Research Methods for Photography: Critical and Practical Approaches bridges theory and practice for anyone using photography as a research tool, o-ffering accessible guidance for developing rigorous, theoretically informed visual research.

Spanning subject matter from architectural ethnography to medical humanities, participatory visual research to eco-critical documentary, this book demonstrates how diverse theoretical frameworks and research methods enrich both creative practice and academic inquiry.

Through detailed case studies, you'll see how these approaches work in real-world contexts and learn about theories and methods, as well as how to find and develop your own method and methodology - whether you're a practitioner, theorist, or working at the intersection of both.

This book explores how digital technologies are reshaping urban public spaces, transforming social interactions, civic engagement, and cultural experiences in cities globally.

Through detailed case studies from Singapore, Barcelona, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Istanbul, New York City, Boston, Seattle, Vancouver, Montreal, Medellin, Bogota, Canberra, and Cape Town, it examines innovative digital solutions such as smart waste management systems and citizen engagement platforms, assessing their profound impact on urban safety, mobility, and accessibility. The book critically questions whether public spaces are effectively aligning with rapid technological advancements to better serve citizens, delving deeply into the evolving role of these spaces. It highlights how tools like Internet of Things (IoT) and digital platforms can significantly enhance urban life while addressing critical challenges such as privacy concerns and unequal access. The book also investigates how digitalization fundamentally reshapes urban morphology, from physical infrastructure to intangible cultural dimensions, offering a comprehensive framework for future city planning and sustainable development.

Ideal for urban planners, architects, policymakers, and those passionate about the future of cities, this book provides a concise, insightful guide to navigating the dynamic intersection of urban design and technology in the 21st century.

A geographically diverse array of leading experts explore theoretical perspectives and methodological advances as frameworks for understanding emotion communication and the social functions of emotions. They analyse discrete emotions such as disgust, anger, love and happiness through interdisciplinary approaches spanning psychology, sociology and computational lenses. Featuring understudied topics and global viewpoints often absent from mainstream research, this Research Handbook serves as a key resource for future avenues of psychological study.

The Research Handbook on Culture and Emotion is an essential reference point for scholars and students of cultural psychology, emotion psychology and communication. Affective scientists and social psychologists will also benefit from its evidence-based approach and theoretical foundations.

This book provides a practical theory and research informed guide to understanding conflict in the creative and cultural industries.

This edited collection provides a 360-degree view of the complex and dynamic presence of conflict in the work of creative and cultural industries such as film, television, radio and podcasting, the fine arts, and beyond. A foundational resource for understanding the complexities of the creative industries, it explores ways conflict can be reframed as a necessary, productive, and manageable force. The essays in the book delve into the underlying causes of conflict in creative enterprises, examine the impact of these conflicts on the creative process, and introduce strategies and tactics used by creative workers to execute their visions with and through conditions of conflict. It features a diverse range of case studies, interviews, and discourse analyses, providing readers with concrete examples of conflicts and how they have been addressed. The inclusion of these real-world case studies and theoretical frameworks make the book an excellent teaching resource.

This book will be a useful resource to students and scholars of media, culture, and communication, particularly those with an interest in media industries, media management, the creative and cultural industries, and media production.

This book brings together studies that provide ethnomethodological accounts of music-related phenomena, describing in detail how they are accomplished and how they contribute to our understanding of the local production of order.

Reflecting the extent to which music intersects with everyday life, the topics covered are broad in scope, including studies of order surrounding the actual playing of musical instruments, as well as chapters that examine how music is produced as a recorded phenomenon, how music is taught and learnt, how it intersects with other activities such as dance, how it is presented for consumption in various environments, and the multiple forms that consumption of music can take, in social groups and on one's own.

A rich and detailed depiction of how people actually go about producing and consuming music in ordinary settings, and the ways that this is woven into ordinary everyday life and common sense reasoning, Ethnomethodological Studies of Music will appeal to social scientists and musicologists with interests in ethnomethodology and research methods.

River Space in Contemporary Chinese Cinema examines how filmmakers use river imagery to explore themes of home, displacement, and belonging in an era of rapid modernization.

Using the term "river space" to describe geographical areas created by rivers or existing alongside them, the author shows how these areas figure in films as alternative, oppositional, or contradictory sites. The book is divided into four parts, discussing waterscape in Chinese cinema, homesickness and homelessness, rivers in the urban space, and a final comparative reading of Chinese, international, and Hollywood homecoming narratives. Bridging ecocriticism with spatial theories, she explores how rivers function as sites of moral reflection and ethical commitment, offering viewers alternative frameworks for understanding locality, homesickness, and the meaning of home in contemporary globalized society.

This book will be particularly appealing to scholars and students of Chinese cinema, East Asian studies, ecocinema, migration, and cultural studies.

This is an accessible, engaging, and timely overview of the key debates surrounding the ongoing role of VR in society, exploring extended reality (XR), immersive VR, augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR).

Research on VR is quickly evolving, having started with experiments on basic perceptual effects of deep immersion in virtual worlds, but has now expanded to questions of adequate content for the medium, behavioral changes, therapy and learning uses, identification issues, the evocation of emotions and empathy, and pressing ethical concerns. The Social Virtual Reality Debate: Questioning Reality moves beyond the hype of what VR might be in technological terms to focus on motivations and opportunities for adoption: What are the goals and needs of potential social VR users? What do they find in these immersive environments that they cannot find in physical spaces or existing online fora? How do we ensure that social VR spaces do not replicate or reinforce social norms and imperatives? Featuring perspectives from VR scholars and industry professionals who are conducting research and engaging with questions of ethics and privacy at the forefront of this rapidly transforming media landscape, the book explores the key areas that will inform the next cycle of social VR development, pedagogy, educational policy, organizational communication, and future training.

This book provides an essential overview of evidence-based 'hot takes' in virtual reality scholarship, suitable for students and scholars in the disciplines of media, communication, culture, information and technology, and related research areas.

This book delves into the intricate relationship between climate change, urbanisation, political attitudes, and spatial inequities, examining how these elements collectively shape vulnerability in cities. This comprehensive book, structured across ten chapters and three core themes (public perception, urban exposure, and methodological innovation) presents an integrated framework that unifies social science, spatial analysis, and data science. Unlike narrower approaches, it bridges the gap between technical metrics and social responses to urban climate challenges.

The book explores how political worldviews influence climate risk perception and how peri-urbanisation intensifies vulnerability, particularly focusing on the disproportionate impact of heat in rapidly expanding cities. It reveals that while public awareness of climate change is present, a significant gap exists between awareness and individual action, with calls for more effective government responses and integrated climate strategies. It also highlights how advanced technologies like AI, machine learning, and remote sensing are transforming the assessment and visualisation of urban climate risks. Specifically, it demonstrates how remote sensing quantifies the intensification of climate change due to urban greenfield expansion, revealing ecosystem loss and increased emissions, especially in peri-urban areas. This underscores the need for policies prioritising ecosystem protection for climate mitigation. Furthermore, the book provides a bibliometric review of urban heat vulnerability research, showcasing its rapid growth and evolution across diverse fields such as urban planning, environmental dynamics, public health, climatology, and remote sensing. It notes a crucial shift towards human-centred approaches and advocates for integrated policies to effectively manage escalating urban heat risks.

This book is an indispensable resource for practitioners in the field, including city government officials, policymakers, urban planners, and consultants. It can also be used as a reference for researchers and university students in urban studies.

The Routledge International Handbook on Zygmunt Bauman is a major, state-of-the-art collection dedicated to the work and ideas of one of the most renowned intellectuals of the 20th and the 21st centuries.

Bringing together eminent scholars in social sciences and humanities from all over the world, it presents and engages with the most important characteristics of Bauman's work and life, the key themes of his oeuvre, the relationship between his ideas and intellectuals' innovations in social sciences and humanities, as well as the application of his work to the analyses of the most pressing contemporary challenges. This volume draws inspiration from significant advances in the understanding of Bauman's biography and the development of his personal archive, as well as the ongoing project of translating Bauman's Polish-language works into English. The handbook, moreover, is significantly international in scope, reflecting Bauman's status as a global social thinker. The book critically interrogates the reception of Bauman's ideas, including in regions which have been marginalised in Bauman studies. It will also foreground contemporary developments in the literature on Zygmunt Bauman and showcases the work of an emerging new generation of Bauman scholars who are engaging with and extending Bauman's work in novel directions.

This important new volume will appeal to a new generation of readers who might find in Bauman a means of orienting themselves in the urgencies of the present conjuncture: climate change, digital society, economic crisis, intensification of migration flows, and more. It will therefore appeal to a wide international readership, including scholars and students of sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies, as well as historians, and literary and art scholars, and contemporary humanities and social sciences more broadly.

Artists and Intellectuals in Exile in 1970s West Berlin explores how displacement and exile became catalysts for artistic and intellectual innovation during a pivotal period in European cultural history.

Drawing on extensive archival research, fieldwork, and interviews, the book examines how exiled and migrant artists - including Guenter Brus, Romy Haag, Anne Jud, Marwan Kassab-Bachi and Akbar Behkalam - transformed the divided city of West Berlin into a crucible of creative resistance. Blending art history, urban studies, feminist and queer theory and migration scholarship, the book develops a new understanding of exile as a creative condition - a mode of living and making that redefines belonging, identity and the politics of space. Through close readings of performance, painting, film and collective practices, it reveals how marginality and dislocation generated new aesthetic forms and transnational solidarities.

Artists and Intellectuals in Exile in 1970s West Berlin will be of interest to postgraduate and undergraduate students in art, cultural and migration studies, as well as general readers interested in Berlin's cultural history.

This book explores Yellow River-themed music alongside a rich body of corresponding literature, spanning from ancient times to the present. Drawing on cultural historical narratives, it bridges the fields of musicology, literary studies and history, offering a fresh perspective on how the Yellow River has been imagined and represented across diverse musical and intellectual traditions. Through this interdisciplinary approach, the book seeks to deepen our understanding of the Yellow River's enduring symbolic power and significance within Chinese history and culture. It also examines the role of music in shaping historical discourse, promoting social and ethical values, expressing philosophical thought, and nurturing both cultural and national identity among the Chinese.

Bringing together contributing authors across six continents, this volume addresses critical questions around conceptualization, theorization, and ethics related to media and journalism research and practice along borders and around the Majority World.

In the twenty-first century, notions of borders, globalization/deglobalization, and transnationalism would not be possible without media and journalists/journalism and the research that centers them. Media, large and small, through the work of journalists, yet also through the activities of other types of media producers, such as filmmakers, social media influencers, activists, and artists, contribute to the ways in which we understand or sometimes misunderstand the people and places around us and those in distant spaces and environments. The chapters map the spaces in which media and journalism is being redefined, reimagined, and reinvented around the world, and point to lessons learned as well as possibilities for ongoing collaboration. Authors reflect critically on how, by whom, and for whom, news media are created as well as their impacts locally, regionally, nationally, globally, and along various types of borders including geopolitical, cultural, and ideological.

This book is an essential companion for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, journalists, and general audience members who are interested in deepening their understanding of the complex media ecosystems in regions across the world.

This book argues for workplace democracy on the grounds that it supports the development of fundamental human goods such as personal autonomy, self-development, and communal solidarity.

Workplace democracy is an old, but reinvigorated, idea that business firms should be organized democratically. Many proponents of workplace democracy contend that the organization of business firms should be consistent with the liberal/republican value of equal freedom that animates Western democracies. However, these arguments undersell the idea of workplace democracy by ignoring its significant moral, social, and psychological benefits. This book advances a novel, goods-based argument for workplace democracy. It engages with a wide range of psychological, sociological, and health-related data that point out the importance of the fundamental goods of personal autonomy, communal solidarity, and self-development to the flourishing or well-being of individuals, along with workplace democracy's ability to provide access to those goods. This is an important justification for workplace democracy that has been largely ignored.

The Good of Workplace Democracy is a philosophically rigorous, but empirically informed, book that approaches workplace democracy from the perspective of a normative commitment to promote goods fundamental to human well-being or flourishing. It will appeal to researchers and graduate students working in social and political philosophy, business ethics, sociology, organizational psychology, management studies, and economics.

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

Safe Schools and Family Values in an Age of Gender Backlash: Queer Stories, Social Reproduction, and Contested Futures examines the backlash against Australia's Safe Schools program through an autotheoretical and Marxist lens, situating international struggles over gender and sexuality as rooted in crises of social reproduction and the defence of the heteronormative family under capitalism.

Readers will gain a rigorous framework for understanding contemporary moral panic and backlash about gender and sexuality as historically grounded struggles over social reproduction rather than isolated political disputes. Through autotheoretical analysis, historical case study, and Marxist theory, the book traces the Safe Schools controversy in Australia from the legacy of Section 28 in the UK to contemporary anti-gender mobilisations, offering conceptual tools for analysing moral panics and the structural necessity of 'defending the family'.

This book is intended for scholars and students in education, gender and sexuality studies, sociology, political theory, and cultural studies, as well as educators, activists, and policy practitioners seeking a structural account of contemporary conflicts over inclusion, schooling, and family life.

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.

Biochar: Fueling a New Economy in the Developing World reveals how biochar is emerging as a powerful tool for climate change mitigation, economic resilience, and sustainable development. Written for entrepreneurs, project developers, policymakers, farmers, and sustainability leaders, this book bridges peer-reviewed science with real-world industry experience. Across agriculture, carbon markets, policy, and innovation, it presents practical pathways to turn biochar into scalable, financeable solutions. By showcasing global case studies and forward-looking strategies, the book offers a bold vision of biochar as an enabler of livelihoods, climate action, and inclusive growth-unlocking new opportunities for communities and economies worldwide.

Media Freedom in an Evolving Journalism Landscape offers an international account of changes and continuity in media freedom and the emergence of new threats in the evolving journalistic sphere.

Bringing together an international team of scholars and practitioners, the volume critically reflects on the concept and measurement of media freedom, captures current developments, and sketches the impacts of politics, the economy, and legal and technological forces. Drawing on case studies and examples from different countries, it documents changes in the concept of media freedom, critically reflects on how media freedom is measured, and provides an updated overview of its current state, considering the impacts of evolving societal, political, commercial, legal, and information landscapes. Chapters explore the influence of digital technologies including the Internet, social media platforms, and AI on the ability of political regimes to cast control over journalists and the autonomy that individual journalists experience in their daily practices, and scrutinise how political and economic forces as well as legislation and regulations shape media freedom.

This volume will interest postgraduate students and researchers in the areas of media, journalism, mass communication, media law, political communication, and sociology.

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.