{"product_id":"9789819220915","title":"Institutional Abandonment: Health, Harm, and Civil-Society Responses","description":"\u003ch1\u003eInstitutional Abandonment: Health, Harm, and Civil-Society Responses\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eRazum, Oliver; Silva, Diego S.; Hubeladze, Iryna; Namer, Yudit\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eThis edited book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eexamines how\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e institutional abandonment—states’ knowing or deliberate neglect of moral or legal obligations—harms population health and undermines democratic accountability. In this international volume for sociologists of health and illness as well as scholars of public health and bioethics, migration studies, political sciences, citizenship studies, critical border studies and psychology, the chapters show how abandonment is intensified by Othering and produces patterned harms, including legal insecurity, chronic uncertainty, injury, untreated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eillness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e and psychological distress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eonceptual chapters develop institutional abandonment as a political determinant of health and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003etheorise\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e the ethical critique and reform of concrete borders and boundary-making practices. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eU\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003esing interdisciplinary lenses,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e empirical case studies range from arbitrary expatriations under the Nazi dictatorship and ‘civic death’ in post-2016 Türkiye to wartime Ukraine, Gaza’s water and sanitation crisis, exclusionary psychosocial healthcare for refugees in Germany and the longer after-effects of Othering for Nigerian returnees. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eA final section\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e analyses how civil-society \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eorganisations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e, grassroots initiatives and artistic practices expose abandonment, mitigate harm and press institutions to meet their obligations, while arguing for liberal-democratic repair rather than institutional dismantling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2026-09-05\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789819220915\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: \u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50185180512396,"sku":"9789819220915","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789819220915.jpg?v=1779974532","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9789819220915","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}