This book delves into the intricate layers of neoliberalization and its challenges, which obstruct accessible and equitable education in Indian public universities.
City, Public Space, and Body offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how bodies experience, shape, and are shaped by urban life, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This book examines the transformative impact of generative AI on cultural production, with a particular focus on how AI technologies like ChatGPT are reshaping the creation of popular culture.
Karmazin, Kolmas, and Qiao-Franco deconstruct the concept of the Indo-Pacific and offer a timely, comparative, and multidimensional exploration of the region's international relations.
Now in its third edition, Mobile and Social Media Journalism continues to be an essential resource for those learning about how journalists and news organizations use mobile and social media to gather news, distribute content, and engage with audiences.
This book delves into the socialisation process in the distinctive spheres of the family, community and school, highlighting its unfavourable impact on girls' schooling and their 'school life expectancy' in India.
This monograph explores how Chilean urban workers translated nineteenth-century European political philosophy according to their conditions, locality, and colonial history.
Using case law, this book explores the controversial issues associated with excited or hyperactive delirium with severe agitation, including the appropriate use of tasers, and the inhumane practice of applying bodyweight pressure on subjects by placing them face down in the prone position, depriving them of the ability to breathe.
This book is a collection of nine chapters discussing the impact of sustainable marketing and business practices on the stakeholders at the base of the pyramid (BoP).
Algorithms and artificial intelligence increasingly drive our lives, cognitive inputs supplant physical inputs in the workplace, and big philanthropies rather than governments tackle many societal problems.
This book provides students and practicing engineers with a comprehensive guide to off-grid electrification, from mini-grids, micro-grids, and energy kiosks to solar home systems and solar lanterns.
The book analyses the four key pillars of Indian healthcare - information, management, human resources and financing - to identify major systemic flaws and proposes practical, actionable solutions.
Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean explores the role of intersectional power hierarchies and the social reproduction of vulnerability in shaping forced migrant men's embodied realities of suffering along the Central Mediterranean migration route (CMR), which connects sub-Saharan Africa to Sicily via Libya.
In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in London's East End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional consideration of the entirety of the most infamous of crimes and their legacy for the first time.
This book examines which characteristics allow a non-state armed actor to be considered an effective diplomatic actor for the purpose of a meaningful peace settlement.
This essential handbook provides researchers, educators and policymakers with the tools and critical reflections needed to navigate the complexities of GBV research, from conceptualisation and fieldwork to dissemination and impact.
In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in London's East End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional consideration of the entirety of the most infamous of crimes and their legacy for the first time.
This book examines the sustainability of school reform for Schools as Learning Communities (SLC), from the theoretical perspective of organizational learning of lesson study.
Este libro, resultado de un proceso de investigacion, recoge la sistematizacion de experiencias significativas realizadas en cuatro organizaciones de la region del suroccidente colombiano: una experiencia comunitaria realizada con la Fundacion Tengo ganas, de Santander de Quilichao (Cauca); otra, del tercer sector, llevada a cabo en el Museo La Tertulia, en Cali; la tercera, realizada en la Alcaldia del Municipio de Candelaria (Valle del Cauca); y la cuarta, realizada en la empresa Colgate-Palmolive, en Cali.
The Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands revisits and reassesses the concept of borderlands in Europe, balancing case-specific perspectives with rich theoretical and conceptual avenues of research.
How has it become possible for the Australian state to gain public acquiescence to develop one of world’s most punitive systems of processing asylum-seekers; one that not only contravenes Australia’s international humanitarian commitments, but that, in the words of activists, medical professionals, and the detainees themselves amounts to torture?
This book employs an interdisciplinary lens to help readers understand why Russia invaded Ukraine, as well as why and by what means it continues to wage war against the Ukrainian people, state, nation, culture, and the country's environmental well-being.
Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory: Different Patches of the Concrete starts with a paradox: how the Chinese Cultural Revolution-through its adaptation by French Theory and French Theory's subsequent adaptation by Chinese Experimental Architecture-shaped the Chinese reformative effort to redefine itself, amidst its struggle against colonial dynamics, and against the Cultural Revolution.
Written from an equitable data perspective, Questioning Technology: Addressing Divisive Data in Research and Practice translates the pressing challenges within data collection, data categorization and data commercialisation to enable researchers, SMEs, and practitioners to better question why and how they use data.
Ethnic Minorities in Israel and Turkey: Inside Outsiders offers a compelling comparative analysis of state- minority relations, revealing how national identity is constructed and contested through the lens of two of the region's most enduring ethnic conflicts.
This book offers a compelling exploration of Nigeria's vibrant cultural and creative industries, unpacking their core components, challenges, institutional frameworks, and transformative potential for national development.
This new edition of Exploring World Englishes surveys varieties of English existing within the world today, and the debates and controversies surrounding its present forms, functions and status in diverse world contexts.
This essential guide empowers readers to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool for efficiency, financial viability, growth and innovation, and as a force for positive social and environmental impact, creating sustainable shared value for all stakeholders.
How has it become possible for the Australian state to gain public acquiescence to develop one of world’s most punitive systems of processing asylum-seekers; one that not only contravenes Australia’s international humanitarian commitments, but that, in the words of activists, medical professionals, and the detainees themselves amounts to torture?
This book examines how the movement of individuals across European borders affects their ability to effectively exercise their rights as victims in criminal proceedings - and how to improve the most problematic issues in this area.
Gender Politics of Monetary Governance in Germany and the Eurozone provides a nuanced reading of how gender politics matter in monetary governance, contributing to a gendered critique of the political economy of Germany and the Eurozone and to efforts of 'de-patriarchalising' monetary and economic governance.
