International social work and forced migration

This book focuses on social work in different refugee-related contexts, including countries of origin, transit, and destination as well as country-specific responses to ever-increasing migration flows. The book aims to facilitate debate on international social work in contexts of flight and refug...

New approaches towards the ‘good life’

The Capability Approach founded by Armatya Sen and Martha Nussbaum offers a justicebased analytical framework for human development. The contributions to the present volume show how the Capability Approach can be applied productively in empirical analyses of the life situations of young people an...

Europeanised defiance – czech euroscepticism since 2004

Why is there so much reservation and scepticism among the Czech public as well as politicians towards the European Union? Has the experience of the Czech Republic as a member of the EU changed Czech Euroscepticism since 2004? The authors provide a detailed analysis of the dynamics of Eurosceptici...

Sustainability frontiers

Education for sustainable development, the educational offshoot of the concept of ‘sustainable development’, has rapidly become the predominant educational response to the global environmental crisis. The authors apply a critical lens to the field and find it wanting in many regards. Sustainabil...

International developments in research on extended education

From childhood to adolescence, young people are enrolled in various public or private forms of educational arrangements outside regular school lessons. This volume provides an overview of extended education in nations around the world. Different models, policies, methods, and research findings ar...

China’s self-conception and the security environment in east asia

This book discusses the concepts and strategies that the international community might adopt in response to China's growing self-confidence.

The politics of nuclear energy in the european union

For the foreseeable future the overall use of nuclear electricity in the European Union is unlikely to change significantly despite the controversies surrounding its use amongst the EU’s nation states. The author questions the role that nuclear electricity plays in meeting the challenges of provi...

Doing tolerance

How is tolerance reflected in urban space? Which urban actors are involved in the practices and narratives of tolerance? What are the limits of tolerance? The edited volume answers these questions by considering different forms of urban in/exclusion and participatory citizenship. By drawing toget...

Keeping autonomous driving alive

In Keeping Autonomous Driving Alive, Göde Both studies the relationships between researchers and artifacts held together by contested visions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pioneering research project in Germany, he argues that we can make sense of technological visions only if we simult...

Migration and social pathways

The landscape of European migration has changed considerably over the past decades, in particular after the fall of the iron curtain and again after the EU enlargement to the east. The author researches the phenomenon of highly qualified migration using the example of migration between the Czech ...

United nations peace operations revisited

This book offers a critical assessment of the historical development, aims and performance of United Nations peace operations, as well as their controversial issues, contemporary challenges and future outlook.

Managing expatriates

This volume examines the individual, social, and environmental factors that contribute to the success of expatriate employees. Using data from large-scale studies from both the public and private sectors, this volume provides valuable insights into expatriate success with implications for both th...

The vignette as an exercise in perception / η βινιέτα ως άσκηση αντίληψης

This book offers a gentle approach to important steps towards professionalization in the teaching profession, in Greek and English.

Handbook of direct democracy in central and eastern europe after 1989

This book examines direct democracy in twenty central and eastern European countries after 1989. Through a comparative and interdisciplinary political analysis, it diagnoses the state of democratic processes and the institutions of direct democracy. The case studies emphasize the significant role...

Europeanisation and renationalisation

The book explores how the European Union and its members have been renegotiating Europeanisation and renationalisation in response to the multiple crises they faced in recent years. The authors highlight varying understandings of ´crises´ in different national and supranational policy and institu...

Russia, the european union and nato

Russia, the European Union, and NATO still share some important common interests that need to be given greater attention. A return to strategic partnership is not conceivable without resolving the Ukraine confl ict, but prudent management of the antagonism in order to keep open the prospect of a ...

Workforce profiles in early childhood education and care

This book offers a systematic insight into the development of early childhood professionals in Europe.

Revisiting regionalism and the contemporary world order

This book critically analyzes the ongoing changes in regional, intra-regional, and global dynamics and world order. It proposes a truly global IR understanding of the post-hegemonic world, weaving together the pluralist and multidisciplinary perspectives of scholars located all around the world.

Gender in focus

This book deals with the interplay between identities, codes, stereotypes and politics governing the various constructions and deconstructions of gender in several Western and non-Western societies (Germany, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Cameroon, Indonesia, Vietnam, and others). Readers are invited to...

Art as a political witness

The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide va...

Gender and diversity studies

Against the backdrop of current European developments, from economic deregulation and a shrinking welfare state to the dissolution and reinforcement of borders, this book examines the development of gender and diversity studies in different European regions and beyond.

Parliamentarism and democratic theory

This book argues that the parliamentary culture of politics plays a central role in democracy, vindicating the argumentative, debating experience of politics to recast both democratic theory’s normative assumptions and real democracies’ reform potential.

Germany’s new partners

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis Germany became Europe’s most influential nation state. This book aims to provide a comparative assessment of how this is reflected in the country’s bilateral security relationships with key global and regional partners. Prepared by an international team of...

Power, alliances, and redistribution

This book systematically examines the long-term development of social security for low-income earners in Argentina and analyzes the key political, social, and economic factors influencing it.

Gender equality in context

Taking Switzerland as a case study, this book critically reflects on the state of gender equality in different policy areas such as education, family, and labor. Articles reveal how gender policies and cultural contexts interact with social practices of gender (in)equality.

Comparison

Comparison is an essential research method in political science. This book helps students to understand comparison as a scientific instrument, to grasp its necessity and its effective purpose for research. For that reason, it replies to three ‘simple’ questions: why compare, what to compare, and ...

External democracy promotion and diversity among international agencies

This research considers the mixed results of international agencies in democracy promotion despite their attempt to shape a common policy emphasized in various international agreements. On the background of backlashes and the search for new answers it analyses how the UNDP and the EC promoted dem...

Mobile schools

How can children from nomadic communities go to school, when they are permanently on the move? This publication deals with the necessity and the development of a mobile school system for pastoralists in Northern Kenya. The underlying system Ladders of Learning guides pupils and teachers with a re...

Survival through bildung

Heinz-Joachim Heydorn’s 1974 essay “Survival Through Education: Outline of a Prospect” remains a powerful text, recently translated into English for the first time. In this book, scholars from different theoretical perspectives question the text and its contemporary relevance and put their interp...

Government formation in central and eastern europe

The future of childhood studies

Since the 1990s, the emerging field of childhood studies has been catalyst for empirical research, for policy analysis, and for the development of professional practice. Which concepts and theories are the most helpful in analyzing phenomena relevant to children’s lives? The book reflects on this...

Civil strife against local governance

This book connects the critical issue of community protests to the equally precarious issue of political trust in local governance in South Africa by using comparative analysis of grassroots activism in predominantly black communities and predominantly white communities.

Interventions against child abuse and violence against women

This book offers insights from a study of cultural encounters in intervention against violence in four EU countries. Seeking a deeper understanding of the underpinnings of intervention practices, this study explored variations in institutional structures and traditions of law, policing, and socia...

Defining work tools: studying effects of digitalising work tools

This reader combines empirically grounded insights into how changes in work tools affect our work and how we react to it. It offers a hands-on approach to discovering the impacts digitalization might have on qualification and the labor market. Work tools can be used to link analytical perspective...

Social policy and social dimensions on vulnerability and resilience in europe

There are two tendencies in present public discussions.Social problems have their causes in the individual, and are thus not a problem of socio-economic inequality. Consequently, we find an increasing policy in Europe of selfactivation and self-help as substitutes of social work. On the other han...

Rethinking teacher education for the 21st century

This book focuses on current trends, potential challenges, and further developments in teacher education and professional development from theoretical, empirical, and practical points of view. It provides fresh insights and examples of best practices from all over the world on the strengths and l...

Early childhood education leadership in times of crisis

Authors from twelve countries present empirical findings gaining information on different crisis management mechanisms in early childhood education and care ECE systems around the world.

Economic competence and financial literacy of young adults

The authors take a detailed look at the economic competence and financial literacy of young adults, especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence and financial literacy are of special interest within this group, because these you...

Stifled progress – international perspectives on social work and social policy in the era of right-wing populism

Social work as a democratically constituted profession committed to human rights is currently facing cross-border encroachments and attacks by right-wing populist movements and governments. This book examines how social work can respond effectively to nationalism, exclusion, and skepticism about ...

Political science and digitalization – global perspectives

This volume provides the first account of the influence of digitalization on the discipline of political science including contributions from twenty different countries. It takes stock of the challenges and opportunities of digitalization in most world regions.

Female social entrepreneurship

This book examines social entrepreneurship through a gender lens by portraying German female social entrepreneurs and their political, social, and economic contexts. It features analysis of different dimensions of the social entrepreneurship system and twenty-five in-depth interviews with social ...

The city

This book presents the current state of urban research in the relevant disciplines in a comprehensible way. An overview of the central approaches and theories as well as of their practical application enables readers to see a familiar topic in a new way.