Publications
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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 ...