Society and Social Sciences

The space economy is undergoing rapid transformation, presenting unprecedented opportunities and risks.

This book from the LNNS Series is composed of the best selected papers accepted for presentation and discussion at the 2025 International Conference in Information Technology & Education.

This book focuses on how youth work and music is measured and valued.

Bystander Intervention in Bullying and Peer Victimization offers a clear, research-based roadmap for understanding and promoting bystander action in bullying and peer victimization situations.

This volume critically interrogates the dominant understanding of ‘addiction’ and ‘addicts’.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the Costa Rican political system.

This book explores the link between higher education and possibility by examining the role of educational environments in cultivating knowledge, skills, as well as imaginative and transformative capacities essential for addressing complex social challenges.

Jungakademiker:innen unterschiedlicher Fachgebiete haben sich mit der Idee, den interdisziplinaren sowie interkulturellen wissenschaftlichen Dialog zu fordern, auseinandergesetzt.

This book explores why state violence has proliferated across Latin America despite the adoption of extensive political and legal reforms intended to deter such violence.

This edited book builds on International Perspectives on Exclusionary Pressures in Education (2023) and Theorising Exclusionary Pressures in Education (2024) to highlight different dimensions of exclusionary practices in schools and other educational settings around the world.

This book presents the proceedings of the NeuroIS Retreat 2025, May 26–28, Vienna, Austria, reporting on topics at the intersection of information systems (IS) research, neurophysiology, and the brain sciences.

This book explores the architecture and framework for co-creating the most valuable and promising data in the future Internet, often referred to as Web 3.

This book uses a mixed-methods approach to understand the role of technology in facilitating exploitation in the UK’s off-street sex markets.

Many health professions educators are placed into leadership roles without formal training.

This book brings together contributions from prominent researchers investigating the changes in teaching, learning, and assessment with and beyond generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).

This book features selected papers from the International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies (ICOMTA 2025), Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, during 2–4 September 2025.

This book examines drone warfare – primarily understood now as an issue of technology, military strategy, and law – through popular cultural forms: fiction, film, drama, theater, art, performance, and dance.

This two-volume set LNCS 16167–16168 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2025, held in Rome, Italy, during September 15–19, 2025.

This book explores how South-South Cooperation (SSC) is influencing Latin America’s foreign policy and development choices in a changing world shaped by China’s growing global role.

Between 1792 and 1815 Europe was plunged into a period of profound turmoil and transformation.

This book encounters the figure of the royal woman in the early modern period and explores how she enables and complicates the key moment at which England was emerging as an ideology, a nation, and an empire.

This book examines the critical intersection of demographic ageing and climate change in Bangladesh, including comparison with other Asia countries.

This book’s central focus is on climate litigation, highlighting the main challenges and achievements, analyzing the points of convergence between the main climate cases around the world, and presenting important discussions in the area of climate litigation and its main terms and definitions.

This book is a timely and transformative contribution to the fields of educational evaluation, policy, and innovation.

This book argues that the formation of noise music as a distinctive musical genre (and noise music scenes as distinct musical subcultures) relies on the production of unique learning ecologies and vice versa.

This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history.

This book explores understudied aspects of eunuchs in Byzantium from the sixth through mid-eleventh centuries, with a particular emphasis on the imperial attitudes toward eunuchs and castration reflected in imperial legislation.

This book explores globalisation, cultural diversity and social justice, and the implications for democracy and equality.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the effectiveness of task-based language teaching (TBLT), addressing the growing body of meta-studies that have examined the outcomes of TBLT pedagogies to date.

This book presents Indigenous knowledge, cultural practices, and lived experiences of disability among Indigenous peoples in Latin America.

This book documents, via oral history, experiences of the emotions of parenthood during the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on testimonies collected during a time of crisis and exploring how parents' feelings and reflections shifted and changed with the passage of time at an important and unique juncture in history.

In an era defined by profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval-termed the "e;polycrisis"e;-this book tackles one of the most pressing ethical-political issues of our time: the stalemate in collective action aimed at promoting solidarity and common goods.

This book examines the current needs of identified vulnerable sub-groups in Guyana, including children under the care of the state, persons living with disabilities, and migrant children.

This book covers various topics and trends regarding educational robots, social robots, artificial intelligence (AI) and their use in K-12 and higher education.

Sexualisierte Diskriminierung und Gewalt galten in Hochschulen lange als Tabu und wurden vor allem durch Geschlechterforscher*innen und Gleichstellungsbeauftragte thematisiert.

This project draws on African feminisms to propose major questions about the agency of girls.

Breaking away from usual fear-inducing and apocalyptic narratives, this book explores the visceral and cognitive affordances of satirical narratives in advocating critical environmentalism at individual, institutional, and collective levels.

This book provides an overview of the theories, assessments, and management of dissociation in borderline personality disorder (BPD), highlighting associations with complex trauma and possible neurobiological underpinnings.

This book provides an overview of the theories, assessments, and management of dissociation in borderline personality disorder (BPD), highlighting associations with complex trauma and possible neurobiological underpinnings.

Whether in major world powers or smaller economies, constitutions around the globe are facing increasing challenges.

This book explores ‘exiting’ programs for sex workers, which are behavioural change interventions that support people to stop selling sex.

Soul and the Machine: Depth Psychology, Myth, and Artificial Intelligence serves as a bridge between the world of myth, psychology, and the rapidly evolving realm of artificial intelligence.

Soul and the Machine: Depth Psychology, Myth, and Artificial Intelligence serves as a bridge between the world of myth, psychology, and the rapidly evolving realm of artificial intelligence.

This monograph offers a comprehensive discussion on the current challenges for developing future sustainable and resilient transport systems.

This monograph offers a comprehensive discussion on the current challenges for developing future sustainable and resilient transport systems.

This edited volume discusses new approaches to good governance in East Asia and Latin America, with a focus on the Philippines and Chile.

This edited volume discusses new approaches to good governance in East Asia and Latin America, with a focus on the Philippines and Chile.

This book examines the social and cultural meanings of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalisation in early twentieth-century Greece.

This book explores India's socio-economic landscape, highlighting the critical role of inclusive policies in driving growth and well-being.

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.