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The Discourse of Security: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)
The Discourse of Security: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)

This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century. Combining the latest critical theories in poststructuralist and political philosophy with discourse analysis techniques, it uses corpus tools to investigate four collections of documents harvested from national and...

Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Genders and Sexualities in History)
Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Genders and Sexualities in History)
This book investigates the wide-ranging connections between sculpture, sexuality, and history in Western culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Sculpture has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and the formation of sexual knowledge. As historical objects, sculptures also draw attention to the...
Positioning Theory in Applied Linguistics: Research Design and Applications
Positioning Theory in Applied Linguistics: Research Design and Applications
This book is about Positioning Theory (Davies & Harré, 1990) and its potential applications in bilingual and multilingual contexts involving teachers, learners, speakers, and users of a second/foreign or additional language. By using Positioning Theory as a theoretical lens and analytical approach, the author illustrates how various...
Managing Employee Well-being and Resilience for Innovation: Evidence from Knowledge-intensive Service Industries
Managing Employee Well-being and Resilience for Innovation: Evidence from Knowledge-intensive Service Industries

This book employs a multidisciplinary and multi-level perspective to understand how well-being and resilience can influence innovation in knowledge-intensive contexts. Building on the authors’ work in the areas of innovation management, human resource management and the psychological aspects of employee well-being, rich...

Ecosystem Services: Economics and Policy (Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management)
Ecosystem Services: Economics and Policy (Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management)

This book bridges the gap between economic and ecological theory and practice. Its main focus is on how the principles of the Austrian School of economics could improve the validity of Ecosystem Services.

The concept of ‘Ecosystem Services’ is a relatively recent innovation in environmental thought. The...

Formative Assessment in United States Classrooms: Changing the Landscape of Teaching and Learning
Formative Assessment in United States Classrooms: Changing the Landscape of Teaching and Learning

This book examines the history of formative assessment in the US and explores its potential for changing the landscape of teaching and learning to meet the needs of twenty-first century learners. The author uses case studies to illuminate the complexity of teaching and the externally imposed and internally constructed contextual...

Shaping the EU Global Strategy: Partners and Perceptions (The European Union in International Affairs)
Shaping the EU Global Strategy: Partners and Perceptions (The European Union in International Affairs)
This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners. Spanning four continents, these ten important global actors – the BRICS together with the USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Mexico – are of profound significance to the EU in economics, politics, security and global governance. In 2015,...
The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy
The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy
This book brings together a large and diverse collection of philosophical papers addressing a wide variety of public policy issues. Topics covered range from long-standing subjects of debate such as abortion, punishment, and freedom of expression, to more recent controversies such as those over gene editing, military drones, and statues...
David Greig’s Holed Theatre: Globalization, Ethics and the Spectator
David Greig’s Holed Theatre: Globalization, Ethics and the Spectator
With a Foreword by Dan Rebellato, this book offers up a detailed exploration of Scottish playwright David Greig’s work with particular attention to globalization, ethics, and the spectator. It makes the argument that Greig’s theatre works by undoing, cracking, or breaking apart myriad elements to reveal the holed,...
Eliminating the IMF: An Analysis of the Debate to Keep, Reform or Abolish the Fund
Eliminating the IMF: An Analysis of the Debate to Keep, Reform or Abolish the Fund

This book offers a concise but thorough analysis of the International Monetary Fund reform debate. Since the advent of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, a lengthy deliberation has ensued over whether the IMF should be reformed, abolished, or left as is. The authors approach this debate from a...

Inside European Parliament Politics: Informality, Information and Intergroups (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology)
Inside European Parliament Politics: Informality, Information and Intergroups (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology)
The study of the informal dimension of EU politics is more important than ever in order to understand how the EU system works. This book presents an innovative and original study on informal cross-party, cross-committee groupings in the European Parliament, so-called Intergroups. Building on extensive fieldwork, including semi-structured...
IR Theory, Historical Analogy, and Major Power War
IR Theory, Historical Analogy, and Major Power War
This book critically examines elements of America-First nationalism, neo-conservatism, neo-realism, neo-liberalism, environmental theories, and social constructionism by way of developing an “alternative realist” approach to the study of the origins of major power war. The author critiques concepts of “polarity” and...
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