Publications
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Chapter 5 “Not What It Was Made Out”
(2022)
Unsanitary conditions in the Old Nichol were frequently invoked as a threat to public health and a justification for the clearance scheme that the area was undergoing at the end of the nineteenth century. A Child of the ...
Chapter 25 Learning Across the Lifespan
(2022)
Chapter 25. Learning across the lifespan: Age, language learning, and technology.
Chapter 3 Rethinking the framing of climate change adaptation
(2018)
Adaptation to climate change has always been part of life on earth. Yet,
according to the scientific literature – such as the Fifth Assessment Report
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the ...
Inequality and the European Union
(2025)
This book constitutes a timely and unique interdisciplinary endeavour in law and political science to investigate whether the European Union is living up to its ambitions to tackle inequalities between, across, and within ...
The Dynamics of Influencer Marketing
(2023)
YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitter, etc. have their own logics, dynamics and different audiences. This book analyses how the users of these social networks, especially those of YouTube and Instagram, become content ...
Big and Little Histories
(2022)
"This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained how history ought to be written and how those views relate to different ...
Chapter 11 Funding the UN
(2020)
This chapter shows that while the UN development system (UNDS) has benefited from a strong increase in resources over recent years, it suffers from the reliance on a small number of contributing countries and a disproportionate ...
Chapter 3 Digital Inquiry into Emerging Issues of Public Concern
(2019)
Designs for Experimentation and Inquiry examines how digital media is reconfiguring the established worlds of research, education, and professional practice. It reflects on the theoretical, methodological, and ethical ...
Chapter 12 Adapting to the Different Shades of Populism
(2019)
The purpose of this concluding chapter is two-fold. On the one hand,
we want to tease out and summarize the key fi ndings of the diff erent
chapters. What do these studies tell us, collectively? On the other hand,
we ...
Chapter 33 The Genus Mycobacterium
(2021)
Practical Handbook of Microbiology, 4th edition provides basic, clear and concise knowledge and practical information about working with microorganisms. Useful to anyone interested in microbes, the book is intended to ...
Chapter 31 Political risks and nationalism
(2017)
This chapter analyses risks arising from political phenomena including nationalism. Such “non-market risks” include political as well as natural disasters. Taking an historical perspective, the authors interrogate several ...
Objects of Authority
(2023)
Is the celebrated elegance of Cycladic marble figurines an effect their Early Bronze Age producers intended? Can one adequately appreciate an Assyrian regal statue described by a cuneiform inscription as beautiful? What ...
Chapter 2 Freedom of speech in the age of digitalisation
(2022)
The author analyses one of the ‘Four Freedoms’—the freedom of speech—which is closely connected to political rights. Digitalisation has created a number of opportunities for ‘speech’ and reduced the barriers in human ...
Visual Representations in Science
(2018)
Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.) play crucial roles in scientific processes. They help, for example, to communicate research results and hypotheses to scientific peers as well as to the lay audience. ...
Non-Ideal Foundations of Language
(2023)
This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly focused on highly idealized linguistic contexts. Instead, it presents a non-ideal foundational theory of language that contends that ...
Chapter 7 Diffusion of inclusive education in Malawi
(2023)
This chapter discusses and analyzes the diffusion of the inclusive education concept as a norm of educational policy in developing countries by taking up primary school system in Malawi as a case. For the last two decades, ...
The Transformation of Tamil Religion
(2022)
This book analyses the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th century and his posthumous reception in the Tamil country and sheds light on the transformation of Tamil religion that ...
Migration and Development in Southern Europe and South America
(2022)
This book explores the linkages between Southern Europe and South America in the post-World War II period, through organized migration and development policies. In the post-war period, regulated migration was widely ...
European Foreign Policy in a Decarbonising World
(2022)
Contributing to the emerging literature on the geopolitical and foreign policy implications of decarbonisation and energy transition processes, this book sheds light on the future of the European Union’s external relations ...
Fairness in Educational Assessment and Measurement
(2016)
The importance of fairness, validity, and accessibility in assessment is greater than ever as testing expands to include more diverse populations, more complex purposes, and more sophisticated technologies. This book offers ...