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Secrecy and Methods in Security Research
(2019)
This book analyses the challenges of secrecy in security research, and develops a set of methods to navigate, encircle and work with secrecy.
How can researchers navigate secrecy in their fieldwork, when they encounter ...
Learners in Transition
(2019)
As the number of Chinese students learning English increases worldwide, the need for teachers to understand the characteristics and challenges facing this group of learners grows. This is particularly true for those students ...
Chapter 12 NIGERIAN FILM AUDIENCES ON THE INTERNET
(2022)
This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, ...
Chapter 8 Hyaluronan-Based Hydrogels as Functional Vectors for Standardised Therapeutics in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
(2022)
Hyaluronan-based hydrogels are optimal candidates when developing novel combined advanced therapy medicinal products (cATMP), tissue engineering products (TEP), and medical devices. The key physico-chemical properties of ...
Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity
(2018)
Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity. Today, globalization and migration mean all major sports leagues include players from around the globe, bringing into play a complex mix of ...
Chapter 4 Urban transformation “Korean style”
(2020)
There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other countries in the Global South. Korea’s condensed urbanization and industrialization, accompanied by the ...
Multilateral Banks and the Development Process
(2012)
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. When the links in the chain represent development projects, if individual projects fail to achieve their purpose, the development program's effectiveness is compromised. When ...
Medicinal Agroecology
(2023)
agroecological systems/health, companion-planting, natural approaches + soil remediation, plant bio-active compounds, plant-based preparations, sustainable cultivation, traditional and plant derived medicines/remedies/veterinary ...
A Short Guide to Operational Risk
(2011)
There is a growing awareness across both public and private sectors, that the key to embedding an effective risk culture lies in raising the general education and understanding of risk at every level in the organization. ...
Elementary Semiconductor Device Physics
(2025)
This book by two leading experts on integrated circuit design adopts an untraditional approach to introducing semiconductor devices to beginners. The authors use circuit theory to provide a digestible explanation of energy ...
Loneliness and Social Isolation in Old Age
(2023)
This book is a seminal guide to loneliness and social isolation in old age, providing a comprehensive overview of the important correlates of socioeconomic, health and lifestyle factors upon loneliness and social isolation ...
The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism
(2023)
This cutting-edge research companion addresses our current understanding of literary journalism’s global scope and evolution, offering an immersive study of how different nations have experimented with and perfected the ...
Chapter 10 Transformations of the Media Sphere
(2024)
This book explores the mechanisms and elements of populism to develop new theoretical and methodological approaches. Much as populism has been researched, it remains a contested notion without coherent definition and ...
Chapter 2 ENVIRONING EMPIRES AND COLONIAL MEDIA
(2023)
This edited volume interrogates the role of media technologies in the formation of environments, understood both as physical spaces and epistemological constructs about them. Using the concept of ‘environing media’, the ...
Chapter 2 ENVIRONING EMPIRES AND COLONIAL MEDIA
(2023)
This edited volume interrogates the role of media technologies in the formation of environments, understood both as physical spaces and epistemological constructs about them. Using the concept of ‘environing media’, the ...
Towards the Ethics of a Green Future
(2018)
What are our obligations towards future generations who stand to be harmed by the impact of today’s environmental crises? This book explores ecological sustainability as a human rights issue and examines what our long-term ...
Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(2023)
Approaching subalternity from a broad Gramscian angle, this edited collection contributes to the understanding of popular politics in parliamentary, autocratic, and colonial contexts. The book explores individual stories ...
Chapter 5 Islam, Poverty, and Philanthropy in the Global South
(2024)
This book offers a timely and compelling look at religion and poverty, focusing primarily on the two largest world religions, Christianity and Islam, and considering religion and poverty in the United States and international ...
Why Guattari?
(2019)
This book examines Félix Guattari, the French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and radical activist, renowned for an energetic style of thought that cuts across conceptual, political, and institutional spheres.
Increasingly ...
Chapter 8 The music editions of Christian Egenolff
(2018)
The present chapter, based on a first-hand examination of all of Egenolff’s music editions, including every known exemplar of ten of the fourteen extant
editions, aims to remedy this, so that future work on Egenolff and ...
Chapter 2 António Sardinha and his Ibero-American connections
(2020)
This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a broad political environment, from conservatism to the most radical right, between the World Wars. Looking beyond fascism, it ...
Pluricentric Languages and Language Education
(2023)
This book maps out the pedagogical implications of the global spread and diversification of pluricentric languages for language education and showcases new approaches that can take account of linguistic diversity.
Moving ...
Rendering Houses in Ladakh
(2023)
Sophie Day explores the houses that are imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled among different communities in Ladakh, drawing attention to the ways in which houses are like and unlike people.A handful of in-depth ...
Travel, Writing and the Media
(2022)
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 ...
Power to Teach
(2004)
This book illustrates hitherto unexamined connections between the present state of teacher education in the UK and past models of practice. It locates contemporary debates within ongoing historical tensions over what ...
Relational Passage of Time
(2023)
This book defends a relational theory of the passage of time. The realist view of passage developed in this book differs from the robust, substantivalist position. According to relationism, passage is nothing over and above ...
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
(2022)
This book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against "gender ideology" and feminist efforts to counteract it. It argues that anti-gender ...
Vaccination Programmes
(2022)
Vaccination programmes are of vital importance to public health and are present in virtually every country in the world. By promoting an understanding of the diverse effects of vaccination programmes, this textbook discusses ...
Chapter 11 Ancient Infrastructure Offers Sustainable Agricultural Solutions to Dryland Farming
(2024)
In arid and semiarid landscapes, water is the primary limiting resource for human activity and ecosystem functioning. More than 40% of the world’s population lives in dryland environments (White and Nackoney, 2003). In ...
Chapter Introduction
(2025)
This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and ...
Chapter 2.4 Steps towards decolonising contact improvisation in the university
(2024)
To engage critically in a process of decolonisation is complex in a post-colonial, globalised world in which migration, knowledge exchange, hybridity and fusion are commonplace. What is it to look openly to other cultures ...
Chapter 2 António Sardinha and his Ibero-American connections
(2020)
This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a broad political environment, from conservatism to the most radical right, between the World Wars. Looking beyond fascism, it ...
Chapter 6 How liberating is liberation technology?
(2023)
It has been a decade since Diamond’s seminal and sober work on the possibilities of ‘liberation technology’ to ‘expand political, social and economic freedom’ (Diamond 2010). Since that time, the Arab supernova has electrified ...
Chapter 1 A Cultural History of Waste
(2025)
This book offers a historical analysis of landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste ...
Chapter 1 A Cultural History of Waste
(2025)
This book offers a historical analysis of landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste ...
Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa
(2023)
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century that requires innovative and varied solutions. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this book brings together interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral and ...
Chapter 1 Approaching Taboos and Controversial Issues in Foreign Language Education
(2023)
Taboos are not a new phenomenon. Yet, taboos change over time as social customs change, discard old taboos, and create new ones. What does not change, however, is how taboos regulate the way in which we live together in ...
The G20
(2019)
This revised and updated edition presents detailed analysis of the history and current state of the G20, and the challenges it faces. The emergence of the G20 was the result of calls for full inclusion of major developing ...
Studying Complex Interactions and Outcomes Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis
(2021)
Studying Complex Interactions and Outcomes Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Practical Guide to Comparative Case Studies and Ethnographic Data Analysis offers practical, methodological, and theoretically robust ...
Chapter 5 Female agency, resourceful victimhood and heroines in migrant narrative
(2024)
With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community. ...
Chapter 47 Latin America
(2023)
Chapter 47: This chapter examines memory activism in Latin America, focusing on memory struggles on the cycle of political violence during the second half of the 20th century. First, the article describes the main features ...
The Gender of Things
(2024)
Gender studies; feminist new materialism; gendered objects; history of science; material culture; technoscience
Thermal Evaluation of Indoor Climate and Energy Storage in Buildings
(2025)
There is a need to reduce energy consumption for space cooling and heating via energy efficient solutions/technologies for implementation in the buildings. Thermal energy storage regulates indoor temperature, shifting the ...
Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique
(2019)
This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of ...
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage
(2022)
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores ...
Constitutional Theory: Schmitt after Derrida
(2017)
This book advances a new reading of the central works of Carl Schmitt and, in so doing, rethinks the primary concepts of constitutional theory. In this book, Jacques de Ville engages in a close analysis of a number of ...
Power to Teach
(2004)
This book illustrates hitherto unexamined connections between the present state of teacher education in the UK and past models of practice. It locates contemporary debates within ongoing historical tensions over what ...
Next Generation Internet of Things – Distributed Intelligence at the Edge and Human-Machine Interactions
(2018)
This book provides an overview of the next generation Internet of Things (IoT), ranging from research, innovation, development priorities, to enabling technologies in a global context. It is intended as a standalone in a ...
Chapter 9 Socialization and accountability
(2024)
Presenting a series of empirical studies by scholars working with approaches from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Medical and Healthcare Interactions studies real-life work and training encounters among medical ...
Chapter 4 Design Options, Implementation Issues and Evaluating Success of Ecologically Engineered Shorelines
(2019)
Human population growth and accelerating coastal development have been the drivers for unprecedented construction of artificial structures along shorelines globally. Construction has been recently amplified by societal ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(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 ...
Chapter 2 Fighting Avant-Garde with Phenomenology
(2023)
The article discusses Gustav Shpet’s phenomenology and aesthetic theory as part of early Soviet culture. The author suggests that the ‘official’ acceptance of Shpet’s philosophy, particularly through GAKhN, is emblematic ...
Chapter 13 Tax compliance assurance
(2024)
The concept of tax compliance is as old as the tax itself, but staying compliant with tax regulations has become increasingly demanding. A changing tax regulatory environment, resulting from regulatory actions of the OECD, ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2021)
Interdisciplinarity—including its cognate transdisciplinarity—is a hallmark of contemporary knowledge production. The term is omnipresent in science, technology, and economy as well as in society and higher education—fueling ...
Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents
(2018)
In today’s society we increasingly create and consume written content and images. This includes a range of sources, from social media posts to records held within organisations, and everything in between, including news ...
Chapter 47 The uses of citizenship in the post-Roman West
(2023)
It has been a recurrent shortcoming in the historiography of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages to dismiss the importance of citizenship after Caracalla’s edict, but especially after the fall of Rome. This tendency ...
The G20
(2019)
This revised and updated edition presents detailed analysis of the history and current state of the G20, and the challenges it faces. The emergence of the G20 was the result of calls for full inclusion of major developing ...
Mobilities, Social Change and Crime
(2024)
This book presents a synthesis of selected trends in the dynamics and structure of crime in Poland over the past 30 years, in the context of ongoing social transformations in the wider region. The book explores the impact ...
Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society
(2025)
As AI technology is rapidly progressing in capability and being adopted more widely across society, it is more important than ever to understand the potential risks AI may pose and how AI can be developed and deployed ...
Chapter 47 Latin America
(2023)
Chapter 47: This chapter examines memory activism in Latin America, focusing on memory struggles on the cycle of political violence during the second half of the 20th century. First, the article describes the main features ...