Publications
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Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality
(2022)
This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans promoting global LGBTQ equality. Examining the means by which particular discourses of progress and hope are circulated globally, it offers ...
A Handbook of Management Theories and Models for Office Environments and Services
(2022)
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 ...
Negotiating Gender Expertise in Environment and Development
(2020)
"This book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of ‘gender experts’ working in environment and development organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender equality and social equity and aligning ...
The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy
(2020)
"The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, and collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, ...
GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management
(2019)
GIS is used today to better understand and solve urban problems. This book explores and illustrates the use of geo-information in the planning and management of urban regions. The first part of the book addresses the concept ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2024)
The introduction outlines the main trajectories of the Cultural Cold War, starting with the revelations in the late 1960s that the CIA was using various front organizations to fund culture abroad as a way to combat Soviet ...
Precision Agriculture for Sustainability and Environmental Protection
(2013)
Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance ...
Honey Bee Colony Health
(2012)
This book summarizes the current progress of bee researchers investigating the status of honey bees and possible reasons for their decline, providing a basis for establishing management methods that maintain colony health. ...
Chapter 37 Introduction to Section 6
(2022)
This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific;Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and how questions that are fundamental;to sustainable development policies and ...
Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity
(2021)
The fourth Factor X publication from the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity: The Nexus Approaches explores the interdependencies of sustainable development ...
Chapter 4 From the land
(2023)
This chapter focuses on the multifaceted relationship between people and the land on which their families lived for generations. Summarizing this relationship as the place-bound relationship, this chapter examines the ways ...
Window Functions and Their Applications in Signal Processing
(2014)
Window functions—otherwise known as weighting functions, tapering functions, or apodization functions—are mathematical functions that are zero-valued outside the chosen interval. They are well established as a vital part ...
Masculinities in Forests
(2021)
Masculinities in Forests: Representations of Diversity demonstrates the wide variability in ideas about, and practice of, masculinity in different forests, and how these relate to forest management. While forestry is widely ...
Post-Truth Imaginations
(2022)
This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly ...
Legal Education Through an Indigenous Lens
(2025)
This book provides a comprehensive resource for accommodating and pursuing Indigenous perspectives in legal education. The book is divided into three sections. The first section highlights the continuing issues that ...
Chapter 9 Causal and Predictive Modeling in Computational Social Science
(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 ...
Chapter 2 Beauty, Nature, and Society in Shaftesbury’s The Moralists
(2020)
"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 ...
Seven Democratic Virtues of Liberal Education
(2023)
This book argues that the liberal arts and sciences (LAS) model of education can inspire reform across higher education to help students acquire crucial civic virtues.
Based on interviews with 59 students from LAS ...
Chapter 12 Social distance, teachers’ beliefs and teaching practices in a context of social disadvantage
(2021)
"This chapter analyses the widening inequalities within the government primary schooling systems in India and Pakistan and the implications of the emerging social distance between teachers and students. Social distance is ...
Chapter 3 Lacan’s Romanticism
(2019)
This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film ...