OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)Mario Blaser proposes a new lens for combatting the momentous challenges the world currently faces, arguing that solutions to major crises should be based in the specificities of the places they emerge from rather than a ...
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(2020)The General Data Protection Regulation in Plain Language is a guide for anyone interested in the much-discussed rules of the GDPR. In this legislation, which came into force in 2018, the European Union meticulously describes ...
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(2024)African Media in an Age of Extraction takes a fresh, site-specific look at the relationship between moving images and the mining of natural resources, arguing that where we "place" Nollywood and other industries has important ...
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(2022)In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals is contributing to pandemics, climate ...
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(2025)This Casebook features the work of an international, interdisciplinary research group entitled ‘The Joust as Performance: Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry’ and funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. ...
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(2025)This memoir, completed just before Vincent Mosco’s sudden death in February 2024, chronicles the last half century of research, activism and teaching in critical communication, technology and society from the perspective ...
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(2024)This book focuses on the roles, opportunities and challenges for the provision of public service journalism and news in today’s increasingly complex and competitive digital media environment. The eleven chapters comprising ...
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(2025)Im Zentrum des Bandes steht die Frage, ob und inwiefern das Spiel – als Lebensform, Praxis, als pädagogisches Mittel – im Zuge der Digitalisierung einen Wandel durchläuft. Hierzu nähern sich die Beiträger:innen primär vor ...
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(2025)Psychiatrische Anstalten und Einrichtungen für Menschen mit Behinderungen erregten in jüngerer Zeit öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit, da Betroffene ihre dort gemachten Erfahrungen von Gewalt, Vernachlässigung und Ressourcenmangel ...
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(2025)Aus unterschiedlichen Regionen Russlands fanden sich vor einigen Jahren Lkw-Fahrer zusammen und gründeten in Chimki ein Protestcamp gegen eine neu eingeführte Autobahngebühr, durch die sie ihre Existenz bedroht sahen. Olga ...
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(2024)This book examines narratives of individual religious transformation in Western European literature and culture. Religious individuals, themes, experiences and communities are widely represented in diverse literature and ...
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(2025)Pepin-Neff coins the term ‘Tolerable Inequality’ to examine the ways in which politicians and political actors use the policy process as a tool to make inequality acceptable as a way of keeping power and avoiding penalties. ...
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(2025)Global governance is tightening and foreshadows that world state formation will become a live political issue in this century. Some observers treat it as inevitable amid the urgency of global issues. They foresee a ...
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(2025)This book examines the entanglements and blurred edges of nature conservation and geopolitical relations in the borderlands of the trinational Maya Forest. Maya Forest is an umbrella term for transboundary conservation ...
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(2025)Founded on distinct principles to the fossil fuel-based, linear economy, the sustainable, circular bioeconomy requires different social values and institutions and a better understanding of the complexity of the production ...
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(2025)This volume sets out to explain the conditions that have favoured the expansion of the European social dimension during the turbulent decade of 2010–20, when Europe was confronting strong countervailing pressures, including ...
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(2024)This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities. The Smart City concept has been gaining ...
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(2025)This book navigates the complexities of local real estate taxation in the dynamic region of Central and Eastern Europe, providing a meticulous analysis of the diverse approaches taken across the region. From Poland to ...
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(2023)The complex answer to why the United States does so poorly in health measures has at its base one pervasive issue: The United States has by far the highest levels of inequality of all the rich countries. Inequality Kills ...
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(2025)For a company, managing its social and environmental performance is no longer just a matter of reducing its impact; it must also be able to assess its contribution to resolving or aggravating social and environmental ...
