Publications
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Chapter 3 Global governance
(2013)
The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved, particularly in developing countries. UNESCO's ...
Chapter 6 Metalanguages for source document analysis
(2022)
"This edited volume covers the development and application of metalanguages for concretely describing and communicating translation processes in practice.
In a modern setting of project-based translation, it is crucial ...
Framing Social Interaction
(2018)
This book is about Erving Goffman’s frame analysis as it, on the one hand, was presented in his 1974 book Frame Analysis and, on the other, was actually conducted in a number of preceding substantial analyses of different ...
Framing Social Interaction
(2018)
This book is about Erving Goffman’s frame analysis as it, on the one hand, was presented in his 1974 book Frame Analysis and, on the other, was actually conducted in a number of preceding substantial analyses of different ...
Home in A Hybrid World
(2020)
Whilst our outside world is modifying into a more complex and hybrid networked world, our most intimate dwelling, our home, is at risk of falling behind as for many it seems to have remained the same as it has been for ...
Chapter 8 Discourse on LGBTQ issues in the Polish presidential campaign (2020)
(2022)
Gender, Politics, Elections, Democracy, LGBTQ
Midwives in Mexico
(2021)
This bookpresents the contemporary history and dynamics of Mexican midwifery - professional, (post)modern or autonomous, traditional and Indigenous - as profoundly political and embedded in differing societal stratifications. ...
Chapter Muslim women caregivers in elderly care in Finland
(2023)
Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy, this volume examines theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the practice and study of religion and non-religion, culture, spirituality and ...
Chapter 2 The Sands of Abjection in The Sheltering Sky
(2023)
The earliest novel in the group, The Sheltering Sky, is also the richest example of how the postwar counterculture absorbed influences from French culture, a significant source of inspiration for these writers, although ...
Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India
(2023)
This book discusses effective social innovation strategies facilitated by civil society organisations (CSOs) to tackle India’s significant urban sanitation challenge. It presents the contours of an ecosystem that includes ...
Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707–1840
(2018)
Cultures; Improvement; Scottish Romanticism
The Feminist Legislation Project
(2025)
In this book, leading law academics along with lawyers, activists and others demonstrate what legislation could look like if its concern was to create justice for women. Each chapter contains a short piece of legislation ...
Chapter 21 Succeeding at Learning Development
(2024)
This chapter focuses on how we, as Learning Developers, can be successful in our roles, have strategic influence and remain committed to our core values. It discusses strategies we can adopt to demonstrate our expertise ...
Chapter 11 Determinants of cross- border cooperation in the Polish– German borderland
(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 ...
Towards A New Christian Political Realism
(2025)
Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, ...
Place, Pedagogy and Play
(2020)
Green space managers develop and maintain urban green spaces, where children are often among the most frequent users. In a case study of four urban districts in Sweden and Denmark, focusing on children aged 10-11, the ...
Towards A New Christian Political Realism
(2025)
Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, ...
Greek Medical Literature and its Readers
(2018)
Medicine; Greek; Roman; History
Chapter C6 Deciding Legal Meaning
(2016)
Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law:describes the different registers and ...
Chapter 6 Monsoon uncertainties, hydro-chemical infrastructures, and ecological time in Sri Lanka
(2020)
The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which ...
Chapter 12 Hölderlin’s Higher Enlightenment
(2021)
This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and ...
Chapter 16 (Un)conscious Perspectival Shape and Attention Guidance in Visual Search
(2024)
When viewing a circular coin rotated in depth, it fills an elliptical region of the distal scene. For some, this appears to generate a two-fold experience, in which one sees the coin as simultaneously circular (in light ...
Chapter 3 Alternative Food Politics
(2021)
This book examines the role of local food movements, enterprises and networks in the transformation of the currently unsustainable global food system. It explores a series of innovations designed to re-integrate sustainable ...
Chapter 3 Democratic innovations as a response to shrinking public space
(2024)
Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe elevates the voices of civic activists from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and analyzes a wealth of information to generate new insights into how activism in the region ...
Religion and World Politics
(2023)
Religion and World Politics provides a short, accessible, and practical introduction to how we can understand the place of religion in world politics in a more comprehensive, contextually relevant way.
Is religion central ...
Chapter 6 The Archaeologist of Nation and Gender
(2023)
This chapter is about the reception of Marija Gimbutas in post-socialist Lithuania, in particular among the growing post-socialist women’s rights movements. The chapter outlines the ideological landscape of postsocialism, ...
Chapter 13 Traumatic traces of enforced disappearance through generations
(2024)
Enforced disappearance is a crime against humanity that impacts the direct victim as well as their relatives and society through generations. Relying on psychoanalytic theory, we will explore the theme of the transgenerational ...
Chapter 10 Challenger bank as a new digital form of providing financial services to retail customers in the EU Internal Market
(2022)
‘Challenger banks’ are banks or non-banking start-ups, the operations of which are based on digital technologies and which challenge big, traditional banks. It is a new approach to provide financial services, where an agile ...
Understanding Drugs Markets
(2022)
Drawing on anthropology, historical sociology and social-epidemiology, this multidisciplinary book investigates how pharmaceuticals are produced, distributed, prescribed, (and) consumed, and regulated in order to construct ...
Postfeminism and Health
(2019)
Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of ‘postfeminist healthism,’ a twenty-first-century ...
Race in Sweden
(2023)
Race in Sweden is an introduction to, and a critical investigation of, the Swedish relationship to race in the post-war and contemporary eras. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by an ideology of colourblindness, ...
Race in Sweden
(2023)
Race in Sweden is an introduction to, and a critical investigation of, the Swedish relationship to race in the post-war and contemporary eras. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by an ideology of colourblindness, ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2021)
"This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban Africa and Israel. Its chapters expand on prominent ...
The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving
(2024)
Library, archive & information management; Library & information services
Chapter 3 The Swedish N-issue, Swedish N’s and white transracial identifications
(2023)
Race in Sweden is an introduction to, and a critical investigation of, the Swedish relationship to race in the post-war and contemporary eras. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by an ideology of colourblindness, ...
Chapter 7 Visual Perception in Dante's Commedia According to the Early Commentaries (1320–1400)
(2025)
Dante’s Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante’s engagement with the science of his time, particularly with ...
What is Europe?
(2023)
This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and its historical development. ...
Judicial Law-Making in European Constitutional Courts
(2020)
This book analyses the specificity of the law-making activity of European constitutional courts. The main hypothesis is that currently constitutional courts are positive legislators whose position in the system of State ...
Chapter 1 Examining the illusion of accountability
(2009)
Do EU citizens have real opportunities to hold decision-makers accountable, or does the current institutional set-up in the Union merely create an illusion of accountability? That is the central question of this volume. ...
Chapter 15 Empathizing with Robots
(2023)
Typically, social robots are supposed to empathize with humans, understand human emotions, and anticipate human needs. With this chapter, the authors turn the table: What can humans learn through empathizing with technology? ...
Foundations for a Humanitarian Economy
(2022)
The modern global economy and discipline of economics place mathematical calculation above human concern. However, a re-reading of Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy can positively highlight the contrast in values and ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2020)
This volume draws its inspiration from perspectives that have developed over
the last few decades in media anthropology. These include seminal works such as
Bourdieu’s (1993 ) analysis of cultural production, Larkin’s ...
Cooperation and Confrontation in Nordic Civil Societies since 1800
(2025)
This book examines Nordic civil societies from 1800 until today, by studying the roles of voluntary action and associations in the Nordic region and beyond. Through its diverse and historically informed analyses of civil ...
Chapter 25 Rooted in Justice and Joy
(2024)
This book provides targeted advice to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the mental health professions on how to navigate, resist, and transform institutions and policies that were not designed for them. A ...
Chapter 3 The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics
(2018)
To summarise our findings, the Hippocratic Epidemics case reports is an example of a text whose intended audiences, despite the ambiguities and historical
uncertainties about the texts’ composition and transmission, were ...
Museums and Technologies of Presence
(2024)
and, Lambert, Maria, Museums, of, Presence, Shehade, Stylianou, Technologies, Theopisti
Chapter 1 Language and leadership
(2024)
History is full of examples of how the skilful use of language is a fundamental aspect of charismatic leadership. Traditionally, this phenomenon has been studied focusing on oratory skills. The book argues that the ...
The Motorcycle Diaries
(2023)
The first monograph to examine Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries, this book explains the significance of Salles’ film with respect to the specific category of ‘youth culture’ as a historically and culturally situated ...
Threats of Force and International Law
(2023)
Threats of force are an inherent part of communication between some States. One prominent example is the 2017–2018 crisis in relations between the United States and North Korea, marked by multiple threats issued by both ...
Chapter 4 Associational life and liberty
(2024)
Following the approach developed by Alexis de Tocqueville, this volume views democracy as a cultural phenomenon. It starts from the assumption that if we are to adequately address concerns about the current state and future ...
Governing the Interlinkages between the SDGs
(2023)
Governing the Interlinkages between the SDGs: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges identifies the institutional processes, governance mechanisms and policy mixes that are conducive to devising strategies of integrated ...
Consuming Atmospheres
(2024)
consuming atmospheres, marketing, marketing research, consumer experience, consumer culture
Chapter 7 Becoming “Chinese” in Southeast Asia
(2017)
China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2021)
"This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban Africa and Israel. Its chapters expand on prominent ...
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy
(2023)
Autonomy, philospohy, politics, language, Pharmacology, climate
National Brands and Global Markets
(2023)
Brands, Historical, Perspective, National, Markets, Global
Rape in the Nordic Countries
(2020)
While the Nordic countries are listed at the top in most international rankings of gender equality and citizens’ feelings of security, studies on the prevalence of sexual victimisation present a different picture, suggesting ...
Chapter 3 European Imperialism, War, Strategic Commodities and Ecological Limits
(2021)
history of the Americas
Chapter 1 Examining the illusion of accountability
(2009)
Do EU citizens have real opportunities to hold decision-makers accountable, or does the current institutional set-up in the Union merely create an illusion of accountability? That is the central question of this volume. ...
Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes
(2021)
Mental and material reconstruction was an ongoing process after World War II, and it still is. This volume combines a detailed treatment of post-war cultural reconstruction in Finnish Lapland – a region on the geographical ...