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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
“Covid-19,” Psychological Operations, and the War for Technocracy
Camouflaged by “Covid-19,” an undeclared global class war was initiated in 2020, aimed at replacing liberal democracy with technocracy, a novel, biodigital form of totalitarianism. The opening campaign involved the largest psychological operation in history, intended to demoralise, disorientate, and debilitate the public. This volume deals with the application of shock and stress, trauma-ba…
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- 9783031418501
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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
Hybrid Investigative Journalism
This open access book is a rare example of the ethnographic study of investigative journalism. This book explores entrepreneurial attempts to combine traditional investigative journalism with alternative ways of organising this work. It transcends watershed investigative projects in favour of the ways in which new actors (citizens, technologists, bloggers and local reporters, among others) join…
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- 9783031419393
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- XIV, 203
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Justice and Recovery for Victimised Children
This open access book contributes to ongoing discussions about how societies should respond to children who have experienced violence and abuse by delving into the Barnahus model: a multidisciplinary and co-located model whose aim is to provide both justice and recovery to victimised children. The promising model was first implemented in the Nordic region and is currently being diffused across …
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- 978-3-031-53233-7
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- Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
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- XV, 288
Road to Net Zero: Strategic Pathways for Sustainability-Driven Business Trans…
With this open access book, delve into the insights of respected leaders from academia and industry as they unravel the intricacies of sustainability-driven business transformation. This meticulously curated edited volume reflects on The Road To Net Zero, underscoring the need for pioneering pathways. Embark on a collaborative learning journey and explore key issues along the road to transforma…
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- 9783031422249
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- XXVIII, 285
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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
Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France
This book investigates the recently accelerated phenomenon of mainstream French film and serial television’s remarkable popularity not only within but – more novelly for European audiovisual narratives – outside the domestic context. Treating changes that have taken place in France's production landscape during the mass rollout of global streaming platforms as revelatory of broader tenden…
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- 978-3-031-39195-8
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- Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
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- XXIII, 302
Credit Networks in The Preindustrial World
This open access book examines the formation and sustainability of private credit networks in past societies, gathering a global range of case studies from Europe and the Americas. The book represents a fi rst attempt to coordinate the work of different scholars working on credit networks and aims to explore the possibilities offered by social network analysis for the study of past fi nancial m…
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- 978-3-031-67117-3
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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- XIV, 403
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