Publications
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Chapter Appendix VI: A Complete List of Parts of Speech in Mandarin Chinese
(2017)
This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech. The original books were published as two pioneering technical reports by Chinese Knowledge and ...
Chapter 19 Social generations and societal changes
(2022)
This book focuses on social transformations as one of the central topics in the social sciences. The study of European social transformations is very valuable in the context of universal discussions within social sciences: ...
The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies
(2023)
Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies ...
Neurodiversity in the Workplace
(2023)
Neurodiversity in the Workplace presents a timely and needed perspective on the role and responsibility of employers and those working to increase the effectiveness of workplace practices to examine the many ways we preclude ...
Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration
(2017)
This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that hope offers a unique prism for analyzing the ...
Self-Directed Learner
(2005)
Self-directed learning is a buzz term that has been used within educational circles for some time now. An educator wants their students to fulfill their potential and work to the maximum of their abilities. As with younger ...
Religion, Gender and Race in Western European Arts and Culture
(2024)
This book examines narratives of individual religious transformation in Western European literature and culture. Religious individuals, themes, experiences and communities are widely represented in diverse literature and ...
Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City
(2021)
Regional and local governments have long recognised the potential for films, television shows, novels and other media texts that are set in their city or country to attract tourists. Although there is a wealth of scholarship ...
Building Industries at Sea - ‘Blue Growth’ and the New Maritime Economy
(2018)
Throughout the world there is evidence of mounting interest in marine resources and new maritime industries to create jobs, economic growth and to help in the provision of energy and food security. Expanding populations, ...
Chapter 6 ‘In the Hospital + Out of the Hospital’
(2023)
In 1884, an article entitled ‘Hospital Nurses’, describing the role and responsibilities of nursing staff in hospital wards, appeared in the Leisure Hour. The author, who signed herself simply ‘M. E. H.’, was Margaret Elise ...
Chapter 2 Overcoming the Justice Impasse in Syria
(2023)
This chapter discusses what transitional justice can be in a non-transitioning context of internationalised civil war, such as Syria since 2011. It argues that the transitional justice paradigm and its toolkit has allowed ...
Theatre Institutions in Crisis
(2021)
Theatre Institutions in Crisis examines how theatre in Europe is beset by a crisis on an institutional level and the pressing need for robust research into the complex configuration of factors at work that are leading to ...
The Politics of Green Transformations
(2015)
Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
Starting with a true story that inspired this research, the introduction raises the main research questions that are examined and addressed in the rest of the book: how have different forms of traditions affected the ...
Transitional Justice in Tunisia
(2023)
This book engages comprehensively with the dynamics of the transitional justice process in Tunisia and its mechanisms, elaborating lessons for transitional justice practice globally. Grounded in new empirical material as ...
The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni
(2022)
The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). ...
Modern Trends in Research on Steel, Aluminium and Composite Structures
(2021)
Modern Trends in Research on Steel, Aluminium and Composite Structures includes papers presented at the 14th International Conference on Metal Structures 2021 (ICMS 2021, Poznań, Poland, 16-18 June 2021). The 14th ICMS ...
Innovation and Technological Advances for Sustainability
(2025)
The proceedings publication of the International Conference on Innovation and Technological Advances for Sustainability (ITAS 2023) captures the essence of a dynamic international forum dedicated to advancing the United ...
The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood
(2016)
The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, impacts which are not yet fully worked through: changes in state-society ...
A Most Improbable Story
(2023)
This book is a “big history” of the evidence regarding how we came to be. It briefly explores philosophical thought and how our past might affect our future. The text summarizes different perspectives, including the ...
Biodiversity Databases
(2007)
With changes in technology and a renewed effort to catalog the world's biodiversity, huge amounts of data are being generated on biodiversity issues. As response to the call for better information systems to manage the ...
Hidden Attractions of Administration
(2021)
This book argues that the expansion of administrative activities in today’s working life is driven not only by pressure from above, but also from below. The authors examine the inner dynamics of people-processing ...
The Informal Economy Revisited
(2020)
This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy. Researchers, practitioners and policy makers will ...
International Perspectives on Writing Curricula and Development
(2021)
writing studies, writing development, cross-national writing research, school writing, curricular analysis, curriculum, assessment tools, national education
Consumer Culture Theory in Asia
(2022)
Collaborations between entertainment industries and artificial intelligence researchers in Japan have since the mid-1990s produced a growing interest in modeling affect and emotion for use in mass-produced social robots. ...
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Technology
(2022)
Technology- mediated language learning has matured over the past few decades, with various tools and contexts now widely used in language education for all ages and levels. Many of today’s language learners have experienced ...
Regulating Competition
(2018)
Cartels, trusts and agreements to reduce competition between firms have existed for centuries, but became particularly prevalent toward the end of the 19th century. In the mid-20th century governments began to use so called ...
Politico-ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World
(2023)
This book presents a study of politico-ideological mobilisation and violence by focusing on the life stories, trajectories and narratives of individuals who mobilised for causes and conflicts in the Arab World. It provides ...
Chapter 11 When the Margins Enter the Centre
(2024)
This chapter uses a discourse-theoretical analysis to study two episodes of the documentary series Along the Borders of Turkey (2012), produced and broadcast by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. In 2017, the VPRO web team ...
Ecology of Marine Bivalves
(2011)
Bivalves, such as clams and oysters, are species having two-valved shells. In the marine ecosystem these species play a unique and essential role. This book examines the ecology of bivalves from an ecosystem or holistic ...
Enabling the City
(2021)
Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking ...
Chapter 13 Rebuilding Relationships between Data, Method, and Theories
(2022)
In both Management and I/O Psychology, contributions to theory remain an important, and in many cases, sole criterion for evaluating submissions to top journals. In many ways, the definition of theory and the primacy of ...
Chapter 7 Gender-Based Violence and the Performance of Masculinity
(2022)
The aim of this chapter is to analyse how two documentary films, Elisabetta Lodoli's Ma l'amore c'entra? and Isabel de Ocampo's Serás Hombre, critically explore the interrelation between the performance of hegemonic ...
Chapter 5 The future of inclusive innovation
(2022)
"Innovation offers potential: to cure diseases, to better connect people, and to make the way we live and work more efficient and enjoyable. At the same time, innovation can fuel inequality, decimate livelihoods, and harm ...
International Arctic Petroleum Cooperation
(2015)
The Arctic region contains large amounts of natural resources considered necessary to sustain global economic growth, so it is unsurprising that it is increasingly susceptible to political, economic, environmental, and ...
Chapter 7 From informative to transformative practice? Addressing challenges of human rights education in Norway
(2025)
Backed by a range of case studies and recent developments in human rights education research, Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education guides readers through an analysis of educational inequities and identifies how ...
The Barter Economy of the Khmer Rouge Labor Camps
(2024)
Pribble investigates the barter economies that developed in many of the labor camps established under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
When the Khmer Rouge abolished currency and markets in 1975, starving Cambodians created ...
Multinational Enterprise, Political Risk and Organisational Change
(2019)
Multinationals, Organizational Change, Total War, War and Industry, Business History, Accounting History, Cold War, Organizational Innovation
Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World
(2022)
The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action. ...
Chapter 8 Intergenerational support for autonomous living in a post-socialist housing market
(2019)
This paper explores housing trajectories of young adults and practices
of intergenerational support in Romania drawing on narratives
of a group of people aged 25–39 living (quasi-) autonomously in
Bucharest, and those ...