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Our Mythical Education
(2020)
Clearly, wherever myth forms part of an educational syllabus, value judgements have been made by those who chose the texts, with regard to content, approach, usage, emphases, purpose and many other elements. [...] the ...
A Guide to Additive Manufacturing
(2022)
This open access book gives both a theoretical and practical overview of several important aspects of additive manufacturing (AM). It is written in an educative style to enable the reader to understand and apply the material. ...
Unity of Science
(2021)
Unity of science was once a very popular idea among both philosophers and scientists. But it has fallen out of fashion, largely because of its association with reductionism and the challenge from multiple realisation. ...
Grave Reminders
(2020)
From ca. 1600 – 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary ‘beehive’ tholos tombs. Both tomb styles were designed with multiple uses in mind, ...
Fishers, Monks and Cadres
(2020)
This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as well as their farmer neighbors - even ...
Chapter 6 Voice of America Chinese-dialect broadcasting and the Chinese cultural Cold War, 1949–1953
(2022)
This book explores contested notions of “Chineseness” in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong during the Cold War, showing how competing ideas about “Chineseness” were an important ideological factor at play in the region. After ...
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II
(2020)
The conference Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets took place in
March 2017 at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. This was the first of a programme
of collaborative events organised as part of ...
Chapter Significant Geographies in The Shadow Lines
(2020)
Approaches to world literature often think through binaries of local/global,
major/minor, provincial/cosmopolitan, taking them as given positions on a single world map.
To an extent, this is true of Amitav Ghosh’s ...
Chapter 17 Technology to Prevent Criminal Behavior
(2021)
technology; prevent; criminal behavior
Chapter 12 NIGERIAN FILM AUDIENCES ON THE INTERNET
(2022)
This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, ...
Jesuit and English Experiences at the Mughal Court, c. 1580–1615
(2022)
This open access book reconstructs and examines a crucial episode of Anglo-Iberian diplomatic rivalry: the clash between the Portuguese-sponsored Jesuit missionaries and the English East India Company (EIC) at the Mughal ...
The Epoch of Universalism 1769–1989 / L’époque de l’universalisme 1769–1989
(2020)
2019 marked both the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and Napoléon’s 250th anniversary. Picking up on this contingency of world history with an ironic wink, the volume analyses in retrospect the epoch of ...
Chapter Multilingualism, Multiscripturalism, and Knowledge Transfer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Graeco-Roman Judaea
(2018)
How did ancient communities approach the concept of religious knowledge? Was it something to be shared with all, or was it the provenance of certain initiates? This volume of collected essays illustrates a range of approaches ...
Chapter Burial Archaeology and the Transformation of the Roman World in Northern Gaul (4th to 6th Centuries)
(2019)
New scientific methods offer new insights in the past. Promising opportunities for archaeology and historiography are confronted with the challenges of interdisciplinary cooperation between the sciences and the humanities. ...
Chapter Toward a Migratory Turn
(2019)
How can we think of art history as a discipline that moves process-based, performative, and cultural migratory movement to the center of its theoretical and methodical analyses? With contributions from internationally ...
Chapter Predicting universal phonological contrasts
(2018)
Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson and Greenberg, phonological typology is often underrepresented in typology textbooks. At the same time, most phonologists do not see a difference between phonological typology ...
Chapter Uses and Written Practices in Aljamiado Manuscripts
(2019)
Crossing disciplinary and regional boundaries, this book takes a comparative perspective on standardisation tendencies in Arabic-based writing systems across three continents. 12 distinct manuscript traditions are presented ...
Chapter Medieval Endowment Cultures in Western India: Buddhist and Muslim Encounters – Some Preliminary Observations
(2019)
The volume analyses the encounter between Buddhist and Muslim communities in South and Central Asia during the medieval period. The articles by historians, epigraphists, philologists, art historians and archaeologists ...
Chapter Shifting Price Levels Of Books Produced At The Officina Plantiniana In Antwerp, 1580–1655
(2019)
Many scholars assume that European popular print culture had many common features and a transnational infrastructure. A European network of specialists (EDPOP) has recently started to explore the possibilities and challenges ...
Chapter Hesperia, a Database for Palaeohispanic Languages; and AELAW, a Database for the Ancient European Languages and Writings. Challenges, Solutions, Prospects
(2019)
This miscellaneous volume collects contributions on nineteen projects dealing with Digital Epigraphy – they are diversified in geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital ...
Chapter Digital Sieves
(2019)
The subject of About Sieves and Sieving is the motif of the sieve, starting from the enigmatic portraits of Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland (1533-1603). The sieve exhibits a wide range of meanings that extends ...
Chapter 11 Higher education students as consumers?
(2020)
In this chapter, we draw on an analysis of English policy documents and focus groups with students at three English higher education institutions, to explore some of the complexity in the ways in which the concept of ...
Chapter 8 Three Rationales for a Legal Right to Mental Integrity
(2021)
Many states recognize a legal right to bodily integrity, understood as a right against significant, nonconsensual interference with one’s body. Recently, some have called for the recognition of an analogous legal right to ...
Xerxes and Babylonia
(2018)
In the summer of 484 BCE Babylonia revolted against Xerxes, king of Persia. In recent years, a debate has crystallized around the nature of Xerxes’ response to this challenge. This volume continues and expands this debate. ...
Chapter 1 Classical heritage and European identities
(2019)
This book examines how different agents and institutions within the Danish nation state have situated themselves within this complex landscape of competing appropriations of classical antiquity from the eighteenth century ...
Asylum Determination in Europe
(2019)
Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum ...
Creating Standards
(2019)
This book deals with various aspects of standardisation by stepping outside the disciplinary and regional boundaries and providing a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in writing traditions ...
Chapter 9 Afghanistan’s Cosmopolitan Trading Networks
(2018)
The focus of this chapter is the city of Yiwu and the nature of Afghan networks present there. By inserting such networks both in the context of the wider global settings, and in terms of the traders’ experience of space ...
Debating Transformations of National Citizenship
(2018)
This open access book discusses how national citizenship is being transformed by economic, social and political change. It focuses on the emergence of global markets where citizenship is for sale and on how new reproduction ...
Impossible Worlds
(2019)
The latter half of the 20th Century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’: a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves – from meaning and ...
Urban Food Sharing
(2019)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the history and current practice of food sharing. Illustrated by rich case studies from around the world, the book uses new empirical data to set an agenda ...
Homo Mimeticus II
(2024)
Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies
After the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the ...
Mere Bagatelles
(2024)
Engaging with previously overlooked diaries by women in Ireland, written between 1760 and 1810, this book opens new avenues concerning authorship and female agency, transforming our understanding of women’s contributions ...
Chapter 18 Cultural Heritage Impact Assessments for Development Projects
(2024)
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law sheds light on the relationship between the two fields and analyses how the law shapes heritage and heritage practice in both expected and unexpected ways. Including contributions ...
Chapter 16 Enforced transnationalism
(2025)
This book provides a multi-disciplinary investigation of family reunification laws, policies and practices across the European Union. Family reunification – the possibility for family members to (re)unite in a country where ...
Inside Asylum Appeals
(2025)
Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on what takes place during ...
Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience
(2023)
In the drylands and mountains where pastoralists live, uncertainty is everywhere. In these settings, negotiating access to resources, navigating volatile markets, making use of varying social relations in times of stress, ...
An Anthology of Global Risk
(2024)
This anthology brings together a diversity of key texts in the emerging field of Existential Risk Studies. It serves to complement the previous volume The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies by ...
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe
(2024)
After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings. Seen today, documentaries and newsreels, as well as the amateur production, ...
Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe
(2024)
This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban ...
Chapter A Virus in the Forest
(2024)
Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century. With ...
Failure of the State
(2025)
This Open Access book explores an issue that has received little attention in human rights research: organised criminal groups (OCGs) as perpetrators of human rights violations, especially disappearances. It takes an ...
The Arabic Fable
(2025)
Memory and the Language of Contention
(2025)
How does language shape the memory of activism? And how do memories, of hope or of repression, inflect the language used by social movements in the present day? This edited volume, featuring international scholars across ...
This Is the Song That Never Ends
(2025)
The appearance of the audiovisual series as a dominant genre on the broadcast entertainment scene was preceded by the millennia-long evolution of episodic narration. The book begins with an inquiry into the history and ...
Histories of Sensibilities
(2024)
Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical and plural character of sensibility in the Global Enlightenment. From Tahiti to New Orleans to the Mariana ...
Rethinking the Republic of Letters
(2025)
This book offers a revisionist look at the historiography of the Republic of Letters and the community of learning in early modern Europe. It suggests a new approach, conceptualising the learned world as a web of imagined ...
Modeling the Possible
(2025)
Models are used to explore possibilities across all scientific fields. Climate models simulate the potential future climatic conditions under various emissions scenarios, macroeconomic models investigate the implications ...
Equality's Guardians
(2025)
Equality’s Guardians: How Courts Conceptualize Equal Protection and Non-discrimination Guarantees offers an unparalleled comparative analysis of constitutional equality case law from apex courts across 18 jurisdictions ...
Start-up Wolf
(2024)
Transnational entrepreneurs with technological know-how have been promoted by the Chinese state and academic literature as a central force for regional development of industrial competitiveness. But what motivates them, ...
Knowledge from a Human Point of View
(2020)
This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new ...
Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication
(2020)
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch ...
Planar Maps, Random Walks and Circle Packing
(2020)
This open access book focuses on the interplay between random walks on planar maps and Koebe’s circle packing theorem. Further topics covered include electric networks, the He–Schramm theorem on infinite circle packings, ...
De la literatura latinoamericana a la literatura (latinoamericana) mundial Condiciones materiales, procesos y actores
(2019)
What is World Literature? To answer this question, this book asks another one: How is it produced, that is, what are the material conditions, processes, and actors, which enable Latin-American Literature to circulate ...
World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise
(2019)
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, ...
Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime
(2020)
This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientific knowledge and genetic technology, Machado ...
Successful Public Policy
(2019)
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly ‘see’—let alone recognise and explain—variations ...
Iberian world empires and the globalization of europe 1415–1668
(2019)
This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it ...
Il Fantasma dell’Io. La massa e l’inconscio mimetico: The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious
(2018)
A ghost roams the modern world: "the ghost of the ego" With this sentence, Friedrich Nietzsche offers a diagnosis of the modern self that finds the royal road to the unconscious in mass imitation. In the footsteps of ...