ABSTRACT This volume contends that Evidential Pluralism—an account of the epistemology of causation, which maintains that in order to establish a causal claim one needs to establish the existence of a correlation and the existence of a mechanism—can be fruitfully applied to the social sciences. Through case studies in sociology, economics, political science and law, it advances new philoso…
This book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in South Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability. The book analyzes how changes in rainfall patterns, floods, droughts, heatwaves and landslides affect those who are directly dependent on the agrarian economy. It examines the socio-economic pressure…
Kehidupan interseksional mengeksplorasi berbagai pengalaman perempuan Tionghoa Australia lintas waktu dan tempat selama era Kebijakan Australia Putih (1901-1973). Refleksi pribadi perempuan Tionghoa Australia diteliti bersama dengan pembacaan catatan resmi feminis pascakolonial untuk menggambarkan bagaimana kehidupan sehari-hari mereka dipengaruhi oleh berbagai identitas dan posisi subjek yang …
Buku ini mengkaji peran gerakan, perusahaan, dan jaringan pangan lokal dalam transformasi sistem pangan global yang saat ini tidak berkelanjutan. Buku ini mengeksplorasi serangkaian inovasi yang dirancang untuk mengintegrasikan kembali cara produksi pangan yang berkelanjutan dan mendorong kedaulatan pangan. Buku ini memberikan wawasan terperinci tentang jaringan khusus pelaku sosial yang berkol…
Kota-kota setelah krisis menunjukkan bagaimana urbanisme dan desain perkotaan mendefinisikan ulang kota setelah krisis kesehatan, ekonomi, dan lingkungan global selama beberapa dekade terakhir. Buku ini merinci bagaimana krisis ini telah menghasilkan visi perkotaan baru—dari desain modern avant-garde hingga estetika artistik yang menyerukan kesederhanaan dan keseharian, dari paradigma pembang…
This open access book explores a range of new and older systems mapping methods focused on representing causal relationships in systems. In a practical manner, it describes the methods and considers the differences between them; describes how to use them yourself; describes how to choose between and combine them; considers the role of data, evidence, and stakeholder opinion; and describes how t…
ABSTRACT This book focusses on Russia’s cultural statecraft in dealing with a number of institutional cultural domains such as education, museums and monuments, high arts and sport. It analyses to what extent Russia’s cultural activities abroad have been used for foreign policy purposes, and perceived as having a political dimension. Building on the concept of cultural statecraft, the a…
ABSTRACT The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy ventures into a territory that is still widely unexplored. It contains 30 academic contributions that aim to provide a better understanding of whether, why, and how philanthropic initiatives, understood as voluntary contributions for the common good, can and should be fostered by states through tax incentives. The topic has been addr…
Draws on the expertise of twelve contributors, writing from an autoethnographic first person approach.
Modern Trends in Research on Steel, Aluminium and Composite Structures includes papers presented at the 14th International Conference on Metal Structures 2021 (ICMS 2021, Poznań, Poland, 16-18 June 2021). The 14th ICMS summarised a few years’ theoretical, numerical and experimental research on steel, aluminium and composite structures, and presented new concepts. This book contains six pl…