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Chapter 15 Poor in this world but not in the next?
(2025)
Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this ...
Chapter Introduction
(2017)
At the forefront of current digital literacy studies in education, this Handbook uniquely systematizes emerging interdisciplinary themes, new knowledge, and insightful theoretical contributions to the field. The chapter ...
Chapter 12 Conclusions
(2020)
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the impact of the ‘home country’ in self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) research. It describes ...
Teachers Talking about their Classrooms
(2021)
The International Classroom Lexicon Project set out to document the professional vocabulary of middle-school mathematics teachers in ten communities from around the world. The construction of a national lexicon, which can ...
Cells in Evolutionary Biology
(2018)
This book is the first in a projected series on Evolutionary Cell Biology, the intent of which is to demonstrate the essential role of cellular mechanisms in transforming the genotype into the phenotype by transforming ...
History of Construction Cultures Volume 1
(2021)
History of Construction Cultures Volume 1 contains papers presented at the 7ICCH – Seventh International Congress on Construction History, held at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal, from 12 to 16 July, 2021. The ...
Chapter 2 Public Diplomacy Strategies Represented Domestically through Ports along 21st Maritime Silk Road
(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 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
Chapter 4 Constructing Temples, Constructing Power
(2023)
There is a dearth of archaeological vestiges for Hindu temples prior to the 6th century in the Tamil-speaking South, although we know through literature and epigraphy that they were built at least by the early 5th century. ...
China’s New Role in African Politics
(2020)
China's rise to global power status in recent decades has been accompanied by deepening economic relationships with Africa, with the New Silk Road's extension to Sub-Saharan Africa as the latest step, leading to much ...
BioMEMS
(2011)
Written to cover often overlooked areas in the field of bioMEMS, this volume bridges topics related to biomolecules and complex biological entities with those directly related to the design, fabrication, and characterization ...
Chapter 10 Towards decolonising schooling
(2020)
"This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa.
It examines ‘on the ground’ history of colonialism from ...
Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde
(2022)
Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde: A Mnemohistory takes as its reference from the anti-colonial struggles against the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and the ways this period ...
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Finance Studies
(2020)
The term “financialization of everyday life” has become a buzzword in recent years. As it is often the case with buzzwords, the financialization of everyday life literature is informed by a variety of conceptual uses, ...
History of Construction Cultures Volume 2
(2021)
Volume 2 of History of Construction Cultures contains papers presented at the 7ICCH – Seventh International Congress on Construction History, held at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal, from 12 to 16 July, 2021. ...
Human Minds and Animal Stories
(2019)
The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to ...
Medical Innovation: Science, technology and practice
(2016)
This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can ...
The Germanic Tribes, the Gods and the German Far Right Today
(2022)
The Germanic Tribes, the Gods and the German Far Right Today deals with the question of how right-wing extremists in German-speaking countries adapt and adopt elements from the history, culture, and mythology of the Germanic ...
The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age
(2018)
In this accessible book, Delia Chiaro provides a fresh overview of the language of jokes in a globalized and digitalized world. The book shows how, while on the one hand the lingua-cultural nuts and bolts of jokes have ...
Dance in US Popular Culture
(2024)
cultural studies; dance; dance studies; dance history; dance theory; gender; identity; movement analysis; performance; theatre; popular culture; USA
Chapter 5 Upland leaders of the internal frontier and Ming governance of western Yunnan, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
(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 ...
Trace Elements in Abiotic and Biotic Environments
(2015)
This book helps readers understand the fundamental principles and phenomena that control the transfer of trace elements. It describes the occurrence and behavior of trace elements in rocks, soil, water, air, and plants, ...
Routledge Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa
(2020)
political parties; Middle East; North Africa
Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950
(2021)
Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions
and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective
process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions ...
Chapter 2 Khural Democracy
(2021)
The political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the ...
Byzantine Dress: A Guide
(2025)
This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire in the fourth century until the fifteenth century. Byzantine dress is ...
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 ...
Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
(2021)
This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced ...
Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
(2022)
brain disease; addiction; model; evaluating
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education
(2017)
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education argues that by rethinking the way
we relate to time, we can fundamentally rethink the way we conceive education.
Beyond the contemporary rhetoric of acceleration, speed, ...
The Work of Communication
(2017)
The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism—and how ...
Chapter 12 The usefulness of violent ends
(2018)
Throughout 2015 and 2016 there have been constant violent protests, destruction of university property, and clashes between protesters and police and security personnel on various campuses. An apocalyptic worldview is ...
Chapter 6 Extending agency
(2016)
By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children’s agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This has made agency one of the ...
Contesting ‘Race’ and Sport
(2018)
"In the decade since Kevin Hylton’s seminal book ‘Race’ and Sport: Critical Race Theory was published, racialised issues have remained at the forefront of sport and leisure studies. In this important new book, Hylton draws ...
Chapter 3 Women empowering themselves to fit into ICT
(2021)
"The near-ubiquitous spread of ICT offers unprecedented opportunities for social and economic agents, reshapes social and economic structures and drives the emergence of socio-economic networks. This book contributes to ...
Chapter 13 Speaking the Power of Truth: Rhetoric and Action for Our Times
(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 ...
Constitutional Law and Precedent
(2022)
This collection examines case-based reasoning in constitutional adjudication; that is, how courts decide on constitutional cases by referring to their own prior case law and the case law of other national, foreign, and ...
Chapter 6 Unifying multiple identities through Arabic varieties
(2022)
Language has a salient role of indicating group membership and is considered a symbol of different social identities. Within the Arabic language, variation across countries and regions create multiple identities, and the ...
The Multi Business Model Innovation Approach
(2018)
It is argued in most academic literature that Business Model (BM) is a general model for how any business runs or should be run, it is the "blueprint of the business". Conversely we argue that no business has just one BM, ...
Scientific Communication
(2018)
This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by ...