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Nick Peim

A Critique of Pure Education

This book analyses educational theory in order to offer an alternative view of the history of education in modernity. It provides a new understanding of education as a phenomenon that draws on powerful li…

Ian Scoones

Navigating Uncertainty

"Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don't know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigat…

Power and Authority in Afghanistan

"This volume provides a critical analysis of power and authority in Afghanistan, and how the conception and practice of these have shifted both historically and over the past twenty years. Contributors ex…

Saras Sarasvathy

Effectuation

This Elements introduces effectuation and explains its framework. Effectuation theory inverts several older approaches in the 'sciences of the artificial'. These inversions suggest an entrepreneurial meth…

Heidi Schönfeld, Elisabeth Lukas,

Meaningful Renunciation

In our turbulent times, many look to the horizon, searching for a glimmer of hope. Yet there may be more than one silver lining within reach. Industry s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions cou…

Saras Sarasvathy

Effectuation

This Elements introduces effectuation and explains its framework. Effectuation theory inverts several older approaches in the 'sciences of the artificial'. These inversions suggest an entrepreneurial meth…

Elaine Kasket

Reset

How can we live well when our time and data is being stolen; our relationships damaged and our sense of self warped - all by technology? For every stage of our lives, a leading psychologist and tech expe…

Arwa Mahdawi

Strong Female Lead

Women have been told to 'lean in' and act like men to get ahead. But as our systems crumble, isn't it time we had a different plan? While some at the top are telling us 'it is what it is' as we face finan…

The Ascendancy of Regional Powers in Contemporary US-China Relations

Great power competition is back on the world stage, and today s international system is home to regional influences on great power relations that cannot be ignored. The United States unipolar moment is l…

Vulnerabilities

Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the problem of vulnerability. The essays here contained take …

Kate Maclean

Cash, Clothes, and Construction

"Cash, Clothes, and Construction presents the first gender-based analysis of "pluri-economy," a central pillar of Evo Morales's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) in Bolivia to overthrow neoliberalism and dec…

Infrastructural Being

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the contemporary naturecultural world by exploring infrastructures through the dwelling approach. The notion of naturecultures has been utilized in environm…

Edward Armston-Sheret

On the Backs of Others

Edward Armston-Sheret offers new perspectives on British exploration during the Victorian and Edwardian eras by focusing on the contributions of those people and animals ordinarily written out of mainstre…

Hank Mobley (1930-1986)

Thinking Of Home

The Marginal Soils of Africa

This book addressed the pressing challenges of climate change, land scarcity, and food security, offering a comprehensive synthesis of research on using, managing, and reclaiming marginal lands in Africa.…

Éloi Laurent

Toward Social-Ecological Well-Being

This book investigates the deep economic causes of environmental unsustainability and offers a new vision to rebuild sustainability economics. While sustainability scholars are hard at work with documenti…

Cops on Campus

"This edited collection examines the history, operations, and impact of campus policing in its role as a central manifestation of the symbiotic relationship between higher education and the carceral state…

Unruly Books

This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender. The contributors show how these books functioned as "st…

Inaccessible Access

Inaccessible Access ethnographically addresses barriers to inclusion within knowledge-making. It focuses on the social, environmental, communicative, and epistemological barriers that people with disabili…