Publications
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Chapter 6 In search of effective communication with decision-makers for the post-truth era
(2024)
Evaluation in the Post-Truth World explores the relationship between the nature of evaluative knowledge, the increasing demand in decision-making for evaluation and other forms of research evidence, and the post-truth ...
Modelling and Optimization of Wave Energy Converters
(2022)
Wave energy offers a promising renewable energy source. This guide presents numerical modelling and optimisation methods for the development of wave energy converter technologies, from principles to applications. It covers ...
Globalising Democracy
(2006)
This volume brings together expert contributors to explore the intersection of two major contemporary themes: globalization, and the contribution that both domestic party politics and international party support make to ...
Married Women in Legal Practice
(2020)
This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there ...
The Routledge Companion to Free Will
(2017)
Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in almost every area of philosophy, from metaphysics to philosophy of mind to moral philosophy, and are also informed by work in different areas of science ...
Wealth and Power
(2023)
Is political equality viable when a capitalist economy unequally distributes private property? This book examines the nexus between wealth and politics and asks how institutions and citizens should respond to it. Theories ...
Powers of the Prosecutor in Criminal Investigation
(2021)
This comparative analysis examines the scope of prosecutorial powers at different phases of criminal investigation in four countries: the United States, Italy, Poland, and Germany. Since in all four the number of criminal ...
The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image
(2024)
The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding history in moving images. It engages this popular and dynamic field that has evolved rapidly from film and ...
Threats of Force and International Law
(2023)
Threats of force are an inherent part of communication between some States. One prominent example is the 2017–2018 crisis in relations between the United States and North Korea, marked by multiple threats issued by both ...
Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan
(2006)
Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan, Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan, approaches the subject from an urban studies and planning approach. The essays in the collection ...
Disclosing Horizons
(2007)
This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design. Since its ...
Three Nations, One Place
(2004)
An intensive exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanches and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economic conditions ...
Wastewater Treatment with the Fenton Process
(2024)
The presence of refractory organic compounds in wastewater is a global problem. Advanced oxidation processes, in general, and the Fenton oxidation process are alternative technologies for wastewater and water treatment. ...
Inequality Kills Us All
(2023)
The complex answer to why the United States does so poorly in health measures has at its base one pervasive issue: The United States has by far the highest levels of inequality of all the rich countries. Inequality Kills ...
Chapter 25 Rooted in Justice and Joy
(2024)
This book provides targeted advice to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the mental health professions on how to navigate, resist, and transform institutions and policies that were not designed for them. A ...
Civil Society in China
(2022)
Chinese civil society groups have achieved iconic policy advocacy successes in the areas of environmental protection, women’s rights, poverty alleviation, and public health. This book examines why some groups are successful ...
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
(2019)
"In Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human rights law, conflict studies, anthropology, history, media studies, gender studies, and critical race and postcolonial studies ...
Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy
(2006)
Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. ...
Multilingualism across the Lifespan
(2022)
This innovative collection examines key questions on language diversity and multilingualism running through contemporary debates in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on ...
Chapter 2 Advancing Afrikan Sustainable Design
(2024)
sustainable development,design for sustainability,Ubuntu,relations,connectedness,decolonisation,Sustainable Product Design,Energy Systems,PSS,Ivan Brown,Urban Farmers,Cradle Products Innovation Institute,Sustainable ...
Chapter 8 HERITAGE OF INCLUSION OR EXCLUSION?
(2020)
Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities. Investigating various examples of transformations of urban ...
Chapter 4 Post-Fukushima anti-nuclear movement
(2023)
The chapter analyzes the cycle of the anti-nuclear movement that followed the Fukushima accident in March 2011. Employing functional typology, the chapter categorizes the movement’s organizations into seven types (direct ...
Unpacking Creativity for Language Teaching
(2022)
Before unlocking creativity, we must first unpack what it means. In this book, creativity is unravelled from various perspectives and the relevance for language teaching and learning is explored.
Tin offers a coherent ...
Migration and Health in Asia
(2006)
The processes of migration and health are inextricably linked in complex ways, with migration impacting on the mental and physical health of individuals and communities. Health itself can be a motivation for moving or a ...
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law
(2024)
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law sheds light on the relationship between the two fields and analyses how the law shapes heritage and heritage practice in both expected and unexpected ways.
Including contributions ...
American Hegemony in the 21st Century
(2019)
For many years now debates over America hegemony and its supposed decline have circulated academic circles. The neo-Gramscians have greatly enriched our knowledge in this field, developing some key theoretical tools and ...
Chapter 3 From Big to Democratic Data
(2022)
Datasets have come to play a significant role in the technical and political realities of our overdeveloped world. This chapter indicates how invisible data processes pose a threat to the health and safety of the global ...
Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity
(2024)
This book adopts a critical lens to look at the workings of Western intelligence and intelligence oversight over time and space.
Largely confined to the sub-field of intelligence studies, scholarly engagements with ...
Chapter 6 ‘Doing family’ online
(2023)
This chapter studies the ways in which family members draw on their mediational repertoires to interact with one another near and far in the light of theories of translocality (Conradson & McKay 2007, Kytölä 2016), family ...
The Last Mile
(2024)
The Last Mile explores the gaps and dichotomy between drafted policies and their implementation, and the last mile challenges which often make public services inaccessible to the poorest and most vulnerable sections of ...
Happiness and Domestic Life
(2022)
This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the relationship between the quality of domestic life and the home environment, in its material and relational dimension, with individual and social happiness, in the ...
Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. The editors introduce a broad, insightful assembly of original theory and research on planetary positionalities ...
The Virgin Mary across Cultures
(2017)
This book examines women’s relationship to the Virgin Mary in two different cultural and religious contexts, and compares how these relationships have been analyzed and explained on a theological and a sociological level. ...
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 ...
Women and Inequality in a Changing World
(2024)
Women and Inequality in a Changing World explores the obstacles women continue to face to their equal participation in all areas of daily life—political, social, and eco- nomic—which persist despite the growth in the ...
Chapter 5 English-Medium Instruction in Emirati Higher Education
(2023)
This chapter begins by providing an overview of the many educational reforms which have taken place in the United Arab Emirates within its short history as a nation. Pushed forward by neoliberalism and globalisation, such ...
Chapter 2 Structured Guidelines for the First Session of Post-Milan Systemic Therapy
(2024)
Grounded in systemic family therapy and drawing on a variety of other models to enhance skills development, this book is a comprehensive, practical guide to working with families. This second edition is thoroughly updated ...
More than Buildings
(2025)
More than Buildings studies the buildings typology in Portuguese cities and their relationship with the program (the way in which it responds to a function), the territory where it is integrated and with time and the way ...
Chapter 1 Craft, Design and Nostalgia in Modern Japan
(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 ...
Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in New EU Member States
(2005)
Building on the work carried out in the 2004 Routledge book, Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe, an international team of contributors now turn their attention to the new EU member states. The book compares conditions ...