Publications
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Chapter Commentary (end of Chapter 8)
(2024)
This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with ...
Ethical Codes and Income Distribution
(2006)
In contemporary non-mainstream economic debate, it is widely thought that the functioning of a market economy needs a set of rules (i.e. institutions) which bind agents in their behaviour, allowing efficient outcomes. This ...
The Trillion Dollar Shift
(2018)
Winner of the Gold Axiom Business Book Award 2019 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit / Sustainability category. Over the past 30 years, the world has seen great social improvements. Technology has been developing at ...
Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty
(2006)
In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of ...
Chapter 2 Gender and post-election intraparliamentary volatility in East Central Europe
(2022)
Gender, Politics, Elections, Democracy, LGBTQ
Tourism and Travel during the Cold War
(2019)
The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ...
Decoding the Court: Legal Data Insights from the Supreme Court of Canada
(2024)
This edited collection combines state-of-the-art legal data analytics with in-depth doctrinal analysis to study the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), Canada’s top court. A data analytics perspective adds new dimensions to the ...
Debating African Philosophy
(2019)
In African countries there has been a surge of intellectual interest in foregrounding ideas and thinkers of African origin—in philosophy as in other disciplines—that have been unjustly ignored or marginalized. African ...
Chapter 6 Everyday Symphonism
(2023)
Stalin’s political takeover of the cultural theoretical pattern of Bolshevik novyy byt ‘new public life’ created a powerful myth of the total repression of ‘bourgeois’ philosophy in the early 1930s. However, since the 1920s ...
Chapter 4 Against Unconscious Volition
(2024)
This chapter examines the question of whether mental categories come in both conscious and unconscious forms, focusing on the case of volition. Drawing out the implications of the fact that volition is a personal-level ...
Learning Outside the Academy
(2006)
This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community ...
Soil and Drought
(2024)
Drought, a serious global issue, is being aggravated by climate change. Both pedological and agronomic droughts are a major risk factor with adverse effects on agronomic productivity, food and nutritional security, and ...
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy
(2019)
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy focuses on the creation of the therapist as healing presence rather than technique administrator—in other words, how to be rather than what to do. Trauma survivors need wise ...
Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency
(2020)
This comprehensive account of performance-based assessment of L2 lexical proficiency analyzes and compares two of the primary methods of evaluation used in the field and unpacks the ways in which they tap into different ...
Residential Segregation Patterns of Latinos in the United States, 1990-2000
(2007)
Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic enclave Latino segregation ...
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora
(2020)
This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international ...
African Industrial Design Practice
(2024)
Product design,Industrial design,African studies,Afrika,Africa,Sustainability,Ethical design,3D printing,Ubuntu Philosophy,Decolonial Lens,NPD Process,Micro Enterprises,Industrial Design,Co-creation Process,Business Model ...
Chapter 9 The Brain-Based Argument for Unconscious Sensory Qualities
(2024)
This chapter explores the notion of conscious and unconscious sensory qualities and challenges the traditional view that sensory qualities are exclusively conscious. Two arguments are offered for the existence of unconscious ...
Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England
(2018)
This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women’s autobiographical writings (journals and letters) ...
Social Media and Law Enforcement Practice in Poland
(2024)
This book explores the role of social media in the daily practice of Polish criminal justice and how social media is, in turn, reshaping this practice. Based on empirical research, it confronts common beliefs about how ...
Critical Consciousness in Dual Language Bilingual Education
(2023)
This book features case studies that address dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs, which offer content instruction in two languages to help youth develop fluent bilingualism/biliteracy, high academic achievement, ...
Chapter 8 Commemorative street naming practices in the border towns Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice
(2024)
This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, the importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social ...
Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy
(2017)
Whether we talk about human learning and unlearning, securitization, or political economy, the forces and mechanisms generating both globalization and disintegration are causally efficacious across the world. Thus, the ...
Chapter 7 Covenant, compassion and marketisation in healthcare
(2018)
‘No one can serve two masters . . . You cannot serve God and Mammon.’ Jesus’ famous words, cited to different purposes by Miran Epstein and Adrian Walsh in
this volume, provide a starting point for this chapter’s constructive ...
Chapter Introduction
(2024)
Nature was called on to justify what was based on social stereotypes and gender preconceptions ever since the Cold War. Gender discrimination in the US space programme indeed has a long history. Imaging phantoms simulating ...
Chapter 4 Shirota Suzuko
(2022)
"The Politics of Trauma and Integrity uses the lenses of gender and trauma to tell the stories of narratives testified by two contrasting Japanese “comfort women” survivors.
Through an innovative interdisciplinary study ...
Functional Coexistence in Socio-Political Conflict
(2025)
This book introduces the concept of functional coexistence as a context for building practical strategies for long-term conflict intervention and social change.
Functional coexistence is a pragmatic relationship of ...
Distributive Politics in Malaysia
(2023)
The election on 9 May 2018 ended six decades of rule by the ruling coalition in Malaysia (Barisan Nasional or BN, formerly the Alliance). Despite this result, the BN’s longevity and resilience to competition is remarkable. ...
Police Cooperation and Sovereignty in the EU
(2019)
The State and the police are traditionally seen as closely connected phenomena. Today, however, rapid EU legal developments mean that European police forces are no longer tied to a specific national legal context or a ...
Chapter 6 Beyond embeddedness
(2023)
Embeddedness is the core concept of an economic sociology of law (ESL) lens, but is conceptually confused and inconsistent. We have seen how embeddedness can have a tangible impact on our ability to respond to pressing ...
Chapter 10 Sustainability, Public Security, and Privacy Concerns Regarding Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
(2024)
Around 100 central banks currently research or develop their own central bank digital currency (further CBDC). Two projects recently moved into the production phase. The introduction of CBDC by at least one major central ...
Contemporary Japanese Politics and Anxiety Over Governance
(2023)
This book is an integrated examination of Japanese politics in the first two decades of the 21st century, as viewed from the perspective of ""anxiety over governance.""
By empirically highlighting the social-environmental, ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2024)
The introduction to this collection sets out the stakes of research on consent in this contemporary moment. It explores current debates about the limitations of consent as a framework for sexual ethics and argues for ...
Defensive Federalism
(2023)
Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies, exploring the concept of defensive federalism as a protection of self-government against the “tyranny of the ...
Chapter 6 The road to Anti-Trafficking Inc.
(2023)
This Chapter examines the regulatory and voluntary anti-trafficking governance architecture in the private sector, as well as the power dynamics in MNEs’ GVCs as vectors of norm transmission. It argues that, whereas the ...
Technological Innovations in Tropical Livestock Development for Environmental Sustainability and Food Security
(2024)
This book contains the proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Tropical Animal Production for Food Security (ITAPS) exploring Technological Innovations in Tropical Livestock Development for Environmental ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2018)
This book aims to provide a global perspective on energy poverty, with the aid of novel theoretical approaches that disturb entrenched scientific preconceptions and policy prescriptions. We are particularly interested in ...
Chapter 5 Fusion of Horizons
(2023)
“Fusion of Horizons: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on The Merchant of Venice” integrates new horizons into the reading of The Merchant of Venice, particularly horizons about the culture of credit. It delves into the ...
Tourism and Global Environmental Change
(2006)
This fascinating book is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political interrelationships between tourism and global environmental change: one of the most significant issues facing humankind today. ...
Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity
(2024)
This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa’s knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking.
This book argues that theorizing modernity requires ...