Michelle Addison

William McGovern

Ruth McGovern

This book calls attention to the impact of stigma experienced by people who use illicit drugs. Stigma is powerful: it can do untold harm to a person and place with longstanding effects. Through an exploration of themes of inequality, power, and feeling ‘out of place’ in neoliberal times, this collection focuses on how stigma is negotiated, resisted and absorbed by people who use drugs. How does stigma get under the skin? Drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks and empirical data, this book draws attention to the damaging effects stigma can have on identity, recovery, mental health, desistance from crime, and social inclusion. By connecting drug use, stigma and identity, the authors in this collection share insights into the everyday experiences of people who use drugs and add to debate focused on an agenda for social justice in drug use policy and practice.

Drugs, Identity and Stigma

The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education

Yvette Taylor

Maddie Breeze

This Handbook explores experiences, feelings, and understandings of imposterism across social locations, institutional status, and intersecting inequalities. While in higher education, imposter syndrome is often positioned as an individual problem, the authors analyse (non)belonging as working through, with and against educational institutions rather than working endlessly on the self to ‘fit in’. Questioning for whom identifying as an ‘imposter’ is a choice, this innovative handbook highlights complexity and contemporary contestation over educational inclusions and exclusions. As identifying with imposterism becomes more common, the book asks what this can tell us, why these feelings matter, and how they relate to entrenched inequalities and their re-circulation in higher education. This collection dwells on ‘imposters’, wary of simply individualising, or celebrating, them as misfits, fraudsters or failures.

Jean Won

If you're a 30-something professional woman with any hope of walking down the aisle, you're going to have to face the truth - the Prince Charming you've been chasing all these years doesn't exist. At all. Period. We all know that Cinderella had herself a wonderful little fairy tale, but you probably didn't know that by following Cinderella's lessons you too can find a very happy ending. Authors Michelle Addison and Jean Won guide you through Cinderella's lessons with the sassy, tough-love approach of long-time girlfriends. By the time you finish this book, you'll have ditched your dreams of finding Prince Charming, you'll be convinced that Mr. Perfect is an illusion and you'll be happily on your way to building forever-dom with Mr. Perfect-for-You.

Cinderella's Guide to Finding Mr. Right After 30

Where in the World Is Prince Charming?

This book explores changes and continuations in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lives, identities and spatial practices in the 21st century from around the globe, using a range of methods to connect pasts, places and policies with contemporary times, linking individual and social presences (and absences) affectively and materially.

Michelle Addison

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