Publications
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Chapter 1 Demographic Transitions in Europe and the World
(2015)
Current demographic trends raise new questions, challenges and controversies. Comparing demographic trends in Europe and the NAME-region (North Africa and the Middle East), this book demonstrates how population change ...
Chapter Introduction
(2024)
This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, the importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social ...
Chapter 2 Established and Emerging Techniques for Characterising the Formation, Structure and Performance of Calcified Structures under Ocean Acidification
(2019)
Ocean acidification (OA) is the decline in seawater pH and saturation levels of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) minerals that has led to concerns for calcifying organisms such as corals, oysters and mussels because of the adverse ...
Chapter 2 Animal sacrifice on trial
(2024)
Animal sacrifices are commonly practised in Himachal Pradesh on various occasions, including public festivals at the district level. Over recent years criticism of the practice has increased and some cases have been brought ...
Chapter Introduction
(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 ...
Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network
(2025)
This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualised, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches – offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate ...
From Temple to Museum
(2018)
Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of ...
Media and New Religions in Japan
(2016)
Japanese "new religions"shinshūkyō have used various media forms for
training, communicating with members, presenting their messages, reinforcing or protecting
the image of the leader and potentially attracting ...
Fear and Primordial Trust
(2022)
Fear and Primordial Trust explores fear as an existential phenomenon and how it can be overcome. Illustrated by clinical examples from the author’s practice as a psychotherapist and spiritual caregiver working with the ...
Chapter 3 My First Year Too
(2025)
Focusing on art practices that advocate, raise consciousness, and educate about the human right to reproductive health, this book analyses and compares forms of feminist artivism to interrogate bodily rights while closely ...
African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change
(2022)
This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the ...
Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe
(2022)
Since the 1980s, neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens, making ‘privatization’ their mantra. Yet, as historians and social scientists have ...
Chapter 10 Between appropriation and appropriateness
(2020)
This chapter takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of memorialization
and commemoration, protest and populism in relation to the performative
enacting and official presentation of difficult history. It ...
Routledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations
(2022)
This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe. Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since ...
Routledge Handbook of Critical African Heritage Studies
(2024)
This handbook is a foundational reference point for critical heritage research about Africa and its diaspora. Foregrounding the diversity of knowledge systems needed to examine heritage issues in such a diverse continent, ...
Games of History
(2021)
Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts, textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a “serious” activity can be used as sources for the study of history.
From the vast ...
Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe
(2024)
Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe elevates the voices of civic activists from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and analyzes a wealth of information to generate new insights into how activism in the region ...
The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Era
(2023)
This book reviews the development and performance of the global film industry during the COVID-19 pandemic and examines new trends in film production, distribution and consumption through a global lens.
The COVID-19 ...
Chapter 7 Organizational Stress in Contemporary Japan
(2021)
Stress is defined as a feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize. It can occur due to environmental issues, such as a looming work ...
The Philosophy of Online Manipulation
(2022)
Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated ...