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Eleventh International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields
(2022)
Innovations in Road, Railway and Airfield Bearing Capacity – Volume 2 comprises the second part of contributions to the 11th International Conference on Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields (2022). In anticipation ...
Drones and Geographical Information Technologies in Agroecology and Organic Farming
(2023)
Although organic farming and agroecology are normally not associated with the use of new technologies, it’s rapid growth, new technologies are being adopted to mitigate environmental impacts of intensive production implemented ...
Chapter States of emergency and fundamental rights in books and in action
(2024)
Emergencies are ubiquitous in 21st-century societal discourses. From the rise of emergency pronouncements in the United States since 9/11 accompanied by the associated violations of fundamental rights, through talks of ...
Patterns of Inclusion
(2025)
It is widely presumed that digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) shape the future of work; yet, gender is rarely considered in those debates. This ground-breaking book, written by a leading thinker ...
Chapter 6 Implementing the Asiento and Smuggling
(2022)
Chapter 6: This chapter adopts an intra-imperial, Spanish American perspective to understand how Domenico Grillo’s factors operated this new monopolistic asiento trade on the ground. It focuses on the Isthmus of Panama and ...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa
(2021)
This book argues that the fourth industrial revolution, the process of accelerated automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices via digital technology, will serve to further marginalise Africa within ...
Chapter 7 Overlooking women’s lived realities
(2023)
Arab Spring, Transitional Justice, North Africa, Anticorruption, Colonial Legacy, international involvement, Reparations, victim participation, youth leadership, activism, racial taboos
Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa
(2022)
Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical ...
Chapter 1 FAIL! Are We Headed towards Critical Failure Studies?
(2023)
The chapter outlines the scope and structure of the Routledge International Handbook of Failure. It makes a point about the tendency in recent works on failure to advance critical rhetoric and provides a genealogical ...
Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in New EU Member States
(2005)
Building on the work carried out in the 2004 Routledge book, Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe, an international team of contributors now turn their attention to the new EU member states. The book compares conditions ...
Chapter 7 Sustainable public food procurement in Brazilian schools
(2024)
The book examines sustainable food procurement policy and practice in the European Union and beyond, exploring the extent to which sustainability objectives have been achieved and evaluating the new developments taking ...
Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies
(2022)
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity. Rather than focusing on obesity as a public health crisis ...
Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America
(2022)
This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race, and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in which historical tourism shapes collective understandings of America’s earliest engagements with race.
It ...
Chapter 3 Education, Ideology, and Critical Thinking
(2024)
Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context while also critiquing ...
Xenopus
(2022)
This book focuses on the amphibian, Xenopus, one of the most commonly used model animals in the biological sciences. Over the past 50 years, the use of Xenopus has made possible many fundamental contributions to our knowledge ...
Chapter 2 Between the ‘Opening to the West’ and the Trauma of Rebordering
(2023)
After the dissolution of the USSR, the new post-Soviet borders became a valuable research laboratory both for social scientists from the region and international scholars. Persisting Soviet legacies, on the one hand, and ...
Chapter 9 Who is Europe?
(2019)
This chapter is a set of accounts of the film Who is Europe? It is a conversation
between the filmmaker and the editors of this book, some of whom were directly
involved in the filmmaking too. It is a good idea to watch ...
Chapter 6 Welfare vocationalism
(2022)
In contrast to the technical elites, specific groups of young people – women, those from the lowest social classes, and those with the poorest educational experiences – are already likely to engage with poorer quality ...
Chapter 6 Living in Lourenço Marques in the early 20th century
(2020)
This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa.
African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th century, in part due to ...
The Planning Polity
(2003)
Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, ...
Chapter 6 Vulnerability
(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, ...
Practices, Education and Technology in Audiovisual Translation
(2025)
This book explores the intersections of education and technology in audiovisual translation, unpacking the evolution of AVT ecosystems and looking ahead to future directions for the role of technology in the translation ...
The Politics of Uncertainty
(2020)
"Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, ...
Atlas of Remote Sensing of the Wenchuan Earthquake
(2019)
In May 12, 2008, the Wenchuan County earthquake caused devastating loss of human life and property. Applying all the remote sensing technology available, the Chinese Academy of Sciences immediately launched into action, ...
Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories
(2016)
sexual; violence; gender; memory; war; genocide; conflict; militarization; feminist; creativity; women; military;
Integrationism and the Self
(2019)
In recent years a set of challenging questions have arisen in relation to the status of animals; their treatment by human beings; their cognitive abilities; and the nature of their feelings, emotions, and capacity for ...
Civic Spaces and Desire
(2019)
Civic Spaces and Desire presents an original and critical appraisal of civic spaces for a novel theoretical intersection of architecture and human geography. The authors address civic spaces that embody a strong moral code, ...
Chapter 26 The Role of Pseudo-Commons in Post-Socialist Countries
(2019)
If Hardin’s (1968) widely cited case of a pasture accessible to everyone were the standard for public natural resources, those resources would have the tendency to be depleted, degraded, destroyed or overexploited. Hardin ...
Phonographic Encounters
(2022)
This cross-disciplinary volume illuminates the history of early phonography from a transnational perspective, recovering the myriad sites, knowledge practices, identities and discourses which dynamically shaped early ...
Chapter 5 Climate migration and Tokelauan language endangerment
(2025)
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration explores the practices and attitudes surrounding migration and translation, aiming to redefine these two terms in light of their intersections and connections. The volume ...
Cultural Violence, Stigma and the Legacy of the Anti-Sealing Movement
(2023)
This book posits that the normalization and devaluation of experiences of violence and trauma against certain cultural groups involved in the sealing debate, while framing others as deserving of some exception, has created ...
Chapter 7 Cost effects of local food enterprises
(2021)
This book examines the role of local food movements, enterprises and networks in the transformation of the currently unsustainable global food system. It explores a series of innovations designed to re-integrate sustainable ...
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka
(2025)
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka offers a comprehensive survey of issues facing the island country and an overview delineating some key moments in the country’s contemporary polity, economy, and sociality.
...
Towards Sustainable Futures
(2024)
Towards Sustainable Futures serves as a guide to better understand what roles evaluation can play in sustainability. Rather than proposing a single definition of sustainability or methodological approach, this book gives ...
Postmigration, Transculturality and the Transversal Politics of Art
(2024)
This is the first book to develop a postmigrant analytical perspective for the study of art, concentrating on how postmigration reopens the study of contemporary art and migration.
The book introduces art historians ...
Introducing Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing Enhancement
(2023)
Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing Enhancement (MBWE) integrates Mindfulness and Wellbeing to realize human flourishing and the attainment of happiness. This 9-session program, conducted over 8 weeks, enhances wellbeing, happiness ...
The Second World War, Vol. 3
(2003)
This volume provides a comprehensive guide to three major theaters of combat: the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. The war at sea was a critical contest, as sea-lanes provided the logistical arteries for ...
Boxing, Masculinity and Identity
(2007)
Boxing is infused with ideas about masculinity, power, race and social class, and as such is an ideal lens through which social scientists can examine key modern themes. In addition, its inherent contradictions of extreme ...
The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon
(2005)
David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated ...
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture
(2021)
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, ...
Mathematics Teacher Noticing
(2011)
Mathematics Teacher Noticing is the first book to examine research on the particular type of noticing done by teachers---how teachers pay attention to and make sense of what happens in the complexity of instructional ...
The Politics of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization
(2006)
Grounded on a series of first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials, this book examines China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, providing an ‘inside’ look at Chinese WTO accession negotiations. ...
Chapter 7 “None of these are jokes, it’s just my life…”
(2024)
With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community. ...
Chapter 3 The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be! Revisiting the Changing World of Work After Covid- 19
(2023)
This chapter explores the future of work. It argues that while predicting the future is very difficult, this has not prevented a wide variety of commentators from seeking to make such predictions. Covid-19 has resulted in ...
Chapter 10 Complicity in Commemoration
(2023)
The chapter reads Maria Stepanova’s 2017 Памяти памяти (In Memory of Memory, 2021) in view of the boom of testimonies of involvement in twentieth-century mass violence in Central and Eastern European literatures. Why this ...
Chapter 5 Audience responses in the light of perception–action theories of empathy
(2017)
In recent years, empathy has received considerable research attention as a means of understanding a range of psychological phenomena, and it is fast drawing attention within the fields of music psychology and music education. ...
Vulnerability and Resilience to Violent Extremism
(2024)
This book examines the actors that shape societal dynamics leading to, or preventing, violent extremism from taking roots in their communities, including state representatives, religious institutions, and civil society ...
A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought, Volume I
(2024)
This first volume of A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought provides a window into the early Protestant world, and the ways in which Protestants wrestled with politics and religion in the wake of the Reformation.
...
Human and Minority Rights Protection by Multiple Diversity Governance
(2019)
Human and Minority Rights Protection by Multiple Diversity Governance provides a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of minority protection through national constitutional law and international law in Europe. Using ...
Human Development from Middle Childhood to Middle Adulthood
(2017)
This seminal work focuses on human development from middle childhood to middle adulthood, through analysis of the research findings of the groundbreaking Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development ...
Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990–2015
(2018)
Mazierska presents a cultural history of popular Viennese electronic music from 1990 to 2015, from the perspectives of production, scene and national and international reception. To illustrate this history in depth, a ...
Chapter 3 The police intelligence division-of-labour
(2019)
This article describes the police intelligence division-of-labour. It is argued
that police organisation gains overall coherence in relation to the ‘police
métier’; a rationale that allows protagonists in the police world ...
Chapter 12 The power of place and perspective
(2014)
Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially as mobile media become seamlessly integrated into transportation networks, ...
Chapter 8 ‘Balancing human needs with technology’—a design-led approach for exploring an earthquake early warning system in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2024)
Earthquake early warning (EEW) for Aotearoa New Zealand is in its infancy. Establishing a public EEW system in New Zealand that can warn the general population comes with several reservations as there are many technological, ...
Chapter 3 Mucuna pruriens vs. Morbus Parkinson
(2023)
This current chapter reports an initially singular case of a PD patient in Germany who could not be treated with conventional PD medication and whose quality of life had deteriorated dramatically after diagnosis, including ...
Slogans
(2019)
Focusing on contexts of accelerated economic and political reform, this volume critically examines the role of slogans in the contemporary projects of populist mobilization, neoliberal governance, and civic subversion. ...
Design with the Desert
(2013)
Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural ...
Painting the Novel
(2018)
Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting – a subject which has not yet been ...
Refugee Governance, State and Politics in the Middle East
(2019)
The movement of displaced people, migrants and refugees has become increasingly important around the world, leading to a need for increased scrutiny of global responses and policies towards migration. This book focuses on ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2022)
Digital technologies shape our embodied lives and affect our knowledge of the self and the world. The introductory chapter of the book presents the state of the art in the research on digitalisation of health and social ...
Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation
(2023)
This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of ...
Chapter C9 Language Data as Evidence
(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 ...
Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Reflections on Masculinity
(2023)
In this highly original volume, Gunnar Karlsson offers new answers to the question concerning the relationship between belonging to a specific sex as a male and striving for a masculine identity.
This book offers a ...
At Home with Ivan Vladislavić
(2023)
At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an ...
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 13 Outlook
(2021)
In many countries, early mathematics education rests on normative postulates. Moreover, it tends to be considerably less standardized and, at the same time, more pronouncedly situation-specific than school education. Given ...
Parkinson's Disease Management through ICT
(2017)
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that manifests with motor and non-motor symptoms. PD treatment is symptomatic and tries to alleviate the associated symptoms through an adjustment of the medication. ...
Chapter 8 Embodied scepticism
(2024)
This chapter extends some of the observations that Goffman made on a class of vocalisations he called ‘response cries’ (1978) to the domain of the multi-modal by examining an embodied practice in English interaction: a ...
Occidentalist Perceptions of European Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Diaries
(2017)
In the midst of Europe’s nineteenth-century industrial revolution, four men embarked on separate journeys to the wondrous Farangestan – a land of fascinating objects, mysterious technologies, heavenly women, and magical ...
Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
(2010)
This book examines the current debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, notably the international non-proliferation regime and how to implement its disarmament provisions. Discussing the requirements of a new ...
Chapter 7 Rice Revisited From Colonial Panama
(2021)
history of the Americas
Assessment for Inclusion in Higher Education
(2023)
Bringing together international authors to examine how diversity and inclusion impact assessment in higher education, this book provides educators with the knowledge and understanding required to transform practices so ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2024)
This book offers a timely and compelling look at religion and poverty, focusing primarily on the two largest world religions, Christianity and Islam, and considering religion and poverty in the United States and international ...
Chapter 30 The Role of Participants in Online Privacy Research
(2023)
Online privacy research considers the determinants, dimensions, and consequences of information disclosure on the internet. In this endeavor, researchers often are interested in uncovering personal and potentially sensitive ...
Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film
(2024)
Vulnerability, Film, Ontological, Passivity, Victimhood
Professional Competence And Higher Education
(1996)
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Fatal News
(2006)
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India
(2022)
This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national and local levels. Climate ...
Chapter 20 Being black on stage and screen
(2020)
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from ...
Social Enterprise in Western 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 ...