Publications
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Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy
(2016)
Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy looks at democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy. It asks why democracy was seen to be the answer to the 7/7 bombings and why it should be promoted not in Britain, but in ...
Artificial Intelligence and Systems of the Earth
(2025)
Artificial Intelligence and Systems of the Earth is a book about the potential and capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for studying the Earth. It aims to serve as an eye-opener on new ...
Crowdsourcing in Management Research
(2024)
Crowdsourcing in Management Research explores the evolving landscape of academic research in the context of contemporary legal, social, cultural, and technological shifts. The book delves into the intricate processes and ...
Immigrants as ‘New’ Precariats in the Korean Immigration Policy Regime
(2024)
Won explores the untold story of immigration in South Korea through a new precariat lens. Unlike traditional narratives, this book sheds light on the complexities of Korea's evolving immigration landscape, offering readers ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
This chapter outlines the historical and historiographical inaccuracy of privileging definitions of martyrdom that center on death, and situates this argument within the current scholarly conversation. It establishes both ...
Chapter 2 Possessing and Protecting the Southern Ocean
(2025)
This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanity’s relationship with water and manifestations ...
The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images
(2022)
This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". ...
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain
(2011)
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together ...
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain
(2011)
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together ...
Chapter 21 Legalities and materialities
(2018)
This chapter reflects on what materiality-inflected methodologies1 can bring to
an anthropology of law, and to legal studies more generally. Its starting point is an
increasing attention across the social sciences and ...
Chapter 1 Borders of Engagement: Rethinking Scholarship, Activism, and the Academy
(2019)
"The second edition of this formative collection offers analysis of the work rhetoric plays in the principles and practices of today’s culture of democratic activism. Editors JongHwa Lee and Seth Kahn—and their diverse ...
Chapter 23 Precarious Eating
(2023)
Given the phenomenal popularity of mukbang (a live-streamed eating show) among young people, first in Korea and now globally, it is no longer a secret that they like to watch other people eating and cooking in the digital ...
Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society
(2025)
‘Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society’ includes the papers presented at the XVIII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Lisbon, Portugal, August ...
Beyond Classical Pedagogy
(2001)
The emergence of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards in 1989 sparked a sea change in thinking about the nature and quality of mathematics instruction in U.S. schools. Much is known about transmission ...
Chapter 8 Conclusion
(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 ...
Traditional Authority and Security in Contemporary Nigeria
(2024)
Exploring the contentious landscape of Nigeria’s escalating violence, this book describes the changing roles of traditional authorities in combatting contemporary security challenges.
Set against a backdrop of widespread ...
Chapter 1 Salt, grain and the change of deities in early Ming western Yunnan
(2019)
This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1253, and its foundation ...
Chapter 5 FinTechs, BigTechs and structural changes in capital markets
(2022)
This chapter aims at exploring some theoretical issues associated with the impact of technology companies on the market structure in the financial industry with the special focus on capital markets. Based on the industrial ...
Human Security and Epidemics in Africa
(2024)
This book examines the impact of epidemics in Africa, exploring some of the adaptation and crisis management strategies adopted to tackle COVID-19, Ebola, and HIV-AIDS. The authors reflect on lessons learned from solving ...
Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia
(2020)
Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia uses case studies to explore how knowledge circulated in the different public arenas that shaped politics, economics and cultural life in and across postwar Scandinavia, ...
Stalin’s Constitution
(2017)
Upon its adoption in December 1936, Soviet leaders hailed the new so-called Stalin Constitution as the most democratic in the world. Scholars have long scoffed at this claim, noting that the mass repression of 1937-1938 ...
Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism
(2024)
This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments of health and social care services.
During Lean implementation processes, ...
Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy
(2016)
Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy looks at democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy. It asks why democracy was seen to be the answer to the 7/7 bombings and why it should be promoted not in Britain, but in ...
The Anthropology of Epidemics
(2019)
Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and ...
Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy
(2023)
phaticity, relatability, affect, awkwardness, cybernetics
The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images
(2022)
This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". ...
Chapter 1 The Biology of Austrominius Modestus (Darwin) in its Native and Invasive Range
(2020)
Austrominius modestus, formerly Elminius modestus, is a relatively small species of four-plated acorn barnacle, which is native to the subtropical and temperate zones of Australasia. It was introduced into Europe in the ...
Sociology of Law as the Science of Norms
(2022)
This book proposes the study of norms as a method of explaining human choice and behaviour by introducing a new scientific perspective. The science of norms may here be broadly understood as a social science which includes ...
Leadership and Governance in Primary Healthcare
(2023)
Good leadership and governance at all levels of the healthcare system is necessary for better performance of the system and health outcomes. Lack of good leadership and governance practices can lead to misuse of health ...
Human Security and Epidemics in Africa
(2024)
This book examines the impact of epidemics in Africa, exploring some of the adaptation and crisis management strategies adopted to tackle COVID-19, Ebola, and HIV-AIDS. The authors reflect on lessons learned from solving ...
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 ...
Theories of Change in Reality
(2024)
For over 50 years, evaluators have used theories of change to articulate the causal logic underpinning how an intervention is intended to bring about a desired change. From its origins in programme evaluation, the approach ...
Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society
(2025)
‘Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society’ includes the papers presented at the XVIII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Lisbon, Portugal, August ...
The Anthropology of Epidemics
(2019)
Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and ...
Stalin’s Constitution
(2017)
Upon its adoption in December 1936, Soviet leaders hailed the new so-called Stalin Constitution as the most democratic in the world. Scholars have long scoffed at this claim, noting that the mass repression of 1937-1938 ...
Chinese News Discourse
(2021)
As a country in transition, Chinese news discourse has quite distinctive characteristics, and more so given the power of state media in society. With China’s engagement in world affairs and its massive Belt and Road ...
Chapter 2 Possessing and Protecting the Southern Ocean
(2025)
This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanity’s relationship with water and manifestations ...
Geographical Indication and Global Agri-Food
(2020)
This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas. A geographical ...
Effective Directors
(2022)
The ebook will be Open Access and made available on publication. Being a good board member is not about knowing everything; it is about asking the right questions and challenging appropriately. Effective Directors: The ...
Chapter 2 Post-conflict political order
(2022)
"This book analyses cases of incomplete secession after separatist wars and what this means for relations between central governments and de facto states.
The work explores the interplay between violence and power by ...