This book brings together some of the most distinguished and influential scholars in philosophy and sociology to explore the continued relevance of Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory in the twenty-first century.
This book investigates key trends in youth political participation in the UK, Europe, and the United States since the turn of the century—with a focus on the UK General Election and the US Presidential Election that were both held in 2024.
This book explores human biomonitoring (HBM) as a method to evaluate chemical exposure and its related health effects, with a specific focus on environmental and industrial chemicals.
Starting from the paradox that undocumented migrants—known as sans-papiers inFrench—often have pockets, backpacks, and drawers full of papers, this book explores the role of documentation in how migration is governed and experienced.
This book explores research around reciprocal participation in care activities across a variety of everyday settings from the perspective of HCI researchers.
Drawing on interviews with over 50 women in rural villages in Ghana, this book analyzes the poverty of older, rural, and illiterate women in Ghana within the framework of the feminization of poverty.
This book explores the intricate connections between socioeconomic factors, consumer health, and broader well-being, offering a multidisciplinary perspective on how various determinants shape individual and community health outcomes.
This book focuses on the liminality and experiences of Filipino migrant musicians in Australia in relation to their identities and positionalities as migrants, professionals, labour force, musicians, and members of the multicultural community.
This book is the first of a three-part series that focuses on how arts-based methods can be used to expand horizons for imaginative and ethical research and practice in education and human services.
This book brings together original insights from diverse researchers across BRICS nations, offering a multidimensional analysis of recurring socio-economic, cultural, and political challenges.
The book highlights the significance of a distinct category of underdeveloped areas, known as the inner periphery, in understanding contemporary spatial disparities in socio-economic development and the challenges posed to future cohesion policy.
This book is the first of a three-part series that focuses on how arts-based methods can be used to expand horizons for imaginative and ethical research and practice in education and human services.
This book centers on the stories and histories of buen vivir (“good living”) in education in Ecuador, focusing on how Indigenous and Afrodiasporic Peoples have strategically engaged with state educational initiatives to advance their own epistemic and political projects.
Remaking Urban Life in Chongqing’s Public Rental Housing follows migrant families through an ordinary day—out the door for work and school, back after dark through night markets and shared courtyards—to show how a large state-led public rental housing (PRH) program becomes a lived urban form.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of how Muslim Community Organisations (MCOs) in Australia perceived and responded to Islamophobia between 2014 and 2018—a period marked by the rise of ISIS, a surge in anti-Muslim political rhetoric, and culminating in the Christchurch terrorist attack on praying Muslims in New Zealand.
This upper level textbook offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the complex entanglements between identity formation and political life in the 21st century.
The purpose of this book is to address older adults’ musical group activities and their relation to quality of life in Japan, situated on a crossroad between deep Eastern cultural traditions and broad contemporary innovations and Western influences.
This book explores the profound intellectual legacy of the late Ntongela Masilela, a groundbreaking literary historian whose analytical significance surged following his death in 2020.
In today's fiercely innovative and complex biopharmaceutical industry, successfully managing a pharmaceutical or biotech company from concept to patients requires exceptional strategic, leadership, and managerial abilities.
Inclusive Entrepreneurship in Africa offers a timely and essential examination of how diversity, equity, and inclusion are reshaping the continent's entrepreneurial landscape.
Evangelical Violence examines the long history of western states and actors attempting to export and impose Christianity on non-western peoples and the use of state-administered violence to achieve these "e;Evangelical"e; goals.
This book explores how contemporary Australian ecofiction interrogates and challenges settler-colonial conceptions of nature and the nonhuman through a close-reading of nine Australian eco-novels.
This book emphasizes the concept of citizenship as a driving force behind navigating the complexities of our modern world, as it explores the full potential and power of citizenship in relation to democracy, the market, and globalization.
This book explores how contemporary Australian ecofiction interrogates and challenges settler-colonial conceptions of nature and the nonhuman through a close-reading of nine Australian eco-novels.
This book emphasizes the concept of citizenship as a driving force behind navigating the complexities of our modern world, as it explores the full potential and power of citizenship in relation to democracy, the market, and globalization.
This book focusses on how historical dynamics and specific actors have shaped the diverse outlook and everyday practice of welfare in and across Europe.
This book focusses on how historical dynamics and specific actors have shaped the diverse outlook and everyday practice of welfare in and across Europe.