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UK public opinion on reasons to oppose healthcare privatisation: a failure of neoliberal persuasion and discursive politicisation
Opinion surveys have consistently shown that the British public does not support National Health Service (NHS) privatisation, but we know less about why...
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Property Restitution and Privatisation in the Baltic Restorations of Capitalism
The Baltic restorations certainly deserve the status of paradigmatic modern restoration cases not only because they happened at the time when the...
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Chapter Seven: Cree** Privatisation? Examining Procurement Choices in the ‘New’ NHS in England
This chapter focuses on the introduction and implementation of the Health and Social Care Act (UK Legislation 2012) in England which reignited the...
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Social Work and Social Policy in Croatia in Times of Continuous Reforms and Crisis
In this chapter, we present a broader overview of institutional and policy changes in Croatian social policy and social work practice, from the...
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Recasting the ‘Best Interests’ of Young People on the Move: The UK Case
This chapter combines a Freedom of Information (FOI) request survey of all local authorities in England with in-depth semi-structured interviews in...
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The Political Economy of Contemporary Public Parks
Following a review of the arguments presented in previous chapters, this concluding chapter returns to consider parks, private interest and public...
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The Transformation of Urban and Digital Spaces from a Democratic Perspective
Large citiesCities are in the midst of a process of transformation, having to face major challenges of global dimensions, such as the climate and...
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Trapped in a gulf of hope and despair: the Wagher small scale fisheries on the Kutch coast of Gujarat, India
This paper discusses a case study located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Kutch in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Specifically the paper...
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Public space as a medium for emerging governance networks in post-privatised large housing estates in Tartu and Vilnius
In most post-socialist cities modernist mass housing comprises a remarkable share of urban housing with a substantial population living there....
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Extending the net: from securitisation to civicisation of migration control
The article aims to contribute to the very actual theoretical debate concerning intersection of migration control and crime prevention. Its objective...
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Learning and Differentiation within Professions—The Cases of Teaching and Nursing
In Sweden, the education sector and the healthcare sector have historically been, and still are, to a large extent state run, with both being...
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The Impediments for Second-generation Migrants to Enter Higher Education in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
International migration of professionals to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries opens a pathway for family migration—a form of migration in...
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Chapter Three: Privatisation and Marketisation Within a Healthcare System: The Swedish Experience
Sweden has a universal, tax-financed healthcare system which provides a comprehensive package of health services to the entire population at little...
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Investigating fundamentalist trends in the Orthodox Church of Greece: Balancing between traditionalism and fundamentalism
The purpose of this article is to investigate trends and variations of fundamentalism in the Orthodox Church of Greece. In order to achieve this, the...
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Trade-Offs: Competition or Cash?
With the White Paper published in early 1988, the general timetable for the privatisation was to have the new companies operating (vesting) by 1...
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How Corporate Scientific Expertise and Privatised Seeds Are Destroying Indigenous Knowledge Systems for Food Security and Climate Change Mitigation: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
For centuries, indigenous knowledge systems have ensured local sustainable development and access to food for rural communities. The introduction of...
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State or private security supply? An analysis from the institutional economics perspective
The issue of domestic security has become increasingly complex over the past decades. As there is an increasing overlap between private and public...
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An Identification of Directions of Change in Agriculture in the CEECs
The period of the last 25 years has brought very major ownership change in the farming sectors of the CEECs – as a reflection of the privatisation of...
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Mobility, Access and the Value of the Mabopane Station Precinct
Although mobility shapes the material landscape, for the majority of ordinary people, their movements are structured by space. For this reason,...
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Neoliberalism, Crisis and Education
This chapter explores the relationship between neoliberalism and crisis. It explains the theory that neoliberal policies create crises, which leads...