Publications
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Chapter 6 Vulnerability
(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, ...
Practices, Education and Technology in Audiovisual Translation
(2025)
This book explores the intersections of education and technology in audiovisual translation, unpacking the evolution of AVT ecosystems and looking ahead to future directions for the role of technology in the translation ...
The Politics of Uncertainty
(2020)
"Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, ...
Atlas of Remote Sensing of the Wenchuan Earthquake
(2019)
In May 12, 2008, the Wenchuan County earthquake caused devastating loss of human life and property. Applying all the remote sensing technology available, the Chinese Academy of Sciences immediately launched into action, ...
Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories
(2016)
sexual; violence; gender; memory; war; genocide; conflict; militarization; feminist; creativity; women; military;
Integrationism and the Self
(2019)
In recent years a set of challenging questions have arisen in relation to the status of animals; their treatment by human beings; their cognitive abilities; and the nature of their feelings, emotions, and capacity for ...
Civic Spaces and Desire
(2019)
Civic Spaces and Desire presents an original and critical appraisal of civic spaces for a novel theoretical intersection of architecture and human geography. The authors address civic spaces that embody a strong moral code, ...
Chapter 26 The Role of Pseudo-Commons in Post-Socialist Countries
(2019)
If Hardin’s (1968) widely cited case of a pasture accessible to everyone were the standard for public natural resources, those resources would have the tendency to be depleted, degraded, destroyed or overexploited. Hardin ...
Phonographic Encounters
(2022)
This cross-disciplinary volume illuminates the history of early phonography from a transnational perspective, recovering the myriad sites, knowledge practices, identities and discourses which dynamically shaped early ...
Chapter 5 Climate migration and Tokelauan language endangerment
(2025)
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration explores the practices and attitudes surrounding migration and translation, aiming to redefine these two terms in light of their intersections and connections. The volume ...
Cultural Violence, Stigma and the Legacy of the Anti-Sealing Movement
(2023)
This book posits that the normalization and devaluation of experiences of violence and trauma against certain cultural groups involved in the sealing debate, while framing others as deserving of some exception, has created ...
Chapter 7 Cost effects of local food enterprises
(2021)
This book examines the role of local food movements, enterprises and networks in the transformation of the currently unsustainable global food system. It explores a series of innovations designed to re-integrate sustainable ...
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka
(2025)
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka offers a comprehensive survey of issues facing the island country and an overview delineating some key moments in the country’s contemporary polity, economy, and sociality.
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Towards Sustainable Futures
(2024)
Towards Sustainable Futures serves as a guide to better understand what roles evaluation can play in sustainability. Rather than proposing a single definition of sustainability or methodological approach, this book gives ...
Postmigration, Transculturality and the Transversal Politics of Art
(2024)
This is the first book to develop a postmigrant analytical perspective for the study of art, concentrating on how postmigration reopens the study of contemporary art and migration.
The book introduces art historians ...
Introducing Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing Enhancement
(2023)
Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing Enhancement (MBWE) integrates Mindfulness and Wellbeing to realize human flourishing and the attainment of happiness. This 9-session program, conducted over 8 weeks, enhances wellbeing, happiness ...
The Second World War, Vol. 3
(2003)
This volume provides a comprehensive guide to three major theaters of combat: the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. The war at sea was a critical contest, as sea-lanes provided the logistical arteries for ...
Boxing, Masculinity and Identity
(2007)
Boxing is infused with ideas about masculinity, power, race and social class, and as such is an ideal lens through which social scientists can examine key modern themes. In addition, its inherent contradictions of extreme ...
The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon
(2005)
David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated ...
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture
(2021)
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, ...