and just transition: who has a say in climate change decision making, and who does not from the Global Social Challenges Journal
By George Boss, Alix Dietzel, Dan Godshaw, and Alice Venn
The city of Bristol, in theUK, set out to pursue a just transition to climate change in 2020. This paper explores what happened next. This study interrogates how just transition is unfolding politically on the ground, focusing on procedural justice.
Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis
Edited by George Boss, Alix Dietzel, Dan Godshaw, and Alice Venn
Presents new evidence of ethnic inequalities in the UK and sheds new light on underlying racisms, opening them up to debate as crucial social concerns.
COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research
Edited by Oli Williams, Doreen Tembo et al.
Explores the need to put co-production and participatory approaches at the heart of responses to the pandemic and demonstrates how to do this.
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