Chapter 1 The Global Face of Energy Poverty

Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences of energy-poor households across different contexts. Understanding the lived experience of energy poverty is an essential component in the design of any effort to alleviate what is fun…

Chapter 4 Self-Harm as a Result of Domestic Distress : A Genealogy of Cutting…

This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical health, and wider political context. The welfare state, social work, Second World War, closure of the asylums, even the legalization of suicide, are all implicated in the prom…

Chapter 4 Religious conflict, radicalism, and sexual exceptionalism in the rh…

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Chapter 4 Quarantine in Ceuta and Malta in the travel writings of the late-ei…

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Chapter 4 Promoting More Equitable Post-School Transitions : Learning from th…

This novel contribution examines the lived experiences of migrants in education in various international contexts, exploring common school system features that promote students’ inclusion and challenge their exclusion. With a range of international contributions and case studies from Canada, the US, Hong Kong, Japan and Europe, the book offers critical, theoretically innovative understandings…

Ecosystem Services and Disservices of Mangrove Forests and Salt Marshes

Coastal wetlands such as mangrove forests and salt marshes provide a range of important benefits to people, broadly defined as ecosystem services. These include provisioning services such as fuelwood and food, regulating services such as carbon sequestration and wave attenuation, and various tangible and intangible cultural services. However, strong negative perceptions of coastal wetlands …

Curating Enslavement and the Colonial History of Denmark

An identical approach also dominates the exhibition Tea Time—the First Globalization at the Maritime Museum of Denmark in Elsinore, produced in 2013. This exhibition makes less use of the kinds of affective strategies that are used in the rest of the museum. In Tea Time, large exhibition boxes containing historical objects serve as geographical markers representing Denmark’s former colon…

Cultivation Theory: Gerbner, Fear, Crime, and Cops

The starkest example of institutional racial disparity in the United States is found in its criminal justice system. With over 7 million individuals under correctional control, the United States has an incarceration rate that far surpasses any other country in the world.

Chapter 1 Stigmatization as a Tool of Cultural Violence

Chapter 1 presents the argument that at the heart of hardline anti-sealing activism is a strategy of stigmatization to both dissuade individuals, business and countries from association with anyone or anything connected to the practice of sealing and to justify and normalize of activist behaviours, actions and attitudes against predominately working class rural and coastal peoples. To unpack th…

Chapter 1 Spanish ‘Colonies’

The Hispanic and Anglo worlds are often portrayed as the Cain and Abel of Western culture, antagonistic and alien to each other. This book challenges such view with a new critical conceptual framework – the ‘Hispanic-Anglosphere’ – to open a window into the often surprising interactions of individuals, transnational networks and global communities that, it argues, made of the British Is…