Books

Whilst much scholarly work has been focused on Spain's American colonies, much less is known about Spanish colonization of the Pacific. As such, this book fills an important gap in our knowledge, directing attention both to Spain's wider imperial...

Maritime transport is a key factor in the globalisation process where port cities play an essential role as edges of economic, technological, cultural, and institutional diffusion. Global supply chains depend on a complex network of port cities and are...

The mastery of nature was viewed by eighteenth-century historians as an important measure of the progress of civilization. Modern scholarship has hitherto taken insufficient notice of this important idea. This book discusses the topic in connection with...

This book offers a qualitative cohort analysis in a comparative case study of national identity and political violence in the Basque and Kurdish contexts.Rooted in the author’s work concerning social reproduction mechanisms of political violence, it...

This edited collection advances critical scholarship about the complex interrelationships between disability and place. Developing theorising around place-making as a relational, everyday practice, it draws on disabled people’s lived experiences to...

Drawing on primary empirical research, this book considers the democratic outcomes of political news avoidance, selective news exposure, and misinformation.Political information environments across democracies are in flux, fundamentally changing the way...

Group work is used extensively in general education, and particularly in the language classroom where interaction is an essential part of learning another language. This text guides language teachers on how to implement group work in the classroom as...

Endarkened Narrative Inquiry reimagines inquiry as a relational, embodied, and ethical practice. Drawing together theory, lived experience, and guided reflection, it challenges detached models of research and invites more accountable, responsive ways of...

Should we assume that people who lived some time ago were quite similar to us or should we assume that they need to be thought of as alien beings with whom we have little in common? This specially commissioned collection explores this important issue...

Building on the 1999 work of Kenneth Zeichner and Lars Dahlström, this timely volume provides first-hand accounts as well as both empirical and theoretical case studies on how teacher education is being operationalised in post-colonial Namibia, working...

This book examines the treatment of temporary migrant workers in developed nations, using Australia as a key case study. Within the last 20 years, temporary labour migration programs have proliferated. At the same time, many concerns have been raised...

Fanfiction and Fan Practices for Language Teaching and Learning explores fanfiction as a tool for language learning, harnessing fans’ enthusiasm and creativity while engaging in practices such as fanfiction writing, fan translation, and fanart in another...

In an era where sustainability shapes the global agenda, The Evolution of Sustainability Accounting Education contributes to our understanding of the role of ac counting as a social practice rooted in public interest. This timely volume explores the...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a complicated science that combines philosophy, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, mathematics and logic (logicism), economics, computer science, computability, and software. Meanwhile, robotics is an engineering field...

With the conditions of parenthood constantly changing, this book examines the reconfiguration of parenting as well as the political, institutional, and personal conditions that play a role in its development.Juhl and Westerling take a social...

Fanfiction and Fan Practices for Language Teaching and Learning explores fanfiction as a tool for language learning, harnessing fans’ enthusiasm and creativity while engaging in practices such as fanfiction writing, fan translation, and fanart in another...

This book explores the role, impact and experiences of animals within organisations and the wider socioeconomic contexts in which they participate.Animals are vital to business. From agriculture to tourism, logistics to digital media, animals work,...

Dissociation, Compulsion, and Language Games in Psychoanalysis investigates the strangely underexplored topic of the phenomenology of language in psychoanalytic dialogue—as impacted by trauma, addiction, and other compulsive aversions.Drawing on the long...

This edited volume offers fresh insights into the experiences of international faculty in East Asia, highlighting how they adapt to, influence, and are influenced by local environments.With the global demand for academic work on the rise, more scholars...

This compelling volume critically examines the challenges, philosophies, and practices of inclusive education across Asia, shedding light on the inherent tensions between policy and practice.Exploring inspiring case studies such as Ozora Elementary...

This book presents a comprehensive and innovative analysis of decarbonisation and the reshaping of risk in contemporary financial and institutional systems. It develops a multidimensional approach that integrates finance, behavioural dynamics and...

Doing Research from Your Desk: A Student Guide to Qualitative Methods provides invaluable guidance for students conducting high-quality qualitative research remotely. It assists students in generating and analysing qualitative data effectively and...

Museums, Empire and Decolonial Praxis examines how museums and heritage institutions interpret colonial histories today. Bringing together academics, practitioners and artists, this edited collection explores whether contemporary decolonial work signals...

This book explores how pro-Kremlin media has shaped perceptions of Russia’s allies and adversaries during Vladimir Putin’s 26 years in power, revealing the hidden strategies and intentions embedded within state-controlled narratives.Through analysis of...

The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities explores the question of what it means for a city to be ‘smart’, raises some of the tensions emerging in smart city developments and considers the implications for future ways of inhabiting and understanding the...

Self and Assemblage in Autoethnography offers a bold methodological provocation within qualitative research methods, advancing current debates in autoethnography by troubling the 'auto' and arguing that the field must confront the sovereign,...

Teaching Second Languages through Dialogue and Interaction: Action, Turns, and Sequences advances an interaction-focused approach to second language teaching by placing social actions, turns, and sequences as central objects of instruction. Drawing on...

Design education begins with the student’s embodied experience of the world, yet this foundational aspect often goes unexamined in the development and implementation of design pedagogy. Instructors may take for granted the complexities of learning...

This book presents a critical analysis of the concept of food heritage through a dialogue between its academic definitions and the vaguer, more common-sense meaning of the term.By addressing the notion of heritage through the question of food and eating...

Self and Assemblage in Autoethnography offers a bold methodological provocation within qualitative research methods, advancing current debates in autoethnography by troubling the 'auto' and arguing that the field must confront the sovereign,...

Air Transport and the Environment provides an overview of the main issues relating to aviation environmental impacts. It explains the challenge facing policymakers in terms of sustainable development, focusing on the importance of balancing the...

Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art. Volume 3: Geological and geotechnical knowledge and requirements for project implementation contains the contributions presented in the eponymous Technical...

The Routledge International Handbook on The Listening Guide Method is about a qualitative, feminist, and voice-centred method for analyzing interview narratives and other forms of data through attentive listening to multiple voices and stories. This...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the failures of the UK’s defence acquisition and procurement process, and the broader ramifications for the UK’s national security.The UK’s record on defence acquisition and procurement constitutes one of the...

This book is located at the intersection of constitutional law and political science and uses legal network analysis to shed light on hitherto unseen aspects of the citation practices among constitutional courts in Europe. The collection enhances our...

In seventeenth-century England goldsmiths became what we would now recognise as bankers. Goldsmiths’ shops sold not only gold and silver plate but also instruments of credit, such as bonds and bills of exchange, and offered ‘safe’ places to lodge capital...

This book systematically explores China’s digitalization and industrial transformation, analyzing the role of digital technology in this giant and ever-developing country. Its analysis covers China’s policy frameworks, industrial applications, local...

This is not merely a book on methods; it is a toolbox designed to provide students with the critical guidelines and ethical reflections needed to conduct research on gender and media. It serves as an indispensable researcher’s companion, guiding them...

This essential guide is tailored for tertiary practitioners aiming to enhance their learners' employability. It presents the latest research on the discussions about graduate identities, forms of capital, workplace ideologies, and facilitator identities...

This book uncovers the rich heritage of borderlands. At the border, people exist in-between, whether they live their lives at the near boundaries, or whether they are just passing through, as travelers or tourists.The heritage of these spaces is a vast...

This book provides cutting‑edge research on animal and vegan advocacy, addressing a defining moral contradiction of our time: even as concern for animals grows, their large‑scale exploitation continues. How, then, does change for animals occur? Bringing...

A central concern of economists, policymakers and civil society in recent years has been the persistent and widespread slowdown in global productivity growth.This stands in stark contrast to the robust productivity performance and associated prosperity...

The Balkans in the Late Middle Ages, 1300–1500 is the first publication of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of Southeastern Europe during the late medieval period. Scholars have long recognized the 14th and 15th centuries as an...

This book explores how in medieval Italy people perceived, interpreted, and sought to influence weather and climatic phenomena through the lens of sanctity. Focusing on hagiographic narratives from the early to the late Middle Ages, it reconstructs a...

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green Magic (1928), Silver Magic (1929), and Red Magic (1930)...

Effective maintenance of bridge structures comprises a broad spectrum of plans for repairs and services implemented to enable bridges to perform their intended function. These include in-depth inspection, fatigue analysis, design of mitigation measures...

This book offers a clear and intellectually rigorous gateway into international arbitration. The book’s original ‘anatomical’ approach dissects arbitration into its core components to show how this dispute resolution system operates in practice.The book...

Based upon a close reading of the foundational works of Georg Simmel, Max Weber and the Frankfurt School as well as underexplored other works, Karner critically maps the conceptual approaches and theoretical insights of the German language sociological...