Sociology: Recent submissions
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Inclusive Governance in South Asia: Parliament, Judiciary and Civil Service
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited volume explores the state of inclusive governance in South Asia. It particularly examines the nature and scope of inclusiveness noticed in the parliament and civil service in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, and ... -
Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain: Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores the aspirations of 'working class' girls' in an ex-mining community in the UK. It highlights the difficulties present in these 'post-industrial' settings, which are often areas of severe deprivation, and ... -
Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a ... -
Intercultural Studies of Curriculum: Theory, Policy and Practice
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores the philosophical, ideological and practical dimensions of curriculum using an intercultural lens. It is cross-cultural, comparative and inclusive, with each chapter featuring case studies from a minimum ... -
Advancing Multicultural Dialogues in Education
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited collection advances the call for continued multicultural dialogues within education. Dialogue and education are the two most essential tools that can help tackle some of the biggest problems we are facing across ... -
Learning and Teaching British Values: Policies and Perspectives on British Identities
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book engages with important debates about multicultural British identities at a time when schools are expected to promote Fundamental British Values. It provides valuable insight into the need to investigate fluid and ... -
Social Aesthetics and the School Environment: A Case Study of the Chivalric Ethos
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book theorizes aesthetic classroom management through a hermeneutical approach with three fields of literature: history and philosophical foundations of chivalry, chivalry’s promulgation through the Victorian Age, and ... -
Revisiting Globalization and the Rise of Global Production Networks
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book takes issue with the likening of contemporary globalization to nineteenth century trade interdependence, in which the defining feature of contemporary globalization is the spread of global production networks, ... -
Europe in the Classroom: World Culture and Nation-Building in Post-Socialist Romania
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides an unconventional account of post-1989 education reform in Romania. By drawing on policy documentation, interviews with key players, qualitative data from everyday school contexts, and extensive textbook ... -
Brand Gender: Increasing Brand Equity through Brand Personality
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores ways to drive and increase a brand’s most important property, its equity. Focussing on gender, the author analyses the impact of assigning personalities and characteristics to products and how this can ... -
Competition in Higher Education Branding and Marketing: National and Global Perspectives
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This volume provides a critical examination of branding and marketing in higher education from national, regional, and global perspectives. Contributors with expertise in higher education, sociology, comparative and ... -
State-Owned Multinationals: Governments in Global Business
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a deep understanding of state-owned multinationals (SOMNCs) and their role in global business. SOMNCs have emerged as a force to contend with in global competition, and their study connects several fields ... -
Creating Social Change Through Creativity: Anti-Oppressive Arts-Based Research Methodologies
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines research using anti-oppressive, arts-based methods to promote social change in oppressed and marginalized communities. The contributors discuss literary techniques, performance, visual art, and new media ... -
A Brain for Business – A Brain for Life: How insights from behavioural and brain science can change business and business practice for the better
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Behaviour change is hard, but O’Mara shows that by adopting strategies that are well-founded in the science of brain and behaviour individuals and organisations can adapt to the demands of the modern world. The brain ... -
Scenario Thinking: Preparing Your Organization for the Future in an Unpredictable World
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Develops scenario planning methods in ways that link scenario analysis to improved decision making, engage time-poor senior decision makers, attenuate decision makers’ tendency to deflect responsibility for bleak, negative ... -
Learning Factories: The Nordic Model of Manufacturing
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines how the norms, culture, and practices of the socio-economic Nordic model give them a competitive edge in globalized production chains. Using the Norwegian automotive industry – one of the most globalized ... -
Modernization and urban water governance : organizational change and sustainability in Europe
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book describes the impact of modernization on the organization and sustainability of Urban Water Systems in Europe (UWSEs). Bolognesi explains that the modernization of UWSEs was a regulatory shock that began in the ... -
Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a ‘micro-spatial’ approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus ... -
Humans and Machines at Work: Monitoring, Surveillance and Automation in Contemporary Capitalism
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers’ local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work’s digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain, call ... -
The World Bank and Transferring Development: Policy Movement through Technical Assistance
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book analyses the World Bank’s provision of technical assistance from 1946 to the present day. It argues that the relational dynamics between technical assistance provider and recipient affects the legitimacy of policy ...
