This book investigates the complex factors that drive migration, barriers to regular channel migration and regularization, and difficulties in accessing healthcare services in Southeast Asia.
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science investigates and illuminates the growing international interest in the intersections and interactions between theatre, drama, performance and the sciences.
Originally published in 1980, this comprehensive study of stuttering in Britain in the nineteenth century was the first detailed examination of one speech problem as manifested in a particular time and place.
What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup-beliefs, values, and so on-of those individuals?
This important book combines insights from disciplines as diverse as developmental psychopathology, pediatrics, and public policy to offer a detailed description of the impact of global crises, such as armed conflict, climate change, and environmental degradation, on the developing child.
European NATO members face the dual challenge of Russia's military threat and the United States' expectations about significantly greater 'burden sharing', or even 'burden shifting', for Europe's defence.
The book addresses long-standing geographical debates on place, place-attachment and kin/aesthetics as well as the unique spatial-temporal properties of 'journeying'.
This critical text proposes new ways of conceptualizing Black womanhood by challenging plantation patriarchal culture and its binary constructions, and methods of Black heterosexual coupling.
Detroit: A City Imagined in Film is a survey of prominent feature films depicting or referring to Detroit, and how they have captured and fed popular perceptions about the Motor City.
This examination of 32 ghost stories by 21 Victorian women writers defines a new genre, Feminist Gothic, that utilizes the Gothic structure and its uncanny atmosphere of ambiguity to deploy competing narratives that seek to undermine patriarchy by simultaneously upholding and subverting its dominant myths.
First published in 1970, America Against Poverty explores America's "e;War on Poverty,"e; declared by President Johnson in the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and continued under President Nixon's administration.
From a narrow technological and economic point of view, the industrial revolution is regarded as the process by which a society gains control of vast sources of energy and thereby experiences accelerated economic growth.
This book presents an interdisciplinary and international reevaluation of urban critical theories, bringing together key perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies.
Focusing on how the history of past conflicts is mediated in the present and recent past in six European countries, this book explores media processes as they intersect with power dynamics and hegemonic narratives of history and historical memory.
First published in 1987, Educating for a Computer Age examines the evolving role of teachers in a rapidly changing society, offering insights and guidelines for future action.
The Digital Stage: Technology and the Future of Performing Arts explores the implications and applications of contemporary and emergent digital technologies, from a leadership perspective as well as an audience engagement and an artistic and production perspective.
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019 analyzes how collective memory regarding the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019.
Anti-Racist Practices in K-12 Schools and Systems equips aspiring school and systems leaders with the necessary tools to disrupt oppressive systems and foster inclusivity within schools and classrooms.
Principles and Practice of Forensic Mechanical Engineering explains the physical processes and causes of failures that result in physical or bodily damage.
Outlining a process approach, this book offers a theoretical and pedagogical framework for how to teach user experience (UX) from a technical and professional communication (TPC) perspective.
This timely volume critically examines the influence of compulsory education and high-pressure school environments on the mental well-being of adolescents, using a participatory approach to encourage a deeper understanding of adolescents' real-life experiences of contemporary learning and achievement in schools.
ESG impacts businesses globally, and today it is interconnected with all aspects of business, including, but not limited to, human resources, labor issues, risk management, regulatory compliance, establishing strategic direction, and areas impacted by climate change.
This book explores the tension between money and medicine: how it emerges, how doctors of different medical disciplines deal with it in various contexts, and what its respective consequences are.
Detailing the contemporary obstacles and battles that marginalized groups must fight, this handbook provides a comprehensive account that enables readers to understand the harmful nature of these issues and how they serve to place and keep marginalized groups at a disadvantage.
New Conversations on Global Citizenship Education explores the multifaceted aspects of global citizenship education (GCE) in the context of contemporary university research, teaching and learning.
Freedom With Religions offers a new interpretation of Rawls' political liberalism, aiming to reconcile this framework with the profound forms of religious pluralism that characterise contemporary democracies.
The History of Trade Union Organisation in the North Staffordshire Potteries (1931) is an account, by a potter and trade unionist, of trade unionism in the pottery industry of North Staffordshire.
