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2 BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT NEW TITLES 2 Edward Elgar Publishing I www.e-elgar.com I info@e-elgar.co.uk SOC OLOGY & SOCIAL POLICY New Titles Update Oct 2020 - March 2021 A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing Neil Thin, University of Edinburgh, UK ‘Now more than ever it is vitally important for us to understand that wellbeing is not a solo job. Neil Thin has written an original, masterful book on the good life as a social endeavor. Lively and full of insight and optimism, it will help set the agenda for research and action on wellbeing.’ – Dan Haybron, Saint Louis University, US This Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing introduces scholars and planners to the importance of a ‘wellbeing lens’ for the study and promotion of social flourishing. It demonstrates the importance of wellbeing as a public good, not just a property of individuals. 2020 256 pp Hardback 978 1 78897 645 9 £80.00 / $125.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Research Agendas Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change David C. Holmes and Lucy M.Richardson, Monash University, Australia ‘This book takes a fiercely needed leap forward to systematically improve climate change communication. We’re well acquainted with intersectional challenges associated with 21st century climate change, but work remains to improve how we talk about climate change. Interdisciplinary contributions here guide productive discussions as pathways to improved engagement and action.’ – Max Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder, US 2020 384 pp Hardback 978 1 78990 039 2 £175.00 / $255.00 Elgar Handbooks in Energy, the Environment and Climate Change Justice and Vulnerability in Europe An Interdisciplinary Approach Edited by Trudie Knijn and Dorota Lepianka, Utrecht University, the Netherlands ‘Justice is often thought of as a theoretical concern of philosophers and social theorists. This book vitalizes discussions about justice and makes them accessible to a broader audience in a truly inspiring way. Impressive and convincing, it brings philosophers together with legal scholars and sociologists to discuss the realities and injustices in a Europe and EU formed by different welfare regimes and austerity policies. It invites us to reflect on whether we can think of a European theory of justice taking into account its historical, cultural and institutional legacy – and its diversity. It’s a fantastic book, a “must read” for scholars – and students – interested in justice, Europe and the EU, marginalization, discrimination, care and recognition.’ – Hanne Marlene Dahl, Roskilde University, Denmark 2020 288 pp Hardback 978 1 83910 847 1 £95.00 / $145.0 0eBook • Elgaronline READ OPEN ACCESS Retiring Women Work and Post-work Transitions Philip Taylor, Federation University Australia and University of Warwick, UK, Catherine Earl, RMIT Vietnam, Elizabeth Brooke, University of Melbourne and Christopher McLoughlin, Independent Researcher, Australia This book is among the first to solely focus on the work and retirement of older women. Much needed research in a field that is still dominated by male perspectives, whereas the older workforce consists of increasing shares of women.’ – Kène Henkens, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Feb 2021 c 176 pp Hardback978 1 78347 715 9£85.00$125.00 Ageing, Work and Welfare series Handbook of Social Policy and Development Edited by James Midgley, University of California, Berkeley, US, Rebecca Surender, University of Oxford, UK and Laura Alfers, Rhodes University, South Africa ‘If you read one book to understand current scholarship on social policy and development in the global south, this should be it. Lucid and comprehensive, it is encyclopaedic in scope. The role of the state is set out and powerfully defended. The bunkers into which the social sciences and policy-making have been artificially divided are exposed and questioned. Robert Kennedy said that GDP measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile: this book covers a large part of what makes life worthwhile.’ – David Piachaud, London School of Economics, UK 2019 512 pp Hardback 978 1 78536 842 4 £155.00 / $240.00 2020 Paperback 978 1 80037 946 6 £45.00 / $69.95 • eBook • Elgaronline Poverty, Crisis and Resilience Edited by Marie Boost, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany, Jennifer Dagg, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, Jane Gray, Maynooth University, Ireland and Markus Promberger, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Erlangen, Germany ‘The aftermath of the 2008 crisis left many communities across Europe facing serious problems, with the capacity of households to endure hardships pushed to the limit. In this exceptional volume the editors have brought together and distilled the multi-disciplinary and cross-country work of over thirty researchers to reveal a multiplicity of household strategies for survival, often drawn from past practices. In doing so they have, through careful questioning and analysis, reclaimed the once tainted notion of “resilience”. Freed from all heroic connotations and seen to reside within the historically received structures of daily life, here “resilient households” are placed within their civil society where “self help” sits alongside mutual aid, public provision and charitable giving. It is all suggestive of an approach that can illuminate and direct public policy toward creating a better life for people in deprived areas now and in the post COVID future.’ – Huw Beynon, Cardiff University, UK 2020 360 pp Hardback 978 1 78897 319 9 £110.00 / $160.00 New Horizons in Social Policy series