Sociology: Recent submissions

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    • Artificial Intelligence in Value Creation 

      Wodecki, Andrzej (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book analyses various models of value creation in projects and businesses by applying different forms of Artificial Intelligence in their products and services. First presenting the main concepts and ideas behind AI, ...

    • Neoliberal Bio-Economies? 

      Birch, Kean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      In this book, Kean Birch analyses the co-construction of markets and natures in the emerging bio-economy as a policy response to global environmental change. The bio-economy is an economic system characterized by the use ...

    • Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture 

      Kanai, Akane (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book explores the practices and the politics of relatable femininity in intimate digital social spaces. Examining a GIF-based digital culture on Tumblr, the author considers how young women produce relatability through ...

    • Development and the Right to Education in Africa 

      Oguno, A.C. Onuora (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book is about the right to basic education and its impact on development in Africa. It focuses on the elusive subject of litigating the right to education by examining jurisprudence from select African countries and ...

    • Illicit Markets, Organized Crime, and Global Security 

      Kassab, Hanna Samir; Rosen, Jonathan D. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book explains the existence of illicit markets throughout human history and provides recommendations to governments. Organized criminal networks increased in strength after the enforcement of prohibition, eventually ...

    • Civil Service Management and Administrative Systems in South Asia 

      Jamil, Ishtiaq; Dhakal, Tek Nath; Paudel, Narendra Raj (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book examines public administration in South Asia in the context of rapid changes and modernization of administrative traditions, thoughts, and practices. The existing literature has, however, not given adequate ...

    • Ecologically Unequal Exchange 

      Frey, R. Scott; Gellert, Paul K.; Dahms, Harry F. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      At a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal ...

    • Historiographical Investigations in International Relations 

      Schmidt, Brian C.; Guilhot, Nicolas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book critically investigates the historiography of International Relations. For the past fifteen years, the field has witnessed the development of a strong interest in the history of the discipline. The chapters in ...

    • The Design Imperative 

      Chen, Steven (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book examines how to optimize design management processes in order to produce innovation within organizations. It first looks at how to harvest a culture of design and then examines topics specific to product and ...

    • Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance: Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness 

      Erkkilä, Tero; Piironen, Ossi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge ...

    • Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space 

      Linhard, Tabea; Parsons, Timothy H. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on the ways in which movements of people across natural, political, and cultural boundaries shape identities that are inexorably linked to the geographical space that ...

    • Gender Innovation in Political Science 

      Sawer, Marian; Baker, Kerryn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      In this book, leading gender scholars survey the contribution of feminist scholarship to new norms and knowledge in diverse areas of political science and related political practice. They provide new evidence of the breadth ...

    • Spirituality, Sustainability, and Success 

      Beehner, Christopher G. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book offers a pragmatic approach to the benefits of spirituality and sustainability for both individual and organizational success. It introduces sustainability and workplace spirituality as contemporary solutions to ...

    • Weird IR 

      Mislan, David Bell; Streich, Philip (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      The scholarly study of international relations tends to go over the same cases, issues, and themes. This book addresses this by challenging readers to think creatively about international politics. It highlights some of ...

    • Exploratory Practice for Continuing Professional Development 

      Slimani-Rolls, Assia; Kiely, Richard (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book explores the use of Exploratory Practice (EP) as a tool for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by language teachers, and responds to the increasing demand for teachers to engage in research. It presents ...

    • Think Tanks, Foreign Policy and the Emerging Powers 

      McGann, James G. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book examines changing international dynamics through the lens of some of the leading think tanks from the emerging powers in the world. Through twelve case studies, the authors explore how security and international ...

    • China’s state enterprises: changing role in a rapidly transforming economy 

      Cheong; Kee Cheok; Li, Ran (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book focuses on the nature and significance of China’s state enterprises which have undergone substantial changes since China’s economic liberalization in 1978. It argues that much of the criticism is based on mistaken ...

    • Risking Antimicrobial Resistance: A collection of one-health studies of antibiotics and its social and health consequences 

      Jensen, Carsten Strøby; Nielsen, Søren Beck; Fynbo, Lars (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
      Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to be one of the greatest threats to public health in the twenty-first century. In this context, understanding the reasons why perceptions of antibiotic risk differ between ...

    • Independent Television Production in the UK: From Cottage Industry to Big Business 

      Lee, David (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book is the first authoritative account of the UK’s independent television production sector, following the creation of Channel 4 in 1982. It examines the rise of a global industry, increasingly interconnected through ...

    • Posthuman Pedagogies in Practice: Arts based Approaches for Developing Participatory Futures 

      Bayley, Annouchka (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book investigates transdisciplinary, arts-based approaches to developing innovative and pertinent higher education pedagogy. Introducing timely critical thinking strategies, the author addresses some of the key issues ...