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This timely volume explores the relationship between environmental responsibility and pharmaceutical innovation, providing insights into how sustainable methods are already changing pharmaceutical research, as well as discussing their impact on medical science and healthcare in the future.

Highlighting a range of cutting-edge topics such as green chemistry, waste reduction, energy efficiency and the development of eco-friendly pharmaceuticals, the book provides a comprehensive overview of how the pharmaceutical industry is being revolutionized by sustainable practices. Readers will also learn about biocatalysis, renewable feedstocks and environmentally benign solvents, spotlighting their roles in reducing the environmental footprint of drug production. Featuring case studies which offer practical insights and lessons learned, the book addresses the multidisciplinary nature of environmental sustainability by bridging the gaps between pharmaceutical science, environmental science, engineering and policymaking.

This will be a valuable resource for researchers, students and professionals alike.

The aim of this publication is to present the results of research on the use of AI tools' potential in revolutionizing healthcare services.

The book presents a study on the identification of unmet health needs in aging societies, indicating a gap in the supply of medical services. While the senior population is among the groups that frequently use healthcare services and where the demand gap is particularly visible, they are presented to better illustrate the need and the potential of AI tools. The proposed models and recommendations have broader applications, addressing different patient groups and entire healthcare systems outlining the benefits and risks of using AI in the healthcare market. Moreover, the authors will focus on the implementation of AI tools that have not yet been adopted due to organizational and legal barriers in medical entities. The book also presents legal regulations aimed at establishing systemic liability of entities in the medical sector and protecting confidential data stored and processed in these systems, with particular emphasis on the legal protection of seniors in the health services market in the era of AI development. Furthermore, the authors will explore cutting-edge technologies that ensure the safety of AI use in medical services. These technologies enable healthcare providers to deliver interactive, health-promoting tools to healthcare providers and patients based on the latest medical, pharmaceutical, and IT knowledge. By equipping patients with accurate information about their health status and treatment regimens, these tools mitigate the risks associated with misinformation from unreliable sources, thereby supporting informed decision-making in healthcare.

Cancer Ecologies: A Queer Femme Portal invites readers on a journey through the tangled roots of the current cancer epidemic.

Moving between personal accounts and eco-critical reflections, the Nina Lykke and Camila Marambio ask: What if cancer is not just a personal tragedy or monstrous invader, but a symptom of Earth in distress - a message from the planet itself? Challenging the idea of cancer as an isolated enemy to be eradicated, this book sees it as a manifestation of the toxic entanglements of the Anthropocene: capitalist extraction, colonial exploitation, and environmental degradation.

Through an eco-ethics of softness, the authors - one living with cancer, the other a carer to a partner who died from it - explore how cancer might be approached as a portal: as a conversation between pain and possibility, between necropolitics and vibrantly ongoing life. Encouraging readers to understand themselves not as separate from Earth, but as lovers entangled with peatmoss, the microalgae, diatoms, and other humble creatures that sustain us, Cancer Ecologies experiments with a genre-bending methodology: part poetic story-telling and part eco-philosophical analysis. The book offers a transformative rethinking of cancer: less as a battle, more as an invitation to compost grief and cultivate ongoing cycles of life and death, rooted in relationality, shared vulnerability, and practices of joy.

This comprehensive guide offers a holistic perspective on loss and grief that extends beyond traditional death-related circumstances.

The integration of sociological insights and spiritual dimensions to provide a broad understanding of grief in various professional contexts enables readers to link theory and practice in supporting others through significant life changes. Practical applications are presented to empower practitioners to recognize and respond effectively to the full spectrum of loss.

Essential reading for human services professionals, including counsellors, social workers, healthcare providers and educators across all sectors who work with individuals experiencing loss.

Beyond the Human Touch: AI's Revolution in Healthcare provides a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging exploration of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare. The book aims to serve as a definitive guide for healthcare professionals, policymakers, researchers, and students, offering insights into the practical applications, ethical considerations, and future potential of AI in the healthcare sector. This book benefits the healthcare and AI communities by:

• Providing a thorough understanding of how AI technologies are being integrated into various aspects of healthcare
• Offering practical insights and strategies for implementing AI in clinical and administrative settings
• Highlighting the ethical and regulatory considerations necessary for responsible AI adoption
• Envisioning the future of AI in healthcare, including its potential to address global health disparities

Rather than focusing solely on government policy, the book explores everyday life in urban and rural China during the pandemic. It shows how people navigated uncertainty and how those experiences continue to shape daily practices after the crisis. It also explores how large-scale public health measures were interpreted and adapted.

Drawing on interviews, digital diaries, and fieldwork conducted from 2020 to 2025, the book compares urban experiences in Wuhan with rural responses in provinces such as Henan and Hubei. The book highlights well-known moments, such as the Wuhan lockdown, village checkpoints, and community self-organisation. It also examines less visible practices, including mutual aid, humor, informal care, and everyday moral decision-making. A distinctive contribution of the book is its focus on the post-pandemic period. Rather than treating recovery as a return to normal life, the book illustrates how people gradually rebuild routines, relationships, and expectations amid ongoing uncertainty. The book treats the pandemic not as a temporary disruption followed by recovery but as a formative experience that reshapes how ordinary people understand responsibility, security, and everyday life over time.

This book will be valuable for scholars and students of politics, public health, and sociology, especially those interested in the unique Chinese experience of the pandemic.

Everyone talks about innovation, and we can all point to random examples of innovation inside of healthcare information technology, but few repeatable processes exist that make innovation more routine than happenstance.

How do you create and sustain a culture of innovation? What are the best practices you can refine and embed as part of your organization's DNA? What are the potential outcomes for robust healthcare transformation when we get this innovation mystery solved? Through timely essays from leading experts, the Voices of Innovation for Healthcare series consisting of three books showcased the widely adopted healthcare innovation model from HIMSS and how providers and payers could leverage it to increase their velocity of digital transformation. The most recent volume focused on how AI leverages the same framework and construct but zeroed in on artificial intelligence to include large language models, voice technology, and robotic process automation. Now the time has come for Voices of Innovation-Europe. While the Voices series has included European voices, the contributions have been limited. In important ways, the European market is vastly different from the US-based market. The payor- and government-based care make their approach to tech-enabled care different.

Using the HIMSS model for innovation as the structural framework, Voices of Innovation-Europe showcases the great innovations being implemented across their healthcare ecosystems. This structure will easily enable subsequent editions as advancements are made.

This publication is not approved, endorsed, or authorized by the Social Security Administration. The information contained in this publication can be found free of charge at www.ssa.gov.

The Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws. This completely updated Handbook, organized by section number, is a readable, easy-to-understand reference for comprehending complex Social Security programs and services and contains information on several topics relevant to Social Security policies:

?How Social Security programs are administered
?Who is and isn't covered under retirement, survivors, disability, and hospital insurance programs
?Who is responsible for submitting the necessary evidence to support a claim
?How claims are processed by the Social Security office
?What Social Security benefits are owed to you
?How to obtain information about your rights under Social Security policy

The Handbook is designed to help users understand the gray areas of the Social Security Act, and to provide critical information about rights and obligations under Social Security laws.

The Handbook outlines how to:
?Protect your benefits and avoid benefit loss;
?Monitor government agencies and get information about policy changes that will affect your benefits;
?Make the most of hospital and Medicare coverage;
?Determine the amount of benefits that are subject to federal income taxes;
?Check Social Security earnings and benefits; and
?Get up-to-date news about future Social Security programs and services.

Strategic and Ethical Integration of AI in Hospitals explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in modern healthcare. It examines the adoption, implementation, and regulation of AI in hospital settings, balancing technological innovation with clinical practice, operational management, and ethical governance. Through systematic literature reviews, conceptual modelling, and case studies from hospitals worldwide, the book provides actionable insights into how AI can enhance patient care, optimize workflows, and drive strategic decision- making. Key features include a multi- perspective approach integrating clinical, organizational, ethical, and regulatory dimensions of AI adoption. The book combines theoretical frameworks with real- world examples, offering practical strategies for navigating the complexities of AI implementation. It addresses critical issues such as data privacy, patient trust, algorithmic bias, and regional disparities, ensuring relevance across diverse healthcare contexts.

This book is ideal for academics, postgraduate students, researchers, healthcare managers, and policymakers seeking rigorous analysis and practical guidance on AI in hospitals. It is particularly relevant for institutions and regions embarking on AI adoption, offering a roadmap for responsible integration that prioritizes human capability and ethical governance.

The Routledge Handbook of Nursing Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of nursing ethics. The book analyses and critiques the field as it evolves in response to local and global challenges, from social inequalities through pandemics and demographic changes to issues relating to workforce development.

The book opens with a theme discussing historical and theoretical developments in nursing ethics, including chapters on Western, Indigenous, and cross-cultural perspectives. The book's second section explores the dominant philosophical and empirical approaches to researching nursing ethics in the 21st century. The third theme analyses some of the ethical problems encountered by nurses in contemporary practice, including moral distress, moral injury, compassion fatigue and ethical dilemmas. The fourth theme draws on contemporary discussions regarding clinical ethics, ethics education and the contributions of nurses in responding to ethical challenges in care, and reviews the meaning and implications of terms such as 'ethics support', 'ethical competence', and 'ethical resilience'. The fifth theme investigates ethical issues arising in diverse care contexts, including care in the community, in residential care, in hospitals and hospices. The sixth theme considers ethical aspects of nurses' roles in caring for individuals across the lifespan and key issues that arise, from neonatal care to end of life. The final substantive theme addresses policy, politics and advocacy in nursing ethics, discussing nurses' engagement with relational, organizational, political and technological challenges. A final chapter reflects on the future opportunities and challenges in the field of nursing ethics.

This comprehensive volume is an essential reference for scholars, students and practitioners from a range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds with an interest in ethics and healthcare.

Digital Revolution for the Vulnerable tells a grounded, sometimes uncomfortable, and ultimately hopeful story about Bangladesh's push to shift social protection from paper registers to mobile screens-from cash to code. Instead of getting lost in jargon and big promises, the book stays close to real lives: people receiving old age allowances, widows and destitute women relying on small but vital stipends, and the local officials trying to make a new system work. It traces how mobile money and government-to-person (G2P) payments can reduce leakage, sideline middlemen, and speed up transfers, while still leaving many behind because of gender norms, where they live, what they can read, and who holds power. Drawing on detailed fieldwork and clear-eyed policy thinking, the authors show what actually works on the ground, what falls apart in practice, and what needs to change so that digital cash transfers respect people's dignity and strengthen their voice, rather than simply making the system more efficient.

No More Deaths by Welfare exposes the lethal mechanics of Britain's social security system that has been weaponised against the very people it claims to support, and how people are beginning to imagine a new society, refusing the confines of a welfare system built on shame.

China Mills connects the dots between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the arms trade, the immigration system, and colonial extraction. In doing so, she traces the dark history of a department rooted in state-sanctioned policing of who is (and is not) deemed deserving.

But it is more than a chronicle of harm. Drawing on over a decade of activism led by disabled people and bereaved families, and from police abolitionists, the book delves into the power of collective imagination, healing shame, and refusing 'perfect victim' narratives. From direct action on the streets to the quiet, powerful mutual aid practised from bed, the book is a call to action not only to build solidarity and power against state violence but also to imagine, practice, and build welfare justice.

A fascinating guide to the history of drugs and medicines, the science of how they work, and the way they've shaped healthcare and society

Today, drugs are a ubiquitous tool in all our lives, from the highly specialised gene therapies used to treat hitherto incurable disease to the common painkillers we take to relieve fevers and headaches. But healing plants and herbs have been revered since time immemorial, and have been used for as long as people have experienced illness. Over the last century our understanding of these therapeutic wonders has developed at astonishing speed, and so the science of pharmacology was born.

Esteemed scientist Rod Flower guides us through the fascinating history of the discipline and shows us how drugs really work. How are medicines developed, and what gives scientists the confidence their therapies will function as intended? What happens inside our bodies when we ingest these mysterious chemicals, and how have they shaped the progress of societies across the world?

This accessible introduction to the science of drugs reveals their intriguing inner workings and celebrates their remarkable healing power.

As life expectancy continues to rise and birthrates decline, nations around the world face unprecedented challenges in caring for aging populations. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of long-term care insurance systems-both public and private-and the evolving landscape of eldercare services across diverse countries.

Driven by three critical factors-the growing number of elderly individuals requiring intensive care, the need to eliminate "social hospitalization," and the escalating costs of medical care for seniors-governments have been compelled to rethink and restructure their approaches to long-term care. First, the rapid increase in average life expectancy has led to an increase in the number of bedridden elderly and those suffering from dementia, and the need for and importance of long-term care has grown. Second, it was necessary to eliminate "social hospitalization". Social hospitalization refers to a condition in which a patient is not in need of medical care but remains hospitalized in a medical institution for compelling reasons such as family circumstances. Third, medical costs for the elderly were increasing rapidly. It was necessary to control the increase in medical costs by separating medical care from long-term care.

Through comparative research and policy analysis, this book clarifies the distinct roles of public and private insurance models and offers actionable recommendations for sustainable and equitable care in aging societies. It is an essential resource for policymakers, healthcare professionals, researchers, and anyone invested in the future of social welfare and eldercare.

In an era of rapid urbanisation and globalisation, travel and tourism provide a vital escape, offering opportunities to engage with new cultures, landscapes, and wellness experiences. Travel, especially in nature-based settings, presents a holistic approach to health by facilitating connections with natural environments and traditional wellness practices, far removed from the pressures of modern urban life. In Nature, Wellness and Sustainability in Health Tourism, a team of international academics explore the dynamic relationship between nature, health, and tourism, shedding light on how natural resources can be integrated into sustainable health and wellness practices.

Through a blend of case studies, theoretical insights, and evidence-based research, authors demonstrate how natural environments such as forests, mountains, and coastal areas are being rediscovered as spaces for physical and mental rejuvenation. Nature, Wellness and Sustainability in Health Tourism not only educates readers on the health benefits of these settings but also inspires a renewed commitment to preserving them, encouraging sustainable travel practices that harmonise with nature's restorative power.

By examining nature-based health tourism through the lenses of environmental science, healthcare, psychology, and tourism management, chapters provide a comprehensive resource suitable for academics, researchers, and students. Appealing to both scholars and practitioners, particularly in tourism, health sciences, environmental studies, and cultural heritage, chapters offer insights that encourage cross-disciplinary dialogue and innovation.

This book provides a holistic and comprehensive view of child health and nutrition, from conception through the pivotal first two years of a child's life. It is rooted in scientific research and evidence-based practices, ensuring readers receive accurate and up-to-date child health and nutrition information. It synthesizes the latest findings from reputable sources. The book addresses the broader societal implications of child health and nutrition by focusing on the public health aspect. It delves into policies, programs, and strategies to improve child health outcomes on a population level. Readers gain insights into the policies and programs that shape child health and nutrition in society. It critically evaluates existing policies and proposes necessary improvements, making it a crucial resource for policymakers and advocates. Combining theoretical insights with practical applications, the evidence-based volume caters to parents, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and policymakers. It addresses both the theoretical and practical dimensions of this critical stage in a child's life, making it an indispensable resource for those invested in the health and nutrition of children in the first 1,000 days of life. By integrating individual-level guidance with population-level perspectives, this book underscores the lasting impact of early-life interventions. It empowers readers to translate knowledge into action, fostering healthier beginnings and stronger futures through informed decision-making and collaborative responsibility. This book uniquely integrates science, practice, and policy to deliver a comprehensive understanding of the "first 1,000 days," the most critical window for shaping lifelong health, growth, and development. Unlike conventional texts that focus solely on caregiving or clinical guidance, it distinctly examines how public policies, programs, and health systems influence child health and nutrition outcomes at both individual and population levels. Grounded in robust scientific evidence, it bridges research and real-world application by translating complex findings into clear, actionable guidance. This dual focus on evidence-based knowledge and practical decision-making positions the book as an essential resource for parents, caregivers, health professionals, and policymakers committed to securing healthier outcomes for the next generation.

Alcohol is everywhere-in our everyday lives, in public debates and, increasingly, at the centre of public health policy.

This book critically examines alcohol as a contemporary research and policy object. It argues that drinking is governed through heavily freighted concepts such as risk, wellbeing, gender and race. The authors interrogate dominant disciplinary sobriety and moderation frameworks, highlighting the overlooked aspects of sociability, pleasure and self-transformation.

In scrutinizing the intensifying public health spotlight on alcohol, the authors issue a call to rethink what it means to live "well" in an era when health is both a personal imperative and a regulatory discourse.

This edited volume applies a life course framework to examine health and well-being among Black sexual minority men (SMM), a population that experiences distinct and intersecting vulnerabilities across social and cultural contexts. Although decades of U.S.-based HIV research have challenged myths about inherent risk among Black SMM, significant gaps remain in understanding the full range of their health experiences and trajectories. This book responds by situating HIV prevention within a broader continuum of infectious and chronic disease vulnerability, emphasizing the psychological, social, and historical factors that cumulatively produce vulnerability and resilience. It expands beyond a singular focus on HIV/STI risk to address broader socioecological determinants and health issues across the lifespan.

Drawing on scholarship from the United States and global settings, the volume integrates international evidence to generate comparative insights that advance health research, policy, and practice for this population worldwide. The chapters offer a more holistic account of the developmental, cultural, and contextual influences on health and quality of life more broadly among Black SMM. By synthesizing interdisciplinary evidence and advancing life course-informed strategies, the volume offers crucial directions for future research, interventions, and policy. It is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers committed to health equity and to improving the quality of life and health outcomes of racial and sexual minority men globally.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the European Joint Master in Social Work with Children and Youth (ESWOCHY) programme, developed collaboratively by four partners: Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), Riga Stradins University (Latvia), the Catholic University in Ruzomberok (Slovakia) and the University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal). Drawing on the experiences and perspectives of educators, graduates, and practitioners, the contributed volume explores how innovative pedagogical approaches, research integration and practice-based learning shape the preparation of social work professionals for service to society on national and international levels.

Structured in three parts, the book addresses the programme's innovative educational philosophy, research contributions, and applied practice.

• Part I highlights ESWOCHY's commitment to scientific knowledge, critical thinking, creativity, and lifelong learning within a humanistic tradition.
• Part II examines research that informs social work with clients, social agencies, and the profession at large.
• Part III presents practice examples of social work with children and youth.

By interconnecting education, research, and practice, the book underscores the importance of multidisciplinary learning, knowledge transfer, and innovation in social work. It reflects and expands on European education and values on a global scale.

The Interplay Between Social Work Education and Practice: Bridging Borders is an essential resource for scholars, educators, and practitioners in social work and provides a model for collaboration in higher education across borders.

This book explores the development of a new theoretical perspective, the socio-cultural model for communicating health via community radio (CR) as an alternative critical perspective to mainstream approaches to health communication. The SMCHCR model is based on three 'intangible' pillars: Community members' access to CR's health programming; Social capital among communicatively marginalised communities, and Community participation in health programming via CR. This book presents some of the critical thinking, new insights and questions that remain in the research and practice of community radio's relevance and impact towards long-term sustainability, social change, and health-related social change communication, focusing on long-term intangible outcomes, specifically through examples from pandemics such as COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Social work educators and practitioners in the Global South - countries with histories of colonialism and geopolitical marginalization, which are predominantly, though not exclusively, located in the Southern Hemisphere - continually negotiate their missions and functions to address the challenges of decolonizing and/or indigenizing social work. This book examines the trajectory of social work education development by exploring the evolving tensions between global frameworks and local realities.

While the mainstream literature increasingly recognizes the need to include voices from the Global South, current discussions are often fragmented. Scholars working within specific frameworks, such as "culturally appropriate social work" and "Indigenous social work" - frequently operate in isolation, preventing a cohesive challenge to dominant Western paradigms.

This book serves as a unifying force, bringing these diverse strands of social work scholarship under the theme of the "Global South". It offers fresh perspectives on the decolonization of curricula, practical methods for integrating indigenous knowledge, and a deep dive into the opportunities and challenges of transformation.

Featuring experience-informed contributions from Aotearoa New Zealand, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe, this book highlights actionable approaches and insights to develop culturally anchored and contextually responsive education systems that reflect the realities and needs of their communities.

Social Work Scholarship in the Global South is relevant reading for social work practitioners, policymakers, students, researchers, and other professionals in the field. The book may also be used as a supplemental text for social work courses.

This book offers insights into what it means and how to understand and measure quality of life (QoL) in the context of Mexico, taking into account its history, culture, and demographic characteristics. It also describes current research on different topics related to QoL and looks at future research developments that are important to engage with. It especially highlights the contributions that a perspective from Mexico can make to the world and looks into developing public policy to improve QoL. The book is divided into three parts: State of the Art, Dimensions of QoL, and Future Developments. This book is of interest to all QoL and wellbeing researchers not only in Mexico and Latin America but to those across the global South, and elsewhere, and to decision-makers looking at social indicators relevant for policy and community development.

Social work is inherently an international subject. Each nation has a story of professionalization in the evolution of public welfare within its particular settings. A study of various (especially non-Western) cases is essential to an adequate understanding of the undertaking.

China is undoubtedly an important case with the second largest population on earth. It's unique in view of so-called Chinese characteristics/approach/model etc., sometimes fundamentally different from Western societies. It's intriguing given the country's history and recent rise to a global superpower with a claim of core values that seem to be rather considerable to social work as a helping profession. Yet, the nation's rapid social transformation demands a reinterpretation of social work, particularly in relation to public policy and administration. Any lessons learned from the Chinese experiences would help with a better understanding of social work and public welfare on a global scale.

This book is one of a series of projects led by the editor, a forerunner to China's rebuilt professional social work, with a scholarly team from greater China and overseas who are experts in social work and related fields. Its primary audience are scholars and students in Social Work/Welfare/Services, Health and Mental Health, Children/Aging/Women/Family Studies, Public Administration, Social Policy, Community Organizations/Governance, International/Cross-Cultural Studies, and Chinese/China research.

Declines in childbearing, coupled with increases in life expectancy, have resulted in a demographic shift which is being felt around the globe - the growth of the elderly population. As family members reach their elderly years, they frequently find themselves in need of various forms of assistance. In many countries, governments attempt to provide such assistance - financial, instrumental, and other varieties. However, elderly people commonly turn to their own families, as loved ones are viewed as being the most reliable and immediate source of assistance and support. The provision of such assistance to elderly family members, however, often creates a wide array of tensions and dilemmas. Given the rapid growth of the elderly population, it is essential that greater research attention be focused upon elder care.

This edited collection provides a broad examination of elder care and the family. Including diverse theoretical and methodological chapters which explore the many issues pertaining to elder care, the collection covers topics such as financial strains of elder care, healthcare decision making, the impact of elder care upon family relationships, family communication, mobility and family residence, stress and burnout, gender differences in the provision of elder care, elder abuse, mental deterioration and family care, decision-making about elder residence, stressors related to care providers, and elderly well-being and family care, among others.

Elder Care and the Family: Relationships, Support, and Strain is appealing reading for scholars of family sociology, the sociology of education, and childhood and youth alike.

Beyond Burnout offers a timely and essential exploration of the escalating stress faced by healthcare professionals in today's demanding clinical environments. Drawing on qualitative research and interviews with frontline workers, author Filomena Riemma examines how individuals navigate emotional exhaustion, burnout, and systemic challenges, while highlighting the pivotal role of organisational structures-particularly leadership and support systems - in shaping these experiences. By integrating established theoretical frameworks, the book provides a multi-level analysis of stress management that bridges individual coping strategies with institutional responsibility.

What distinguishes this work is its practical orientation and interdisciplinary scope. It translates research findings into actionable recommendations for healthcare administrators and policymakers, offering strategies to improve staffing, leadership engagement, and professional development. In doing so, it addresses a critical gap in the literature by presenting an evidence-based framework that combines psychological insight with organisational behaviour. Particularly relevant in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book equips leaders with the tools to foster healthier, more resilient workplaces - ultimately enhancing both employee well-being and patient care outcomes.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

How are urban social movements engaging in local politics to tackle the multiple crises in Europe?

This timely volume explores how grassroots actors across eleven European cities forge new forms of solidarity and enact citizenship at local scales. Drawing on rich ethnographic research, it examines how activists and communities challenge neoliberal isolation and marginalization through collective practices, ranging from community kitchens to tenant organizing. Bridging research on migration, housing and care, the book investigates how everyday urban struggles are reshaping political practices and reimagining democracy. It offers essential insights for scholars and practitioners of social justice, citizenship and urban politics.