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Chapter Introduction Crossing the Iron Curtain
(2019)
Focusing on Western tourism behind the Iron Curtain, this chapter introduces the main research questions addressed in the volume: firstly, how and why Eastern Europe became a tourist destination for citizens of the West; ...
Everyday Agri-Environmental Governance
(2025)
Revitalising the way the social sciences question agri-environmental governance, this book introduces ""the everyday governance approach"" as a means to improving the sustainability of agriculture and food systems.
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1989 and the West
(2020)
Back in 1989, many anticipated that the end of the Cold War would usher in the ‘end of history’ characterized by the victory of democracy and capitalism. At the thirtieth anniversary of this momentous event, this book ...
Chapter 7 A Performative Approach to Mixed Methods Research
(2024)
This chapter explores the foundational idea of a performative approach: that our methods and concepts bring different research worlds into being. It has two different objectives. The first is to show that a performative ...
Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law
(2024)
Children and mental health law; Decision-making capacity; Justice and mental health law; Mental health law; UN Convention on Rights of the person with disabilities; World Health Organization’s QualityRights Initiative; ...
Comics and Migration
(2023)
comics, migration, comics studies, representation, applied uses of comics
Putin’s Dark Ages
(2024)
Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a “special operation” was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation’s understanding of its history and identity. The Kremlin’s militarization ...
Gifts of Cooperation, Mauss and Pragmatism
(2016)
This book focuses on the contribution of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) to social theory and a theory of cooperation. It shows that Mauss’s essay "The Gift" (1925) can be seen as a classic of a pragmatist, interactionist and ...
Chapter 1 Doing, talking, and thinking (and why we’re not getting it right)
(2023)
The way we talk matters. Human thought processes are largely metaphorical, but what happens when our metaphors for law, economy, and society are conceptually inconsistent or inadequate? By taking a deep dive into how we ...
Chapter 102 Conclusions
(2022)
The research presented in this book explores care and its circulation in Chinese transnational families that are split between China and Spain, and the paths these families’ children have taken through their lives so far: ...
Housing and Social Policy
(2005)
This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability ...
Civic Medicine
(2020)
Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped govern, and often led in public life. Civic Medicine stakes out this timely subject by ...
Comparative Electoral Management
(2020)
This book offers the first comparative monograph on the management of elections.
The book defines electoral management as a new, inter-disciplinary area and advances a realist sociological approach to study it. A series ...
Asian Politics in Development
(2003)
This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, ...
Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community
(2024)
This book analyses regional development policy or the lack thereof in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which forms a key trading bloc on the African continent as well as the Global South. It explores the ...
Bluefield Housing as Alternative Infill for the Suburbs
(2024)
Suburbanised cities share a common dilemma: how to transition to more densely populated and socially connected urban systems while retaining low-rise character, avoiding gentrification, and opening neighbourhoods to more ...
Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance
(2020)
Taking a bottom-up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance. Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance draws ...
Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences
(2023)
This volume contends that Evidential Pluralism—an account of the epistemology of causation, which maintains that in order to establish a causal claim one needs to establish the existence of a correlation and the existence ...
How Migrants Choose their Destinations
(2024)
This book reveals how decisions regarding where to migrate are made, what factors are considered, how these change over time and why some destinations are more attractive to certain categories of people.
Based on rich ...
Terrorism, Criminal Law and Politics
(2019)
Recent atrocities have insured that terrorism and how to deal with terrorists legally and politically has been the subject of much discussion and debate on the international stage. This book presents a study of changes in ...
Arguing With Anthropology
(2005)
Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for ...
Chapter 35 The Mental Health and Justice project
(2024)
Mental health law is a rapidly evolving area of practice and research, with growing global dimensions. This work reflects the increasing importance of this field, critically discussing key issues of controversy and debate, ...
New Narratives of Russian and East European Art
(2020)
This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art history. Reconsidering canonical figures, re-examining prevalent debates, and ...
Rethinking Secondary Mental Healthcare
(2024)
This book considers how principles derived from a theory of human behaviour - Perceptual Control Theory - can be applied to create mental health services that are more effective, efficient, and humane.
Authored by ...
All Along Bob Dylan
(2021)
All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World offers an important contribution to thinking about the artist and his work. Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, the volume ...
Chapter 62 Physiological Responses to Ballistic and Blast Injuries
(2021)
A comprehensive and accessible resource covering all aspects of forensic and legal medicine.The text provides a foundation for those working in both the clinical and forensic aspects of care, and will also be an asset to ...
Chapter 4 Nanomaterials
(2024)
Chapter 4 - Iron-based heterogeneous Fenton processes have been used to remove organic pollutants from wastewater. However, their efficiency is limited by iron's low solubility and iron sludge formation. Iron-based ...
Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families
(2019)
This book examines the needs, aspirations, strategies, and challenges of transnational Muslim migrants in Europe with regard to family practices such as marriage, divorce, and parenting. Critically re-conceptualizing ...
Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union
(2024)
This book examines the meanings that were attached to the terms “parliament” and “parliamentarism” in the different historical and discursive contexts of the late Russian Empire, revolutionary and Soviet Russia, and the ...
Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art
(2024)
This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy’s role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The ...
Energy, Wealth and Governance in the Caucasus and Central Asia
(2006)
Drawing upon recent progress in development economics and political science, the book provides fresh analysis of the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries transition to a market economy by tracing the impact of natural ...
Health and Political Engagement
(2017)
Social scientists have only recently begun to explore the link between health and political engagement. Understanding this relationship is vitally important from both a scholarly and a policy-making perspective. This book ...
Chapter 7 Manufacturing legislative dominance
(2023)
This chapter explores how the BN had transformed the limited pool of mobilized votes into legislative dominance by tactical gerrymandering and malapportionment. Through the systematic analyses of an originally constructed ...
Budgetary Policy Modelling
(1996)
The focus of this volume is on the European context of public budget policy and a variety of different approaches are used - theoretical modelling, econometrics and applied general equilibrium modelling. Empirical evidence ...
Chapter 8 Persistent Optimism under Political Uncertainty
(2022)
This chapter examines the social dynamics of projections about the outcomes and implications of the repeated elections in Israel. Based on a combination of a panel survey and focus groups, we analyze citizens’ evolving ...
Chapter 11 Complementarity and Flexibility Indexes of an Interoperable VPP
(2023)
This book provides a general overview of virtual power plants (VPP) as a key technology in future energy communities and active distribution and transmission networks for managing distributed energy resources, providing ...
Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
(2024)
This book is the first scholarly book to take a comprehensive look at Germany’s nuclear weapons policies in the 21st century. German foreign and security policy is facing a profound reorientation. Great power competition ...
Women and Architectural History
(2025)
In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the discipline. Of particular concern are the ways in which feminine subjectivities ...
Thinking Time Geography
(2018)
Time-geography is a mode of thinking that helps in the understanding of change in society, the wider context and ecological consequences of human actions. This book presents its assumptions, concepts and methods, and example ...
Women’s Writing from Wales before 1914
(2019)
This essay collection rediscovers and reassesses a host of still little-known, pre-1914, Welsh women writers.
In the last few decades considerable advances have been made towards rediscovering, contextualising, and ...