Politics as a Science : A Prolegomenon

ABSTRACT In Politics as a Science, two of the world's leading authorities on Comparative Politics, Philippe C. Schmitter and Marc Blecher, provide a lively introduction to the concepts and framework to study and analyze politics. Written with dexterity, concision and clarity, this short text makes no claim to being scientific. It contains no disprovable hypotheses, no original collection of…

Care and the City : Encounters with Urban Studies

Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, …

The Politics of Uncertainty : Challenges of Transformation

Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious disease responses, natural disasters, migration, crime and security and spirituality and religion.The book argues that uncertainties mu…

Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia : Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations

Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia uses case studies to explore how knowledge circulated in the different public arenas that shaped politics, economics and cultural life in and across postwar Scandinavia, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. This book focuses on a period when the term "knowledge society" was coined and rapidly found traction. In Scandinavia, society’s relationsh…

Religious Environmental Activism : Emerging Conflicts and Tensions in Earth S…

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Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland

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The role of business in global sustainability transformations

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Wilfred bion, thinking, and emotional experience with moving images : being e…

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From Waste to Value : Valorisation Pathways for Organic Waste Streams in Circ…

From Waste to Value investigates how streams of organic waste and residues can be transformed into valuable products, to foster a transition towards a sustainable and circular bioeconomy. The studies are carried out within a cross-disciplinary framework, drawing on a diverse set of theoretical approaches and defining different valorisation pathways. Organic waste streams from households and …

Hands on DCD (dyspraxia and allied disorders) : supporting children and young…

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