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The Paradoxes of Aid Work
(2015)
This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are fulfilled. 'Aidland' is a highly complex and heterogeneous context which includes many different occupations, forms of ...
Chapter 4 ‘A great bliss to keep the sensation of conquest alive!’
(2020)
One aim of this chapter is to foreground the interplay of official heritage and
political discourse.
Chapter 2 Big stories and small stories in the psychological relief work after the earthquake disaster
(2019)
"This edited book focuses on the organization and meaning of craft work in contemporary society. It considers the relationship between craft and place and how this enables the construction of a meaningful relationship with ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
democracy; normative theory; political theory; public administration; public policy; policymaking
US Nation Building in Afghanistan
(2016-11-01)
Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary ...
Chapter 2 Big stories and small stories in the psychological relief work after the earthquake disaster
(2019)
"This edited book focuses on the organization and meaning of craft work in contemporary society. It considers the relationship between craft and place and how this enables the construction of a meaningful relationship with ...
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 ...
US Nation Building in Afghanistan
(2016-11-01)
Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
democracy; normative theory; political theory; public administration; public policy; policymaking
Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics
(2005)
This book explores the perceived paradigmatic conflict within British classical economics between the so called 'Ricardo School' and the contemporary French Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say. Samuel Hollander provides the ...
Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World
(2023)
Are pandemics the end of cities? Or, do they present an opportunity for us to reshape cities in ways making us even more innovative, successful and sustainable? Pandemics such as COVID-19 (and comparable disruptions) have ...
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects
(2024)
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history and provides an up-to-date insight into current archaeological thinking around the topic. A seal broken ...
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 ...
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 6 Mediatization of music, musicalization of everyday life
(2022)
Music has undergone a tremendous mediatization the last 100 years. Electrification and, later on, the digitization of music media have exposed music to an increased dissemination, both spatially – it can be heard almost ...
Chapter 4 Theatre for Influence
(2024)
Emerging from the superpowers’ covert attempts to counter their political and ideological influence without direct military confrontations, the Cold War was also enacted in the cultural sphere of many third world countries, ...
Chapter 5 Adaptability, decarbonisation and accessibility
(2021)
This chapter focuses on the status quo of transport for people in relation to integrated planning attempts in the city of Dar es Salaam. With the population increase and urban expansion, the need for transport infrastructure ...
Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games
(2025)
Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games investigates the potential of queer conceptions of time to unbind forms of understanding identities. In doing so, it recognizes the power of time to determine us ...
Obstetric Life Support Manual
(2024)
This text is a comprehensive review in normal and abnormal pregnancy physiology, the most common etiologies of maternal medical emergencies, recognition of maternal deterioration and pending cardiopulmonary arrest, ...
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 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 ...
The Routledge Handbook of Religious Literacy, Pluralism, and Global Engagement
(2022)
This pioneering handbook proposes an approach to pluralism that is relational, principled, and non-relativistic, going beyond banal calls for mere ""tolerance.""
The growing religious diversity within societies around ...
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 ...
The Sustainable Development Goals
(2023)
There have been significant efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at multiple levels of governance across all regions of the world. However, the manner in which the global governance norms underlying ...
The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design
(2022)
The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design explores the multifaceted nature of infrastructure through the global lens of architectural history. Infrastructure holds the world together. Yet even as it connects some ...
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 ...
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 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 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, ...
Sex and the Second-Best City
(2005)
Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to ...
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. ...
Disability, Sexuality, and Gender in Asia
(2024)
This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled persons’ organizations in different Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, ...
Chapter 4 Evaluating electoral management performance
(2020)
After a review of the rival approaches that are used to evaluate public sector
performance in general, five dimensions of EMB performance are set out which
are argued to be crucial for achieving democratic ideals in an ...
Chapter 6 Small words, big changes
(2022)
Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics and Economics examines the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union’s financial institution and the largest lender and borrower among the International ...
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 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 ...
Obstetric Life Support Manual
(2024)
This text is a comprehensive review in normal and abnormal pregnancy physiology, the most common etiologies of maternal medical emergencies, recognition of maternal deterioration and pending cardiopulmonary arrest, ...
Chapter 1 Populism and populist constitutionalism
(2021)
This book explores the relationship between populism or populist regimes and constitutional interpretation used in those regimes. The volume discusses the question of whether contemporary populist governments and movements ...
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 ...
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
(2024)
Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important ...
Chapter 19 Quantification
(2021)
The study of quantificational expressions is one of the central domains in the field of natural language semantics. Probably every language has means of expressing quantification, but quantifiers in natural languages are ...
Pesticides, Organic Contaminants, and Pathogens in Air
(2022)
"The air is an important but largely unrecognized source of contaminant fate in the environment, including transport of pesticides and contaminants to nontarget areas and exposures for people and wildlife. This book ...
Chapter 40 The origins and practice of science on British television
(2018)
The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations
(2024)
Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of ‘frontier thinking’ as it continues to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation – in ways that impact ...
The Endangered Species Act
(2012)
The complex regulations of the Endangered Species Act established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can be challenging for environmental professionals who must comply with them or assist clients in compliance. This is ...
Chapter 11 Care in the Cage
(2016)
This chapter adopts a historical perspective to explore how material infrastructures have structured human–animal relationships within the biomedical “animal house,” c.1945 to the present. It argues material infrastructures ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World
(2023)
Are pandemics the end of cities? Or, do they present an opportunity for us to reshape cities in ways making us even more innovative, successful and sustainable? Pandemics such as COVID-19 (and comparable disruptions) have ...
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 ...
Sex and the Second-Best City
(2005)
Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to ...
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 ...
Changing Paradigms and Approaches in Interpreter Training
(2021)
Interpreting studies; community interpreting; community interpreter education; interpreting in Slovenia; Slovenia
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 ...
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects
(2024)
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history and provides an up-to-date insight into current archaeological thinking around the topic. A seal broken ...
Nanoparticle Engineering for Chemical-Mechanical Planarization
(2009)
Increasing reliance on electronic devices demands products with high performance and efficiency. Such devices can be realized through the advent of nanoparticle technology. This book explains the physicochemical properties ...