Grounded in autoethnographic observations and informed by critical, postmodern, ethnographic, and narrative approaches, this work presents a new framework for intercultural communication education that aims to deconstruct normative intercultural paradigms.
This book advances the understanding and process of community participation in cultural heritage management within the Chinese context of rapidly urbanising development.
This book examines the effectiveness and limitations of existing body image law, and proposes evidence-based regulatory alternatives informed by public health and psychology research.
The 16-volume set LNCS 15960 - 15975 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025, which took place in Daejeon, South Korea, during September 23–27, 2025.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Interaction and Player Research in Game Development, WIPlay 2025, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2025.
This book answers a few key questions about Taiwan's future, through specific chapters focusing on geopolitical security topics, to better understand evolving geopolitical challenges within a global context, and what these represent for the future world order-and its stability-in the Indo-Pacific region.
This book focuses on gender issues and its relation with social development, in shaping the current and future global scenario, considering three broad dimensions, namely health, education, and environment, and other SDG implications.
This book explores analogies and correspondences between dance and poetry, with an emphasis on how dance and dance choreography can shed light on poetry, poetic form and the teaching of poetry.
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of socio-natural disaster recovery projects, using the Bam and Wenchuan earthquakes as case studies to evaluate their success and failure.
Deutsche Kommunalverwaltungen stehen vor der Herausforderung, Social Media strategisch und zielgerichtet im Rahmen eines spezifischen Kommunalverwaltungsmarketings einzusetzen – unter Berücksichtigung begrenzter Ressourcen und besonderer Rahmenbedingungen.
This book argues that the songs on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding are deeply concerned with the fractures in collective memory and politics contemporary with its composition and recording.
This concise introduction to evidence-based social work practice culls the most salient chapters from the interdisciplinary Evidence-Based Practice Manual to form a student-friendly overview of the issues and interventions they will encounter throughout their BSW or MSW program.
This book analyses historic and contemporary border regime developments in East Africa, and draws a complex picture of borders control in Africa beyond stereotypical “Western” imaginations.
Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists' attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century.
Unterstutzung fur Eltern mit psychischen ErkrankungenBietet Hilfsmoglichkeiten fur die ganze FamilieKlart auf und ermutigt, offen mit psychischen Erkrankungen umzugehenKonkrete Tools und praktische Ubungen fur erste VerbesserungenPsychische Erkrankungen belasten die ganze Familie und stellen Eltern vor gro e Herausforderungen.
From the ground breaking legal decisions on gay marriage to the promotion of marriage for low-income families, the "e;sacred institution"e; of marriage has turned into a public battleground.
The Social and Emotional Core of Equity Leadership: A Guide for Driving Change in Schools is a practical guide for educational leaders committed to creating inclusive schools where all students feel a sense of belonging.
Technologies, applications and practices for virtual environments create interactive and immersive experiences and blend the transitions and permeabilities between the virtual and physical world.
This textbook provides a focused and comprehensive overview of applied social psychology and its interconnections with social policy and selected laws in India.
This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through 'invited spaces' offered by the government and 'claimed spaces' created by the poor.
This volume offers a concise yet comprehensive machine-generated literature review of the multifaceted landscape of literary theory, encompassing formalism, structuralism, modernism, postmodernism, psychoanalytic criticism, feminism, marxism, ecocriticism, multiculturalism, and techno-criticism.
Mexico's national soccer teams compete against teams from around the world in major events, including the Olympic Games, the World Cup, and the Concacaf Gold Cup.
This Palgrave Pivot makes a case for ‘sojourner literature’, a new literary genre within transnational literature, parallel to ‘immigrant literature’, and its subgenre ‘readaptation narratives’.
Il libro si occupa di riattivazione urbana, una particolare forma di intervento sul costruito, che oltre alla dimensione fisico-spaziale dei luoghi considera anche e soprattutto le dinamiche sociali e relazionali che l'intervento è in grado di attivare.
