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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
European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Order
This is an open access book. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. However, the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasingly evident. The book argues that strategic autonomy may be reached—also in the short run—if differenti…
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- 978-3-031-44546-0
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- The European Union in International Affairs
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- XIX, 133
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
Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences
This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.
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- 978-1-137-40796-2
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- X, 157
UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970
This open access book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy debates about the care of children. Between 1945 and 1970, an estimated 3,500 children were sent from Britain to Australia, unaccompanied by their parents, through child migration schemes funded by the Australian and British Governments and delivered by churche…
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- 978-3-030-69728-0
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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- XIII, 338
Child Protection in England, 1960–2000
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century England. Activism by these groups, often manifested in small voluntary organisations, drew upon and constructed an expertise grounded in experience and emotion that supported, challenged, and subverted…
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- 978-3-319-94718-1
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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- IX, 215
The Non-radicalisation of Muslims in Southern Europe
This open access book explains why southern European countries with significant Muslim communities have experienced few religiously inspired violent attacks – or have avoided the kind of securitised response to such attacks seen in many other Western states. The authors provide a unique contribution to the literature on violent extremism – which has traditionally focused on countries such a…
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- 978-3-031-71996-7
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- Rethinking Political Violence
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- XV, 124
The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Maidan massacre in Ukraine. It uses a theoretical framework of rational choice, moral hazard, state- repression backfire, and Weberian ideas about rational action to explore the massacre.
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- 978-3-031-67121-0
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- Rethinking Political Violence
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- XIX, 266
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