Sociology: Recent submissions
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Designing Cooler Cities: Energy, Cooling and Urban Form: The Asian Perspective
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited book surveys the major sustainability challenges facing Asian cities, in particular those related to urban energy and city cooling. The book discusses the key concepts and issues involved, addressing the three ... -
Economic Diversification in the Gulf Region, Volume II: Comparing Global Challenges
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This volume explores the challenges to diversification in Gulf countries, which can no longer rely on profits from hydrocarbons to fund national expenditures. It elaborates on the problem of weak institutions, lack of ... -
Economic Diversification in the Gulf Region, Volume I: The Private Sector as an Engine of Growth
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This volume focuses on the role of the private sector in diversifying the economics of Gulf countries in the post-petrodollar era, when fluctuating and declining oil prices are negatively impacting national expenditures. ... -
Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century. Addressing the key ... -
Researching Emotions in International Relations: Methodological Perspectives on the Emotional Turn
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited volume is the first to discuss the methodological implications of the ‘emotional turn’ in International Relations. While emotions have become of increasing interest to IR theory, methodological challenges have ... -
Early Childhood, Aging, and the Life Cycle: Mapping Common Ground
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)In this book, Silin maps the common ground between early childhood and the period sociologists call “young-old age.” Emphasizing the continuities that bind children and adults rather than the differences that traditional ... -
Social Ties in Online Networking
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores the relevance of social networking from the perspective of its users to reveal the sociological significance of (inter)active experiences on Facebook. In doing so, the work examines obscure aspects of ... -
The Neoliberalization of Creativity Education: Democratizing, Destructing and Decreating
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book contemplates creativity education within the context of the neoliberal capitalist economy. In the current crisis of creativity, where we are required to be creative in an environment of entrepreneurialisation, ... -
Revisiting Metaphors in International Relations Theory
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents an analysis of how metaphors are essential elements in the study of international relations. It acknowledges the fact that theory and practice in international relations often rest on common metaphorical ... -
Exploring, Experiencing, and Envisioning Integration in US Arts Education
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores the dedication of the New American Colleges and Universities to the purposeful integration of liberal education, professional studies, and civic engagement through the performing, literary, and visual ... -
Meaning and Controversy within Chinese Ancestor Religion
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions ... -
Reading Children in Early Modern Culture
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early ... -
The Venture Capital Deformation: Value Destruction throughout the Investment Process
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)In spite of the robust development of venture capital that has occurred over the last three decades, returns from venture capital have been declining. This book focuses on a simple question: why? The answer lies in the ... -
Uncovering Online Commenting Culture: Trolls, Fanboys and Lurkers
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)In today’s digital world our social interactions often take place in the form of written comments. We chat, disagree, worship, vent, confess, and even attack in written form in public digital spaces. Drawing on scholarly ... -
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and Societal Contexts: International and Interdisciplinary Approaches
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Groundbreaking in its international, interdisciplinary, and multi-professional approach to diversity and inclusion in higher education, this volume puts theory in conversation with practice, articulates problems, and ... -
Emotions and Reflexivity in Health and Social Care Field Research
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book is about emotions and reflexivity when doing field research in health and social care settings. Health and social care students often undertake field research in their own area of practice using observation and ... -
Reading for Wonder: Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements. Yet this deeply felt experience—at once cognitive, ... -
Working Creatively with Stories and Learning Experiences: Engaging with Queerly Identifying Tertiary Students
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Stories are a valuable vehicle for practitioners in research, education, human services and the arts to enable individual and cultural change. The authors describe and deploy a variety of methods that can be used by teachers, ... -
Combatting Climate Change in the Pacific: The Role of Regional Organizations
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in the Pacific. Pacific Island States and Territories (PICTs) have long been cast as the frontline of climate change and placed within the grand architecture ... -
Enacting Values-Based Change: Organization Development in Action
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited volume highlights the use and practice of values in Organization Development (OD). It addresses how those values have changed over time, how they are expressed in OD’s approach to consulting, the process of ...
