Sociology: Recent submissions
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The Global Debt Crisis and Its Socioeconomic Implications: Creating Conditions for a Sustainable, Peaceful, and Just World
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This fascinating and ambitious book proposes a new strategy ("the Ramo Plan") to tackle the current global socioeconomic crisis. Issuing a direct challenge to the status quo, the author lays out a bold set of policies to ... -
Virtue and Responsibility in Policy Research and Advice
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book argues that ethical judgment by individual scientific policy advisors is more important than is often acknowledged. While many scientific policy advisors routinely present themselves as neutral or value free ... -
Political Revolt and Youth Unemployment in Tunisia: Exploring the Education-Employment Mismatch
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book discusses youth unemployment in post-revolutionary Tunisia, paying particular attention to the so-called skill mismatch. Youth unemployment was one of the major factors triggering the Tunisian revolution, and ... -
Energy Security in Europe: Divergent Perceptions and Policy Challenges
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited collection highlights the different meanings that have been attached to the notion of energy security and how it is taken to refer to different objects. Official policy definitions of energy security are broadly ... -
Paranoid Pedagogies: Education, Culture, and Paranoia
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited book explores the under-analyzed significance and function of paranoia as a psychological habitus of the contemporary educational and social moment. The editors and contributors argue that the desire for ... -
Cities Responding to Climate Change: Copenhagen, Stockholm and Tokyo
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores the climate policy approaches established by various city governments. It details the strategies, plans and initiatives that have so far been designed to both mitigate and adapt to the impacts of global ... -
Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication Using Fewer Words
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues. Based on research findings ... -
Mapping Queer Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores intersections of theory and practice to engage queer theory and education as it happens both in and beyond the university. Furthering work on queer pedagogy, this volume brings together educators and ... -
The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students: The Burden of Hyperdocumentation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: the author’s journey and transition from a once undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic, and five years of ... -
Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty: Crisis, Resistance, and Resilience
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book asks how we are to understand the relationship between capitalism and the environment, capitalism and food, and capitalism and social resistance. These questions come together to form a study of food regimes and ... -
Corporatizing Rural Education: Neoliberal Globalization and Reaction in the United States
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents a critical analysis of the anti-democratic and pro-authoritarian ideologies that exist in rural communities in the United States. The author book also explores and recontextualizes existing research in ... -
Applied Interdisciplinarity in Scholar Practitioner Programs: Narratives of Social Change
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines the experiences of the first graduates from The Doctor of Social Sciences (DSocSci) program at Royal Roads University, Canada’s first applied research doctorate designed exclusively for working professionals. ... -
Strategic Consulting: Tools and methods for successful strategy missions
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Whether you are a business leader, internal business partner or external consultant, there are six key strategy missions that you will need to undertake as you deal with the re-positioning and growth issues that all ... -
Organic Public Engagement: How Ecological Thinking Transforms Public Engagement with Science
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book advances organic public engagement methods based on ecological thinking. The authors draw on rich multi-disciplinary literature in ecological thinking as well as research from public engagement with science events ... -
Professional Development and Quality in Early Childhood Education: Comparative European Perspectives
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a global overview of developments and discussion around the evaluation of quality of early childhood education environments, and the professional development of early childhood teachers, during the last ... -
Risk in The New York Times (1987–2014): A corpus-based exploration of sociological theories
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book investigates to what extent claims of common social science risk theories such as risk society, governmentality, risk and culture, risk colonisation and culture of fear are reflected in linguistic changes in print ... -
Developmental Universities in Inclusive Innovation Systems: Alternatives for Knowledge Democratization in the Global South
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book analyzes the current trends in the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge which contribute to social inequalities, especially in the Global South. The aim of the text is to explore the possibilities of ... -
Arts Evaluation and Assessment: Measuring Impact in Schools and Communities
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book addresses the challenges faced by arts organizations, schools, and community-based settings when designing program evaluations and measuring artistic engagement and experience. With contributions from leaders ... -
Learning and Innovation in Hybrid Organizations: Strategic and Organizational Insights
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Reflecting the emergence of new organizational forms and hybrid organizations, this edited collection explores the processes of exchange, collaboration and technological management that have changed organizational structures. ... -
Industry Trends in Cloud Computing: Alternative Business-to-Business Revenue Models
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Exploring the Cloud Computing (CC) commercial landscape as it matures, this book asserts that the key ingredient in sustaining the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model is subscription renewal. Chronicling the evolution ...
