This edited volume operationalizes the figure of the ghost and subsequent hauntings through Derridas framing of hauntologyin an effort to attend to the liminal spaces that exist between presence and absence throughout social...Lasīt vairāk
health robotic assistance, security of medical systems, eHealth, gamification for the aging, health tourism, and entrepreneurship, among many others, this book provides an interdisciplinary contribution to healthcare management, technology, and demo...Lasīt vairāk
In 1999, the European Peoples Party (EPP) emerged as the largest political group in the European Parliament, maintaining its dominance for more than 25 years and influencing the direction of the EU through five consecutive Presidencies of the Europ...Lasīt vairāk
This book proposes an original reading of Foucaults theory of the state in relation to the social sciences. In this text, Skornicki deconstructs the pseudo-obviousness in Foucauldian thought, namely that Michel Foucaults new approach in political p...Lasīt vairāk
This edited volume conducts linguistic and literary analyses of the discourse involving race, religion and royalty (3R) in Malaysia. Grounded in Discourse Studies, it reveals the lan...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the experiences of single professionals living in shared housing in London, focusing on how language, communication, and social inequalities shape these living arrangements. It frames shared housing not only as an economic condi...Lasīt vairāk
The authors introduce practices like childrens clothes swapping, repair of appliances, or reuse of domestic fabrics, and analyze how people exchange and share goods (farmers market), buy used items in different venues, reuse or recycle materials (ti...Lasīt vairāk
This volume provides a background to debates on definitional terms of subjective and objective wellbeing. Beyond that, it analyses discourse and policy practice relating to population-level and individual health and wellbeing promotion. The chapte...Lasīt vairāk
Il libro affronta insieme la sfida e lopportunitą della rigenerazione delle aree industriali dismesse in contesti socialmente, economicamente ed ecologicamente fragili, con unattenzione specifica alla regione alpina, restituendo i contenuti e gli es...Lasīt vairāk
This book introduces a new relationship-oriented approach to child therapy grounded in the idea that positive relationships are essential for childrens mental health and wellbeing. The author emphasis...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first to study the language and politics of identity of recent mainland Chinese migrants to Malaysia. Drawing on a variety of fieldwork data, the volu...Lasīt vairāk
It is a valuable resource for sustainability practitioners, researchers, students, and educators looking to explore early and ongoing contributions to sustainable development, as well as best practices that can be integrated into academic curricula...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Black women academics legacy of knowledge production and intellectual thought, while balancing the intersecting pressures of social, familial, and academic responsibilities. Through the (her)stories...Lasīt vairāk
This book analyzes social research and genres of comics from cross-cultural perspectives. It disentangles the impact of comics in understanding social, cultural and political issues and considers the challenges they may raise from an ethical point...Lasīt vairāk
Tracing the evolution of social thought on leisure in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present day, this book documents an alternative and almost totally ignored discourse of leisure as a field of welfare. Investigating evolving under...Lasīt vairāk
