Interest in and research on nonprofit organizations and sectors have developed rapidly in
recent years. Much of this work by sociologists has focussed on particular subsectors rather …

Policy advocacy is widely regarded as an eminent feature of nonprofit organizations'
activities, allowing them to represent their constituencies. The article presents a literature …

In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street
by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there.Juliette, a woman …

Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state
education in itswelfare form? Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global …

List of figures, tables and boxes iv List of abbreviations v About the authors vii
Acknowledgements viii one Policy networks and new governance 1 two Education, network …

For many activists and scholars, urban agriculture in the Global North has become
synonymous with sustainable food systems, standing in opposition to the dominant industrial …

Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being
eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class …

Economic restructuring and welfare reform are driving new forms of urban poverty in the
global north. Shadow care infrastructures is a new frame for conceptualising the complex …

Edu. net builds upon, and extends, a series of research studies of education policy networks
and global policy mobilities. It draws on comprehensive data resulting from a Leverhulme …

As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the
meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on'social and …