Publications
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Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History
(2017)
This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles that inspired the movement and the socio-political ...
Care in Healthcare: Reflections on Theory and Practice
(2017)
This book examines the concept of care and care practices in healthcare from the interdisciplinary perspectives of continental philosophy, care ethics, the social sciences, and anthropology. Areas addressed include dementia ...
Chapter 1: 'Sensing Absence: How to See What Isn't There in the Study of Science and Security' from book: Absence in Science, Security and Policy: From Research Agendas to Global Strategy
(2015)
This is a chapter from Absence in Science, Security and Policy edited by Brian Rappert and Brian Balmer. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Part reflection on the forthcoming chapters, part analysis ...
Chapter 9: 'Crowd Spatial Patterns at Bus Stops: Security Implications and Effects of Warning Messages' from book: Safety and Security in Transit Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach
(2015)
This is a chapter from Safety and Security in Transit Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach edited by Vania Ceccato and Andrew Newton. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. As other chapters ...
Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018)
What are the challenges and action points for agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa? This collection of papers offers technical analyses, policy recommendations and an overview of success stories to date. Each ...
The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare
(2017)
This book provides an original and challenging analysis of one of the most pressing social issues of our times: intergenerational inequality. Based on recent mixed-method research, it explores the extent and scope of ...
Bordieuan Field Theory as an Instrument for Military Operational Analysis
(2017)
This book uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a lens through which to examine military operations. Novel in its approach, this innovative text provides a better, more nuanced understanding of the modern ‘battlespace’, ...
Curriculum Reform in the European Schools: Towards a 21st Century Vision
(2018)
This open access book examines the modern role of the European School system within the European Union, at a time when the global economy demands a new vision for contemporary education. The European schools are currently ...
Disability, Health and Human Development
(2017)
This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally ...
Making Medicines in Africa: The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health
(2015)
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. Making ...
The EU and China in African Authoritarian Regimes: Domestic Politics and Governance Reforms
(2018)
This open access book analyses the domestic politics of African dominant party regimes, most notably African governments’ survival strategies, to explain their variance of opinions and responses towards the reforming ...
Collaborating Against Child Abuse: Exploring the Nordic Barnahus Model
(2017)
This edited collection explores the background and implementation of the Nordic Barnahus (or 'Children's House') model – recognised as one of the most important reforms related to children who are the victims of crime in ...
Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas: Integrated Assessment for Policy Analysis
(2018)
This book answers key questions about environment, people and their shared future in deltas. It develops a systematic and holistic approach for policy-orientated analysis for the future of these regions. It does so by ...
Fallibility at Work: Rethinking Excellence and Error in Organizations
(2017)
This book addresses how organizations can deal with human fallibility in order to create space for excellence at work. Some mistakes in work settings put lives at risk, while others create openings for innovative breakthroughs. ...
Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
(2017)
This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and ...
Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud
(2018)
This open access book addresses the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management, and discusses the business implications of cloud computing ...
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
(2017)
This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending ...
Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela: The Revolutionary Petro-State
(2017)
This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between ...
History Education and Conflict Transformation: Social Psychological Theories, History Teaching and Reconciliation
(2017)
This volume discusses the effects, models and implications of history teaching in relation to conflict transformation and reconciliation from a social-psychological perspective. Bringing together a mix of established and ...
Tobacco Control Policy in the Netherlands: Between Economy, Public Health, and Ideology
(2018)
Governments have known since the 1960s that smoking results in irreversible health damage. This open access book examines why governments have done so little to combat this when they have been aware of the problem and its ...
Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People: Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965-1975
(2017)
This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health ...
Housing Market Dynamics in Africa
(2018)
This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security ...
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?
(2017)
This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf ...
Introduction: 'Address as Social Action Across Cultures and Contexts' from book: Address Practice as Social Action: European Perspectives
(2015)
This is the introductory chapter of Address Practice as Social Action: European Perspectives. It is open access under a CC BY license. How we address one another says a great deal about our social relationships and which ...
Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices
(2017)
This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole host ...
The Making of Islamic Heritage: Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents
(2017)
Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts, this volume considers how Islamic heritages are constructed through texts and practices which award ...
Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
(2014)
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Japan has recently promoted a number of initiatives that can be termed an opening to the world and the Asia-Pacific in particular. These have origins in Japan's globalization ...
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England
(2017)
This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two ...
Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe
(2015)
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ...
Promoting Active Citizenship: Markets and Choice in Scandinavian Welfare
(2017)
This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and social services, in the Scandinavian countries. The chapters compare countries, service areas, and ...
The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing
(2017)
This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient ...
Rising Powers and Peacebuilding: Breaking the Mold?
(2017)
This edited volume examines the policies and practices of rising powers on peacebuilding. It analyzes how and why their approaches differ from those of traditional donors and multilateral institutions. The policies of the ...
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead: Posthumous Punishment, Harm and Redemption over Time
(2017)
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst ...
The Restless Compendium: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites
(2017)
This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, ...
Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015
(2017)
This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction ...
The Third Sector as a Renewable Resource for Europe: Concepts, Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities
(2018)
This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations alongside an overview of its major contours, ...
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change
(2017)
This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called ...
Chapter: 'Kazakhstan: Civil Society and Natural Resource Policy in Kazakhstan' from book: Public Brainpower: Civil Society and Natural Resource Management
(2017)
In Kazakhstan, civil society is held back and has had a limited role in the management of the petroleum sector. As this chapter notes, civil society has had little experience of promoting its own interests vis-à-vis the ...
Chapter: 'Introduction' from book: Public Brainpower: Civil Society and Natural Resource Management
(2017)
This introductory chapter establishes the analytical framework for the edited volume. The literature on the resource curse and institutions is briefly discussed, along with the work on civil society and the public sphere ...
Chapter: '‘Sex and History’: Talking Sex with Objects from the Past' from book: The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education
(2017)
This chapter describes the ‘Sex and History’ project which uses objects from the past as the basis for discussions with young people about sexuality, as part of sexuality education. The chapter outlines key aspects of a ...