Publications
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Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
(2022)
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life ...
Chapter 7 Organizational Stress in Contemporary Japan
(2021)
Stress is defined as a feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize. It can occur due to environmental issues, such as a looming work ...
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 ...
Chapter 7 Digital Trace Data
(2021)
"The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field, showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning ...
GIS and Housing
(2024)
GIS and Housing: Principles and Practices discusses one of the challenges that has not been addressed by Geographic Information Science thus far: how can we use GIS to deal with the complex issues underlying the housing ...
Schnittke Studies
(2017)
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) was arguably the most important Russian composer since Shostakovich, and his music has generated a great deal of academic interest in the years since his death. Schnittke Studies provides a ...
A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability'
(2011)
Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical contingencies, C.F. Goodey's paradigm-shifting study traces the rich interplay ...
Diaspora Organizations in International Affairs
(2020)
Analyzing the role and impact of Diaspora Organizations (DOs) in International Relations (IR), this interdisciplinary volume provides empirical accounts of their work across Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East. ...
Foundations of Fuzzy Logic and Semantic Web Languages
(2013)
This book is the first to combine coverage of fuzzy logic and Semantic Web languages. It provides in-depth insight into fuzzy Semantic Web languages for non-fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic experts. It also helps researchers ...
The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment
(2016)
Whenever the legitimacy of a new or ethically contentious medical intervention is considered, a range of influences will determine whether the treatment becomes accepted as lawful medical treatment. The development and ...
The Economics of Corporate Trade Credit in Europe
(2021)
This book is a research monograph addressed to a wide range of academics interested in corporate short-term capital. The study shows the role of trade credit in the functioning of economic entities. It constitutes a ...
Public Banks and Public Water in the Global South
(2025)
This volume presents the first systematic review of public bank lending in the water sector in the Global South. Many public banks have an explicit mandate to finance public water management, yet despite a resurgence of ...
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 ...
Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research
(2021)
"This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace.
The volume argues that critical feminist thinking is necessary to analyse core peace and conflict ...
Chapter 4 Diffusion of SRHR and local constraints
(2023)
This chapter examines how international accords on sexual and reproductive health, such as the SDGs, were implemented in the context of the Philippines. By looking at the cumbersome struggle to pass The Responsible Parenthood ...
Ecological Democracy
(2024)
Ecological Democracy offers an original, thought-provoking, and engaging treatment of why and how democracy should be re-imagined in reaction to today’s ecological crisis. The book explains that one need to re-imagine both ...
Intelligent Circuits and Systems
(2021)
ICICS-2020 is the third conference initiated by the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Lovely Professional University that explored recent innovations of researchers working for the development of smart ...
Answer to Jung
(2019)
In 1912 Jung began to have a series of dreams which left him with a sense of disorientation and inner pressure but he could think of nothing in his life that would have caused this. This chapter addresses each of the entries ...
The Geography of Scientific Collaboration
(2019)
Science is increasingly defined by multidimensional collaborative networks. Despite the unprecedented growth of scientific collaboration around the globe – the collaborative turn – geography still matters for the cognitive ...
Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment
(2023)
This book considers Sweden’s pandemic management which differed so significantly from much of the rest of the world: it provoked intense and wide-reaching interest, curiosity and criticism. Trans-disciplinary Swedish authors ...
Chapter 8 Zombie history
(2020)
We tend to consider translation as something good, virtuous and bright, but it can also function as an instrument of concealment, silencing and misdirection—as something that darkens and obscures. Propaganda, misinformation, ...
Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity
(2021)
History of Science; History of Technology; Philosophy of Technology; Scientific Ethics; Synthetic Biology
Pastoralism and Development in Africa
(2013)
Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the ...
Chapter 11 Introduction to Section 2
(2022)
This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific;Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and how questions that are fundamental;to sustainable development policies and ...
Agency, Security and Governance of Small States
(2024)
Agency, Security and Governance of Small States examines what seems to be a defining paradox of Small-State Studies: the simultaneous coexistence (and possible co-dependence) of vulnerability and opportunity related to ...
Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Foreign Language Education
(2024)
Didactic AVT; AVT; audiovisual translation; didactic audiovisual translation; Foreign language education; Media accessibility; Language and education; Noa Talaván; Jennifer Lertola; Alberto Fernández-Costales
Chapter 17 Multidisciplinary Research on Family Historians
(2025)
The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities covers a wide range of issues encountered in the world’s libraries and archives as they continue to expand their support of, and direct engagement ...
Innovative Strategies in Tissue Engineering
(2015)
In spite of intensive investments and investigations carried out in the last decade, many aspects of the stem cell physiology, technology and regulation remain to be fully defined. After the enthusiasm that characterized ...
A Critical History of Health Films in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
(2024)
The burgeoning scholarship on Western health films stands in stark contrast to the vacuum in the historical conceptualization of Eastern European films. This book develops a nonlinear historical model that revises their ...
Chapter 36 Urban struggles and theorising from Eastern European cities
(2021)
Eastern Europe, activism, housing, urban policies, urban power structures, spacial justice, global urbanism
Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics
(2021)
This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and ...
Chapter 2 Viking camps: A historiographical overview
(2023)
This paper presents a broad-reaching overview of the study of Viking camps, and how this has developed since the 1970s. The paper considers how the camps have been interpreted in the past, summarises the evidence of the ...
Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration
(2021)
"This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices.
Waiting as an analytical ...
Honouring and Admiring the Immoral
(2021)
"Is it appropriate to honour and admire people who have created great works of art, made important intellectual contributions, performed great sporting feats or shaped the history of a nation if those people have also acted ...
Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965-1980
(2008)
This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging ...
Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity examines the development and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) from the perspective of international peace and security. Acknowledging that the ...
Chapter Soccer Fitness
(2017)
The present chapter will provide an overview of the existing literature and a description of the relationship between the training elements of Soccer Fitness, the training-induced effects of Soccer Fitness on cardiovascular, ...
Spectral Feature Selection for Data Mining
(2012-01-01)
This timely introduction to spectral feature selection illustrates the potential of this powerful dimensionality reduction technique in high-dimensional data processing. It presents the theoretical foundations of spectral ...
Chapter 2 Investigating waiting
(2021)
Researching ‘waiting’ necessitates practices of attunement to multiple coexisting temporalities and careful processes for handling and holding the temporal material produced by these practices. In this chapter, we share ...
Chapter Preface
(2019)
Designs for Experimentation and Inquiry examines how digital media is reconfiguring the established worlds of research, education, and professional practice. It reflects on the theoretical, methodological, and ethical ...