Publications
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The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse
(2018)
The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has reoriented research into social forms, structuration and processes of meaning construction and reality formation; doing so by linking social constructivist and ...
Chapter 1 Things to remember
(2017)
Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful ...
Digital Humanities and Laboratories
(2024)
Digital Humanities and Laboratories explores laboratories dedicated to the study of digital humanities (DH) in a global context and contributes to the expanding body of knowledge about situated DH knowledge production. ...
Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700
(2022)
1650-1700, Asiento, Entrepreneurship, Genoese, Slave, Trade
Chapter 16 Same-gender friendships and enmity in the Life of Eupraxia
(2022)
Byzantine Literature, Literature, Byzantine History, History, Poetry, Greek Literature, Byzantine Culture, Late Antique Literature, Medieval Literature, Classical Literature, and Hagiography
Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany
(2024)
This book sheds new light on the fascinating – at times dark and at times hopeful – reception of classical Yoga philosophies in Germany during the nineteenth century. When debates over God, religion, and morality were at ...
Language and Law
(2017)
Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law:describes the different registers and ...
Chapter 2 The Saturation of Racial Inequities in the United States
(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 2 How Does Consent Work?
(2025)
How does sexual consent work? How do we know that another person really wants to have sex with us? Why do people sometimes give in to sex that they are not in the mood for? And how come it is sometimes difficult to draw a ...
Chapter 1 History and development of mental health law
(2024)
Mental health legislation has a lengthy history in most societies. Legislation commonly outlines the circumstances under which treatment without consent is permitted in psychiatric facilities. While the history of mental ...
Chapter 7 'It’s okay not to like it'
(2021)
"Drawing on unique multi-arts, multi-city scholarly research, Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts makes a timely and urgent contribution to debates about the place of arts and culture in contemporary society. ...
Chapter 7 Underlying beliefs about writing and teaching writing in Germany
(2021)
Assumptions about good writing and teaching writing have undergone various changes during the last century. This chapter summarises relevant changes in Germany's approaches to teaching writing and then uncovers underlying ...
Social Media and Hate
(2022)
Using expert interviews and focus groups, this book investigates the theoretical and practical intersection of misinformation and social media hate in contemporary societies. Social Media and Hate argues that these phenomena, ...
Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems
(2018)
To be effective, data-intensive systems require extensive ongoing customisation to reflect changing user requirements, organisational policies, and the structure and interpretation of the data they hold. Manual customisation ...
Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control
(2022)
Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control presents a new empirical and conceptual framework for understanding trends of genetic surveillance in different countries in Europe and in other jurisdictions around the world. The ...
More-Than-Human Design in Practice
(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 10 School writing in Norway
(2021)
Some 15 years ago, all teachers in Norway became writing teachers—at least according to the new curriculum—overnight. Following a “PISA-shock” in the early 2000s, Norwegian legislators decided to reform the national ...
Chapter 2 The Sports Performance Playbook
(2018)
Why do so many sports teams have losing records, year after year? Why do others win big, but only every 20 or 30 years? And why is it that so few teams enjoy sustained, continual success? This book gives the answer. Providing ...
Chapter 12 Russian Renewable Energy
(2020)
This chapter reviews the development of the legal framework for renewable energy in Russia and discusses the current state of renewable energy in the country. The Russian support scheme for renewable energy is elaborated ...
Evil Corporations
(2025)
This book elaborates and interrogates the idea of evil corporations from a diverse range of disciplines.
There has long been awareness of systemic harms inflicted by corporations, but this awareness has rarely led to any ...