Publications
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Chapter 2 Lessons of European VET? National systems and international prescriptions
(2022)
This chapter examines conflicting claims about the potential of European VET to provide a model for technical and vocational systems across the world. Technocratic accounts by international policy bodies, especially the ...
Chapter 4 Functions of Letters in Verse and Prose
(2021)
Letters were an important medium of everyday communication in the ancient Mediterranean. Soon after its emergence, the epistolary form was adopted by educated elites and transformed into a literary genre, which developed ...
Beyond Certification
(2015)
Certification emerged from the 1992 Rio Earth Summit amidst
great hope that we would finally begin to address the wicked environmental
and social problems facing our globe. Despite a proliferation
of certification schemes ...
The Political Economy of Extreme Poverty in Eastern Europe
(2025)
This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in Eastern Europe, focusing on Romanian Roma, through a comparative historical perspective on its roots and the socio-economic and political mechanisms that have shaped ...
Chapter 3 Cultivation Theory: Gerbner, Fear, Crime, and Cops
(2016)
The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and ...
Chapter 6 Rivers and water security
(2018)
Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societies have utilized and altered river flows in a number of ways for millennia. ...
Humanitarianism and Challenges of Cooperation
(2016)
Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous amount of resources and serves as an argument for different kinds of interference into the ...
Negotiation, Identity and Justice
(2023)
This volume presents contributions made by Daniel Druckman on the topics of negotiation, national identity, and justice.
Containing research conducted and published over a half century, the volume is divided into seven ...
Chapter 6 Learning from the Kenyan solar PV innovation history
(2017)
Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital pre-cursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international ...
Music as Labour
(2022)
This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism. ...
Urban Resettlements in the Global South
(2021)
displacement; global south; housing; infrastructure; relocation; urban resettlements; pandemic; COVID-19
Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism
(2023)
Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism: Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa analyses social struggles over damaging new fossil-fuel projects in the Global South with a focus on South Africa, Africa’s biggest fossil fuel ...
Chapter 12 Children's perspectives on green space management in Sweden and Denmark
(2020)
Green space managers develop and maintain urban green spaces, where children are often among the most frequent users. In a case study of four urban districts in Sweden and Denmark, focusing on children aged 10-11, the ...
Chapter 2 Metalanguages and translation studies
(2022)
"This edited volume covers the development and application of metalanguages for concretely describing and communicating translation processes in practice.
In a modern setting of project-based translation, it is crucial ...
Education, Skills and Social Justice in a Polarising World
(2022)
education, elites, justice, social skills, polarizing, welfare, world
Recycling Infrastructure in Cambodia
(2023)
socially marginalized, waste pickers, recycling, infrastructure, urban life, labor autonomy, environmental,
Chapter 3 D. Natsagdorj, Mongolian travel writing, and ideas about national identity
(2021)
In 1927, upon his arrival in Berlin, D. Natsagdorj, one of approximately 45 young Mongolian students who participated in an educational program in Germany and France, composed a long travel poem, “Notes on the Trip to ...
Chapter 9 Harmful or Empowering Convergence?
(2022)
writing; media; history
Education and the Politics of Memory in Russia and Eastern Europe
(2025)
This book examines both formal and extracurricular education, and the politics of memory and historical narratives in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine.
The misalignment between memory politics and history ...
Chapter 7 Remembering, rewriting and re-imagining: Afrocentric approaches to directing new work for the theatre
(2016)
Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address ...
EU Trade-Related Measures against Illegal Fishing
(2023)
Focusing on the experiences of Thailand and Australia, this book examines the impact of trade-restrictive measures as related to the EU’s regulations to prevent Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.
It is ...
Chapter 9 Nation building and Kashmir
(2022)
"The presupposition that Muslim-majority regions of India had to be incorporated into the newly established Muslim state in 1947, constituted key point Pakistan’s international narrative, and incessantly cast a shadow on ...
Chapter 27 Observing Yoga
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book ...
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 ...
The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools
(2023)
This handbook provides a unique, systematic and comprehensive overview from leading experts in the field of the policy-making tools deployed at all the phases of the policy process. It covers the fundamentals of both new ...
Chapter 15 Configuring the older adult
(2021)
Social change in the 21st century is shaped by both demographic changes associated with ageing societies and significant technological change and development. Outlining the basic principles of a new academic field, ...
Chapter 7 Resisting Cultures of Inequality through Feminist Counter-Visuality Practices in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Non- Fiction Cinema
(2022)
This chapter aims to analyse feminist resistances to persuasion in visual discourse and to dissect several case studies in fiction and non-fiction Spanish films in order to highlight what we consider to be practices of ...
Chapter B7 Legal Speech Acts
(2016)
Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law:describes the different registers and ...
The Limits of Criminological Positivism
(2022)
The reform agenda promoted by the late-nineteenth-century penal reformers variously described as advocates of ‘positivism’, ‘social defense’ or as members of the ‘modern’ or ‘sociological’ school of criminal law threatened ...
Ecology and Applied Environmental Science
(2014)
Ecology and Applied Environmental Science addresses the impact of contemporary environmental problems by using the main principles of scientific ecology. It offers a brief yet comprehensive explanation of ecosystems based ...
Cultural Genocide
(2019)
This book explores concepts of Cultural genocide, its definitions, place in international law, the systems and methods that contribute to its manifestations, and its occurrences. Through a systematic approach and comprehensive ...
Oceanography and Marine Biology
(2022)
CHOICE Highly Recommended, Sept 2022
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and ...
Synthetic Sorbent Materials Based on Metal Sulphides and Oxides
(2021)
This monograph focuses on development of inorganic nanomaterials for removal of metallic species from the aqueous environment. General synthetic methods to prepare such materials are lacking. This book investigates problems ...
Making Media Matter
(2022)
This book is an essential resource for media educators working to promote critical thinking, creativity, and civic engagement through their teaching. Connecting theory and research with creative projects and analyses of ...
Theory and Methods for Sociocultural Research in Science and Engineering Education
(2019)
Introducing original methods for integrating sociocultural and discourse studies into science and engineering education, this book provides a much-needed framework for how to conduct qualitative research in this field. The ...
Chapter Conclusion
(2021)
"Many of the men who worked at KTL who have died since the closing of the Kaduna Textiles Limited mill without being paid their entitlements have had their names included on the list compiled by the Coalition of Unpaid ...
Chapter 7 Binge-Watching the World
(2022)
writing; media; history
Forced Mobility of EU Citizens
(2024)
Forced Mobility of EU Citizens is a critical evaluation from an empirical perspective of existing practices of the use of transnational criminal justice instruments within the European Union. Such instruments include the ...
The Age of Sustainability
(2020)
With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in ...
Chapter 22 Simulation Modeling as a Policy Tool
(2023)
This chapter describes, justifies, presents the pros and cons of and illustrates the use of simulation
modeling as a handy, cost-effective and agile tool for policymakers. Simulation modeling
is flexible enough to ...