Lesley Wyldbore - Editor

Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century

Korinna Schönhärl

This book offers 14 contributions that examine key questions concerning bankers ́ decision making, their confidence in partners and customers, and their risk management practices from Early Modernity to the 20th century. It explores various mechanisms of banks' decision taking, how they were established and how they changed over time. Specific chapters also analyze the types of risk management... read more

Global Cultures of Contestation: Mobility, Sustainability, Aesthetics & Connectivity (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society)

This book guides the reader through the many complications and contradictions that characterize popular contestation today, focusing on its socio-political, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions. The volume recognizes that the same media and creative strategies can be used to pursue very different causes, as the anti-gay marriage Manif Pour Tous movement in France makes clear. The contributors ar... read more

Netizenship, Activism and Online Community Transformation in Indonesia

Ario Seto

Focusing on the concept of prudence as ethical groundwork for digital practices and activism, this book considers digital media expediency and populism as conflicting required experiences that lead digital citizens to discover activism. It highlights the importance of digital citizens’ experience of ‘being-in-the-digital sphere’ and encourages the reader to look at the dynamics of online movem... read more

Domestic Imaginaries: Navigating the Home in Global Literary and Visual Cultures

This book examines the issue of representing the home in literary and visual cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection brings together scholars working on literature, film, and photography with the aim of showcasing new research in a burgeoning field focusing on representations of domesticity. The chapters span a diverse range of contexts from across the world and use a variety o... read more

Formations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema: Labyrinthian Men

György Kalmár

This book investigates the formations of masculinity in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism and explores some of the cultural phenomena of the years following the 1989 regime change. The films explored offer a unique perspective encompassing two entirely different worlds: state socialism and neoliberal capitalism. The films suggest that Eastern Europe is somehow different than its wes... read more

Manipulating Political Decentralisation: Africa's Inclusive Autocrats (Conceptualising Comparative Politics)

Lovise Aalen, Ragnhild L. Muriaas

Can autocrats establish representative subnational governments? And which strategies of manipulation are available if they would like to reduce the uncertainty caused by introducing political decentralisation? In the wake of local government reforms, several states across the world have introduced legislation that provides for subnational elections. This does not mean that representative subna... read more

In the Aftermath of Gezi: From Social Movement to Social Change? (Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change)

This edited volume addresses various aspects of social and political development in Turkey and the latter’s role within a global context. Paradigmatically and theoretically, it is situated in the realm of communication and/for social change. The chapters thread together to present a fresh and innovative study that explores an array of issues related to the Gezi protests and their aftermath by ... read more

Multi-Owned Property in the Asia-Pacific Region: Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities

This book provides critical insight into the experience of multi-owned property, and showcases different cultural responses across the Asia-Pacific region. Escalating demand for properties within global cities has created exuberance around apartment living; however less well understood are the restrictions on individual rights and responsibilities associated with collective living. In contrast... read more

City Making and Global Labor Regimes: Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry

Antonella Ceccagno

This book investigates the success story of the fast fashion industry—mainly owned by Chinese migrants—in Prato, Italy. It outlines how Prato has become the center of a value chain stretching from suppliers in China and Turkey all the way to buyers in Europe. Despite this, a policy attacking Chinese entrepreneurship has been devised and implemented in Prato. This volume analyzes said policy ag... read more

Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts: Animal Studies in Modern Worlds (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

This volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to spiritual realms and the occult, animals have always been more than primitive symbols of human relations. Whether as animist gods, familiars, conduits to ancestors, totems, talismans, or co-creators of multispecies cos... read more

Struggles In (Elderly) Care: A Feminist View

Hanne Marlene Dahl

This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political processes, including the forces of globalisation and the de-gendering of care, have changed how we might understand this national and global political concern. Emerging discourses such as neoliberalism have also reframed elderly care to increase existi... read more

Scholarly Publishing in Africa. Opportunities & Impediments

The Socratic Method Today: Student-Centered and Transformative Teaching in Political Science

Contemporary Issues in African Society: Historical Analysis and Perspective (African Histories and Modernities)

The Mediated Politics of Europe: A Comparative Study of Discourse

This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach. The book explores how politics is performed and discursively constructed in television news and current affairs in five countries (France, Greece, Italy, Sweden and the UK) and focuses on a mom... read more

Port Economics

Wayne K. Talley

Port Economics is the study of the economic decisions (and their consequences) of the users and providers of port services. A port is an "engine" for economic development by providing employment, worker incomes, business earnings and taxes for its region. The book provides a detailed discussion of types of carriers that use ports, the operation of cargo and passenger ports as well as the opera... read more

To Kill a Sultan

Houssine Alloul, Edhem Eldem, Henk de Smaele

This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'. On 21 July 1905, just after the Friday Prayer at the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul, a car bomb exploded and left 26 dead with another 58 wounded. Sultan Abdülhamid II, the target of the attack, remained unscathed. The Ottoman police soon discovered that ... read more

Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice

Lee E. Ross

Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice offers readers an overview of domestic violence and its effects on society, including what can be done to curtail its rapid growth and widespread harm. Criminal justice and sociology students will find this text readable, up-to-date, and rich in historical detail. Geared toward the criminal justice system, this text focuses on civil and criminal justice p... read more

No Ordinary Life: The Exciting and Challenging Reality of Being a Twenty-First Century Christian

Carol J. Kelso

Education, Translation and Global Market Pressures

Wan Hu

This book investigates the market-driven transformation of the higher education sector and the response given by the translation programmes in the UK and China, two vastly different social and economic contexts. It provides an in-depth look at six selected case studies, critically analysing how social, economic, and political factors have affect curriculum designs in different translation prog... read more

Politics and Aesthetics of the Female Form, 1908-1918

Georgina Williams

The New Testament in Muslim Eyes: Paul's Letter to the Galatians (Routledge Biblical Interpretation in Islamic Context Series)

Shabbir Akhtar

The Magic of Coin-Trees from Religion to Recreation

Ceri Houlbrook

This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been ritually embedded. This is a contemporary custom which can be traced back in the literature to the 1700s, when it was practiced fo... read more

Explaining Human Diversity: Cultures, Minds, Evolution

Carles Salazar

The History of Money and Monetary Arrangements: Insights from the Baltic and North Seas Region (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

Thomas Marmefelt

Romania under Communism: Paradox and Degeneration (Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe)

Dennis Deletant

Communism has cast a long shadow over Romania. The passage of little over a quarter of a century since the overthrow in December 1989 of Romania’s last Communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, offers a symbolic standpoint from which to penetrate that shadow and to throw light upon the entire period of Communist rule in the country. An appropriate point of departure is the observation that Romania’... read more

The Island

Harry Czeiger

What happens when the injured daughter of a wealthy businessman is moved far away from her home to recuperate with the help of an internationally renowned psychiatrist, who has his own troubles bubbling just beneath the surface? What is 'The Island' and what is its purpose? Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean against a background of turmoil and danger, passions overflow and clash as agendas are slo... read more

Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy, and Legacy

Olympia Kiriakou

Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy and Legacy is a historical critique of the development and reception of Carole Lombard's stardom from the classical Hollywood period to present day. Based on original archival research, Olympia Kiriakou combines theoretically informed textual analyses of Lombard's performances and star image across different media (biographies, publicity materials, phot... read more

A Handbook for Humanity: Seeking Sustainability in the Twenty-first Century

Jeb Taylor

Ten thousand years ago when our ancestors abandoned foraging in favor of agriculture, they inadvertently crossed the threshold between primitive and civilized existences. In so doing they committed all future generations to an increasing reliance on progressive technologies—and the need to adopt progressive social behavior commensurate with those emerging technologies. We save succeeded in inc... read more

It was the best of times...: Notes on a busy life

Colin Fitzgerald

Life in post-war Britain is witness to stories of deprivation and excesses; from the austerity of the 1950s through to the sex-obsessed swinging 60s in London and the cocaine-fuelled 1980s.From bicycles and baked beans to a Rolls Royce and caviar. From a maisonette to a mansion and back again. Freezing darkrooms and toxic workshops to state-of-the-art studios and luxury suites.The author’s jou... read more