Publications
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Chapter 10 From Immersive Body Swapping to Apprehending the Other’s Emotions
(2025)
This volume explores the broad and rich spectrum of contemporary phenomenological engagement with digital technologies. By focusing on plural forms of the digital, it offers arobust and flexible framework for contemporary ...
Organizing for Sustainable Development
(2022)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the increasingly complex, interdependent nature of societal and environmental issues for governments and business. Tackling such "grand challenges" requires the concerted ...
The Experience of Translation
(2024)
Campbell, Vidal and their contributors expand the notion of translation beyond linguistic, modal and medial borders to embrace posthumanist perspectives through a holistic experiential epistemology which envisions translation ...
Chapter 4 Forms of managing leisure time of European seniors of the 21st century
(2024)
This chapter is to demonstrate the challenges related to free time of seniors (especially EU residents) in the 21st century. The starting point for the considerations was to explain the concept of free time and to specify ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2024)
This book provides a comparative study of the impact of referendums on conflict resolution and peacebuilding in post-conflict societies.
Post-conflict referendums have increasingly been held as part of peace processes. ...
Chapter 1 Producer Organisations as Twenty-First Century Farmer Institutions
(2023)
Producer Organisations (POs) have the potential to provide alternatives to the current iniquitous economic systems through collectivising small farmers into economic production chains, and as essential actors in bringing ...
Chapter 4 The Kinesin-3 Family
(2020)
The Kinesin-3s are a family of cargo transporters. They typically display highly processive plus-end-directed motion, either as dimers or in teams, formed via interaction with cargo
Fifty Years of Family Planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(2024)
This book chronicles five decades of struggle to introduce family planning into one of the largest, most complex countries in sub-Saharan Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Interweaving details of ...
Sincerity in Politics and International Relations
(2017)
This work examines concept of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters should they work, and how their decisions and actions could ...
Chapter 7 Left-handedness attempts at dyslateralization, duress, and performance in reading and writing
(2023)
This chapter deals with the sensorimotor predominance in connection with hindrances to the learning of reading and writing in a group of 120 left-handed pupils, aged 9 to 20, educated in ten schools located in the western ...
Chapter 1 A “C Odyssey”
(2020)
The nutritional biochemist Alfred E. Harper was a member of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences for many years, and chair of the Food and Nutrition Board from 1978 to ...
Chapter 28 Genomics in emerging and developing economies
(2018)
Low and middle-income countries have become a site of increasing research interest and investment with the transnational expansion and spread of genomic knowledge and technologies
(Kumar 2012, Seguin et al. 2008). This ...
Experiencing and Envisioning Food
(2024)
Experiencing and Envisioning Food: Designing for Change contains papers on gastronomy, food design, sustainability, and social practices research as presented at the 3rd International Food Design and Food Studies Conference ...
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 13 Commemorating vanished ‘homelands’
(2019)
The twentieth century has been described (e.g., Piskorski 2015 ) as a century
of displacement. While globally the comparative scale of involuntary population
movement may not have diff ered signifi cantly from earlier ...
Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States
(2023)
This volume is unique because of its focus on small states. There are many studies on civil society and social movements, but none that specifically deal with this category of countries. As is well known, small states have ...
Chapter 5 La informalización del discurso público en X1 (antiguo Twitter)
(2024)
La informalización del discurso digital público is an innovative volume which examines different communicative practices which take place on social media and justifies the shift towards more informal/oral styles of public ...
The Psychology of Collective Narcissism
(2024)
The Psychology of Collective Narcissism is a ground-breaking text that presents a new theory of collective narcissism, a belief that exaggerated greatness of one’s own group should be but is not sufficiently appreciated ...
Organizing Sustainable Development
(2024)
The role and meaning of sustainable development have been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. However, there has recently been a dynamic increase in interest in the subject, which results in numerous, ...
Anxious Creativity
(2020)
Creativity is getting new attention in today’s America––along the way revealing fault lines in U.S. culture. Surveys show people overwhelmingly seeing creativity as both a desirable trait and a work enhancement, yet most ...