Publications
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Eleventh International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields
(2022)
Innovations in Road, Railway and Airfield Bearing Capacity – Volume 2 comprises the second part of contributions to the 11th International Conference on Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields (2022). In anticipation ...
Drones and Geographical Information Technologies in Agroecology and Organic Farming
(2023)
Although organic farming and agroecology are normally not associated with the use of new technologies, it’s rapid growth, new technologies are being adopted to mitigate environmental impacts of intensive production implemented ...
Chapter States of emergency and fundamental rights in books and in action
(2024)
Emergencies are ubiquitous in 21st-century societal discourses. From the rise of emergency pronouncements in the United States since 9/11 accompanied by the associated violations of fundamental rights, through talks of ...
Patterns of Inclusion
(2025)
It is widely presumed that digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) shape the future of work; yet, gender is rarely considered in those debates. This ground-breaking book, written by a leading thinker ...
Chapter 6 Implementing the Asiento and Smuggling
(2022)
Chapter 6: This chapter adopts an intra-imperial, Spanish American perspective to understand how Domenico Grillo’s factors operated this new monopolistic asiento trade on the ground. It focuses on the Isthmus of Panama and ...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa
(2021)
This book argues that the fourth industrial revolution, the process of accelerated automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices via digital technology, will serve to further marginalise Africa within ...
Chapter 7 Overlooking women’s lived realities
(2023)
Arab Spring, Transitional Justice, North Africa, Anticorruption, Colonial Legacy, international involvement, Reparations, victim participation, youth leadership, activism, racial taboos
Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa
(2022)
Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical ...
Chapter 1 FAIL! Are We Headed towards Critical Failure Studies?
(2023)
The chapter outlines the scope and structure of the Routledge International Handbook of Failure. It makes a point about the tendency in recent works on failure to advance critical rhetoric and provides a genealogical ...
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 ...
Chapter 7 Sustainable public food procurement in Brazilian schools
(2024)
The book examines sustainable food procurement policy and practice in the European Union and beyond, exploring the extent to which sustainability objectives have been achieved and evaluating the new developments taking ...
Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies
(2022)
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity. Rather than focusing on obesity as a public health crisis ...
Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America
(2022)
This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race, and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in which historical tourism shapes collective understandings of America’s earliest engagements with race.
It ...
Chapter 3 Education, Ideology, and Critical Thinking
(2024)
Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context while also critiquing ...
Xenopus
(2022)
This book focuses on the amphibian, Xenopus, one of the most commonly used model animals in the biological sciences. Over the past 50 years, the use of Xenopus has made possible many fundamental contributions to our knowledge ...
Chapter 2 Between the ‘Opening to the West’ and the Trauma of Rebordering
(2023)
After the dissolution of the USSR, the new post-Soviet borders became a valuable research laboratory both for social scientists from the region and international scholars. Persisting Soviet legacies, on the one hand, and ...
Chapter 9 Who is Europe?
(2019)
This chapter is a set of accounts of the film Who is Europe? It is a conversation
between the filmmaker and the editors of this book, some of whom were directly
involved in the filmmaking too. It is a good idea to watch ...
Chapter 6 Welfare vocationalism
(2022)
In contrast to the technical elites, specific groups of young people – women, those from the lowest social classes, and those with the poorest educational experiences – are already likely to engage with poorer quality ...
Chapter 6 Living in Lourenço Marques in the early 20th century
(2020)
This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa.
African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th century, in part due to ...
The Planning Polity
(2003)
Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, ...