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Theories of transnational feminism often frame feminist knowledge as a project of Western hegemony to move ideas unilaterally from the "emancipated" West to other parts of the world. How does this framework resonate with feminists in times of authoritarianism? In...
This Open Access book explores the development of contemporary urban struggles in Sweden, offering a comprehensive and critical perspective on collective action in cities. It examines the practices of collective urban actors, highlighting both visible and hidden forms...
This open access book takes readers inside the minds and hearts of twenty urban visionaries transforming urban and rural environments across six continents. Rather than focusing on technical solutions or policy frameworks, Cathy Oke and Jorn Verbeeck reveal the deeply...
Debates about digitalization and democracy have always been controversial and range from optimistic views to sceptic or even dystopian perspectives. The former emphasize the potential of the internet to drive innovation in society and to enhance democracy. In contrast,...
This open access book centers the everyday experiences of forced and undocumented migrants in the Global North and Global South – specifically, the Netherlands, USA, and South Africa – through the prisms of engaged scholarship and co-creation as well as...
This open access book offers innovations in how sustainability is studied, taught, and practiced across academic and professional contexts. The book captures the richness of current principles and practice in sustainability from diverse geographical and academic...
This Open Access book explores the evolving dynamics of postdigital learning in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), offering a comprehensive ethnographic and discursive analysis. Through an exploration of educational media - including traditional tools and AI-driven...
Recent years have made apparent we are living in a world of chronic crises: prolonged disasters that continue to impact people's lives long after their onset. Climate change, famine, and the COVID-19 pandemic represent a few of these disasters--instead of a return to...
This open access volume provides an absorbing analysis of the multifaceted mission that gave rise to the Turkish Protestant movement. James Bultema identifies and investigates four central factors that have contributed to the movement’s development: religious...
This open access book explores two previously separate strands of research: socio-technical imaginaries, and the production and contestation of space. It addresses the controversial role of emerging and speculative technologies in debates on sustainability, Anthropocene...
This open access book addresses three themes which have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric operationalization of these concept; and (3) the elaboration in terms of a Triple Helix of...
This is an open access book. The International Conference on Dynamics of Environment, Sustainability, and Gender Disparities: A Holistic Dialogue for Inclusive Futures brings together leading scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and industry experts to engage in a...
This is an open access book.The Graduate School of Universitas Sebelas Maret organizes the 4th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Studies (ICOMSI) 2025.This conference aims to bring together scholars, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from various...
This open access book presents new methods for evaluating the contribution of participatory arts to health and wellbeing. Responding to shifts in arts and health discourse, it argues for challenging long-standing ideas about how value is theorised, measured, and...
This Open Access book examines how people often treat social group membership as inherent, immutable, informative and even intergenerationally inherited. Such essentialism remains one of the more puzzling folk intuitions, at odds with social science maintaining that...
This is an open access book. COMNEWS 2025 aims to explore innovative ideas, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and provide solutions to contemporary communication issues. The conference will feature keynote speeches, panel discussion, and interactive workshops...
This is an open access book.In the face of escalating environmental challenges, such as climate change, resource depletion, and ecological degradation, there is a growing global urgency to pursue sustainable development goals (SDGs) that balance ecological integrity,...
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to climate change, drawing on a unique and extensive empirical investigation involving more than 10,000 Italian firms. It examines corporate...
This open access volume presents the select proceedings of the Indo-Bhutan Social Science Conference 2025 (IBSSC 2025).
This open access book explores the representation and reception of female subjectivity in contemporary Chinese reality dating shows. Conceptualising gender as discursively and performatively constructed, and dating as mediated through the reality television format, it...
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