ABSTRACT African sexualities are dynamic, multi-faceted and resilient. However, people with non-heterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for survival, self-definition, and erotic rights. Queer in Africa forms an entry point for understanding the vulnerabilities of queer Africans as shaped by social, cultural and political processes, aiming to pr…
This book explores the role of feminist activists in The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and highlights the progress they have made in mainstreaming gender as a key issue in global climate governance. It is now commonplace for gender to be framed as a political issue in global climate politics within academic scholarship, but there is typically a lack of robust empirica…
Knowledge? : what knowledge? -- Explosive innovation : putting knowledge to work -- Leadership -- Culture -- Knowledge corruption -- Training and socialization -- Knowledge structure and processes -- Technologies and social media -- Putting it all together -- A "Rosetta stone" for military skills translation to business.
Introduction and overview / Robert Taylor -- Political economy -- China's "new normal" growth trajectory : regional and global implications / Lucia Morales and Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan -- Origins and dimensions of the 21st century maritime silk road : experimental patch-work or grand strategy? / Robert Pauls and Joern-Carsten Gottwald -- Urban- rural differences in social policies : the…
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1 Bornholm: a treasure island -- 2 The multi-causal hoards -- 3 Identifying Bornholm's hoards: content, character, and chronology -- 4 Classification of production, circulation, and distribution data -- 5 Silver flows: analysis of production data -- 6 Stab, bend, and cut: analysi…
Introduction : deceiving from the top : state-sponsored disinformation as a contemporary global phenomenon / Martin Echeverría and Sara García Santamaría -- Theoretical understanding of state-sponsored disinformation / Petros Iosifidis -- Rethinking disinformation for the global South : towards a particular research agenda / Grisel Salazar Rebolledo -- Statistics and state-sponsored disin…
ABSTRACT First published in 1998, this book explores the links between theories of feminism and the practice of law, and does so through an examination of a number of contemporary themes in feminist legal studies. From an interdisciplinary perspective, this book examines, as one of its overarching themes, the existence of a distinctively female legal voice, or voices. In arguing for a recognit…
ABSTRACT The policing of rape is in permacrisis. This book addresses the question of why police investigations continue to fail most rape victim-survivors and puts forward a framework for what policing can do to change this. Low conviction rates and poor victim-survivor experiences are the hallmarks of the rape justice gap. Three decades of research, policy, and legal changes have tweaked rape…