Publications
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Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture
(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, ...
Ageing as a Social Challenge
(2021)
With a focus on the case of Poland, where an aging population poses a crucial challenge for the state’s social, family, and gerontological policy, this book explores ageing as a personal and social phenomenon, considering ...
Sociolinguistics of the Korean Wave
(2023)
Samosir and Wee examine how the immensely popular Korean Wave ("K-wave") also known as Hallyu is wielded as soft power through the use of communication for persuasion and attraction on the global stage. The Korean Wave ...
Chapter 1 Situating Megaprojects in Asia's Political Economy of Urbanization
(2025)
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of how the developmental goals of Asian states are reflected in large-scale projects and how various actors both realize and challenge these goals. The rise of Asian economies has ...
The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization
(2024)
The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization comprehensively and systematically explores the current understanding, and unchartered research paths, of autocratization.
With wide-reaching regional coverage and expert analysis ...
Chapter Conclusion
(2024)
This volume takes stock of the ways in which the regimes of artistic creation and production intersect, lending special attention to emergent discourses and work models of producing and managing theatre, dance, and performance ...
The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction
(2006)
While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs ...
Designing Interactions with Robots
(2024)
Developing robots to interact with humans is a complex interdisciplinary effort. While engineering and social science perspectives on designing human–robot interactions (HRI) are readily available, the body of knowledge ...
The Work of Professional Football
(2006)
A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely ...
Education and the Politics of Memory in Russia and Eastern Europe
(2025)
This book examines both formal and extracurricular education, and the politics of memory and historical narratives in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine.
The misalignment between memory politics and history ...
Recoding Life
(2018)
This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucault’s biopolitics in order to understand how life is being turned into a technological object. ...
Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
(2024)
This book is the first scholarly book to take a comprehensive look at Germany’s nuclear weapons policies in the 21st century. German foreign and security policy is facing a profound reorientation. Great power competition ...
Political Reason and the Language of Change
(2023)
FORTHCOMING OPEN ACCESS TITLE This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that "progressive" change was the outcome of "reforms". "Reform" today ...
Risk Management in Crisis
(2021)
Risk management is a domain of management which comes to the fore in crisis. This book looks at risk management under crisis conditions in the COVID-19 pandemic context. The book synthesizes existing concepts, strategies, ...
The Practical Accomplishment of Everyday Activities Without Sight
(2024)
This book is about the everyday life of people with visual impairment or blindness. Using video ethnographic methods and ethnomethodological conversation analysis, it unpacks the practical accomplishments of everyday ...
Football, Community and Social Responsibility
(2025)
This book shines a light on the value and effectiveness of football clubs’ community engagement work, the cultural value of sport and the position sport plays within people’s daily lives. The book considers the deep ...
Chapter 4 Multisensory Experience of the Middle Passage in Alex Haley’s Roots
(2025)
Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective bridges the gap between cultural heritage and mobility studies through the employment of theoretical and methodological multisensory perspectives. An ...
Chapter 28 Queering the rural
(2025)
Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across 19 countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimisation, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and ...
Amsterdam Anatomy Lessons Dissected
(2025)
This book gives the historical perspective of 17th century Dutch paintings for ‘Anatomy lessons’ using pairning that were created for the Surgeons’ Guild in Amsterdam, to aid surgeons in teaching and knowledge. The iamges ...
Against Meritocracy
(2017)
Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the top’. This idea is one ...
Chapter 1 ‘Law and Anthropology’ as Interdisciplinary Encounter
(2025)
The academic disciplines of law and sociocultural anthropology have a long but at times contentious history of drawing on each other in order to study and understand law and human experience in its diverse manifestations. ...
Chapter 15 The implicit and fundamental normative structure of legal practices
(2025)
This book engages the field of practice theory in order to consider law as a social practice. Taking up the theoretical concept of practices, the contributors to this volume maintain that law can be fruitfully understood ...
The Rhine and European Security in the Long Nineteenth Century
(2021)
"Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine’s (CCNR) efforts to secure the principle of freedom of navigation ...
Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern Iberian World
(2021)
By exploring textual, visual and material culture, this volume presents a range of new research into the experiences, agencies and diverse political identities of Iberian women between the fifteenth and early-eighteenth ...
Contesting ‘Race’ and Sport
(2018)
"In the decade since Kevin Hylton’s seminal book ‘Race’ and Sport: Critical Race Theory was published, racialised issues have remained at the forefront of sport and leisure studies. In this important new book, Hylton draws ...
The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Education and Thinking for the 21st Century
(2025)
This Handbook emerges as a pivotal resource in underscoring the important role of sustainability education in catalysing a global shift toward sustainable development. It articulates the need for a profound transformation ...
Routledge Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa
(2020)
political parties; Middle East; North Africa
Experiments in Art Research
(2024)
Experiments in Art Research: How Do We Live Questions Through Art?is not a conventional research methods guide; it's an encounter for asking questions through art.
Originating from the work of a community of tightly ...
Genders, Cultures, and Literacies
(2021)
This volume brings together leading scholars in their fields who offer much needed and wide-ranging perspectives on the intersections of genders, cultures, and literacies. As incidents of racial and gender aggression grow ...
Distillation Control, Optimization, and Tuning: Fundamentals and Strategies
(2011)
Emphasis on improved quality and performance of distilled products and the demand for reduced operating costs place a heavy burden on both the personnel responsible for profitability and the manufacturing department charged ...
Persuasion and Legal Reasoning in the ECtHR Rulings
(2023)
This book analyses the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) from the point of view of argumentative tools used by the Court to persuade the audience – States, applicants and public opinion – of the ...
Sport and Development in Emerging Nations
(2021)
For the first time, this book examines the strategies of leaders of emerging nations to use sport as a tool for reaching social, economic, cultural, political, technological or environmental goals and gaining international ...
The Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance
(2025)
Covering a wide range of different online platforms, including social media sites and chatrooms, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the current state of sociological and criminological scholarship focused on ...
Safeguarding the Quality of Forensic Assessment in Sentencing
(2022)
This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary and cross-national perspective on safeguarding the quality of forensic assessment in sentencing offenders. Taking an in-depth look at seven different Western countries, ...
Making Migration Work
(2025)
The complexion of labour migration in the European Union (EU) has altered in recent years. Not only has there been a shift in the length of time labour migrants spend abroad, but the nature, scale and direction of the ...
Design for Emergency Management
(2024)
Alpine Fault, Aotearoa, CARE package, DRM, EEW, Mexico City, NGO, NHC, New Zealand, The Bahamas, participatory design, pictogram, risk, signs, visual standards, wildfire, fire, flood, global warming, government, high-rise ...
The Applied Studio Model in Higher Music Education
(2024)
This book presents an examination of the applied music studio as part of higher education. Applied music studios are where students learn an instrument or voice in one-to-one settings with high-level musician teachers. ...
Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe
(2020)
Comparative; EU; Education; Europe; European; School; Union; Choice; Transition; Inequality; Aspiration; International; Justice; Social; Political
Chapter 1 Spatialization of oppression
(2023)
For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century. This is despite, or because of, the nexus ...
Power and Authority in Internet Governance
(2021)
Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: Is the state "back" in internet regulation? If so, what forms are state involvement ...