Publications
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Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics
(2022)
This handbook brings together leading international academic experts to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of Global Environmental Politics. Fully revised, updated and expanded to 45 chapters, the book: • ...
Entangled Discourses
(2017)
This book uniquely explores the shifting structures of power and unexpected points of intersection – entanglements – at the nexus of North and South as a lens through which to examine the impact of global and local circuits ...
Human Resources Management in Multinational Companies
(2023)
Human resource management (HRM) has a significant impact on companies' performance, as evidenced by research conducted in multinational companies (MNCs) based in Central Europe. This book provides a unique perspective of ...
Migration in Africa
(2022)
This book introduces readers to the age of intra-African migration, a period from the mid-19th century onward in which the center of gravity of African migration moved decisively inward. Most books tend to zoom in on ...
Chapter 25 What Difference Does a Railroad Make?
(2023)
In pre-Soviet and early Soviet times, the northern areas of East Siberia and the Russian Far East that today are crossed by the Baikal-Amur Mainline were more or less exclusively the domain of semi-nomadic Evenki reindeer ...
American Globalization, 1492-1850
(2021)
history of the Americas
Chapter 1 The puzzling resilience of authoritarian party dominance
(2023)
Numerous studies have explored why some autocracies endure but others do not. Although they argue that party-based, parliamentary autocracies are relatively resilient, even during multiparty elections, because of the ...
Analytical Psychology in a Changing World
(2019)
How can we make sense of ourselves within a world of change?
In Analytical Psychology in a Changing World, an international range of contributors examine some of the common pitfalls, challenges and rewards that we encounter ...
Meanings of Public and the Future of Public Services
(2022)
Critically assessing meanings of the term "public", this book situates the emergence and expansion of "public services" within market-based forms of production and consumption.
It highlights the potential for making ...
Chapter 9 Herodotus’ Memphite sources
(2020)
Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the European and Western consciousness of collective identity, whether in an awareness of other societies and of the nature of cultural variation itself or in the fashioning ...
Educational Internationalism in the Cold War
(2025)
This edited volume delves into the intricate landscape of educational internationalism during the Cold War, providing an in-depth examination of its diverse forms, impulses, and global impacts.
Through multilingual ...
The Digitalization of Financial Markets
(2022)
"The book provides deep insight into theoretical and empirical evidence on information and communication technologies (ICT) as an important factor affecting financial markets. It is focused on the impact of ICT on stock ...
Chapter 5 Elderliness
(2021)
Social change in the 21st century is shaped by both demographic changes associated with ageing societies and significant technological change and development. Outlining the basic principles of a new academic field, ...
Chapter 6 Challenges for the education system in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
(2023)
The fourth industrial revolution, characterized by digitization, artificial intelligence and augmented reality, and megatrends such as globalization, urbanization, demographic changes and the knowledge-based economy, will ...
Chapter 5 Forensic DNA Samples
(2022)
From a technical and criminalistic point of view, DNA can be collected and stored like most visible biological stains. Crucial considerations in the examination of evidence include photographic documentation, and careful ...
Supermajorities in Constitutional Courts
(2024)
Constitutional adjudication is a subject of fascination for scholars. Judges may annul the will of a democratically elected Parliament in counter-majoritarian fashion. Although conceived as a remedy against majoritarianism, ...
A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive
(2025)
A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs Asaf-ud-Daula and Wajid Ali Shah and reveals the colonial bias against queer expression. It offers methods of ...
Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre
(2024)
In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study children’s literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also significantly extends it by exploring age in various aspects of children’s ...
Cross-Cultural and Religious Critiques of Informed Consent
(2022)
This book explores the challenges of informed consent in medical intervention and research ethics, considering the global reality of multiculturalism and religious diversity. Even though informed consent is a gold standard ...
Translating Feminism in China
(2015)
This book explores translation of feminism in China through examining several Chinese translations of two typical feminist works: The Second Sex (TSS, Beauvoir 1949/1952) and The Vagina Monologues (TVM, Ensler 1998). TSS ...
Chapter 1 Introduction: A Global Perspective on the Role of Parliamentary Administrations
(2023)
The idea of “parliamentary administration” might appear, at first sight, like an oxymoron: parliaments are the domain of politicians, the elected representatives of the people, whereas administrations are commonly understood ...
Cities and Citadels
(2024)
Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory.
Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic ...
Chapter 7 The Digitally Natural
(2023)
This chapter is a consideration of how we may approach the question of remediation in digital games, suggesting that we recognize how digital game remediation incorporates what are often more obvious elements from analogue ...
Chapter 1 Concepts
(2019)
This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Needs are increasingly seen as the lowest common denominator of humanity. Standard definitions of basic needs, however, ...
Chapter 30 Women’s activist filmmaking against gendered violence in Pakistan
(2024)
With the heated discussion around #MeToo, journalistic reporting on domestic abuse, and the popularity of true crime documentaries, gendered media discourse around violence and harassment has never been more prominent. ...
Chapter 13 Household waste management and the role of gender in Nepal
(2022)
Solid waste management has become one of the most important issues in urban centres of developing countries where population growth puts pressure on public services. Nepal is struggling to manage municipal solid waste in ...
Chapter 16 Bhutan
(2023)
"The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century. Opening up a grand new space for critical ...
The Anthropology of Parliaments
(2021)
The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. ...
The Discourse of Protest, Resistance and Social Commentary in Reggae Music
(2021)
A comprehensive, engaging and timely Bakhtinian examination of the ways in which the music and lyrics of Pacific reggae, aspects of performance, a record album cover, and the social and political context construct social ...
Law and Development in East and South-East Asia
(2003)
During the 1980s and 1990s Asian 'developmental states' attracted much attention in political science and economics literature, but the role of law in the economic development was neglected. It was only after the Asian ...
Deliberative Constitution-making
(2023)
This book explains deliberative constitution-making with a special focus on the connections between participation, representation and legitimacy and provides a general overview of what the challenges and prospects of ...
Laboratory Manual for Biotechnology and Laboratory Science
(2023)
Provides the basic laboratory skills and knowledge to pursue a career in biotechnology. Written by four biotechnology instructors with over 20 years of teaching experience, it incorporates instruction, exercises, and ...
Chapter 12 Computer science
(2019)
In this chapter we will explore the relationship between crime and computers and networks by answering the following questions:
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Which techniques from computer science can be used to prevent crime?
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Which techniques ...
Chapter 2 How do expats make new friends abroad?
(2024)
Moving abroad means having to settle into a new host country. This book enables expats and those who support them to create intercultural connections and friendships both within and outside the workplace.
Having left ...
Invention Pedagogy – The Finnish Approach to Maker Education
(2023)
This collection, edited and written by the leading scholars and experts of innovation and maker education in Finland, introduces invention pedagogy, a research-based Finnish approach for teaching and learning through ...
Chapter 8 Comparative Biogeography of Marine Invaders Across Their Native and Introduced Ranges
(2020)
Biological invasions continue to exert extensive environmental and economic impacts. Understanding why some introduced species become invasive is critical to their management. Determining the mechanisms underpinning ...
Illusion in Cultural Practice
(2021)
"This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world we live in. Considering different ...
The Politics of Poverty in Contemporary Russia
(2019)
This book provides an overview of poverty and well-being in Russia. Increasing poverty rates during the 1990s were followed by greater attention to social policies in the 2000s and increased efforts to engage people in ...
Chapter 8 Assessing Racial Equity in Government
(2014)
In this compelling book the author contends that social equity--specifically racial equity--is a nervous area of government. Over the course of history, this nervousness has stifled many individuals and organizations, thus ...
Chapter 3 Conceptualizing re-domestication
(2023)
Chapter 3: This chapter takes an in-depth look at the notion of re-domestication and fills a theoretical gap by proposing a sound and empirically supported conceptualization. Although some domestication studies refer to ...