Interdisciplinary studies

 This book explores how and why Mexico s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the Lopez Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexico s Fourth Transformation .

This book explores the struggles that immigrant women experience when communicating with their transnational families through information and communication technologies (ICTs).

This book considers the effect of China's unprecedented economic growth and more prominent geopolitical role in the twenty-first century.

This book studies the role of emotions, such as anger, anxiety, and enthusiasm, across various domains of political behavior in Turkey.

This book examines the paradox that resource-rich countries often struggle to manage their resources in a way that will help their economies thrive.

This book examines changes in the Persian Gulf security complex following the United States (US) invasion of Iraq in 2003, focusing on threats to the collective identities of two religious sects - Shia and Sunni.

Much has been written about reintegration of ex-combatants in a traditional or conventional disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programme.

This book tackles the 2014 European Parliamentary election as an event, phenomenon and process from an interdisciplinary but coherent perspective.

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture.

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the British Press provides an extensive empirical analysis of how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been constructed in British national newspapers since 1948.

This edited volume helps bridge the elusive gap between theory and practice in dealing with the issue of "e;security"e; broadly conceived.

This book presents an innovative analysis of the solidarity/social economy among low-income religious women in Iran.

This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change.

This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe.

This book examines the language of public inquiries to reveal how blame is assigned, avoided, negotiated and discussed in this quasi-legal setting.

This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as 'white-collar beauties'.

The relationships between narrative and leadership,between rhetoric and performance, between doctrine and its voicing, are crucialto party politics and are underrated by both practising politicians andscholars.

This book examines the contribution of the European Commission to the process of transformation of EU borders.

This book sheds new light on the way that, in the last decade, digital technologies have become inextricably linked to culture, economy and politics and how they have transformed feminist and queer activism.

This book analyzes the effects of economic, social, and political disruptions that have come with integration into the global economy for countries in five different regions and the developing world as a whole.

This book provides a robust conceptualization of peace.

This book explains the increasingly turbulent Sino-Japanese relations since the 2000s by innovatively investigating the formation mechanism of mutual misperception deeply rooted in China-Japan-U.

This book suggests how the internationalisation of teaching and learning for sustainability can be a vehicle for a two-way flow of knowledge across national, cultural and theoretical boundaries.

This book offers a rationale for and ways of reading popular culture for peace.

The discipline of Old Testament theology seeks to provide us with a picture of YHWH and his relationship to the world as described in the Old Testament.

Public Service Interpreting is a hugely complex activity, encompassing human, ethical, commercial and political dimensions.

 This book focuses on the major social and political forces that have shaped the ways in which sport has been understood, organized, and contested in an effort to engender social change.

This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development.

This volume brings together leading scholars to examine how the Church has brought its values into the political sphere and, in the process, alienated some of the younger generation.

This book studies inter-organisational relations from a new angle: power.

This book elaborates the need, in a rapidly urbanizing world, for recognition of the ecological communities we inhabit in cities and for the development of an ethics for all entities (human and non-human) in this context.

Is China challenging liberal norms or being socialised to them?

International development is a dynamic, vibrant and complex field - both in terms of practices and in relation to framing and concepts.

The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research offers a vivid portrait of both theoretical perspectives and practical action research activity and related benefits around the globe, while attending to the cultural, political, social, historical and ecological contexts that localize, shape and characterize action research.

This book lays the conceptual groundwork for a coalition of struggles under the neoliberal age.

This book explores the growing role of cities and regions as sub-national actors in shaping global governance.

This book reflects on the latest developments in discourse analysis in the context of EU politics research.

Skills lie at the heart of all actions of a social worker, and inform all aspects of practice from drawing on vital theoretical and ethical frameworks to applying the law and research findings to particular situations.

Social policy is a subject that helps develop our understanding of the meaning of human wellbeing, and of the systems by which wellbeing must be promoted.

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), Philosoph, Sprachforscher und Bildungspolitiker, droht in der Rede vom "Mythos Humboldt" verloren zu gehen.

This book explores the linkages between Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and participatory forms of development - especially those associated with critical pedagogy and empowerment from the bottom-up.

This book provides a systematic examination of the re-patterning of collective identities through violence and the role of power politics in such critical transitions.

Through a rhetorical analysis, this book explores how the parties in a coalition government create a united public front while preserving their distinct identities.

This text offers a comprehensive overview of the key aspects of globalisation, their impact on social work and the resulting challenges in practice.

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster.

In Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales, the author examines the intricate relationship between laughter, fiction, and the human condition in Chaucer's work.

This book examines the development of literary constructions of Irish-American identity from the mid-nineteenth century arrival of the Famine generation through the Great Depression.

Despite notable socio-economic development in the Arab region, a deficit in democracy and political rights has continued to prevail.

In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology.

Since the end of the Cold War, the promotion of democracy has occupied centre stage in global politics and in the academic debate on international relations.