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Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK


This book explores the contested notion of British organised crime. With interviews from thieves, dealers and criminal entrepreneurs, the book explores the flexible nature of the criminal market, the constructed nature of the notion of organised crime, and the normalisation of criminality. The first book to trace the history and policing of British organised crime, it addresses how the interlocking processes of de-industrialisation, globalisation and neo-liberalism have normalised activity that was previously the exclusive domain of professional criminals. n Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK by Dick Hobbs. ISBN 978- 0-19-966828-1 (hardback), 328pp @


£65.00. For more information see: ukcatalogue. oup.com/product/ 9780199668281.do


Rescaling the European State


Social scientists have regularly proclaimed the end of territory under successive waves of modernisation, yet it continually re-emerges as a key principle of social, economic and political organisation. Rather than a de-territorialisation we are witnessing a rescaling of social life as functional systems, identities, and political expression migrate to new levels. This is not new but is a recurrent feature of the European state. Drawing on interdisciplinary literature and original research, the volume provides a fresh and engaging analytical approach to the understanding of territory and power in contemporary Europe. n Rescaling the European State by Michael Keating. ISBN 978-0- 19-969156-2, (hardback), 256pp @ £50.00. For more information see: ukcatalogue.oup. com/product/ 9780199691562.do


Managing and Sharing Research Data: A Guide to Good Practice


Research funders across the world are implementing data management and sharing policies to maximise openness of data, transparency and accountability of the research they support. Written by experts from the UK Data Archive with over 20 years’ experience, this handbook gives students, researchers and research support staff the data management skills required in today’s changing research environment. n Managing and Sharing Research Data: A Guide to Good Practice by Louise Corti, Veerle Van den Eynden, Libby Bishop and Matthew Woollard. ISBN 9781446267264 (paperback), 240pp @


£24.99. For more information see: www.uk.sagepub. com/books/ 9781446267264


Transitions in practice: Climate change in everyday life


Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how social theories of practice can help us understand what societal transitions towards sustainability might involve, and how they might be achieved. n Transitions in practice: Climate change in everyday life edited by Elizabeth Shove and Nicola Spurling. ISBN


978-0-415-54065-0, (hardback), 208pp @ £80.00. For more information see: www.routledge.com/ books/details/ 9780415540650


EVENTS 14-15 MAY


Health Inequalities Research Network (HERON) Conference


Health Inequalities Research Network (HERON) is an international network founded in 2010. It aims to develop and promote the interaction of health practitioners and researchers with community members and representatives to enable a more collaborative approach to action and research in inequalities in health and health service use at national and community levels. www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/heron/ news/conference2014.aspx


12-16 MAY


The economics of international migration – short course


The ESRC Centre for Population Change will run its first short course to present a detailed picture of international migration today and to give an understanding of the forces behind the patterns of its evolution. The course will analyse, both theoretically and empirically, the interaction between international migration and other aspects of globalisation. www.cpc.ac.uk/latest_ news/?action=story&id=284


19 MAY


IFS Annual lecture by Professor Raj Chetty (Harvard)


Professor Raj Chetty will deliver the 2014 IFS annual lecture on the ‘The Determinants of Social Mobility: New Evidence and Policy Lessons’. Raj Chetty is the Bloomberg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His research combines empirical evidence and economic theory to help design more effective government policies. www.ifs.org. uk/events/1005


6-12 JULY


Warwick Summer Workshop on Economic Growth


Following on from the success of last year’s Summer School, the Warwick Summer Workshop in Economic Growth 2014 will give researchers the opportunity to learn about frontier research in the field of Economic Growth. The workshop will consist of Introductory Lectures from Oded Galor and Stelios Michalopoulos (both Brown University). www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/ news_events/conferences


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