http://hdl.handle.net/1893/11546 Electronic copies of Faculty of Social Sciences book reviews. Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:28:33 GMT 2026-10-04T13:28:33Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37238 Title: Mel Ainscow, Developing Inclusive Schools: Pathways to Success. Routledge, 2024. isbn 9781032571430. 244 p. £29.99. Author(s): Earnshaw, Heather; Jones, Sian; Priestley, Andrea; Mouroutsou, Stella; Barrett, Louise Abstract: First paragraph: “Every learner matters and matters equally” (unesco, 2017). This oft quoted phrase is inarguable but does not represent the reality in many (or perhaps most) education systems around the world. The challenge of course lies in implementation. What needs to be done to make schools and education systems more equitable? What is the role of each of the agents within an education system, from policy makers to communities to classroom practitioners? These are the questions Mel Ainscow’s new book seeks to address. He charts his efforts to apply and refine the thinking presented in his 1999 book Understanding the Development of Inclusive Schools (Ainscow, 1999). He starts by reiterating his position of inclusive education as needing to move away from an approach concerned primarily with serving disabled children within general education settings to a broader aim of eliminating the social exclusion that arises from attitudes and responses to diversity in race, social class, ethnicity, religion, gender and abilities. Simply, every learner, no matter their characteristics or background, has the right to receive effective educational opportunities. No learner should be excluded either explicitly or implicitly (and looking at where exclusion happens is a good way to identify the barriers to inclusion). He argues that there is still work to be done in many places both at home and internationally to move away from the use of a medical approach that explains educational difficulties in terms of a child’s deficits. This new book, then, is a continuation of his call to reform education systems in a way that is broad in its thinking about inclusion and is not solely focused on mainstreaming a small number of children. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37238 2025-06-17T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34477 Title: Book Review Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras Author(s): Miranda, Diana Abstract: First paragraph: “Civilizing police-citizen interaction” has been the main motivation to implement BWCs (particularly in the US). However, as argued by Bryce Clayton Newell, despite the association of body-worn cameras (BWCs) to notions of police accountability and transparency, these technologies also “sparked outrage” and have increased police power and police-citizen divisions (p. 1). ‘Police Visibility’ is a much well-needed reflective book that deconstructs common ‘pro-camera’ narratives focused on BWCs as accountability and transparency tools to “the benefit of the public”. As stated by Newell, “in practice (…) these cameras serve the coercive aims of the state” (p. 2). By challenging common conceptions of BWCs as objective and transparent, the author develops an argument on how to regulate these cameras and their footage. From limiting the potential for BWCs to increase police power to enhancing access to information by the public, there is a focus in the book on the need for regulation of police surveillance powers. This analysis is supported by theories of freedom and the notion of “antipower” (Pettit, 1996) that situate these cameras as potentially leading to state domination. Indeed, the adoption of BWCs is “largely about the state managing its image and controlling its visibility to the public” (p. 15). Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34477 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34277 Title: Book review: Conor O’Reilly (ed.), Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global Dynamics of Policing across the Lusophone Community Author(s): Rogers, Ashley Abstract: First paragraph: Traces of the past are found in the present, in the continued (re)construction of identities and in practices built around them. Explorations of these legacies offered in O’Reilly’s edited collection provide valuable insights into not only colonial policing and its development over time in Lusophone communities, but of its relevance to policing today. O’Reilly not only draws together social, political and historical examples from across the Lusophone community, but throughout the book’s three sections, each contribution charts the development of policing culture, transnational policy exchanges and the construction of subjects through a continued colonial lens. Doing so provides us with a rare engagement with colonialism, identity and policing across the Portuguese Empire. Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34277 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34210 Title: Machado, Helena; Prainsack, Barbara (2014), Tecnologias que incriminam. Olhares de reclusos na era do CSI Author(s): Miranda, Diana Abstract: First paragraph: Tecnologias que incriminam. Olhares de reclusos na era do CSI, de Helena Machado e Barbara Prainsack, publicado originalmente em inglês (Tracing Technologies – Prisoners’ Views in the Era of CSI) pela editora Ashgate, explora as representações em torno das tecnologias forenses do ponto de vista de indivíduos condenados a pena de prisão pela prática de crime. O enfoque nas perspetivas deste grupo social em concreto é particularmente inovador e esta é a primeira obra a examinar o modo como os reclusos experienciam as tecnologias usadas na cena de crime na era do CSI, seus significados e efeitos. Tal como refere Troy Duster no prefácio, é “[ampliada] a voz daqueles que até agora têm sido aparte silenciosa desse processo” (p. 18). Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34210 2015-09-04T00:00:00Z