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Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan (The Palgrave Lacan Series)
Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan (The Palgrave Lacan Series)
This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan’s post-Freudian metapsychology. It argues that a conceptual bridging between the two is possible, and lays the foundations of that bridge, starting with Heidegger and proceeding through the work of...
Post-War Eugenics, Reproductive Choices and Population Policies in Greece, 1950s–1980s
Post-War Eugenics, Reproductive Choices and Population Policies in Greece, 1950s–1980s
This book sheds light on the history of Greek eugenics during the post-war period. At this time, eugenics had already been condemned by international declarations. Alexandra Barmpouti, however, challenges the assumption that eugenics disappeared and confirms the continuity of eugenics after the Second World War. She looks at the Greek...
Stress and Suffering at Work: The Role of Culture and Society
Stress and Suffering at Work: The Role of Culture and Society

This edited collection explores different strands of social constructionist theory and methods to provide a critique of the prevailing discourse of work stress, and introduces a radical new approach to conceptualizing suffering at work. Over the last three decades, stress and other forms of suffering at work...

Lean Culture in Higher Education: Towards Continuous Improvement
Lean Culture in Higher Education: Towards Continuous Improvement

This book deepens the understanding of cultural conditions for implementing organizational and process changes in higher education institutions. Developing the humanistic and critical trend in Lean management research, it aims to define the notion and maturity of a Lean culture in higher education institutions as well as to determine...

The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical: Negotiated Truths (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing)
The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical: Negotiated Truths (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing)

This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the ‘science of trauma’ (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive...

Labour Women in Power: Cabinet Ministers in the Twentieth Century
Labour Women in Power: Cabinet Ministers in the Twentieth Century

This book examines the political lives and contributions of Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson, Barbara Castle, Judith Hart and Shirley Williams, the only five women to achieve Cabinet rank in a Labour Government from the party’s creation until Blair became Prime Minister. Paula Bartley brings together newly discovered...

The Manufacturing Sector in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico: Transformations and Challenges in the Industrial Core of Latin America (Palgrave Studies in Latin American Heterodox Economics)
The Manufacturing Sector in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico: Transformations and Challenges in the Industrial Core of Latin America (Palgrave Studies in Latin American Heterodox Economics)

Using a heterodox perspective, this book discusses the real possibilities of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico ever achieving economic development through industrialization. Through their discussion of the three most industrialized countries of Latin America, the contributors compare trajectories and critically analyze the...

Civil Resistance and Violent Conflict in Latin America: Mobilizing for Rights (Studies of the Americas)
Civil Resistance and Violent Conflict in Latin America: Mobilizing for Rights (Studies of the Americas)

This book explores distinct forms of civil resistance in situations of violent conflict in cases across Latin America, drawing important lessons learned for nonviolent struggles in the region and beyond. The authors analyse campaigns against armed actors in situations of internal armed conflict, against private sector companies that seek to...

Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda (Mental Health in Historical Perspective)
Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda (Mental Health in Historical Perspective)
This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting political and development priorities, periods of...
Energy Poverty and Access Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of regionalism (Energy, Climate and the Environment)
Energy Poverty and Access Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of regionalism (Energy, Climate and the Environment)
Access to modern energy is central in addressing the major global challenges of the 21st century, including poverty, climate change and famine. However large parts of the world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have poor or no access to modern energy. Victoria Nalule argues that SSA countries have many common energy challenges...
Trust, Institutions and Managing Entrepreneurial Relationships in Africa: An SME Perspective (Palgrave Studies of Entrepreneurship in Africa)
Trust, Institutions and Managing Entrepreneurial Relationships in Africa: An SME Perspective (Palgrave Studies of Entrepreneurship in Africa)

This book highlights the importance of understanding how trust and indigenous African cultural institutions enhance the development of entrepreneurial networks and relationships in Africa. Drawing on institutional theories, the author re-examines the way that entrepreneurial behaviour can be shaped, with a focus on trust, networks...

Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written
Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written

Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written attempts, for the first time, to think Heidegger's philosophy through the lens of Derrida's logocentric thesis, according to which speech has, throughout the history of metaphysics, been given primacy over writing. The book offers a detailed account of Derrida's arguments about...

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