Publications
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Stalin’s Constitution
(2017)
Upon its adoption in December 1936, Soviet leaders hailed the new so-called Stalin Constitution as the most democratic in the world. Scholars have long scoffed at this claim, noting that the mass repression of 1937-1938 ...
Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism
(2024)
This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments of health and social care services.
During Lean implementation processes, ...
Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy
(2016)
Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy looks at democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy. It asks why democracy was seen to be the answer to the 7/7 bombings and why it should be promoted not in Britain, but in ...
The Anthropology of Epidemics
(2019)
Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and ...
Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy
(2023)
phaticity, relatability, affect, awkwardness, cybernetics
The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images
(2022)
This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". ...
Chapter 1 The Biology of Austrominius Modestus (Darwin) in its Native and Invasive Range
(2020)
Austrominius modestus, formerly Elminius modestus, is a relatively small species of four-plated acorn barnacle, which is native to the subtropical and temperate zones of Australasia. It was introduced into Europe in the ...
Sociology of Law as the Science of Norms
(2022)
This book proposes the study of norms as a method of explaining human choice and behaviour by introducing a new scientific perspective. The science of norms may here be broadly understood as a social science which includes ...
Leadership and Governance in Primary Healthcare
(2023)
Good leadership and governance at all levels of the healthcare system is necessary for better performance of the system and health outcomes. Lack of good leadership and governance practices can lead to misuse of health ...
Human Security and Epidemics in Africa
(2024)
This book examines the impact of epidemics in Africa, exploring some of the adaptation and crisis management strategies adopted to tackle COVID-19, Ebola, and HIV-AIDS. The authors reflect on lessons learned from solving ...