This volume explores how linguistic narratives of migration, citizenship, and freedom of movement expose the tensions between legal frameworks and lived experiences.

This book provides a dynamic exploration of alternative migration narratives across the EU, promoting awareness of freedom of movement, European values, and citizenship rights. It brings together personal stories and innovative educational practices to challenge racism and discrimination, strengthen European identity, and inspire active engagement with the core ideals of the EU project. In Part I, contributors critically examine how migration is framed in public narratives, including media hate speech, xenophobic online discourse, political speeches, and the spread of disinformation. Part II introduces the Freedom of Movement Project (FOM@Play), offering a deep dive into private narratives of migration, personal stories of mobility, and the construction of European identities. Part III applies these insights to education, showcasing innovative approaches to citizenship and values education within European higher education.

This book will be of interest to students in language and communication, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language and law, and migration studies, as well as students and scholars across social science, clinical psychology, and policymaking.

This book critically examines the intersection of gender, governance, and urban mobility through the lens of transit systems in postcolonial and developing countries. Drawing on postcolonial feminist and intersectional theories, it analyses how historical legacies, socio-economic structures, and systemic inequalities have shaped the governance and accessibility of urban transit systems, disproportionately marginalising women. It highlights the compounded challenges women encounter in navigating these systems, including safety, affordability, and representation, whilst also identifying opportunities for their empowerment as stakeholders and decision-makers in governance and shareholding. Through examples from Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi, and Dar es Salaam in Africa; Lahore, Jakarta, and Delhi in Asia; and Bogota, Santiago, and Curitiba in Latin America, the book offers actionable insights for policymakers and urban planners. It will be of interest to researchers, students, and faculty in interdisciplinary fields such as gender studies, public administration, feminist studies, international relations, and urban planning.

This completely revised and updated new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication examines how linguistic and multimodal practices organize health communication in systems reshaped by digital media and Covid-19. Leading international scholars from anthropology, applied linguistics, media studies, health informatics, and social psychology explore how health and illness accounts are produced across clinical, policy, and everyday contexts.

Organized into three sections-individuals' everyday health communication, health professionals' practices, and patient-provider interaction-the handbook analyzes encounters between patients and professionals, health discourse circulation on social media, and multimodal care construction. Case studies include online health communities, Covid-19 memes, digital crowdfunding, and public health communication across diverse cultural settings.

This fully revised edition features a new editorial team, introduction, and ten new chapters covering multimodal discourse analysis, digital discourse analysis, metaphor analysis, and pandemic risk communication. All chapters reflect emerging debates, new technologies, and innovative methodologies transforming the field.The volume combines conversation analysis, ethnography, corpus linguistics, social network analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis, emphasizing technology's role in health communication and authentic communicative contexts. By positioning language as central to understanding health and illness, this handbook provides essential insights into how evolving communication reshapes health and care meanings. An indispensable reference for researchers and practitioners in the field of applied linguistics, addressing healthcare access, inequality, and the ethical dimensions of health communication.

Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci, composed towards the middle of the eighth century at the request of King AElfwald of East Anglia (r. 713-49), is the earliest substantial literary work from the middle kingdoms of pre-Viking England. Written in Latin and modelled on the ornate style of Aldhelm, the Vita offers a vivid account of Guthlac, a Mercian noble turned hermit who died at Crowland in 714. It stands as both a literary landmark and an important historical source for early Anglo-Saxon life.

The Vita also shaped the development of vernacular hagiography, notably inspiring two major Old English poems preserved in the Exeter Book. Though the original Mercian translation is lost, its legacy endures in the 'Gates of Hell' sequence reworked in the Vercelli Book, in the fuller Life at the end of a collection of AElfric's writings, and in entries both for Guthlac and his sister Pege in the Old English Martyrology.

This volume presents, for the first time, a complete text of Felix's Vita together with the Old English Homily and Life, offering a comprehensive view of Guthlac's cult across languages and centuries. It is essential reading for scholars of early medieval history and literature. All the texts are accompanied by translations and commentaries.

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Anthropology provides a comprehensive overview of applied anthropology, offering a global portrait of key problem sets, methods, and materials that anthropologists use when working in business, government, and nongovernmental organizational settings.

Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners from across the globe, this innovative Handbook maps the full breadth of applied anthropology - its diverse conceptualizations, its deep roots in community engagement, and its vital role in addressing today's most urgent challenges. Spanning places from Peru and Morocco to China, Australia, and North America, this Handbook highlights how anthropologists everywhere blend theory and practice to confront climate disruption, health inequities, cultural loss, forced migration, technological transformation, and more. It offers a rare global, decolonial perspective, dismantling the outdated divide between "academic" and "applied" work, and centers collaboration, reciprocity, and social impact.

This is a landmark volume that redefines what it means to put anthropology to work in a rapidly changing world. Designed for students, educators, practitioners, and organizational partners, this Handbook illuminates wide-ranging career pathways in nonprofits, business, government, and community-based contexts. It prepares the next generation for meaningful futures in a world where anthropological insight is urgently needed.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Employing comparative case studies, the authors identify recurring patterns, strategies and challenges in discontinuation processes. While innovation policy often focuses on supporting new solutions, they argue that effective transformation also requires deliberately ending harmful or obsolete socio-technical regimes. Chapters demonstrate how political leadership, regulatory frameworks and stakeholder mobilisation shape outcomes, and highlight how resistance and setbacks can be managed. The book concludes by emphasizing that discontinuation is not accidental or market-driven, but a governable process.

Scholars and students of science and technology studies, and innovation will find the insights into sustainable transitions and transformative innovation policy invaluable. Policymakers and practitioners seeking to design credible transition strategies will also benefit from this comprehensive guide.

Authors examine the foundations of sport in Europe, the protection of its integrity and values, its socio-economic and environmental dimensions, promotion of participation and new technologies. Evaluating the progress that has been made and the challenges that remain, chapters explore topics including gender equality, geopolitics, children's rights, social media and esports. This Research Handbook illuminates the ongoing debates and discussions occurring in European sports and introduces paths for further research, such as the role of big data and AI.

The Research Handbook on Sport in Europe is a valuable resource for students and scholars of sports studies and sciences, business and management, economics and finance, geography, politics and public policy and sociology. It is also prime reading for policymakers and practitioners in sport seeking to deepen their understanding of sport policy in Europe.

This timely volume analyzes the state of refugee child integration in the education system in urban primary schools in Uganda, debating policies both pre- and post-COVID and giving voice to narratives often marginalized in debates concerning refugees in educational spaces in the Global South.

Using rich ethnographic data collected from primary schools in Kampala, Uganda, the book offers a sociological analysis into the different contextual aspects that shape the lived experiences of refugee children, parents, foster families, and their schools, along with an investigation of policies relating to self-reliance, refugee aid, fostering, and resettlement. Chapters showcase extensive qualitative fieldwork, including interviews, document analysis, and focus groups that analyzed classroom praxis and interrogated the values instilled in pupils, raising questions about the relevance of Western-driven conceptualizations of integration, belonging, and otherness for the Ugandan classroom context. Ultimately, the book demonstrates the importance of context at local, national, and international levels in framing the everyday lives of refugee children through their positioning alongside discourses of self-reliance, agency, vulnerability, and interdependency.

Contributing to the much-needed study of learner experiences in urban Global Southern educational contexts, this book will be of value to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students working in the sociology of education, primary and elementary education, and multicultural education more broadly. Policy makers involved with education and development may also find the volume of use.

This book concerns possibilities and obstacles to global cooperation in turbulent times, providing critical insight on how notions of sustainable development, crisis, and diplomacy are shaped by changing moods.

Global Cooperation in Times of Crisis investigates how mood shapes global cooperation. The book focuses on theorising the role of moods in multilateralism, their specific implications for issues as diverse as migration, media, livelihoods, conflict, and development aid, containing also regional case studies including on China, Russia, the United States, Europe, Turkey, and Brazil. It asks: What became of the global cooperation spirit we saw in 2015, with the adoption of several major international frameworks, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the Paris Agreement on climate change? Bringing together regional perspectives and original conceptual essays, the book offers a new lens on the changing conditions for global cooperation by focusing on moods and their effects, with important implications for the United Nations 2030+ agenda and beyond.

This volume brings together 19 chapters offering timely and original lenses for understanding the times in which we live, aimed at scholars, students, and practitioners working across the social sciences, diplomacy, humanitarianism, politics, and the humanities

Entries examine both individual and collective voice mechanisms, including established forms such as trade unions, grievance procedures and whistleblowing, while also addressing contemporary and emerging developments including AI-calibrated voice and social media. Highlighting inclusive and ethical approaches across varied organisational and institutional contexts, the Concise Encyclopedia identifies that voice serves not only as a mechanism for organisational improvement, but also as a vital component of healthy and engaging work environments.

The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Employee Voice is an essential resource for scholars and students of business and management, organisation studies and employment relations. Human resource management practitioners and labour regulation policymakers will similarly benefit from its actionable recommendations.

Key Features:

• Fulfils the growing need to formulate more inclusive and conceptually coherent understandings of employee voice
• Investigates workplace silence as a reflection of fear, strategic withholding and perceived risks associated with speaking up
• Entries from 60 leading experts from around the globe, showcasing interdisciplinary approaches across a wide geographic range

Leading experts examine how student populations and competition for school places are reshaped when neighbourhoods are transformed by rising housing costs and the arrival of affluent residents. They illustrate how the outcomes of gentrification, including increased segregation, reinforced education inequalities and uneven access to resources, are consistently harmful despite varying local policies. By analysing evidence from diverse contexts, the book demonstrates that schools are not only affected by urban change, but are key sites where the social consequences of gentrification unfold and educational opportunities are limited or widened.

Gentrification and Schooling in Global Cities is an essential resource for scholars and students of educational equity and access, particularly those interested in urban education. Education policymakers and urban planners will also benefit from its actionable recommendations for mitigating the impact of urban change.

This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference work in the field. It combines public and private international law perspectives, while transcending the traditional confines of cultural heritage protection.

Bringing together renowned authors from over 60 countries, the Encyclopedia covers the history, evolution, and current state of the field. It sheds light on the rules, institutions, and processes related to this transversal domain of international cooperation, as well as state practices concerning the implementation of international commitments, good practices, and dispute resolution.

This unique multidisciplinary reference work is addressed to a range of readers: from academics, researchers and students to practitioners, policy makers and general knowledge seekers.

Key Features:

• More than 100 thematic entries
• 15 selected cases of famous cultural heritage disputes
• 300 country-focused entries across 60 different jurisdictions, covering different parts of the world
• Entries organized alphabetically for ease of navigation
• Fully cross-referenced
• Entries written by the world's foremost scholars and practitioners of Art and Cultural Heritage Law

This book examines multimodal (im)politeness in telecinematic fiction and its humorous effects for viewers, offering new insights into the forms, meanings, and functions of (im)politeness in contemporary popular culture and audiovisual media.

The volume develops an integrated analytical framework that brings together models of (im)politeness, the pragmatics of fiction, and a social semiotic approach to multimodality to explore how (im)politeness unfolds in interaction within and across modes (e.g., gesture, touch, music, and speech). Drawing on data from character interactions in the American mockumentary sitcom Modern Family, the volume offers insights into multimodal impoliteness through a fine-grained qualitative analysis, supplemented where relevant by an overview of the dataset. It demonstrates (1) how situated (im)politeness-related meanings (e.g., face, sociality rights, identity, and emotion) are dynamically produced through the interplay of modes in interaction; and (2) how these multimodal ensembles create humour potential for viewers. This volume advances a perspective that moves beyond multimodal description to explain why (im)politeness is realised multimodally, while highlighting the distinct affordances of different modes in (im)politeness communication.

This book will appeal to scholars and students in pragmatics, (im)politeness studies, multimodal communication, and humour research, as well as those interested in fictional and media discourse.

In this book, Stathis Psillos and Thodoris Dimitrakos explore the question: how is empirical, and in particular scientific, knowledge possible? Most philosophers have accepted that some restrictions must be placed on empirical knowledge in order for it to be possible. Yet considerable debate has revolved around the precise nature of such restrictions, above all how knowledge can be said to be a priori.

The book traces the development of the concept of the a priori in the philosophy of science, beginning with the Descartes-Newton controversy. The discussion then turns to Leibniz and Hume, Kant's conception of synthetic a priori principles, and Mill's radical empiricism, which sought to eliminate the a priori altogether. The book also examines later transformations of the debate, including the emergence of non-Euclidean geometries and their challenge to the Kantian view, Poincare's conventionalism, the development of the relativised a priori within logical positivism, and the Quine-Carnap debate over analyticity.

Building on these historical and philosophical discussions, the authors develop and defend a novel functional conception of the a priori - captured by the idea that "the a priori is as the a priori does"-according to which a priori principles are those that play a constitutive role in scientific theorising while remaining open to revision.

An engaging and wide-ranging philosophical investigation of the a priori, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers in philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology and the history of the philosophy of science.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of terrestrial ecohydrology, a rapidly evolving discipline focusing on the interactions of biota and water.

Understanding these interactions is especially important given the pace and scale of environmental change, with climate warming, deforestation, land-use change, groundwater depletion, urbanization, and other human activities are fundamentally reshaping how water is partitioned among evaporation, transpiration, interception, infiltration, storage, and runoff. Addressing these issues, the Routledge Handbook of Terrestrial Ecohydrology provides a thorough introduction to the concepts, methods, and questions that define terrestrial ecohydrology and presents a comprehensive overview of the state of the science as it is being applied around the world. The handbook is organized into seven parts:

• Part 1: Ecohydrology and Water Fluxes across Scales
• Part 2: Ecohydrology Theory
• Part 3: Biomes in Transition
• Part 4: Ecohydrology of Managed Ecosystems
• Part 5: Fauna and Ecohydrology
• Part 6: Methods in Ecohydrology
• Part 7: Ecohydrology and Society

Presenting a global view, with established and up and coming international contributors, the handbook showcases how ecohydrology has matured into a vibrant, problem-driven field that is central to understanding and managing water in a rapidly changing world. The handbook concludes by weaving insights, offering design rules, measurement portfolios, and open questions that link local interventions to downstream and downwind benefits for society.

The handbook is essential reading for students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers working in the field of ecohydrology.

The Routledge International Handbook on the Histories of Sociology starts from a simple but powerful conviction: there is not one history of sociology, but a multitude of histories written in different parts of the world, from diverse standpoints, and through different theoretical and methodological lenses.

Bringing together 20 scholars from 11 countries, the volume challenges dominant narratives about the discipline's key figures, locations, and topics, and advances a programme of feminist and postcolonial rewriting. Organized in two complementary sections, the Handbook combines methodological reflection with substantive historical analysis. The first section develops theoretical and methodological strategies for writing and rewriting disciplinary histories, while the second presents original regional and transnational studies of sociology across Africa, South and East Asia, South and Central America, Russia, and beyond - alongside critical reflections on colonial entanglements, canon formation, and knowledge circulation.

Framed by a shift "from canon to connection," the volume reimagines disciplinary history as a relational and pedagogical resource rather than a fixed archive of classics, thus setting the research agenda for the years to come. Designed for researchers, instructors, and both undergraduate and graduate students, it provides historical depth, theoretical orientation, and methodological inspiration, encouraging readers to approach the histories of sociology as an open, contested, and collective endeavour.

This book rethinks the Marxist critique of law through an exploration of the later works of Hungarian philosopher Gyoergy Lukacs. It argues that law cannot be fully grasped through rigid legal categories alone; instead, it must be examined within the wider context of social reproduction, shaped by language, politics, and ideology.

By engaging critically with major legal theorists such as Kelsen, Hart, and Dworkin, Vitor Bartoletti Sartori shows how Lukacs's philosophy offers a deeper and more flexible framework for understanding legal thought in complex societies. He challenges dominant Marxist approaches, especially the Pachukanian tradition, and highlights the need for a more open-ended framework for understanding law, ideology, and social complexity.

Ideal for scholars of legal theory, philosophy, and social thought, Gyoergy Lukacs and the Marxist Approach to Theory of Law bridges classical Marxist debates with contemporary concerns and offers fresh insights into ideology, interpretation, and the role of Law in shaping society.

Living Futures offers a fresh and exciting perspective on how people imagine and make futures as part of their everyday lives. It addresses important questions about who is included in futures thinking and futures making, and who is excluded.

Bringing together historical, anthropological, sociological, geographical and arts-based perspectives, this book provides a pithy yet expansive overview of social theories, research and creative approaches applied to futures thinking. Global practices and traditions of divination, fortune telling and speculation from antiquity to the present day are investigated for how they help people deal with uncertainty and engage with the yet-to-come, while also serving political and economic objectives. The book emphasises the plasticity of temporalities and lived experiences across diverse social groups, together with the role of the creatures, things, landscapes, and ecosystems with which we share our futures. The concluding chapter integrates the insights offered from each of the fields of research discussed in the book, providing ideas to spark vibrant and transformative approaches to creative futuring.

Living Futures will appeal to academics and students interested in the history, sociology, anthropology and geography of futures, futures studies, possibility studies, anticipation studies, design and forecasting, as well as anyone interested in how innovative social research and creative approaches offer new insights into futures thinking.

The second edition of Freedom recovers the concept as a fundamental aspect of modern Western ideas and explores its history and how controversial its meaning can be. To what extent does freedom have a 'social' component, and how is it being reshaped by our dominant consumer society?

Today, the West sees itself as having a crucial role to play in exporting freedom into the far regions of the world - but our own freedom seems more under threat than ever. Linking ideas of public and personal freedom, Stevenson explores complaints about 'big brother', the arrival of the business society and the erosion of democracy to show how our freedoms are far from secure. Through the analysis of several distinctive philosophical traditions that have raised concerns about freedom, as well as a range of critical thinkers and perspectives, Stevenson seeks to affirm the importance of freedom, providing a compelling argument for linking it to other values such as equality and responsibility, and raise the question about what freedom will come to mean in the future, in a world that seems increasingly fragile, uncertain, and insecure.

Drawing upon a range of critical thinkers and perspectives, this book represents a wake-up call to all those who thought our basic ideas of freedom were settled.

Communicative Property explores the concept of property from a communicative, rather than economic and legal, perspective.

As a point of departure, the book engages with both organizational studies and social theory to point out that economic and legal views of property have dominated conversations over the notion since Marx. The author argues that the role of property in shaping organizations and configuring work relationships is poorly understood, as property, being traditionally defined exclusively through an economic and legal lens, fails to account for the diversity of ways in which it is expressed every day within and around organizations. Revealing property's organizing power, the author suggests, requires adopting a communicative lens to property, situating it in the daily interactions through which organizations are created, changed, and undone.

Firmly positioning capitalism as a communication phenomenon, this book will be of relevance to scholars looking for an observable and actionable entry point to formulate a critique of capitalism, by offering them a communicative approach to one of its main mechanisms: property.

This book examines one of the most persistent concepts in modern art and cultural theory: the proposition that art can operate independently from economic, political, or social constraints.

In an age defined by global interdependence, digital transformation, and shifting cultural policies, the notion of autonomy has acquired new urgency. This volume explores how artistic autonomy is negotiated and redefined within today's complex intersections of governance, markets, institutions, and technology. Bringing together critical essays, case studies, and reflective practices, this book reveals how autonomy is not a static or absolute state, but a living process shaped through relation, negotiation, and vulnerability. This book traces how artists and institutions navigate structural pressures while maintaining creative integrity, and how autonomy itself functions as both a protective space and a mode of engagement. Through a wide range of perspectives, spanning theory, policy, and artistic practice, the collection uncovers the paradoxes that define contemporary cultural production: freedom within dependency, creativity within regulation, and independence within systems of care. It invites readers to view autonomy not as separation from society but as the capacity to act critically and imaginatively within it.

Essential reading for scholars, artists, policymakers, and cultural professionals, Artist Autonomy and the Contemporary Creative Economy offers a timely and compelling examination of what it means to be artistically free in an era of transformation and global interconnection.

This book offers a pioneering examination of the evolution and impact of political and topical cartoons, focusing specifically on the overlooked genre of the "pocket cartoon."

From its roots in Georgian prints to its prominent role in twentieth-century newspapers and magazines, the cartoon has served as a powerful tool of visual satire and commentary, disrupting traditional media paradigms and engaging audiences in new ways of consuming news. Adopting a historical and contemporary lens, this book explores the disruptions caused by cartoons to journalistic practices, audience engagement, and media consumption models. Through detailed case studies and analysis, Whitworth investigates these disruptions whilst returning to fundamental questions such as whether cartoonists should be considered journalists or news workers and whether the increasing popular engagement with cartooning, including via digital media, has led to changing definitions of journalism.

Drawing on interdisciplinary research from across Journalism, History, Politics, and Literature, this work provides a comprehensive understanding of cartoons' enduring influence on journalistic discourse and practice and is recommended for advanced students and researchers.

This volume provides a comprehensive picture of the significance of moral impossibility. It explores conceptual and applied questions through the moral psychology, meta-ethics, and politics of moral impossibility.

In every choice, action, and act of the imagination, what is possible for us is variously determined and delimited not only by physical and logical limits but also by moral ones. These limits mark the domain of 'moral impossibility'. Moral impossibilities limit what we conceive of, what we consider practically, and what we are capable of doing. They manifest in what is not-thought, unthinkable, undoable. They have individual and collective roots, change over time, and have significant consequences for the framing of problems, for the scope of deliberation, and for individual and social worldviews - as well as the conflicts that arise among them. This phenomenon is ubiquitous, yet scarcely discussed. This volume aims to open up and unify a field of inquiry by collecting original philosophical contributions exploring both conceptual and applied questions addressing the moral psychology, meta-ethics, and politics of moral impossibility.

Moral Impossibility will appeal to scholars and graduate students working in normative ethics, meta-ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action, and social and political philosophy.

The Routledge Companion to Drag offers a comprehensive academic exploration of drag as a global, historical, and cultural phenomenon.

This volume examines drag beyond its popularised media image, tracing its diverse practices across time and geography. Chapters address key themes such as the history, herstory, and theirstory of drag, its representation on television, activism, and performance traditions from the Victorian and Elizabethan stage to contemporary contexts. With contributions that extend beyond the global North, the book foregrounds intersectional perspectives on race, ethnicity, the body, class, and sexuality, while engaging with issues such as the AIDS pandemic and cultural politics. Rejecting uniformity, it embraces the complexity and multiplicity of drag cultures worldwide.

The Routledge Companion to Drag is ideal for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers in Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, and Politics, and provides an essential resource for those seeking critical insights into modern and historical drag practices and its discourse.

This timely book proposes a set of questions for a renewed research and practice agenda that recognizes the deep and historical work that has been done on understanding neighborhoods, taking advantage of data and technical innovations to propel it forward. It questions how neighborhoods are defined, how we think about and identify neighborhood effects and how new analytical tools and contemporary urban contexts allow for novel insights.

Contributors adopt a multi-disciplinary and methodologically diverse approach to frame and analyze neighborhoods as places to document and understand, as sites of exposure and as units for planning and policy practice. Chapters propose that, in an age of increasingly global and a-spatial networks, place matters more than ever, and neighborhoods are key factors in determining individual economic and social outcomes. This Research Agenda analyzes neighborhoods as continual lenses for understanding social, economic, political and environmental change and evaluates the burdens and benefits for those living in them.

A Research Agenda for Neighborhoods is an essential resource for scholars and students across the social sciences including urban studies, planning, economics, human geography, political science, public and social policy and sociology. Urban planners and policymakers will also benefit from its actionable recommendations.