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Trustworthy AI
(2025)
This book is an Open Access Publication. The Guidelines for Trustworthy AI developed by the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI is a framework that has been developed to promote and achieve the trustworthiness ...
Decoding Marine Genetic Resource Governance Under the BBNJ Agreement
(2025)
This open access book provides practical guidance for understanding the new treaty adopted in June 2023 that will change the way biodiversity is governed in about two thirds of the oceans known as areas beyond national ...
Urban Transformations in Sierra Leone
(2024)
With a population over one million, Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, faces serious challenges around provision of services, housing and infrastructure, all exacerbated by climate change. Already, a large share of the ...
Voicing Consent
(2025)
This open access book draws on an international research project, using extensive and multiple methods to explore unwanted sexual contact and violence in sex work populations. A project delivered by a large team of sex ...
Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode, Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran
(2024)
“I am not Shemr, this is not a dagger, nor is this Karbala,” recites the arch-antagonist as a taʿziyeh performance begins. Verisimilitude is not the endeavour; this is a devotional offering that stirs lament for the the ...
Strengthening European Climate Policy
(2024)
This open-access book foregrounds 10 novel collaborations between the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, for strengthening European climate policy. ...
Strengthening European Mobility Policy
(2024)
This open access book showcases innovative collaborations between the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines to benefit European mobility policy. Each ...
Cold War Museology
(2025)
Cold War Museology is the first volume to bring together interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading practitioners and academics specialising in Cold War museology.
Bringing the most recent ...
Chapter 9 Non-labour Platforms and Their Effects on Work in Specific Sectors
(2025)
The Handbook for the Future of Work offers a timely and critical analysis of the transformative forces shaping work and employment in the twenty-first century. Focusing on the past two decades, the handbook explores how ...
Social infrastructure and left behind places
(2024)
This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in ‘left-behind places’. Such places, typically once flourishing industrial communities that have been excluded from recent economic growth, now ...
Bordering and Mobilities in Ukraine
(2025)
This book analyses how war and bordering impact daily life and mobility and immobility tactics. It brings to light the memories of people who were displaced from Ukraine’s eastern regions because of Russian aggression ...
Museums and Digital Confidence
(2025)
Museums and Digital Confidence explores the evolving nature of digital practices in museums. It interrogates the skills, literacies, and mindsets that can support the use of digital technologies within these institutions. ...
Abuse in World Religions
(2025)
This book draws attention to the texts, mechanisms, strategies, and initiatives that address and combat sexual(ised) spiritual abuse in five world religions. It goes beyond identifying, describing or characterising spiritual ...
Nordic e-Infrastructure Tomorrow
(2025)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration Conference, NeIC 2024, which took place in Tallinn, Estonia, in May 2024. The 14 papers included in this book were carefully ...
Heaviness in Metal Music Production, Volume I
(2025)
Heaviness in Metal Music Production, Volume I: How and Why It Works provides an in-depth analysis of the art and craft of producing heaviness, the fundamental musical quality in metal music. Using primarily ethnographic ...
Heaviness in Metal Music Production, Volume II
(2025)
Heaviness in Metal Music Production, Volume II: Learn from the Masters details how the fundamental musical quality of metal, ‘heaviness’, is created during record production, offering unprecedented learning opportunities ...
Regionalisms and Resistance in the Twentieth-Century Portuguese Novel
(2024)
Often regarded as a small and homogeneous country, modern Portugal has frequently displayed clear regional tensions, on several ‘axes’: between its capital, Lisbon, and more neglected cities and towns; between its developed ...
Diaspora Reads
(2025)
Diaspora Reads explores the role of literature and reading practices in the community life of Russian-speaking migrants in Britain. Russophone culture abounds with myths about the special mission of literature and the ...
Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World
(2024)
In the wake of colonial and racial exploitation, political leaders, technocrats, activists, and workers across the Third World turned to socialism to offer a new vision of post-colonial development.Against a backdrop of ...
The IPCC and the Politics of Writing Climate Change
(2024)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is one of the most significant global environmental assessment bodies ever established, providing the most authoritative and influential reports on climate change ...
Laboratories of Learning
(2024)
This book explores the learning and knowledge-making processes of four very different social movement institutions that are part of broader movements for social change, located in four distinct countries and continents, ...
Muscle Works
(2024)
Physical fitness; history; 19th century; 20th century; weight training; social aspects; masculinity; human body; health promotion
Animals and Landscapes
(2026)
This volume explores various connections between animals and landscapes, challenging traditional anthropocentric framings and acknowledging the agency of other-than-human species in shaping human surroundings. A critical ...
Showing resistance
(2024)
Showing resistance explores how exhibitions were used as propaganda during the two decades from 1933. Mounted in public places – from stations to workers’ canteens, empty shops and bombsites – exhibitions were identified ...
Intermedia in Italy
(2024)
In Italy at the turn of the twentieth century, the arts drew suddenly closer: a curtain was raised on a magical new hybrid art, cinema. There followed an escalation in the birth of new hybrid genres like sound art, video ...
Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction
(2024)
Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies, this open access book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity.It considers how these ...
Pushing the Paradigm of Global Water Security
(2024)
This book brings together early career researchers, non-governmental organisations and industry practitioners, indigenous and local communities, and government agency workers to interrogate the concept of water security. ...
Invisible Labours
(2024)
Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does ...
Lives in Limbo
(2024)
More than a decade since the start of the war in Syria, Turkey is home to almost four million of that country’s displaced citizens. Youth is one of the most vulnerable groups within the refugee population, as they struggle ...
Listening Without Borders
(2024)
This book asks what it takes for people to encounter one another ethically when practices, worldviews and imaginations clash. It engages over 40 contributors across geographies, disciplines, art forms and practices in a ...
The New German Jewish Literature
(2025)
Posits a New German Jewish Literature that has surprising implications for today's German Jewish - and Jewish - identity, including solidarity with others, even after October 7, 2023. Eighty years after the Holocaust, it ...
Satirical Tibet
(2025)
What does comedy look like when the wrong punchline can land you in jail?
Humor has long been a vital, if underrecognized, component of Tibetan life. In recent years, alongside well-publicized struggles for religious ...
The Legendary Saga as a Medium of Cultural Memory
(2025)
This book examines how the legendary Scandinavian past is ‘remembered’ in two late medieval Icelandic saga manuscripts. Drawing on insights from cultural memory studies and material philology, it situates them in their ...
Transforming Justice Responses to Non-Recent Institutional Abuses
(2025)
This book critically examines justice responses to non-recent institutional abuses across the island of Ireland, comprising Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland within an international context, drawing on insights ...
Journalism and the Muslim Narrative
(2025)
Journalism and the Muslim Narrative presents an empirical analysis of how modern-day journalism practices contribute to the negative bias against Muslims in Britain, to provide an in-depth investigation of how we can better ...