Publications
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Comics and Videogames
(2021)
"This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies ...
Managing Cultural Festivals
(2022)
book fairs, creative industries, cultural effects, digital age, food events, management, music festivals, organization, publishing, strategy, UNESCO heritage, Venice Biennale
Reimagining the Higher Education Student
(2021)
Drawing on the perspectives of scholars and researchers from around the world, this book challenges dominant constructions of higher education students. Given the increasing number and diversity of such students, the book ...
Challenges in Information, Communication and Computing Technology Volume 2
(2025)
This book explores the critical challenges and emerging trends in Information, Communication, and Computing Technology (ICCT). It provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues facing these rapidly evolving fields, ...
Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
(2022)
A contemporary examination of what information is represented, how that information is presented, and who gets to participate (and serve as gatekeeper) in the world's largest online repository for information, Wikipedia. ...
Engendering Democracy in Africa
(2022)
This book investigates women’s political participation in Africa. Going beyond the formal institutions of electoral politics, it explores a range of spaces where everyday politics take place, at national and at local levels. ...
Dynamics of Industrial Revolution 4.0: Digital Technology Transformation and Cultural Evolution
(2021)
The 7th Bandung Creative Movement conference presented the theme "Dynamics of Industrial Revolution 4.0" which discussed how the digital world and connectivity changed human culture in various aspects of life, and ...
Chapter 9 The housing careers of younger adults and intergenerational support in Germany’s ‘society of renters’
(2019)
Through narrative interviews with younger adults and their parents ,
this paper explores how the housing transitions of younger adults,
both within the rental sector and into homeownership, are shaped
through intergenerational ...
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 ...
NGOs in India
(2010)
By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000’s, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment ...
Chapter 16 Bhutan
(2023)
"The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century. Opening up a grand new space for critical ...
Actualizing Human Rights
(2020)
"This book argues that ultimately human rights can be actualized, in two senses. By answering important challenges to them, the real-world relevance of human rights can be brought out; and people worldwide can be motivated ...
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 ...
Local Tax Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
(2025)
This book navigates the complexities of local real estate taxation in the dynamic region of Central and Eastern Europe, providing a meticulous analysis of the diverse approaches taken across the region. From Poland to ...
Taste, Waste and the New Materiality of Food
(2019)
Anthropocentric thinking produces fractured ecological perspectives that can perpetuate destructive, wasteful behaviours. Learning to recognise the entangled nature of our everyday relationships with food can encourage ...
The Stem Cell Microenvironment and Its Role in Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Pathogenesis
(2017)
How stem cells behave is very much a factor of their local microenvironment, also known as the stem cell niche. Physical, chemical, or electrical signals from the neighboring cells or biochemical signals from distant cells ...
Chapter 4 Spanish Women as Agents for a New Material Culture in Colonial Spanish America
(2021)
history of the Americas
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. ...
Food Consumption in the City
(2016)
Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, ...
Chapter 3 Polychronic Narration, Trauma, Disenfranchised Grief, and Mario Alberto Zambrano’s Lotería
(2023)
Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narra¬tive, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of narrative theory and context-oriented ...
Preparing Students for College and Careers
(2018)
Preparing Students for College and Careers addresses measurement and research issues related to college and career readiness. Educational reform efforts across the United States have increasingly taken aim at measuring and ...
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 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, ...
Understanding Trust in Organizations
(2021)
network trust, trust, second-hand trust, prototrust, relational trust, network theory, mechanism, indicators, contingencies, tie strength, social distance, network closure, vertical network differentiation, governance ...
Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Agriculture
(2020)
This book explores the emergence and development of the legal concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, and its application in agriculture. Drawing on a range of case studies the book examines the emergence of ...
Social Participation of Students with Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Education
(2019)
This book provides deep insight into the social situation of students with different kinds of special needs in various European countries. Research findings concerning students’ attitudes towards peers with disabilities, ...
Area-wide Integrated Pest Management
(2021)
Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. The extensive reliance on insecticide use reduces biodiversity, ...
Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism
(2019)
This book examines the impact of the "Big Five" technology companies – Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft – on journalism and the media industries. It looks at the current role of algorithms and artificial ...
German Radioactive Waste
(2022)
This book presents the universal issue of radioactive waste management from the perspective of the German legal system, analysing how lawmakers have responded to the problem of nuclear waste over the course of the last ...
Chapter 7 Vitamin C in Pneumonia and Sepsis
(2020)
In humans, ascorbic acid is an essential vitamin, anti-oxidant and co-factor of a variety of metal ion-dependent enzymatic reactions. In this review, the transport of L-ascorbic acid is described from food to target cells. ...
Chapter Introduction
(2019)
In bringing together this collection on law’s relationship with time, our
concern has been to register an increasing commitment among scholars across
disciplines to shift such patterns of engagement. Our own research ...
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 ...
Freedom of Speech in Universities
(2021)
Freedom of speech and extremism in university campuses are major sources of debate and moral panic in the United Kingdom today. In 2018, the Joint Committee on Human Rights in Parliament undertook an inquiry into freedom ...
Future Memory Practices
(2025)
Future Memory Work addresses a crucial challenge in contemporary pluralistic societies: the organisation of open, participatory and socially inclusive memory practices in digital media ecologies. It brings a novel relational ...
Social and Political Issues on Sustainable Development in the Post Covid-19 Crisis
(2022)
As a threat, a pandemic has indirect implications for social, economic and political conditions both at domestic and international levels. Thus, collective and comprehensive efforts are needed in responding to and preventing ...
Water for Energy and Fuel Production
(2014)
Water, in all its forms, may be the key to an environmentally friendly energy economy. Water is free, there is plenty of it, plus it carries what is generally believed to be the best long-term source of green energy—hydrogen. ...
The Anthropology of Parliaments
(2021)
The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. ...
Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus
(2018)
In addressing humanitarian crises, the international community has long understood the need to extend beyond providing immediate relief, and to engage with long-term recovery activities and the prevention of similar crises ...
Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe
(2021)
This book presents a varied and nuanced analysis of the dynamics of the printing, publication, and trade of music in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries across Western and Northern Europe. Chapters consider ...
Migration in Africa
(2022)
This book introduces readers to the age of intra-African migration, a period from the mid-19th century onward in which the center of gravity of African migration moved decisively inward. Most books tend to zoom in on ...