Publications
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The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment
(2019)
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges the view that bodies belong to the category of “nature” and are biological, essential, and pre-social. It argues instead that bodies both shape and get ...
Neutron Interferometry
(2015)
Quantum mechanics is a part of physics where experiment and theory are inseparably intertwined. This general theme permeates the 2nd edition of this book. It discusses more than 40 neutron interferometry experiments along ...
Waste as a Critique
(2025)
This volume shows how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating twenty-first-century society. Waste in and of itself, along with those who work with it, may suffer from social ...
International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn
(2025)
Significant changes in social sciences often herald changes in legal theory, including in international legal theory. In light of the cognitive turn in social sciences, this volume seeks to explore the implications of this ...
The Practical Playbook III
(2024)
Every day, two or three women die because of pregnancy or childbirth. Nearly 80% of these deaths are preventable. These outcomes disproportionately impact racialized populations, including Black and Indigenous women, who ...
Impossible Worlds
(2019)
The latter half of the 20th Century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’: a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves – from meaning and ...
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics
(2021)
digital ethics
The Nature of Physical Computation
(2022)
Computing systems are everywhere today. Even the brain is thought to be a sort of computing system. But what does it mean to say that a given organ or system computes? What is it about laptops, smartphones, and nervous ...
The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution
(2023)
For victims of persecution, attracting international awareness of their plight is often a matter of life and death. This book uncovers how in seventeenth-century Europe, persecuted minorities first learned how to use the ...
Movements After Revolution
(2022)
The Survival of International Organizations
(2025)
While international organizations (IOs) have played a central role in global governance in the post-Cold War period, during the last decade many have struggled. Due to the rise of populism, the Trump presidency, and the ...
Inequality in the Developing World
(2021)
Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social ...
Prosperity in Rural Africa?
(2021)
What does it mean to say that rural areas of Africa are poor? Many people insist that in rural African populations poverty is prevalent. This is either because the smallholder agricultural practices are unproductive or it ...
The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System
(2024)
The Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) fosters structural transformations throughout the Americas. This collection of analyses builds upon the studies on Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina and Latin ...
Pension Funds and Sustainable Investment
(2023)
Since its green shoots first emerged around 50 years ago, acceptance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations in institutional investing—especially in pension funds—has evolved with distinct shifts in ...
Sovereign Debt Diplomacies
(2021)
This volume offers two important contributions to the literature on sovereign debt. First, it provides a unique genealogy of debt collection practices in terms of their availability, acceptability and efficacy. We argue ...
Babies in Groups
(2024)
Babies in Groups examines the consequences for science, for childcare policy, and for adult psychotherapy, of findings that young babies capably enjoy participating in groups. The authors’ research on preverbal infants’ ...
Asian Transformations
(2019)
Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, in 1968. He was deeply pessimistic about development prospects in Asia. The fifty years since then have witnessed a remarkable ...
Sentencing and Artificial Intelligence
(2022)
The first collective work devoted exclusively to the ethical and penal theoretical considerations of the use of artificial intelligence at sentencing
Is it morally acceptable to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the ...
The Meanings of Voting for Citizens
(2025)
On Election Day, citizens typically place a mark beside a party or candidate on a ballot paper. The possibility to cast this mark has been a historic conquest and today, voting is among the most frequent political acts for ...