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A City Cannot Be a Work of Art
This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing urban planning and design, her theoretical contributions – although central to her criticisms of and proposals for public policy – are frequently overlooked even by her most…
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- 978-981-99-5362-2
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- XXV, 400
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Adaptive Peacebuilding
This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs …
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- 978-3-031-18219-8
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- Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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- XXVII, 321
Feeling Gender
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between wo…
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- 978-1-349-95082-9
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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- XIII, 336
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
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
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves and allowing our machines to tell us who we are.
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- 978-1-137-47666-1
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- Palgrave Macmillan London
Men's Experien
This open access book draws on a broad study on violence against men, from both male and female partners in Norway, to contribute to the research on intimate partner violence. It identifies similarities in men's experiences and backgrounds, including in their perceptions of their own victimisation. Marianne Inez Lien and Jørgen Lorentzen argue that the traditional gender power model should be …
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- 978-3-030-03994-3
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- Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
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- XI, 174
Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film
This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Guided by three intersecting concepts – memory, travelling, and touch – it suggests that the cross-border movements of exiles, émigrés, and professional travellers had a crucial impact on the emergence, development, and dissemination of the Gothic. This approach expands the canon to overlooked films, …
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- 978-3-031-73628-5
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- Palgrave Gothic
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- XV, 281
Bordieuan Field Theory as an Instrument for Military Operational Analysis
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a lens through which to examine military operations. Novel in its approach, this innovative text provides a better, more nuanced understanding of the modern ‘battlespace’, particularly in instances of prolonged low-intensity conflict. Formed in two parts, this book primarily explores th…
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- 978-3-319-65352-5
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- New Security Challenges
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- XV, 123
Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …
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- 978-3-030-78589-5
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- XV, 283
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