The home visit—when professionals work in service users’ homes—is a growing phenomenon. It changes the configuration of home—both for home living and for those who go to work in other people’s homes. In this paper we advance recent discussions of the emotional and political geographies...

This paper explores, through the example of the Slow City (Cittaslow) movement, how an analytical focus on the experiential dimensions of urban experience adds new layers of knowledge to our understandings of how and why town leaders engage with urban frameworks and principles. The global growth...

In this paper I consider the significance of smaller urban contexts for the comparative analysis of contemporary urban social movements. Existing literature on urban social movements tends to focus on how they are manifested in big cities. Here I suggest that the questions they address might be...

Local, tacit and normally unspoken OHS (occupational health and safety) knowledge and practices can too easily be excluded from or remain below the industry horizon of notice, meaning that they remain unaccounted for in formal OHS policy and practice. In this article we stress the need to more...

The UK construction industry labour market is characterized by high levels of self-employment, subcontracting, informality and flexibility. A corollary of this, and a sign of the increasing globalization of construction, has been an increasing reliance on migrant labour, particularly that from...