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Complexity Economics: Building a New Approach to Ancient Economic History (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies)
Complexity Economics: Building a New Approach to Ancient Economic History (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies)

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines, however,...

The Dynamics of Peaceful and Violent Protests in Hong Kong: The Anti-extradition Movement
The Dynamics of Peaceful and Violent Protests in Hong Kong: The Anti-extradition Movement

This book shows that Hong Kong’s protests from June to December 2019 originated from not only an attempt to extradite a Hong Kong man involved in a Taiwan murder case, but also China’s effort at extraditing corrupt mainlanders who laundered dirty money in the territory. The mixture of peaceful and violent protests was due...

Policies and Politics Under Prime Minister Edward Heath (Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership)
Policies and Politics Under Prime Minister Edward Heath (Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership)

This book explores the political and intellectual significance of Edward Heath’s leadership of the Conservative Party. It contains a series of original and distinctive chapters that feature extensive archival materials and original insights from leading political scientists and historians. The volume contributes significantly...

The Role of EU Agencies in the Eurozone and Migration Crisis: Impact and Future Challenges (European Administrative Governance)
The Role of EU Agencies in the Eurozone and Migration Crisis: Impact and Future Challenges (European Administrative Governance)
This book provides a wealth of empirical material to understand key aspects of EU governance including its plurality of actors and policy making modes and its functioning during crisis management. Authored by legal scholars and political scientists, it presents new research and insights on the role of EU agencies in the context of the Euro and...
Theories of Crime Through Popular Culture
Theories of Crime Through Popular Culture

This textbook brings criminology theories to life through a wide range of popular works in film, television and video games including 13 Reasons Why, Game of Thrones, The Office, and Super Mario Bros, from a variety of contributors. It serves as an engaging and creative...

Japan’s Asian Diplomacy: Power Transition, Domestic Politics, and Diffusion of Ideas (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)
Japan’s Asian Diplomacy: Power Transition, Domestic Politics, and Diffusion of Ideas (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Japan’s Asian diplomacy under Prime Minister Shinz? Abe. Under the Kantei-centred policymaking system, Shinz? Abe has implemented assertive foreign policies with a slogan of ‘diplomacy taking a panoramic perspective of the world’. The analyses in...

Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)
Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)

What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in celebrity’s production. The men and women associated...

Political Ecology: A Critical Engagement with Global Environmental Issues
Political Ecology: A Critical Engagement with Global Environmental Issues
This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues. 

Drawing on discourse and narrative analysis, Marxist political economy and insights from natural science, the book points at similarities, differences and inter-connections between
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Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond (East Asian Popular Culture)
Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond (East Asian Popular Culture)
This book brings together nine original chapters to examine genre agency in East Asian cinema within the transnational context. It addresses several urgent and pertinent issues such as the distribution and exhibition practices of East Asian genre films, intra-regional creative flow of screen culture, and genre’s creative response to...
De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes (Health, Technology and Society)
De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes (Health, Technology and Society)
Are you your genes? De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes explores this perplexing question, showing how different forms of knowledge must be contextualized to become meaningful. It is generally assumed that the genomic sequence adds up to the identity-forming material life is made of. Yet identity cannot itself adopt the form of a...
Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry
Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry
This book establishes play as a mode of humanistic inquiry with a profound effect on art, culture and society. Play is treated as a dynamic and relational modality where relationships of all kinds are forged and inquisitive interdisciplinary engagement is embraced. Play cultivates reflection, connection, and creativity, offering new...
Researchers at Risk: Precarity, Jeopardy and Uncertainty in Academia (Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods)
Researchers at Risk: Precarity, Jeopardy and Uncertainty in Academia (Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods)
This book explores the phenomenon of researchers at risk: that is, the experiences of scholars whose research topics require them to engage with diverse kind of dangers, uncertainties or vulnerabilities. This risk may derive from working with variously marginalised individuals or groups, or from being members of such groups themselves. At other...
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