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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 ...
Artificial Intelligence and Systems of the Earth
(2025)
Artificial Intelligence and Systems of the Earth is a book about the potential and capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for studying the Earth. It aims to serve as an eye-opener on new ...
Crowdsourcing in Management Research
(2024)
Crowdsourcing in Management Research explores the evolving landscape of academic research in the context of contemporary legal, social, cultural, and technological shifts. The book delves into the intricate processes and ...
Immigrants as ‘New’ Precariats in the Korean Immigration Policy Regime
(2024)
Won explores the untold story of immigration in South Korea through a new precariat lens. Unlike traditional narratives, this book sheds light on the complexities of Korea's evolving immigration landscape, offering readers ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
This chapter outlines the historical and historiographical inaccuracy of privileging definitions of martyrdom that center on death, and situates this argument within the current scholarly conversation. It establishes both ...
Chapter 2 Possessing and Protecting the Southern Ocean
(2025)
This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanity’s relationship with water and manifestations ...
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". ...
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain
(2011)
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together ...
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain
(2011)
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together ...
Chapter 21 Legalities and materialities
(2018)
This chapter reflects on what materiality-inflected methodologies1 can bring to
an anthropology of law, and to legal studies more generally. Its starting point is an
increasing attention across the social sciences and ...
Chapter 1 Borders of Engagement: Rethinking Scholarship, Activism, and the Academy
(2019)
"The second edition of this formative collection offers analysis of the work rhetoric plays in the principles and practices of today’s culture of democratic activism. Editors JongHwa Lee and Seth Kahn—and their diverse ...
Chapter 23 Precarious Eating
(2023)
Given the phenomenal popularity of mukbang (a live-streamed eating show) among young people, first in Korea and now globally, it is no longer a secret that they like to watch other people eating and cooking in the digital ...
Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society
(2025)
‘Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society’ includes the papers presented at the XVIII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Lisbon, Portugal, August ...
Beyond Classical Pedagogy
(2001)
The emergence of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards in 1989 sparked a sea change in thinking about the nature and quality of mathematics instruction in U.S. schools. Much is known about transmission ...
Chapter 8 Conclusion
(2013)
The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved, particularly in developing countries. UNESCO's ...
Traditional Authority and Security in Contemporary Nigeria
(2024)
Exploring the contentious landscape of Nigeria’s escalating violence, this book describes the changing roles of traditional authorities in combatting contemporary security challenges.
Set against a backdrop of widespread ...
Chapter 1 Salt, grain and the change of deities in early Ming western Yunnan
(2019)
This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1253, and its foundation ...
Chapter 5 FinTechs, BigTechs and structural changes in capital markets
(2022)
This chapter aims at exploring some theoretical issues associated with the impact of technology companies on the market structure in the financial industry with the special focus on capital markets. Based on the industrial ...
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 ...
Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia
(2020)
Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia uses case studies to explore how knowledge circulated in the different public arenas that shaped politics, economics and cultural life in and across postwar Scandinavia, ...
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 ...
Politics of Quality in Education
(2018)
The question of quality has become one of the most important framing factors in education and has been of growing interest to international organisations
and national policymakers for decades. Politics of Quality in ...
Theories of Change in Reality
(2024)
For over 50 years, evaluators have used theories of change to articulate the causal logic underpinning how an intervention is intended to bring about a desired change. From its origins in programme evaluation, the approach ...
Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society
(2025)
‘Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society’ includes the papers presented at the XVIII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Lisbon, Portugal, August ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chinese News Discourse
(2021)
As a country in transition, Chinese news discourse has quite distinctive characteristics, and more so given the power of state media in society. With China’s engagement in world affairs and its massive Belt and Road ...
Chapter 2 Possessing and Protecting the Southern Ocean
(2025)
This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanity’s relationship with water and manifestations ...
Geographical Indication and Global Agri-Food
(2020)
This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas. A geographical ...
Effective Directors
(2022)
The ebook will be Open Access and made available on publication. Being a good board member is not about knowing everything; it is about asking the right questions and challenging appropriately. Effective Directors: The ...
Chapter 2 Post-conflict political order
(2022)
"This book analyses cases of incomplete secession after separatist wars and what this means for relations between central governments and de facto states.
The work explores the interplay between violence and power by ...
Chinese News Discourse
(2021)
As a country in transition, Chinese news discourse has quite distinctive characteristics, and more so given the power of state media in society. With China’s engagement in world affairs and its massive Belt and Road ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
This chapter outlines the historical and historiographical inaccuracy of privileging definitions of martyrdom that center on death, and situates this argument within the current scholarly conversation. It establishes both ...
Chapter 8 Stakeholders' normative notions of sustainability
(2023)
Chapter 8 = Many fisheries world-wide are not operating sustainably. Returning to sustainable levels is challenging as fisheries are embedded in complex marine social-ecological systems and bringing the system back to a ...
Promoting Inclusive Systems for Migrants in Education
(2024)
This novel contribution examines the lived experiences of migrants in education in various international contexts, exploring common school system features that promote students’ inclusion and challenge their exclusion.
With ...
Emergency Cardiology
(2011)
This fully revised and updated second edition offers practical advice on the diagnosis and management of acute cardiac conditions. Throughout the book, the authors employ an evidence-based approach to clinical practice and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism
(2023)
This Handbook is the first systematic effort to map the fast-growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies. From ...
Chapter 9 Expanded Interiors
(2020)
"Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces considers the challenges that accompany an assessment of the role of contemporary art in heritage contexts, whilst also examining ways to measure and articulate the impact and value of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples
(2023)
This handbook is a comprehensive study of the archaeology, social history and the cultural landscape of the Hindu temple. Perhaps the most recognizable of the material forms of Hinduism, temples are lived, dynamic spaces. ...
Gender and Precarious Research Careers
(2018)
The literature on gender and science shows that scientific careers continue to be characterised – albeit with important differences among countries – by strong gender discriminations, especially in more prestigious positions. ...
The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies
(2024)
The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental perspectives in the study of media, ecomedia studies asserts that media ...
Finance Against Poverty: Volume 2
(1997)
Over the last decade, the theory that poverty in the world's poorest regions could be alleviated by providing small loans to micro-entrepreneurs has become increasingly popular. This volume examines the effectiveness of ...
The biology of the first 1000 days
(2018)
The first 1,000 days, from conception to 2 years of age, is a critical window of growth and development. Exposures to dietary, environmental, hormonal, and other stressors
during this period have been associated with an ...
Chapter 8 A European field of public administration?
(2019)
The European Union started to coordinate and harmonise the asylum policies of
their Member States in 1999 within a common ‘area of freedom, security and
justice’, as stipulated by the Treaty of Amsterdam. However, the ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
Introduction: This introduction provides the rationale and theoretical anchoring for the volume and its focus on aparadigmatic cases. It argues that practice and scholarship in paradigmatic transitional justice contexts ...
Chapter 1 Sailing on Cold War Tides
(2022)
Africa, Cape of Good Hope, maritime security, naval history, piracy, Suez Canal
Early Childhood Teachers‘ Professional Competence in Mathematics
(2021)
This edited volume presents cutting-edge research on the professional competence of early childhood mathematics teachers. It considers professional knowledge, motivational-affective dispositions, skills and performance in ...
Chapter 2 Freedom of speech in the age of digitalisation
(2022)
The author analyses one of the ‘Four Freedoms’—the freedom of speech—which is closely connected to political rights. Digitalisation has created a number of opportunities for ‘speech’ and reduced the barriers in human ...
Chapter Introduction
(2022)
This volume examines the perception of the French principle of laïcité or secularism and attempts to demonstrate to English-speaking readers that the configurations of the French model of laïcité are both more flexible and ...
Chapter 3 The Gender of the Cartesian Mind, Body, and Mind-Body Union
(2019)
The turn of the millennium has been marked by new developments in the study of early modern philosophy. In particular, the philosophy of René Descartes has been reinterpreted in a number of important and exciting ways, ...
Chapter 11 We are similar, but different in writing curriculum and instruction
(2021)
Here we present our analyses and inferences arising from the data in the cases, representing countries whose educational systems are diverse: Chile, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway, England, the United ...
Chapter I.3 Implementing the precautionary approach for seabed mining: a review of state practice
(2024)
For years, exploration of seabed natural resources has been ongoing while exploitation in deep marine areas remained unrealistic due to land-based mineral availability and costs. However, mounting pressures from the green ...
Chapter 9 Best Practice Guidance for Political Staffing for Political Managers, Advisers, and Reformers
(2024)
This chapter sets out an overall vision and architecture for political staffing and why it is needed. It discusses the privilege of service in political staffing, notes the current crisis in political staffing human resource ...
Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe
(2021)
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was ...
Introducing Korean Popular Culture
(2023)
Given the phenomenal popularity of mukbang (a live-streamed eating show) among young people, first in Korea and now globally, it is no longer a secret that they like to watch other people eating and cooking in the digital ...
Chapter 25 Teacher agency in plurilingual learning contexts
(2020)
"The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Education will present the state of the art of the place and role of translation in educational contexts worldwide. It lays a sound foundation for the future interdisciplinary ...
Chapter 12 Social distance, teachers’ beliefs and teaching practices in a context of social disadvantage
(2021)
"This chapter analyses the widening inequalities within the government primary schooling systems in India and Pakistan and the implications of the emerging social distance between teachers and students. Social distance is ...
Chapter 1 The challenges of expansion and democratization of education
(2023)
The history of public education in Haiti has been characterized by an idealistic notion of extending the enlightenment of education throughout the country. This notion is reflected in the establishment of an important legal ...
Finance Against Poverty: Volume 2
(1997)
Over the last decade, the theory that poverty in the world's poorest regions could be alleviated by providing small loans to micro-entrepreneurs has become increasingly popular. This volume examines the effectiveness of ...
Gender and Precarious Research Careers
(2018)
The literature on gender and science shows that scientific careers continue to be characterised – albeit with important differences among countries – by strong gender discriminations, especially in more prestigious positions. ...
Total Exposure Health
(2020)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of "Total Exposure Health" and presents details on subject areas which make up the framework. It provides in-depth coverage of the science and technology supporting ...
Total Exposure Health
(2020)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of "Total Exposure Health" and presents details on subject areas which make up the framework. It provides in-depth coverage of the science and technology supporting ...
Chapter 9 Religious violence in late antique Egypt reconsidered
(2018)
Religious violence needs to be analysed on a case-by-case basis and in the context of the particular local and historical circumstances in which it arises, a theoretical premise that has also been applied to late antiquity. ...
The Datafication of Education
(2019)
"This paper considers the social value of anonymity in online university student communities, through the presentation of research which tracked the final year of life of the social media application Yik Yak. Yik Yak was ...
Chapter 8 The Logics of Vulnerability
(2023)
Tabish Khair’s Just Another Jihadi Jane (2014) explores the global phenomenon of female suicide bombers after the emergence of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the international reconfiguration of geopolitical power ...
Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment
(2025)
Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering ...
Chapter 10 Final thoughts
(2019)
This final chapter
takes up these questions, mining some of our ethnographies for support. One of
these is the basis for a short diversion to a Turkish coffeehouse in what used to
be the edge of West Berlin. This is a ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2020)
There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other countries in the Global South. Korea’s condensed urbanization and industrialization, accompanied by the ...
Chapter 4 Standards
(2019)
This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Needs are increasingly seen as the lowest common denominator of humanity. Standard definitions of basic needs, however, ...
New Perspectives on Educational Resources
(2024)
Bringing new perspectives on educational resources together, this book considers how a range of learning materials can be used to effectively highlight creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking in learning.
Covering ...
Museums, Equality and Social Justice
(2012)
The last two decades have seen concerns for equality, diversity, social justice and human rights move from the margins of museum thinking and practice, to the core. The arguments – both moral and pragmatic – for engaging ...