In this engaging text, prevalent school law topics are presented with interesting cases that help the reader to begin to think about such issues from a legal perspective.

School Law and Student Rights provides information about school law, including relevant statutes and regulations, case law, and hypothetical cases to provide practical examples of implementing the law in the school setting. The legal topics addressed in this book include the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), student First Amendment considerations, educator liability, threat assessment, avoiding common reasons for due process hearings, and Section 504 issues.

Appropriate for educators, administrators, support staff, school psychologists, school counselors, and attorneys and advocates with an interest in school law, this book is an enjoyable and informational read about current and changing school law compared to a typical legal text.

This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the legal liability and compensation frameworks governing accidental oil pollution in the Arctic Ocean, addressing both ship-source spills and pollution from offshore installations.

As climate change transforms the Arctic into an increasingly accessible maritime and hydrocarbon frontier, existing liability regimes face unprecedented stress. Extreme cold, dynamic sea ice, remoteness, and limited response capacity disrupt the evidentiary and operational assumptions on which international and domestic oil pollution systems were built. Drawing on scientific analysis of oil behavior in ice-covered waters, the book demonstrates how Arctic conditions complicate detection, causation, compensation, and enforcement. Through a comparative assessment of the CLC/Fund regime, the US Oil Pollution Act (OPA), and the fragmented offshore liability landscape, it reveals structural gaps in the global legal order. The Arctic emerges as a stress test for liability systems, exposing their conceptual and practical limits in volatile environments.

This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in maritime law, Arctic governance, environmental law, and energy regulation, as well as policymakers involved in Arctic and offshore governance.

This groundbreaking volume offers an innovative exploration of sustainability challenges through complementary lenses that traditional approaches have often kept separate. It bridges the crucial gap between legal frameworks and technological innovations, providing essential insights into how governance, policy, and emerging technologies collectively drive sustainable development initiatives. The volume's distinctive interdisciplinary approach encompasses diverse themes, including renewable energy law, indigenous knowledge systems, gender justice, food security, and digital democracy. Featuring contributions from leading experts across the globe, the book balances theoretical discourse with practical application through illuminating case studies, judicial analyses, and policy evaluations.

By combining scholarly rigor with accessible insights, this book is both an intellectual contribution to academic discourse and a practical guide for those working to shape a more sustainable future through the powerful integration of legal frameworks and technological innovation. It will be indispensable for students and academics seeking cutting-edge research; legal professionals navigating evolving regulatory landscapes; policymakers crafting effective sustainability frameworks; environmental activists pursuing systemic change; and corporate leaders implementing ESG compliance strategies.

This book expands knowledge of the rhetorical levers at play in the use of narratives in political discourse, whether through "traditional" speeches or digital communication.

By providing a clear methodology that applies to both communication styles, through a systematic, critical, and multimodal perspective, the book explains why decoding narratives in political discourse is relevant, particularly in a democratic context where non-coercive persuasion is a prerequisite of political communication. Drawing from the works of recognised scholars in the fields of narratology and multimodality, with illustrated examples and detailed case studies from the democratic Western world, it highlights the relevance of digital communication and multimodality to fully comprehend modern political communication.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political communication, discourse studies, linguistics, and more broadly to those who analyse and decipher political messages, political science, communication studies, and sociology.

Banal Fascism Online: Weaponizing the "Everyday" for Extreme Ends offers a novel lens through which to research, conceptualize, and understand fascism and its place in today's political culture. It allows space for its authors to explore fascism as it exists in the digital world, outside the rigid boundaries of historically recognized fascist states.

The digital seeps into every avenue of the political and social, and thus offers a useful framing for analyzing the inherent banality of fascism. Specifically, this edited volume considers the different ways the digital world supports and structures our political and social identities: How do social media and online fora create spaces for extremist values that are perceived as mundane? What technological affordances provide fascist thought leaders access to - and influence over - various audiences? Which platforms offer the most comprehensive opportunities for anti-democratic political strategizing? As the United States and much of Europe continue to see their democratic institutions come under attack by rising fascist and authoritarian movements, this volume provides an indispensable examination of the ways fascism has not only increased in its mainstreaming and palatability, but also how it has always been integral to our societies. This groundbreaking framework and the chapters evidencing its utility offer a tangible means of identifying and ultimately combating fascist structures.

As a result of the strategic deployment of banal fascism across the globe, this volume will appeal to academics, students, politicians, journalists, and anyone concerned about the precarity of liberal democracy and its potential replacement with, at best, illiberal democracy and, at worst, fascism.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of slow-onset hazards, combining scientific analysis, policy perspectives, and practical adaptive strategies.

With contributions from researchers across India, South Africa, Germany, the United States, and Serbia, this book offers a holistic perspective on the management of slow-onset hazards. It presents insights into how droughts, desertification, and rising sea levels unfold, their socio-economic impacts, and the measures needed to address them. Through carefully selected international case studies, this book highlights both challenges and solutions, offering lessons that can be applied across diverse contexts. Its interdisciplinary approach, which bridges science, policy, and practice, ensures that students, researchers, policymakers, and environmental advocates gain not only knowledge but also actionable strategies to anticipate, adapt to, and mitigate long-term environmental threats.

This book is intended for undergraduates and postgraduate researchers, as well as those working in geography, geology, sociology, environmental science, public policy, and disaster management. It will also appeal to trainees of administrative jobs, planners, and practitioners working on addressing environmental challenges and policy implementation.

India persistently advocates for revamped multilateralism, forging a responsive, inclusive, just, and representative global order that suits the complexities of the 21st century. It believes a multipolar world will ensure international security, stability, and prosperity, and avoid the dominance of power or bloc. This comprehensive volume brings together accomplished academicians and practitioners through multidisciplinary and analytical methodologies to examine India's role in shaping the multipolar world, calibrating strategic partnerships with major powers, and steering solidarity and leadership in the Global South. It provides different aspects of India's role through its partnership with multilateral organizations, major powers, and neighbours, demonstrating how India's values and principles are reflected in its policies to promote a multipolar world. It facilitates understanding of India as a responsible country and reliable partner through theoretical and situational assessments that are invaluable to researchers, teachers, and policymakers.

This volume is designed for postgraduate students, researchers, academicians, policy makers, and think tanks engaged in teaching, research, and policy formulation concerning international relations, South Asian politics, foreign policy, diplomacy, and global governance. It provides an invaluable and pragmatic understanding of India's commitment towards promoting a multipolar world order and its leadership in the Global South.

This book examines Australia's strategic attitude towards the Indian Ocean islands below the equator.

Australian strategic theory, policy and practice have to date understandably prioritised China, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The Indian Ocean islands filling Australia's western flank are now changing and growing rapidly, however, with a series of new strategic challenges that pose difficulties unaddressed by Canberra's current strategic settings. The book sees the disconnection as derived from Australia's history and explores how Australia found itself without influence in the Indian Ocean islands and what strategic and security hazards lie in continued indifference. Drawing on an empirical analysis of island historical and anthropological sources, archival and business investment materials, interviews and strategic pieces, the book traces a long continuation of Australian behaviours towards the region and local postcolonial imperatives. It also discusses Indo-Pacific theory and the Indian Ocean gaps peppered within it.

The book will be useful to academics, researchers and advanced students in the fields of security and strategic studies and international relations, especially those with an interest in Australian history and foreign policy, the growing strategic competition in the Indian Ocean, AUKUS and the QUAD.

Ecomuseums, founded on the radical principle of community-led heritage, have transformed preservation practices across the globe. But what happens when this bottom-up model encounters a millennia-old, top-down social system? Ecomuseums and Living Heritage in China moves beyond theoretical debate to present a groundbreaking, empirical study of this very clash.

This book narrates the compelling story of Malanyu, a community descended from the caretakers of the Qing Imperial Tombs. For centuries, these guardians preserved a sacred landscape through ritual and stewardship; today, their descendants are reclaiming that legacy by building their own ecomuseum. Through rich oral histories and participatory action research, the authors document this community's journey to navigate state authority, revitalise collective memory, and assert its identity. The book offers a critical lens on heritage management in the Global South. It challenges the dominance of state-led, material-focused preservation by demonstrating how living heritage practices can foster sustainable and inclusive development. By bridging historical vernacular traditions with contemporary urbanist concerns, the book provides a new practical framework for community participation, specifically designed for the Chinese context but with profound implications for similar settings worldwide.

Essential reading for scholars and practitioners in architecture and heritage studies, this work shows that heritage is not a relic to be preserved, but a dynamic process to be lived, a powerful negotiation of memory, identity, and place.

Showcasing local evolutions of Wuhan's education sector from the 1860s to its present, this book examines narratives and changing state-policies for China's education modernization missions.

Using a mixed-methods approach, Liu's research provides a fresh lens through which to review China's education transitions via Wuhan's rich tapestry manifested in its education sector. Beginning with Wuhan's modern urbanization as a treaty port from the Second Opium War (1856-1860) to the top-down reforms for industrial and schooling changes led by Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), the book explores the bottom-up reforms that arose at the alley market of Hanzhenjie at Hankow from the late 1970s in post-Mao China. This reform arguably heralded a set of college reforms, experimented first locally in Wuhan and nationally advocated afterward. Through these events, the author highlights how Wuhan reinforces itself in China's education roadmap via standing at its reforming frontiers.

Contributing to interdisciplinary discourses on education development and cultural identity within the context of Communicating China to an increasingly integrated world and a better future, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers interested in Chinese education policy reforms, Chinese educational history and comparative Asian education.

This long-awaited second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand offers a comprehensive, authoritative, and multidisciplinary investigation into the complex forces shaping the nation in the 21st century.

New for this edition is an in-depth exploration of the persistent dominance of the monarchy and the military; the systemic "lawfare" used to neutralise democratic challengers; and the emergence of vibrant, youth-led movements demanding fundamental structural reform. Beyond the political arena, the volume maps the intricate landscape of a society in flux: the digital transformation that has fostered both networked activism and sophisticated authoritarian surveillance; the historical roots of the violence in the southern border provinces; and the shift in gender and sexual politics from the margins to the forefront of human rights discourse. By assembling leading scholars to analyse the country's turbulent modern trajectory, this volume transcends traditional narratives to provide an incisive examination of the systemic power dynamics, social fissures, and evolving political identities that define Thailand today.

The volume will be an essential guide for researchers, students, and policymakers specialising in fields such as Southeast Asian studies, comparative politics, international relations, sociology, and human rights, providing a roadmap for navigating the profound contradictions inherent in the contemporary Thai state.

This book explores centuries of human movement across the Indian subcontinent through a groundbreaking interdisciplinary lens, masterfully weaving together anthropological insights, historical analysis, and personal narratives to create a multidimensional portrait of migration's impact on society. It takes readers on an illuminating journey from medieval kingdoms to today's digital diaspora, revealing the vibrant, complex stories behind human mobility through living case studies of medieval merchants establishing trade routes, colonial laborers forging new identities, and contemporary migrants navigating both physical and virtual borders.

Going far beyond demographic statistics and transcending regional boundaries, this volume uncovers hidden perspectives of indigenous communities, examines migration through women's experiences, and analyzes how legal frameworks have shaped human movement across generations, making it essential reading for researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding how migration functions not as a crisis to manage but as the fundamental rhythm of human civilization-beautifully illustrated through India's diverse migration stories.

This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of migration studies, South Asian history, cultural anthropology, human geography, diaspora studies, and post-colonial theory. It will also be an important read for policymakers engaged in migration governance, development practitioners, legal scholars specializing in mobility rights, and researchers examining the intersection of globalization and human movement.

This book explores the complex socio-cultural histories of the rivers of West Bengal in India. It goes beyond the 'seeing' of a river geo-spatially, to unearth its 'signifying' presence in the making of a regional culture.

The volume analyses myths, rituals, cultural practices, metaphysical and mystical symbolisms in folktales, oral literature and other literary representations generated by the interactions between the rivers and the communities that have lived alongside them. It explores how water histories are embedded in the collective cultural/racial memory and underscores the importance of viewing rivers as the indices of cultural transformations symptomatic of a livelihood developed from/ due to the rivers. The book archives, analyses and offers narratives on a vital ecosystem to provide a holistic take on 'river futures'. It creates an authentic framework of socio-cultural narratives to supplement the current ecological strategies towards the survival and sustenance of rivers and their communities.

This book will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, human geography, river and water studies, environmental and ecological studies, cultural anthropology, comparative literary studies, race and ethnic studies, and South Asia studies.

Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) share historical, political, cultural and structural similarities. However, they have adopted divergent and often conflicting foreign policies towards Middle Eastern crises and civil wars since the Arab uprisings began in 2011.

With this book, Yusuf Bera Topaloglu explores why these two non-democratic, small-sized, neighbouring Gulf monarchies, constrained by similar structural factors, pursued divergent and conflicting foreign policies in the civil wars of Yemen, Libya and Syria from 2011, the onset of the Arab uprisings, to 2021, the Al-Ula Agreement. Using role theory, Topaloglu argues that differing national role conceptions, shaped by each country's unique socialisation experiences, drove their conflicting actions.

National Role Conceptions and Divergent Behaviours in a Similar Structure speaks to contemporary events in the international relations of the Middle East, especially the post-2011 regional reverberation. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of International Relations, Middle East and Gulf Studies, and to those who employ the role concept in foreign policy analysis.

This book investigates the ways in which Ethiopia's urban landscape is being reshaped by an infrastructure boom in megaproject corridors and industrial parks.

Drawing on extensive immersive fieldwork, the book considers how citizens negotiate, appropriate, or resist these engineered spaces. Tracing Ethiopia's recent investments in expressways, logistics corridors and state-built industrial parks, the book documents a fast-changing territorial and urban frontier across Ethiopia's southern peripheries and the Addis Ababa-Nairobi corridor. Rather than treating infrastructure expansion as a straightforward, top-down process, the study foregrounds the "messy" negotiations that unfold on the ground. By following everyday encounters with roads, industrial zones and mobility regimes, the book shows how infrastructure becomes a key arena through which authority, access to resources and urban futures are organized and contested. Side-stepping binary state-versus-society or plan-versus-practice narratives, the book illuminates how urban futures are negotiated in concrete, often contradictory, ways during times of heightened political tensions.

This book's detailed ethnographic insights will be an important read for researchers across the fields of urban studies, human geography, development economics, anthropology, and African studies.

This book investigates public corruption in Africa and the attempts to curb it, moving from histories and legacies through to the challenging conditions in which anti-corruption agencies operate today.

Contributors include leading scholars, as well as policymakers and civil society practitioners and workers in anti-corruption agencies, in order to build a picture which is both evidence-based and grounded in real-world experience. Taking case studies from across the continent, the book seeks to build an integrated picture of the issue. Key themes include the challenges posed by public theft and fraud, the urgent need for transparency and accountability in public figures, and the work of anti-corruption agencies in developing measures and laws to combat and prevent corruption.

At a time when corruption in many parts of the continent remains rife despite most countries having ratified the UN convention on preventing and combatting corruption, this book will be an important guide for researchers across the fields of African Studies, Political Science, and Global Development.

This book explores the 'animal turn' that has reshaped humanities and social science scholarship over recent decades.

The chapters describe the nuanced engagements between humans, animals, plants, and landscapes, challenging conventional anthropocentric perspectives and paving the way for a deeper understanding of multispecies relations. This volume navigates the contested territory of aesthetics, examines the intersections of art and anthropology, and sheds light on cross-cultural and cross-species interpretations. Through insightful chapters and analyses, readers are invited to explore the theoretical and methodological challenges within multispecies worlds while highlighting the influence of Indigenous knowledge on our perceptions and theories of non-human entities. It includes contributions from artists, archaeologists, historians, and environmental humanities scholars.

This volume will be an essential resource for those seeking to expand their understanding of art, performance, and the intricate relationships between humans and non-humans. Whether exploring the complexities of nature/culture dichotomies or reimagining the boundaries of aesthetics, it offers a compelling journey into the vibrant tapestry of multispecies aesthetics.

Chapters highlight how increasing heterogeneity, across multiple dimensions, including education, family structure, migration history, health and gender identity, impacts wider societal and economic changes. Using diverse case studies, they show how divisions matter as they enable organization around identities and widen distances between groups. They demonstrate how demographic shifts, population aging, over-population, depopulation, or migration, critically influence the chances of a prosperous future for humanity. The Handbook also recommends avenues for future study, including obstacles facing non-heterosexual partnering and parenthood and integrated policies combining public security and social inclusion.

The Research Handbook on Population Heterogeneities is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of development studies, human geography, sustainable development and sociology. Policymakers focusing on social demography issues will also benefit from its astute analysis and practical suggestions.

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