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Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on t…
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- 978-3-030-28408-4
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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- XXX, 269
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles that inspired the movement and the socio-political background that explains its rise and fall. Opposition to vivisection began when medical practitioners complained…
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- 978-1-137-55697-4
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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- XXI, 217
European Union Support for Colombia's Peace Process
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU's crucial support for the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. It explores the use of new approaches and instruments that, despite some limitations and criticisms, could go beyond conventional liberal peace and provide useful lessons. Particular attention is paid to three …
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- 978-3-031-24797-2
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- Palgrave Macmillan Cham
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- XXI, 402
The Impact of Protracted Peace Processes on Identities in Conflict
This open access book discusses the impact of protracted peace processes on identities in conflict. It is concerned with how lingering peace processes affect, in the long-term, patterns of othering in protracted conflicts, and how this relates with enduring violence. Taking Israel and Palestine as a case study, the book traces different representations of success and failure of the protracted p…
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- 978-3-031-16567-2
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- Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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- XXI, 256
Rising Powers and Peacebuilding
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines the policies and practices of rising powers on peacebuilding. It analyzes how and why their approaches differ from those of traditional donors and multilateral institutions. The policies of the rising powers towards peacebuilding may significantly influence how the UN and others undertake peacebuilding in the futur…
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- 978-3-319-60621-7
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- Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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- XV, 276
Microhistories of Technology
In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals selectively adopted or rejected modern gadgets, tools, and machines. In standard historical narratives, globalization is portrayed as an unstoppable force that flattens all obsta…
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- 978-3-031-22813-1
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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- XX, 290
Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction
This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland’s history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also undersc…
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- 978-3-031-30455-2
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- New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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- XIX, 246
Security, Disinformation and Harmful Narratives: RT and Sputnik News Coverage…
It is a well-known fact both among scholars of propaganda and disinformation, and among political leaders that Sputnik and RT are using their news coverage for disinformation purposes to harm Western and European societies. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which enhanced the security threat by disinformation, the EU decided to ban these two media. Against this backdrop, the study asks…
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- 978-3-031-58747-4
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
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- XIX, 293
Making Humanitarian Crises
This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role images have in shaping cultural, social and political reactions to the suffering of others and to the establishment of the inte…
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- 978-3-031-00824-5
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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- XII, 186
Feeling Political
Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its …
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- 978-3-030-89858-8
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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- XIX, 390
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