Sociology: Recent submissions
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The Power of Cities in Global Climate Politics: Saviours, Supplicants or Agents of Change?
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)There is now a palpable sense of optimism about the role of cities and transnational city-networks in global climate governance. Yet, amidst the euphoria, there is also a sense that the power that has been ascribed to – ... -
Food, Health and the Knowledge Economy: The State and Intellectual Property in India and Brazil
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book opens a window into how two ambitious countries – India and Brazil – are seeking to become knowledge powers in the 21st century. As the knowledge economy became the preferred way of conceptualising the economy ... -
Art, Disobedience, and Ethics: The Adventure of Pedagogy
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge. Examining art practice in educational settings where emphasis is placed upon a ... -
Saving Face in Business: Managing Cross-Cultural Interactions
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book explains the subtle maneuvers of what researchers call “facework” and demonstrates the vital role it plays in the success or failure of cross-cultural interactions. Building on Geert Hofstede’s seminal research ... -
Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe: From Survey to Ethnography
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This edited volume presents findings from a major cross-European research project mapping the civic and political engagement of young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political heritages. Drawing on new ... -
Ethnographic Research and Analysis: Anxiety, Identity and Self
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book reflects on the contemporary use of ethnography across both social and natural sciences, focusing in particular on organizational ethnography, autoethnography, and the role of storytelling. The chapters interrogate ... -
Chinese Sociology: State-Building and the Institutionalization of Globally Circulated Knowledge
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book examines the institutional development of Chinese sociology from the 1890s to the present. It plots the discipline’s twisting path in the Chinese context, from early Western influences, through the institutionalization ... -
Elicitive Conflict Mapping
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book completes Wolfgang Dietrich’s path-breaking trilogy of the Many Peaces, the foundation of the highly innovative approach to peace and conflict as taught and applied at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Where ... -
Prosocial Leadership: Understanding the Development of Prosocial Behavior within Leaders and their Organizational Settings
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book explores the behavioral phenomenon that is intended to aid in the benefit of others, known as prosocial behavior. The author combines eight years of quantitative and qualitative research to explain and delineate ... -
Critical Pedagogy in Nursing: Transformational Approaches to Nurse Education in a Globalized World
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book explores the academic processes of nursing education in times of uncertainty around healthcare policy and healthcare provision. Grounded in research examining current theory, policy and culture around nursing ... -
Seeking Wisdom in Adult Teaching and Learning: An Autoethnographic Inquiry
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book concerns the pursuit of wisdom in education, and the argument that wisdom – personified here as Sophia – is tragically marginalised or absent in current Western epistemological discourses. It includes a review ... -
The Future of Management Education: Volume 2: Differentiation Strategies for Business Schools
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book discusses the challenges facing business schools and management education systems around the world. Based on documented descriptions of institutional and competitive dynamics in the ‘industry’ of management ... -
Understanding Branding in Higher Education: Marketing Identities
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book provides a critical theory of branding in higher education. The author argues for a higher education for all and positions higher education as a human right necessary for the well-being of citizens and democracy. ... -
Intercultural Cities: Policy and Practice for a New Era
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory. In recent years, demographic changes ... -
Education and Female Entrepreneurship in Asia: Public Policies and Private Practices
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book examines policies and practices that relate to the education of female entrepreneurs in China, India, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan. Through both textual and interview data, the book reveals the importance of ... -
Psychologized Language in Education: Denaturalizing a Regime of Truth
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book explores how psychologized language has come to dominate education and schooling. Taking a critical lens to some major constructs in education—e.g. the mind, the self, identity, emotion, emotional intelligence, ... -
Strategic Management for Public Governance in Europe
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book investigates the role and effectiveness of strategic management within public governance in Europe. Using findings from qualitative studies, it explores the governance processes at the level of the European Union ... -
International Perspectives on Teachers Living with Curriculum Change
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)“This book gives a voice to English language teachers faced with the challenges posed by English language curriculum change. As a core component of national state system curricula in virtually every country in the world, ... -
Disability, Health and Human Development
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally ... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This handbook provides an original, comprehensive and unparalleled overview of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education. It captures the complexities of past, current and future developments in feminism ...
