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Transforming learning environments
With the influence and pressures of the globalized economy, education systems are at a crossroads and need to find a place and/or identity that reflect new or transformed realities for learning environments. Questions such as to what extent, in what way, and how are we doing will need to be raise...
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The borders of privilege
Because whiteness is not a given for Brazilians in the U.S., some immigrants actively construct it as a protective mechanism against the stigma normally associated with illegality. In The Borders of Privilege, Kara Cebulko tells the stories of a group of 1.5-generation Brazilians to show how thei...
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A cross- disciplinary primer on the meaning of principles of innovation
Innovation is a central mechanism in the progression of society and often captures the imagination and enthusiasm of corporate leaders, public policy makers, and so on. In this volume, a novel approach to an understanding innovation in contexts that range from the socio-cultural to the technologi...
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Plotting the reading experience
Essays from international contributors on the experiences of reading: what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read, under what kinds of conditions, what drives people to read, and conversely, what gets individual and groups of readers stopped in their pursuit of the rewards ...
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The incel rebellion
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews,this book provides an insight into the development of the manosphere, and the extent to which the influence and philosophy of...
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Social information research
Social Information Research, co-edited by Gunilla Widen and Kim Holmberg communicates current research looking into different aspects of social information as part of information behaviour research. There is a special emphasis on the new innovations supporting contemporary information behavior an...
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Culturally responsive methodologies
This book offers new methodologies that require the researcher to develop relationships that may enable them to intimately come to respect and know the "Other" with whom they seek to study.
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Hot flash
More than half the population will experience menopause; it is time for the law to acknowledge it. Menopause is a stage of life that half the population will inevitably experience. But it remains one of the last great taboo topics for discussion, even among close friends and family members. Sile...
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Handbook of strategic recruitment and selection
This theory-based text with unique features that distinguish it from other books in the field. The inclusion of a strategic component differentiates it from most other books. However, the application of systems theory to recruitment and selection sets this book apart. While it includes mainstream...
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Strategic planning
This book is exceptional treatise on strategic planning for single-business companies that is at once academically rigorous and uncommonly practical.
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Radical environmental resistance
Exploring the role of direct action within times of severe social and ecological upheaval, this book evokes the rich, diverse world that radical environmental activists and indigenous environmental protectors are fighting for.
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Black female undergraduates on campus
Intends to identify both successes and challenges faced by Black female students accessing and matriculating through institutions of higher education. This volume is aimed toward garnering an understanding of the educational trajectories and experiences of Black females, independent of and in com...
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Re-conceptualizing safe spaces
This book broadens the idea of a safe space that is traditionally discussed in feminist studies, to include gendered identities intersecting with class, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and ability within multiple aspects of education. This collection showcases work supporting access to educat...
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Hard labour? academic work and the changing landscape of higher education
Drawing on data from Australia, England and New Zealand, this book addresses how neo liberal policies of successive governments have decreased autonomy of academics and increased regimes of surveillance, radically altering how academics think about and engage in their intellectual work.
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Technology-enhanced learning and linguistic diversity
Drawing on research and hands-on experience, this book includes contributions which draw on linguistic research on 2nd and 3rd language acquisition, as well as case studies of specific challenges in teaching content courses in various disciplines, to offer a roadmap of how educators might facilit...
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Enterprising communities
Provides an internationally grounded and critical review of grassroots sustainability enterprises, focusing on the processes that lead to their formation, the governing context that shapes their evolution, the benefits they create and the challenges that they face in different contexts.
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Empty cages
Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature "Few writers possess Fatma's boldness”—The New Arab An urgent and raw confessional of memory and family and all that is lost and won in one woman's lifetime The discovery of an old tin of chocolates, its contents long ago devoured, marks the entry...
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Voices of black graduate deans in advancing graduate education at historically white universities
Through personal narratives and institutional case studies, this edited collection highlights the resilience, innovation, and impact of Black graduate deans, offering essential guidance for educators, administrators, and policymakers committed to meaningful change.
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Misbehavior online in higher education
Misbehavior Online in Higher Education is rich in contemporary case studies, analytical reports, and up-to-date research providing detailed overviews of various misbehavior, including cyberbullying, cyberstaling, cyberslacking, and privacy invasion, hacking, cheating, teasing, and enhanced prej...
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Understanding trans health
What does it mean for someone to be ‘trans’? What are the implications of this for healthcare provision? Drawing on the findings of an extensive research project, this book addresses urgent challenges and debates in trans health. It interweaves patient voices with social theory and autobiography...
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Tourism diplomacy
This edited volume explores emerging trends and challenges in tourism diplomacy, including the growing influence of digital technologies and social media in shaping diplomatic efforts.
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Globalizing china
Examines the literature on the returnee phenomena and assesses the impact and influence of Chinese Returnee Entrepreneurs. This book evaluates the impact of Chinese Returnee Entrepreneurs (CREs) in the Chinese globalization process. It also examines the roles, drivers, strategies, and performance...
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How louis xiv survived his hegemonic bid
This book explains how Louis XIV survived his bid for European hegemony unscathed while other aspiring hegemons in modern history suffered catastrophic defeats. It argues that Louis employed a powerful coalition-breaking strategy unique to him and lays out the implications of Louis XIV’s unique c...
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Inside the invisible cage
In a world increasingly run by algorithms and artificial intelligence, Hatim Rahman traces how organizations are using algorithms to control workers in an “invisible cage.” Inside the Invisible Cage uses unique longitudinal data to investigate how digital labor platforms use algorithms to dictat...
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Rethinking agricultural policy regimes
Through international case studies, this book evaluates how various policy challenges are having an impact on specific agricultural policy regimes, and what future lessons might be learnt from key policy experiments around neoliberalism and multifunctionality.
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Political identification in europe
In recent years, Europe has been buffeted by a series of contested crises that seemingly undermine and overwhelm its institutions and ideals: the economic shocks of 2008, the open disputes over migration, the political uncertainty generated by Brexit and the inroads made by various populist and n...
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The future of cultural tourism
This book provides multi-layered and nuanced perspectives on how drivers of change may influence cultural tourism on a global, national and local level. As such, it contributes to a greater understanding of how cultural tourism will be governed, performed and experienced within a volatile, uncert...
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Places of curriculum making
Focusing on school as place where curriculum is made to realizing the ways children and families are engaged as curriculum makers in homes, in communities, and in the spaces in-between, outside of school, this book investigates the tensions experienced by teachers, children and families as they m...
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Data lives
The word ‘data’ has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake? In Data Lives, renowned social scientist Rob Kitchin explores the intricacies of d...
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Black artists in their own words
"A keen and insightful window into a rich artistic legacy."—Publishers Weekly The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships to race, identity, and art. What is Black art? No one has thought harder about that question than Blac...
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Going global
Going Global: the landscape for policy makers and practitioners in tertiary education provides an analysis of the current international higher education landscape, touching on the important trends in international higher education and how it can meet the 'challenges' arising from today's economic...
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Managing change
Managing Change: Sustainable Practices, Inclusive Leadership, and Gender Equality in the Digital Industrial Revolution is a timely exploration of the multifaceted transformations occurring in today’s business environment under the influence of the Digital Industrial Revolution.
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Mastering modern standard arabic idioms
An invaluable guide to more than one hundred of the most commonly used Modern Standard Arabic idiomsIdioms are deeply rooted in their cultural context and as such are both are uniquely tricky and key to competency in a language. With more than 140 of frequently used Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) i...
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Ai and assembly
Artificial intelligence has moved from the lab into everyday life and is now seemingly everywhere. As AI creeps into every aspect of our lives, the data grab required to power AI also expands. People worldwide are tracked, analyzed, and influenced, whether on or off their screens, inside their ho...
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Knowledge management for leadership and communication
With the establishment of the innovation economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is becoming a reality. As this occurs, new forms of leadership arise, generated by the interaction between leadership functions and neurology. This innovative book asks the question: what are the key value creation...
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Accessibility, diversity, equity and inclusion in the cultural sector
Advocating for the immersion of ADEI practices into the heart of art organizations, this title links theory, practice and context as a way to further enrich cultural communities and wield the deeply human power of art for real human impact.
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Doing research that matters
Doing Research That Matters? looks at an old issue from a new perspective, taking a fresh and cross-disciplinary approach to learning how we can contribute with our work to shaping the future of management.
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The tech coup
A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her “forceful critique” of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracyOver the past decades, under the cover of “innovation,” technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize ...
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Tensions in teacher preparation
Addresses the challenges of meeting national accreditation requirements, including designing assessment instruments and making data-driven decisions. This book explores and shares tensions created as teacher education programs experience changes because of accountability requirements related to t...
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Radical interactionism and critiques of contemporary culture
Norman K. Denzin has gathered a team of leading experts to explore and showcase a variety of topics in the field of symbolic interaction.Some of the topics explored include extending dramaturgical and grounded theory, and new empirical and theoretical inquiries into fashion, journalism, stigma, p...
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Class meets land
Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in the transition to twenty-first-century financial capitalism. Challenging our understanding of land financialization as a recent phenomenon propelled by high fi...
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The creative phd
Doctorates awarded based on artefact and exegeses are a minority enrolment which suffer from wildly diverse examination expectations and assumptions about quality. Widening the disciplinary parameters and currency of this kind of doctorate The Creative PhD is the first book that challenges the st...
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The ambiguities of desistance
This book explores the ongoing and individual desistance journeys of ex-offenders during re-integration into society. It introduces nuanced and rich data around the growing interest in desistance, examines the reasons why individuals move away from crime, and highlights the importance of Higher E...
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Rethinking class and social difference
This volume draws together scholars rethinking social scientific and theoretical approaches to a wide range of forms of social difference and inequality. These include race, nationalism, sexuality, professional classes, domestic employment, digital communication, and uneven economic development
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Making equal
Making Equal aims to act as a catalyst for new research and policy, ex-ministers, academics, university leaders and heads of charities outlining ideas which can have a tangible impact on inequality and poverty in the UK.
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The russian urban sustainability puzzle
This book provides comprehensive analysis of the social-environmental situation and sustainability issues in Russian megacities based on a large-scale mixed method original empirical research conducted in 2015–2019.
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Becoming an environmental psychologist
This book explores the interdisciplinary pathways that environmental psychologists have taken to become educators, researchers, and consultants in this highly applied and growing field. Individuals with backgrounds in architecture, urban planning, and geography, as well as in the health sciences ...
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The philosophy of transhumanism
Transhumanism is an international movement which anticipates humans developing posthuman capacities in the near future.This work provides an introduction to transhumanism and the ethical and philosophical issues raised by radical human enhancement. The book investigates these questions in a way t...
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Optimization and learning via stochastic gradient search
An introduction to gradient-based stochastic optimization that integrates theory and implementationThis book explains gradient-based stochastic optimization, exploiting the methodologies of stochastic approximation and gradient estimation. Although the approach is theoretical, the book emphasizes...
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The time of the cannibals
The Time of the Cannibals rethinks conspiracy theory as an analytic category through a case study set in Cyprus, and proposes a particular kind of cross-contextual comparison as a way out of persistent ethnocentrism in scholarship and media coverage of conspiracy theory.
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