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The Interplay Between Political Theory and Movies: Bridging Two Worlds
The Interplay Between Political Theory and Movies: Bridging Two Worlds

This book presents essays and scientific contributions examining the link between popular media and politics. The essays focus on the question of how political and social change, concepts of power, and utopian elements are reflected in selected films and television series. The book applies a political science perspective, covering...

Critical Indigenous Rights Studies (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law)
Critical Indigenous Rights Studies (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law)

The field of ‘critical indigenous rights studies’ is a complex one that benefits from an interdisciplinary perspective and a realist (as opposed to an idealised) approach to indigenous peoples. This book draws on sociology of law, anthropology, political sciences and legal sciences in order to address emerging issues in...

Young People, Learning and Storytelling (Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education)
Young People, Learning and Storytelling (Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education)
This book explores the lives of young people through the lens of storytelling. Using extensive qualitative and empirical data from young people’s conversations following storytelling performances in secondary schools in the UK, the author considers the benefits of stories and storytelling for learning and the subsequent emotional,...
Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty)
Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty)

Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change.

This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations and societies
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Stress and Suffering at Work: The Role of Culture and Society
Stress and Suffering at Work: The Role of Culture and Society

This edited collection explores different strands of social constructionist theory and methods to provide a critique of the prevailing discourse of work stress, and introduces a radical new approach to conceptualizing suffering at work. Over the last three decades, stress and other forms of suffering at work...

Connecting Mathematics and Mathematics Education: Collected Papers on Mathematics Education as a Design Science
Connecting Mathematics and Mathematics Education: Collected Papers on Mathematics Education as a Design Science

This open access book features a selection of articles written by Erich Ch. Wittmann between 1984 to 2019, which shows how the “design science conception” has been continuously developed over a number of decades. The articles not only describe this conception in general terms, but also demonstrate various substantial...

Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics (Synthese Library, 437)
Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics (Synthese Library, 437)

A growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis. To explain how human morality evolved, some philosophers have called for the study of morality to be naturalized, i.e., to explain it in terms of natural causes by looking at its historical and biological origins. The present...

Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)
Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)

Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front line of climate change in the lower Himalayas.

From data collected over the course of a year in a small...

Contemplative Studies and Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship
Contemplative Studies and Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship

This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse spiritual and religious practices within the Hindu traditions and Indic hermeneutical perspectives to understand the intricate culture of meditative communion and contemplation, devotion,...

Accumulating Capital Today (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
Accumulating Capital Today (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth. It thus offers a new understanding...

Atmosphere of Collaboration: Air Pollution Science, Politics and Ecopreneurship in Delhi
Atmosphere of Collaboration: Air Pollution Science, Politics and Ecopreneurship in Delhi

This book discusses air pollution in Delhi from scientific, social and entrepreneurial perspectives. Using key debates and interventions on air pollution, it examines the trajectories of environmental politics in the Delhi region, one of the most polluted areas in the world. It highlights the administrative struggles, public...

The New Common: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Transforming Society
The New Common: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Transforming Society

This open access book presents the scientific views of some fifty experts on how they believe the COVID-19 pandemic is currently affecting society, and how it will continue to do so in the years to come. Using the concept of a “common” (in the sense of common values, common places, common goods, and common sense), they...

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