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Chapter Introduction
(2023)
Overview of the volume, its contents and an examination of the discipline of Siberian Studies as a whole
Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network
(2025)
This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualised, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches – offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate ...
Early Childhood Language Education and Literacy Practices in Ethiopia
(2024)
This edited volume explores how indigenous knowledges and practices can be instrumental in improving literacy outcomes and teacher development practices in Ethiopia, aiding children’s long-term reading, and learning outcomes. ...
Neutrino Physics
(2020)
When Kai Zuber’s pioneering text on neutrinos was published in 2003, the author correctly predicted that the field would see tremendous growth in the immediate future. In that book, Professor Zuber provided a comprehensive ...
The Fabrication of the Autonomous Learner
(2024)
This book provides a thorough and detailed analysis of how the figure of the ‘autonomous learner’ shapes educational practices. It unpacks the impact of current educational reform discourse that focuses on the individual ...
From Temple to Museum
(2018)
Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of ...
Chapter 3 My First Year Too
(2025)
Focusing on art practices that advocate, raise consciousness, and educate about the human right to reproductive health, this book analyses and compares forms of feminist artivism to interrogate bodily rights while closely ...
Politics of Quality in Education
(2018)
The question of quality has become one of the most important framing factors in education and has been of growing interest to international organisations
and national policymakers for decades. Politics of Quality in ...
Chapter 17 Researching Family Lives, Schooling and Structural Inequality in Rural Punjab
(2024)
This chapter advances a novel theoretic-methodological approach to the analysis of qualitative data. The aim is to achieve a deeper understanding of the relationship between social inequality and educational outcomes in ...
African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change
(2022)
This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the ...
Chapter Interviews
(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 ...
A Community of Practice Approach to Improving Gender Equality in Research
(2023)
Bringing together the latest research among various communities of practice (disciplinary and place based as well as thematically organised), this volume reflects upon the knowledge, experience and practice gained through ...
Chapter Introduction
(2024)
Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th–21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work on the evolution of literary and artistic representations of chance and ...
Chapter 10 Between appropriation and appropriateness
(2020)
This chapter takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of memorialization
and commemoration, protest and populism in relation to the performative
enacting and official presentation of difficult history. It ...
Christianity in India
(2019)
By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, this book revisits the assumption that Christianity is Western and colonial and that Christians in the ...
Europe and the Refugee Response
(2020)
This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce ...
Explorations in Reconciliation
(2006)
Theologians and scholars of religion draw on rich resources to address the complex issues raised by political reconciliation in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, South Africa, Northern Ireland and elsewhere. The ...
Chapter 11 Framing Transdisciplinary Research as an Assemblage
(2023)
In this case study of a transdisciplinary collaboration between a mental health nurse and a human geographer, we reflect on a continuing research venture to develop walking therapy as an accepted intervention in the mental ...
Chapter 2 WeChat as migration infrastructure
(2022)
This chapter focuses on one Russian province, the Irkutsk Oblast, which due to its location has become a trans-shipment point for legal and illegal migration of the Chinese, as well as a place of their settling, permanent ...
Understanding Public Debates
(2024)
By historicizing and contextualizing them through readings of carefully selected literary texts, literary studies can contribute to understanding and rationalizing key debates waged in many pluralist societies today – ...
Mixed Methods for Psychological Measurement
(2024)
This book presents a groundbreaking approach to measurement from a mixed methodological perspective, reframing the concept of incommensurability to harmonize qualitative and quantitative data in analyses.
It draws upon ...
Chapter 5 Alchemy, potency, imagination
(2018)
A case in point is Paracelsus’s view of poisons, which have a richness that
has not been captured in previous scholarship. Most scholars only touched
on the subject of poison and did not fully reflect on the complexity ...
Translation and Social Media Communication in the Age of the Pandemic
(2022)
This collection of essays represents the first of its kind in exploring the conjunction of translation and social media communication, with a focus on how these practices intersect and transform each other against the ...
Chapter 6 Unifying multiple identities through Arabic varieties
(2022)
Language has a salient role of indicating group membership and is considered a symbol of different social identities. Within the Arabic language, variation across countries and regions create multiple identities, and the ...
Law, Ecology, and the Management of Complex Systems
(2023)
This book addresses the role of law in the adaptive management of socio-ecological systems.
Recent years have witnessed a rise in discussion over the relation between adaptivity and law, as if after decades of insouciance, ...
Changing Transatlantic Security Relations
(2006)
This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere. This concept highlights ...
International Arctic Petroleum Cooperation: Barents Sea Scenarios
(2015)
The Arctic region contains large amounts of natural resources considered necessary to sustain global economic growth, so it is unsurprising that it is increasingly susceptible to political, economic, environmental, and ...
Comparative Renewables Policy
(2021)
Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudinal study of policy development. The book develops a multi-field explanatory ...
Chapter 5 An analysis of pertinent issues in education in Southern Europe
(2022)
This volume is the first of its kind to discuss social welfare issues using case studies from a broad range of Southern European countries, both large and small, a decade after the financial crisis. It identifies similarities ...
Epileptic Seizures and the EEG
(2011)
A study of epilepsy from an engineering perspective, this volume begins by summarizing the physiology and the fundamental ideas behind the measurement, analysis and modeling of the epileptic brain. It introduces the EEG ...
Ethical Agility in Dance
(2024)
This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing
socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for
an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental ...
Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy
(2023)
This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of research on environmental policy and governance. The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy has a strong focus on new problem structures – a perspective that emphasizes ...
Chapter 5 Women and Minority Expatriates
(2023)
There has been several decades of research on why women are under-represented in the expatriate population, but it is only in the past few years that research has begun to focus on issues with members from other diverse ...
Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy
(2023)
This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of research on environmental policy and governance. The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy has a strong focus on new problem structures – a perspective that emphasizes ...
Chapter 10 Norway
(2023)
The last decade has witnessed growing concern about violent extremism as many European countries have introduced policies to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE). Norway is no exception, launching three such action ...
Chapter 8 Confronting America: Black commercial aesthetics, athlete activism and the nation reconsidered
(2017)
While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of ‘the nation’ has remained. This book examines the continuing but contested relevance of national identities in sport within the ...
Chapter 17 Greek inscriptions and documentary texts and the Graeco-Roman historical tradition
(2021)
This chapters explores how three philological traditions Graeco-Roman, South Asian and Chinese have been and can be used to contribute to our understanding of Central Asia in the Hellenistic period. It outlines the current ...
Chapter 15 Innovation (policy) and transformative change in the European Union
(2022)
This book focuses on social transformations as one of the central topics in the social sciences. The study of European social transformations is very valuable in the context of universal discussions within social sciences: ...
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science
(2018)
The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, ...