Monographs & Edited Collections (4,727 posts)

In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a “make do and mend” aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed, a cultural distraction scam prevents people grasping the truth of their condition.

Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm

Transformations of gender in Melanesia

Action Research: All You Need to Know

Stripped More Stories from Exotic Dancers, Completely Revised and Updated Edition

Community Violence as a Population Health Issue: Proceedings of a Workshop

Group Work with Populations At-Risk

Advising in austerity: Reflections on challenging times for advice agencies

Population Health: Behavioral and Social Science Insights

Understanding Suicide A Sociological Autopsy (now in paperback)

Social Statistics for a Diverse Society

Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City

Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions

Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond: A Psychiatrist’s Chronicle from Deinstitutionalisation to Community Care

Botox Nation: Changing the Face of America

Testosterone Rex

Localism and neighbourhood planning: Power to the people?

Radical solutions to the housing supply crisis

In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution

Surveillance Nation: Critical Reflections on Privacy and Its Threats Articles from The Nation 1931-2014

Neocitizenship: Political Culture after Democracy

Keeping Reflection Fresh: A Practical Guide for Clinical Educators

Introduction to the New Statistics

Excellent!

Selma’s Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality

Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor

Neoliberal Chicago: The neoliberal vision realized in an American city

The neoliberal philosophy of fiscal austerity aligned with reduced economic regulation has transformed Chicago. As pursued by mayor Rahm Emanuel and his predecessor Richard M. Daley, neoliberal thinking has led officials to gut regulations and social services, privatize everything from parking meters to schools, and promote gentrification as their default neighborhood development tool.