E-Book Pedagogy of Hope for Global Social Justice: Sustainable Futures for Pe…

Following Paulo Freire and his concept of pedagogy of hope, this open access book explores the educational role of hope as an approach to learning about global issues in different areas of the world. Climate change, racism, and the COVID-19 pandemic have shown more than ever the need for a global shift in education policy and practice. This book provides a conceptual framework of global educati…

E-Book Expanding Media Histories: Cultural and Material Perspectives

Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyse ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the strengths of a broad concept of the media. The first …

E-Book Fake Gods and False History: Being Indian in a Contested Mumbai Neighb…

n an age where history is a global battleground and fake news proliferates, culture wars are being waged across India over its future – majoritarian or inclusive, neoliberal or socialist, religious or secular? Fake Gods and False History takes us to the BDD Chawls, a central Mumbai neighbourhood of tenement blocks (chawls) on the brink of a controversial redevelopment. Throughout the book, …

The Psychology of Money

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E-Book 21st Century Media and Female Mental Health: Profitable Vulnerability …

This open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, during the 2010s negative feelings and discussions around mental health have become increasingly common in that same media landscape. This book traces this turn to sadness in wo…

E-Book 2050 China: Becoming a Great Modern Socialist Country

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores and summarizes the development goal and the basic logic of the socialist modernization of China, and further shows the general basis of the primary stage of socialism. A…

E-book Transformative pathways to sustainability : Learning across discipline…

This book tries to address these questions. The research detailed in this volume (which took place pre-Covid-19) engages with the specificities of dif-ferent contexts around the world, while seeking general lessons that can be drawn about transformations to sustainability and the role of research within them. It thus documents a new approach (or approaches) that…

E-Book Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War 1618–1648: Aspects of I…

Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War 1618–1648 investigates change and decline in military institutions during a period of protracted and destructive European warfare. Conceptual background is provided by the Military Revolution thesis, which argues that changes in military technology and tactics drove revolutionary transformation in the way states organised and waged war in the early…

E-book Environment in the Courtroom Vol. 2

here are also a set of statutory offence provisions that proscribe speci-fied conduct. These offences can be prosecuted in the courts, and guilty de-fendants can be penalized by fines, prescribed conduct (such as soil or water remediation), and even imprisoned.Such offences are not pure criminal offences that require proof of intent. Rather, they are regulatory offences that require only proof …

E-Book Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to Putin

In October 2013, one of the largest anti-migrant riots took place in Moscow. Clashes and arrests continued late into the night. Some in the crowd, which grew to several thousand people, could be heard chanting “Russia for the Russians” with their animus directed towards dark-skinned labor migrants from the southern border. The slogan “Russia for the Russians” is not a recent invention. …

E-book Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing : Threshold Concepts to Guide the…

n a 2011 article, D.W. Fenza, Executive Director of AWP, tells one defining narrative. He recounts the history of democratization in creative writing and construes the success of its institutions as “a modest emulation of Promethean gift- giving.”1 Consistent with the Promethean story, the powerful protagonist (creative writing as institution in this case) becomes rendered as victim. Fenza …

E-book Ecologics : Wind and Power in the Anthropocene

Carving out the narrowed girth of southern Mexico, the Isthmus of Tehu-antepec is home to a anemometric quality that is nearly unmatched. Wind is valuable here, its steady pulse an ideal quotient of kinetic force to turn the blades of turbines that, in turn, make electricity. With this wind develop-ment might follow; with this wind new wealth might follow. And these are two of the …

E-Book A City Cannot Be a Work of Art

This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing urban planning and design, her theoretical contributions – although central to her criticisms of and proposals for public policy – are frequently overlooked even by her most…

E-book The New Meatways and Sustainability : Discourses and Social Practices

Social practice theories help to challenge the often hidden paradigms, worldviews, and values at the basis of many unsustainable practices. Discourses and their boundaries define what is seen as possible, as well as the range of issues and their solutions. By exploring the connections between practices and discourses, Minna Kanerva develops a conceptual approach enabling purposive change in uns…

E-book Misunderstandings : False Beliefs in Communication

The governor exudes power. Rachel watches him from across the conferencetable. His occasional laughter is loud, his knowing smile invites others tospeak, but not for too long. Today is his first visit to the institute. Theinstitute’s director has introduced the senior researchers sitting around thetable, Rachel among them, and two of her colleagues have already ma…

E-book Funding International Development Organizations : AIIB Yearbook of Int…

Funding development requires access to financial resources. While this causal-ity is commonsense, the underlying complexity and struggle has accompanied international development organizations ever since they were founded. The objective of the 2020 aiib Legal Conference and the 4th Volume of the aiibYearbook of International Law is to take stock. Taking stock requires us t…

E-book Dalit Studies

Mata Prasad’s 2002 autobiography attributes the emergence of Indian na-tionalism to the everyday humiliation experienced by the English-educated Indian elite under colonial rule. Like earlier Dalit authors, Prasad argues that the origins of Indian nationalism must be located in the nationalist leaders’ personal experiences of colonial humiliation, during which they were treated s s…

E-book Criminal Careers : Life and Crime Trajectories of Former Juvenile Offe…

n every society, there is a group of people who can be labelled chronic criminals. Different studies show that about 5–10% of people who commit criminal acts can be described as such (Moffitt 1993). The presence of multiple offenders is a serious problem, and their activities raise public concern. Hence, it is imperative to regularly research this group of individuals, especially …

E-Book Early Childhood Language Education and Literacy Practices in Ethiopia

This edited volume explores how indigenous knowledges and practices can be instrumental in improving literacy outcomes and teacher development practices in Ethiopia, aiding children’s long-term reading, and learning outcomes. The chapters present research from a collaborative project between Ethiopia and Norway and demonstrate how students can be supported to think pragmatically, learn critic…

E-Book Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence

This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. The contributions take the most prominent methods within the field to offer reconsiderations of theoretical concepts and practices in participatory culture, transmedia franchises, and new media adaptations. The authors discuss phenomena ranging from mash-ups of novels and Yo…

E-Book Corruption in a Global Context

This book provides an important survey of the causes and current state of corruption across a range of nations and regions. Delving into the diverse ways in which corruption is being combatted, the book explores and describes efforts to inculcate principles of ethical conduct in citizens, private sector actors and public sector personnel and institutions. Corruption is a global condition that e…

E-Book 5G and Beyond

This open-access book aims to highlight the coming surge of 5G network-based applications and predicts that the centralized networks and their current capacity will be incapable of meeting the demands. The book emphasizes the benefits and challenges associated with the integration of 5G networks with varied applications. Further, the book gathers and investigates the most recent 5G-based resear…

E-Book Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication

What do we expect when we say something to someone, and what do they expect when they hear it? When is a conversation successful? The book considers a wide set of two-person conversations, and a bit of game theory, to show how conversational statements and their interpretations are governed by beliefs. Thinking about beliefs is suitable for communication analysis because beliefs are well-define…

E-book History of Universities : A Global History of Research Education: Disc…

Few would question the value of advanced research today. Considered key to the health and wealth of a nation, research universities receive ample support, especially when global university rankings draw countries into a new level of international competition. Our age has come to assume that an academic career, characterized by the pursuit of new knowledge, starts with a doctorate, g…

E-book What Should Schools Teach? : Disciplines, subjects and the pursuit of …

The ‘knowledge turn’ has been accompanied by the emergence of the school curriculum as a more clearly delineated discursive object. In the past, the curriculum tended to be assumed: a natural aggregate of whatever subjects that schools were teaching. Today, due to develop-ments external and internal to education, the curriculum is argued to be of central impor…

E-Book Given Up for You: A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief

In this candid and revelatory memoir, Erin O. White shares her hunger for both romantic and divine love, and how these desires transformed her life. In the late 1990s, she spent Saturday nights with her girlfriend and Sunday mornings in Catholic confirmation classes. But when the Church closed its doors to her, she was faced with a question: What does a lesbian believer do with her longing for …

E-book Profil Kementerian Perhubungan

Pembangunan transportasi mempunyai pengaruh yang cukup signifikan terhadap pembangunan perekonomian nasional, mengingat kegiatan di bidang transportasi berperan penting dalam distribusi barang dan jasa ke seluruh pelosok tanah air dan antar negara. Transportasi merupakan salah satu komponen strategis dalam pemerataan pertumbuhan ekonomi, aliran pergerakan manusia dan barang, aliran informasi (F…

E-book Permendikbud RI No. 1 Tahun 2018 tentang Petunjuk Teknis Bantuan Opera…

Pada saat Peraturan Menteri ini mulai berlaku, Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Nomor 8 Tahun 2017 tentang Petunjuk Teknis Bantuan Operasional Sekolah (Berita Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 2017 Nomor 335), sebagaimana telah diubah dengan Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Nomor 26 Tahun 2017 tentang Perubahan atas Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Nomor 8 Tahun …

E-book Buku Ajar Masyarakat Desa dan Kota (Tinjauan Geografis, Sosiologis, da…

Hidup bermasyarakat merupakan sekelompok orang atau manusia yang hidup bersama yang mempunyai daerah atau tempat tertentu untuk jangka waktu yang lama. Masing-masing anggotanya saling berhubungan satu sama lain, hubungan yang dimaksudkan baik itu sikap, tingkah laku ataupun perbuatan. Segala tingkah laku dan perbuatan itu diatur dalam suatu tata tertib, undangundang, peraturan tertentu, yang bi…

E-Book How Water Makes Us Human

This book is about how water becomes people – or, put another way, how people and water flow together and shape each other. While the focus of the book is on the relationships held between water and people, it also has a broader message about human relationships with the environment generally – a message that illustrates not only that people are existentially entangled with the material wor…

E-book The Global Fund Strategy 2017 - 2022

The Global Fund was designed to evolve to best meet the needs of a changing world context. More than 50 percent of the burden of each of the three diseases and the majority of the world’s poor now live in countries classified by the World Bank as middle income but still varying greatly in terms of quality, access, and capacity of health service provision. Simultaneously, concentrations of dis…

E-book Spationomy : Spatial Exploration of Economic Data and Methods of Inter…

The project aims to exchange interdisciplinary knowledge in the fields of economics and geomatics. For the newly introduced courses, interdisciplinary learning materials have been developed by a team of lecturers from four different universities in three countries. In a first study block, students were taught methods from the two main research fields. Afterwards, the knowledge gained had to be …

E-book Knowledge and Networks

The book series on Knowledge and Space explores the nature of human knowledge from a geographical perspective. How to create, share, and adopt new knowledge is a core question in the social sciences. Processes of learning and knowledge creation are the result of social practice and always take place in space and in specific geo-graphical contexts. The eleventh volume is the outcome of the sympo…

E-book The Psychology of Collective Narcissism : Insights from Social Identit…

My first discussions of collective narcissism took place in Philadelphia during the Summer Institute of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at University of Pennsylvania in 2005. The Institute brought together scholars and practitioners of conflict resolution, civic servants, and activists in this field to discuss the dynamics of escalation and de-escalation of ethno-n…

E-book Technical Territories : Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural …

In Singapore, a sensor ticks rapidly upward, logging the location of individu-als connected to a mobile network. Such data will register the trace of the digitally savvy citizen, while excluding others subjects such as the migrant or the elderly. In doing so, it constructs a very particular understanding of national territory.In Hong Kong, a protestor dons a gas mask, …

E-book The Economics of Water : Rules and Institutions

Water is not only the beginning of all things, as the old Greeks had alreadyrealized, but without water, no life on earth is possible, and clean water is also aprecondition for any form of sustainable development. There is enough availablefreshwater on earth (about 91,000 km3) to supply every individual on earth (about7.5 billion in 2020) approx. 12,000l, more than enough to live decently. Howe…

E-book Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature : An Alphabetical Odyssey

As a result, a unique amalgam was formed. On the one hand, the Alpha-betical Odyssey is a guide showing the breadth of the creative field of children’s literature that blends the ancient and the modern for readers of all ages, thereby making it possible for them to travel beyond time, to learn about new things, but also to rediscover what may already seem familiar. Short chapters on clas-sica…

E-book Piracy in World History

Pirates, it is frequently claimed, have existed since the dawn of history, as long as there has been traff ic and commerce at sea.1 Presumably, the origins of piracy would thus be sometime in the pre-historic past, when people f irst took to the sea for commercial purposes, probably around eight thousand years ago, along the coast of the Persian Gulf.2 Historical records over close to three and…

E-book Governance of Arctic Shipping : Rethinking Risk, Human Impacts and Reg…

In theory, and regional destination shipping aside, there are three potential major routes for intercontinental transits through the Arctic (Arctic Council 2009; Østreng et al. 2013). The first, and most realistic, is the Northeast Passage, which includes the Northern Sea Route through Russian Federation waters. The latter has been see-ing growing, albeit incremental, commercial traffic …

E-book Psychology in Edgar Allan Poe

his volume presents recent critical work on Edgar Allan Poe andpsychology. It began in 2012 after careful consideration of whatwas lacking in Poe scholarship. Upon months of combing througharchives at McGill University, Concordia University, as well asJSTOR I discovered that nothing on Edgar Allan Poe and psychol-ogy had come around in many years. After more considerationI posted a Ca…

E-book Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island

This book is about storytellers and their oral performances of folktales in Mayotte, an island lying in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles east of the African coast. The book is built on a constraint: I have not witnessed the performances I discuss; in fact I have never been to Mayotte. Within that constraint, I indulge a whim. I use books by three French ethnographers …

E-book Diversity and Otherness : Transcultural Insights into Norms, Practices…

At the origin of the cooperation that eventually led to this book, there is the idea of emphasizing the gap between the ordinariness of diversity, as it occurs in everyday life, and the many ways of representing and addressing it as something exceptional, independently of whether those representations and practices carry with them posi-tive or negative connotations. On the on…

E-book Merchants of Virtue : Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-…

How significant is the history of untouchability for an understanding of South Asia’s early modern past? Studies that approach early modern caste as a whole tend to represent the “untouchable” castes as being at the bottom-most rung of a graded order and untouchability as part of the larger complex of caste practices. But the exclusion and discrimination that those deemed “Untouchable�…

E-book The Blitz Companion : Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City since 1911

For many centuries humanity had dreamt of flight, of the wonders of a speedy and expansive mobility above land and sea. This feat was finally accomplished during the early years of the twentieth century, when the Wright brothers and Louis Bleriot took to the air in powered flight. But celebration was soon tarnished by the onset of aerial warfare and its frightening…

E-book Imagining Air : Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility

A poorly designed bottle sits atop a mantelpiece, contents slowly leaking into the surrounding environment. Not toxic, but affective, this bottle contains air collected from the Irish countryside—captured, commodified, and trans-ported across the globe to lonely “expats” separated from families amid the shuttering of global borders in response to the COVID-19 pandem…

E-book Food for All : International Organizations and the Transformation of A…

The world has produced enough food since the Second World War to feed itself despiterapid population growth, owing to extraordinary technological and institutional change.The rise in world food production, however, has been accompanied by unequal access tothat abundance, as well as soil degradation, loss of biodiversity, and growing water scar-cities. There have also been dramatic changes in th…

E-book Health in Hard Times

People in the North of England live two years less than those in the South of England and boys born in the most deprived neighbourhoods of England can expect to live nine years less than those born in the most affluent wards (ONS, 2015). For baby girls, the gap is seven years. In our case study town of Stockton-on-Tees in the North East of England, the gaps in life expectancy …

E-book Exhibiting Creative Geographies : Bringing Research Findings to Life

This book makes a case for art as geography. In doing so, it situates itself at a certain juncture—the translation of geographical knowledge through art. This juncture is blurry, because in the making of art to trans-late knowledge, new knowledge is created. For this very reason, this book won’t perpetuate a false distinction between knowledge creation and kn…

E-book Creating Chaos Online : Disinformation and Subverted Post-Publics

Denial describes information operations that allow for the achieving of stra-tegic goals. This book is set to expose efforts to justify Russian trolling. Spe-cifically, this book documents patterns and frames of systematic denialism used to justify Russian trolling that circulated in two unrelated contexts and periods of time. This book not only uncovers justification arguments and t…