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Why International Organizations Hate Politics
(2021)
Building on the concept of depoliticization, this book provides a first systematic analysis of International Organizations (IO) apolitical claims. It shows that depoliticization sustains IO everyday activities while allowing ...
Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis
(2024)
This study examines the role played by regional cultures in modern art and visual culture in Central Europe between 1918 and 1938. Analysing paintings, photographs, prints, and illustrated magazines in relation to topics ...
The Evolution of Geotech - 25 Years of Innovation
(2022)
This publication includes 82 technical papers presented at Rocscience International Conference (RIC) 2021, held online on April 20 and 21, 2021. Rocscience created this event to bring geotechnical academics, researchers ...
Managing Emotion in Design Innovation
(2014)
This book presents an emotion centered research framework titled "emoha" for design innovation. It defines emoha and underlines the importance of the developed framework in culturalization of technology and thereby design ...
Technology and Forced Migration
(2025)
The Russian aggression on Ukraine has drastically altered the migration situation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), drawing international attention. Despite numerous global studies on individuals seeking refuge, CEE ...
Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective
(2025)
Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective bridges the gap between cultural heritage and mobility studies through the employment of theoretical and methodological multisensory perspectives.
An ...
Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf
(2022)
Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing on the 20th century as a starting point, the book ...
Everyday Urban Practices in Africa
(2025)
This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. International policy frameworks have created a new universal agenda for developing cities. However, ...
Designing through Planetary Breakdown
(2025)
In an era of profound environmental and geopolitical uncertainty, Designing through Planetary Breakdown offers fresh perspectives on design’s evolving role in the face of planetary change. This unique collection emphasises ...
The Development of L2 Interactional Competence
(2023)
This book presents unique insights into the development of L2 interactional competence through the lens of complaining, demonstrating how a closer study of complaining as a social activity can enhance our understanding of ...
Lacan's Return to Antiquity
(2017)
Lacan’s Return to Antiquity is the first book devoted to the role of classical antiquity in Lacan’s work. Oliver Harris poses a question familiar from studies of Freud: what are Ancient Greece and Rome doing in a ...
Chapter 2 Transformations in the governance of urban and regional planning in Korea
(2020)
There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other countries in the Global South. Korea’s condensed urbanization and industrialization, accompanied by the ...
Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West
(2015)
Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. While the levels of socio-economic segregation in European cities are still ...
The Emergence of the Digital Humanities
(2013)
The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid of data that we move ...
Strain-Engineered MOSFETs
(2018)
Currently strain engineering is the main technique used to enhance the performance of advanced silicon-based metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). Written from an engineering application standpoint, ...
Gaming and Extremism
(2024)
Charting the increase in the use of games for the dissemination of extremist propaganda, radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization, this book examines the "gamification of extremism." Editors Linda Schlegel and Rachel ...
Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States
(2022)
This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and ...
Antarctica and the Earth System
(2025)
This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the role that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean play as integral parts of the Earth System.
While often characterised as the last great wilderness on Earth, Antarctica ...
Circular and Transformative Economy
(2024)
The main aim of this book is to illustrate circular models for sustainable resource management. It highlights the benefits of transformative approaches in integrating, simplifying, and facilitating understanding of complex ...
Handbook of Computational Social Science, Vol 1
(2021)
"The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field, showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning ...
Technical Innovation, solving the Data Spaces and Marketplaces Interoperability Problems for the Global Data-Driven Economy
(2024)
In the third i3-MARKET series book we focus on the best practices and simplest software methods and mechanisms that allow the i3-MARKET backplane reference implementation to be instantiated, tested and validated even before ...
Social Media Activism
(2025)
This book focuses on the referendums against water privatization in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between ...
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka
(2024)
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka offers a comprehensive survey of issues facing the island country and an overview delineating some key moments in the country’s contemporary polity, economy, and sociality. ...
Discovering Therapeutic Efficacy
(2025)
Discovering Therapeutic Efficacy brings together selected papers and book chapters by Howard Bacal, spanning 40 years as a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and psychotherapist. The book includes several key pieces of writing ...
Method, Methodology and Research Design in Artistic Research
(2024)
Method, Methodology and Research Design in Artistic Research: Between Solid Routes and Emergent Pathways offers a rich and innovative approach to method, research design and methodology of research in and through the arts. ...
Globalising Democracy
(2006)
This volume brings together expert contributors to explore the intersection of two major contemporary themes: globalization, and the contribution that both domestic party politics and international party support make to ...
The Future of Retail and Service Design
(2025)
This book explores the future of retail and service design, offering cutting-edge insights from leading researchers. With a focus on sustainability, phygital innovation, and community retail, it provides a forward-thinking ...
Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession
(2018)
Long-running trends towards increasing inequality between the rich and poor across Europe have been exacerbated by the 2008 global financial crisis and its aftermath. As employment opportunities for young people diminish ...
Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa
(2022)
This book critically examines and analyses the active role played by youth-led social movements in pushing for change and promoting peacebuilding in Africa, and their long-term impacts on society. Africa’s history is ...
Drylands Facing Change
(2023)
This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia/Inner ...
Electrospraying and Electrospinning in Drug Delivery
(2025)
Electrospraying and electrospinning have emerged as powerful techniques for the fabrication of drug-loaded nano- and microstructures, offering precise control over particle size, morphology, and drug release kinetics. ...
Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy
(2017)
This book looks at democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy. Elliott asks why democracy was seen to be the answer to the 7/7 bombings in London, and why it should be promoted not in Britain, but in Pakistan. The ...
Rooted Cosmopolitanism, Heritage and the Question of Belonging
(2024)
This book explores the analytical and practical value of the notion of "rooted cosmopolitanism" for the field of cultural heritage. Many concepts of present-day heritage discourses - such as World Heritage, local heritage ...
The Old and New Persistent Organic Pollutants
(2025)
Our understanding of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), their exposure pathways, and their impact on the environment and human health is constantly evolving and the list of new and emerging POPs is constantly changing. ...
From Reception to Integration of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Poland
(2023)
This book sheds light on the complex experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in Poland, against a local backdrop of openly anti-refugee political narratives and strong opposition to sharing the responsibility for, and ...
Researching Non-state Actors in International Security
(2017)
This volume provides researchers and students with a discussion of a broad range of methods and their practical application to the study of non-state actors in international security. All researchers face the same challenge, ...
Organising a School's Response
(2005)
First Published in 1988. This book aims to raise the awareness of some of the broader issues which surround provision for pupils with special educational needs so that mainstream teachers can relate more effectively with ...
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South
(2022)
Recent decades have witnessed both a renewed energy in feminist activism and widespread attacks taking back hard-won rights. Despite powerful feminist movements, the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly undermined the ...
A Handbook of Theories on Designing Alignment Between People and the Office Environment
(2021)
Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books ...
Forced Mobility of EU Citizens
(2023)
Forced Mobility of EU Citizens is a critical evaluation from an empirical perspective of existing practices of the use of transnational criminal justice instruments within the European Union. Such instruments include the ...
Cognate Music Theories
(2024)
This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by musicologist John Walter Hill to describe culturally and historically situated music theory. Cognate music theories offer a new way ...
Chapter 9 Cybernetics and Landscape
(2025)
Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering ...
Chapter Introduction
(2025)
This edited volume offers a new interpretation of the historically momentous 1952 Wassenaar negotiations between representatives of the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, and the Jewish Claims Conference to negotiate ...
Nordic Neoliberalisms
(2025)
Drawing on a cross-disciplinary perspective from history and social science, this book examines what is common to neoliberalism, and where it differs, in four Nordic countries across four key sectors of liberalization: ...
Chapter 1 Chance, causality, temporality
(2025)
Figures of Chance II: Chance in Theory and Practice proposes a multidisciplinary analysis of cultural phenomena related to notions of chance and contingency Alongside its transhistorical companion volume (Figures of Chance ...
The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture
(2023)
This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion. ...
Black Men Teaching in Urban Schools
(2018)
This volume follows eleven Black male teachers from an urban, predominantly Black school district to reveal a complex set of identity politics and power dynamics that complicate these teachers’ relationships with students ...
Belgian Exceptionalism
(2022)
This book takes stock of Belgium’s exceptional and – for some foreign observers –schizophrenic position in the political world and explains its idiosyncrasy to a non-Belgian audience. Offering a broad and comprehensive ...
Anti-fascism in a Global Perspective
(2021)
Democracy; Extreme; Parties; Portugal; Portuguese; Right
Vaccination Programmes
(2021)
Vaccination programmes are of vital importance to public health and are present in virtually every country in the world. By promoting an understanding of the diverse effects of vaccination programmes, this textbook discusses ...
Co-production and Criminal Justice
(2023)
This book explores practical examples of co-production in criminal justice research and practice. Through a series of seven case studies, the authors examine what people do when they co-produce knowledge in criminal justice ...
Computational Modelling of Concrete and Concrete Structures
(2022)
Computational Modelling of Concrete and Concrete Structures contains the contributions to the EURO-C 2022 conference (Vienna, Austria, 23-26 May 2022). The papers review and discuss research advancements and assess the ...
Artificial Intelligence for Digitising Industry – Applications
(2021)
This book provides in-depth insights into use cases implementing artificial intelligence (AI) applications at the edge. It covers new ideas, concepts, research, and innovation to enable the development and deployment of ...
Transforming University-based Teacher Education through Innovation
(2024)
This Norwegian-led, internationally relevant edited collection provides new insights into the transformation of teacher education programmes of the future by collating novel and cutting-edge innovations gleaned from ProTed, ...
Chapter Introduction Poland and Germany in the European Union
(2021)
"This book explores the political and social dynamics of the bilateral relations between Germany and Poland at the at the national and subnational levels, taking into account the supranational dynamics, across different ...
International Aid and Democracy Promotion
(2021)
"International Aid and Democracy Promotion investigates the link between foreign aid and the promotion of democracy, using theory, statistical tests and illustrative case studies.
This book challenges the field of development ...
Divine Action, Determinism, and the Laws of Nature
(2019)
A longstanding question at the intersection of science, philosophy, and theology is how God might act, or not, when governing the universe. Many believe that determinism would prevent God from acting at all, since to do ...
Science in Movements
(2022)
This book analyses and compares the origins, evolutionary patterns and consequences of different science and technology controversies in China, including hydropower resistance, disputes surrounding genetically modified ...
Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy
(2006)
Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. ...
Leading Works in Law and Anthropology
(2025)
The academic disciplines of law and sociocultural anthropology have a long but at times contentious history of drawing on each other in order to study and understand law and human experience in its diverse manifestations. ...
Ethnographies of Waiting
(2018)
We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores ...
Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism
(2005)
Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious ...
Diversity of Belonging in Europe
(2023)
Diversity of Belonging in Europe analyzes conflicting notions of identity and belonging in contemporary Europe. Addressing the creation, negotiation, and (re) use of diverse spaces and places of belonging, the book examines ...
Economic Transformation in Poland and Ukraine
(2020)
When Poland and Ukraine introduced their political, social and economic system reforms at the beginning of the 1990s, both economies were at a similar level of economic development (GDP $9,500 per capita). However, in 2018, ...
Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations
(2020)
"This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan–Korea relations.
Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the ...
Videogames and Agency
(2023)
Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand ...
Vienna
(2022)
This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in policy fields such as labour and housing, political and social participation and the ...
Chapter 11 In-service teacher education in English
(2024)
Recognising the urgent need for further progress in teacher education and preparation for the success of early language learning, this volume presents research on the education and professional development of teachers, ...
Contextual Theology
(2021)
This book advances that history by exploring stories, images and discourses across a worldwide range of geographical, cultural and confessional contexts. Its twelve authors not only enrich our understanding of the significance ...
Chapter 5 Sustainability of Outer Space Activities
(2024)
This book examines pathways for how to reinvigorate the United Nations, in light of recent crises.
The United Nations requires reinvigoration. The organisation’s supply of global governance falls short of global demand ...
Chapter 11 Complementarity and Flexibility Indexes of an Interoperable VPP
(2023)
This book provides a general overview of virtual power plants (VPP) as a key technology in future energy communities and active distribution and transmission networks for managing distributed energy resources, providing ...
Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia
(2022)
This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the processes and actors contributing to autocratization in South Asia. It provides an enhanced understanding of the interconnectedness of the different states in the region, ...
Jews in the Netherlands
(2025)
Most people know little more than fragments of Dutch Jewish history: the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam; Jewish socialism; the devastating years of the Second World War. So where is the storyline? What happened to the Jews ...
Race and Social Equity
(2014)
In this compelling book the author contends that social equity--specifically racial equity--is a nervous area of government. Over the course of history, this nervousness has stifled many individuals and organizations, thus ...
Chapter 1 Considering Intersectionality and Its Implications for Crisis Management
(2023)
Intersectionality and Crisis Management: A Path to Social Equity aims to embed the social equity discourse into crisis management while exploring the potential of a new tool, the Integrative Crisis Management Model. Leaders ...
Rural Disease Knowledge
(2024)
Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century. With ...
Manufacturing Competitiveness in Asia
(2005)
There are competing theories to explain the reasons behind the international competitiveness of manufacturing in Asia. Analysing these different theories will bring important lessons, not just for Asia, but for developing ...
Globalization and Civil Society in East Asian Space
(2022)
This book critically examines the impact of globalization, changing power dynamics, migration, and evolving rights regimes on regional order, discourse of national governance, state and society relations, and the development ...
Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics
(2025)
Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics forms a definitive reference and guide to databases in geotechnical and rock engineering, to enhance decision-making in geotechnical practice using data-driven methods. This second ...
Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy
(2023)
Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy investigates and explores how far and in what ways the Covid-19 pandemic is challenging, restructuring, and perhaps remaking aspects of the global political economy. Since the ...