What if education could nurture the whole teacher as much as the whole child? In a world of fragmented educational approaches and teacher burnout, Reimagining Wholeness in Teaching and Learning offers a framework that transcends conventional whole child models, encouraging educators to reconnect with what it means to be whole within themselves, their communities, and their relationship to the natural world.

Dr. Virginia Dearani draws from decades of experience as an educator, school founder, and researcher to present a five-part framework of wholeness as both being and becoming: Storying the Body, Wiring the Mind, Threading the Matter, Cycling Through Time, and Aligning the Spirit. Through vivid classroom stories, personal narratives, and ecological metaphors, this book invites educators to:

* Reconnect with their authentic teacher identity beyond standardized expectations

* Integrate healing practices into daily classroom rhythms

* Embrace the power of embodied, intersectional pedagogy

* Foster learning environments where belonging and equity flourish

* Develop a sustainable practice of teaching rooted in ecological awareness

More than a theoretical text, this book provides practical tools for creating classrooms where both teachers and students can thrive in their fullness. Whether you're a classroom teacher, administrator, or teacher educator, Reimagining Wholeness in Teaching and Learning will transform how you understand your role in creating educational ecosystems where authentic learning and healing coexist.

Pulling together a range of responses to local and global challenges across different community settings, this book makes the case for community psychology as a responsive tool for social justice and liberation.

Using insights from both academia and professional practice, this book articulates key community psychology principles, practices and values and their role across 'psy' and related professions. It draws on case studies from both the global north and south to show innovative ways in which communities have collectively taken action to demonstrate resistance and resilience and describes creative psychological research methods that can be used to better understand and respond to the needs of communities. In so doing, it demonstrates the value of psychology which is both embedded within and reflective of its local community and challenges and extends our understanding of what psychology is, how it is produced and to whom it belongs. Each chapter is supported by teaching and learning activities, including reflective exercises, discussion questions, embodied activities, stakeholder assessments, case study formulations and presentations.

Demonstrating how community psychology can support activities with local community members through meaningful examples of community action embedded in research, this is the ideal resource for psychology students. It may also interest professionals working in related fields, including clinical psychology, counselling psychology, health psychology, social psychology, social work and youth work.

This book explores examples of 'toxic language', the linguistic manifestations of societal conflicts and aggressions, that have arisen in Asian contexts.

By highlighting toxic language, a panoramic concept borrowed from computational linguistics, the book assesses hate speech, harassment, discrimination, cyberbullying, sarcasm, irony and other kinds of offensive, impolite and harmful language that targets individuals, groups and communities based on their gender, race and other factors. With extensive data collected from local and global social media platforms, such as YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo, and offline settings, including political debates, video bullet comments, and song lyrics, this book leverages pragmatics and sociolinguistics to analyze the specific constructions of toxic language, its culture-specific development, and its dynamics in relation to contemporary Asian societies.

Representing authentic data from Asian contexts including Brunei, China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Asian society, culture and language as well as researchers working in pragmatics and sociolinguistics.

Employing examples and stories from Tolkien's series, Moore outlines basic principles of organization theory and illustrates how management concepts can apply to organizations of any kind. Chapters relate Tolkien's notion of stewardship to sustainability management, discuss how to cultivate 'servant leadership' and examine The Lord of the Rings as a study in good diversity management. The book concludes by exploring the lessons and personal philosophies readers can draw for their own careers as managers, employees and businesspeople in a changing world.

Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is an informative resource for scholars and students of business and management, especially those interested in the relationship of management theory to popular culture. It will also benefit managers and practitioners seeking a greater understanding of general organizational theories.

This edited work builds on contemporary empirical research concerning the central role social competence plays in wellbeing in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Connections in Autism begins with an introduction rooted in development and explores optimal developmental processes and those of individuals with ASD.

A creative mixture of contributions from basic researchers, psychoanalytic therapists, and individuals with autism who share their subjective experience and do research in the field provide for a unique perspective. It explores the adverse subjective outcomes of these processes in individuals with ASD and expands upon the importance of social connection and includes contributions focused on psychotherapeutic interventions to build social competency and caring connections.

Clinicians, researchers, trainees, and students will benefit from this text that covers the importance of social competency in individuals with ASD with psychotherapeutic technique and research.

This book comprehensively explores how the digital age impacts adolescents' mental health. As digital technologies become increasingly integral to young people's lives, it examines the complexities, risks, challenges, and opportunities presented by the digital landscape, offering crucial insights for understanding and addressing these contemporary concerns.

Drawing on the latest research trends and expert insights, the book delivers practical guidance, evidence-based strategies, and actionable tools to support adolescent well-being. This collaborative effort weaves together perspectives from researchers, educators, counselors, and policymakers, with each chapter illuminating the multifaceted influence of digital technology on young people's mental health through current research findings and expert opinions.

This book serves students, researchers, and teachers in Psychology, Applied Psychology, Mental Health, Public Health, Social Work, Gender and Women's Studies, and Sociology. It is an indispensable resource for mental health stakeholders including psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, counselors, legal-policy professionals, university professors, student support staff, parents, educators, family caregivers, NGOs, and anyone concerned about supporting adolescents navigating our digital world.

This book considers the future of Development Studies, centering the perspectives of Tanzanian and Zambian scholars and their collaborators, to address global challenges and search for the field's local relevance.

As the field continues to face multiple crises and transformative demands, especially from the push for its decolonization, this book embodies the co-construction of knowledge to provide nuanced understanding of current issues and future aspirations of Development Studies. The book presents perspectives from a collaborative project between academicians in Tanzania, Zambia, and Finland. Together, they critically reflect on the role of development studies for Africa through concrete ideas hinged on: decoloniality, epistemic justice, and contextual relevance.

Rather than merely advocating for the decolonization of development studies, this book foregrounds African insights in research and teaching Development Studies. Therefore, it will be of interest to development scholars, teachers and students, especially in Africa, but also around the world.

Taking the radical political philosophies of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy as a starting point, Buonamano interrogates the commonly received meanings of foundational concepts such as rights, democracy, freedom, and the State. Within the ambit of genealogy, human rights are examined through Foucault's analyses of governmentality and the subject of truth, and through Agamben's political ontological theses. The book furthers this discussion by assessing Derrida's deconstruction of the concepts of humanity, sovereignty, and democracy, as well as Nancy's re-evaluation of the political in terms of non-subjective sovereignty and 'being-in-common'.

Providing a more nuanced understanding of the role and theoretical premises of international human rights, this book is an enlightening read for students and scholars of legal theory and international human rights law. Followers of continental European political philosophy and legal theory will greatly benefit from this timely investigation of the ability of human rights to address some of the most consequential socio-political problems affecting modern societies.

This open access book explores how courts and judges from common and civil law jurisdictions should address the following challenges that affect all of humanity - the ever-rapid development of AI and big data, the dangers of disinformation and misinformation, and the irreversible harmful effects of climate change.

The book is divided into 4 parts. Part I examines the impact of AI on judiciaries, in areas such as machine-generated evidence, access to justice and the ethical implications of AI. It features contributions from judges who have served in the Chinese, Indian and Singapore judiciaries. Part II delves into the topic of data protection and privacy in the era of big data and AI, focusing on the legal and regulatory issues relating to the processing of data. Part III addresses truth decay and the courts' role in ascertaining facts in an uncertain world. Part IV explores climate change litigation in various domestic courts around the world and the approaches and techniques that have been taken to address this dynamic and challenging area of the law.

This book is primarily for judges: how should they approach these topics when raised in their courts? What capacity-building is necessary for judges to stay current? Should judiciaries play a role, or is it solely or primarily the government's responsibility to formulate the relevant policies and laws? To what extent can and should impartial judges be proactive on these issues?

The book is, however, also addressed to legal academics, law students, and laypersons interested in the implications of these significant challenges on the integrity of our justice systems: how should our civil justice systems respond?

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Winnicott's Psychoanalysis of Being offers a profound exploration of Donald Winnicott's revolutionary contributions to psychoanalysis, focusing on his unique theory of emotional development as a psychology in conceptual agreement with certain conceptions of phenomenology and modern existentialism.

In this book, Leopoldo Fulgencio examines the philosophical and existential foundations of Winnicott's work, analysing his shift from Freud's naturalistic framework to a hermeneutic science which has as its ontological foundation the need to be and to continue to be. The book provides a detailed account of Winnicott's developmental theory, his conception of health and the ethics of psychotherapeutic care, while offering conceptual clarifications that support deeper understanding. Readers will gain insight into how Winnicott's ideas bridge psychoanalysis, phenomenology and existential thought in the field of psychology, making this an essential resource for both theoretical and clinical work.

This book is ideal for psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers and graduate students interested in Winnicott's work, emotional development and the intersection of psychoanalysis and existential thought.

Combining standpoints from across medical anthropology, psychology, sociology, political science, history and media studies - including perspectives from low and middle-income countries - leading experts demonstrate how social science can help to make immunisation programmes more effective, ethical and sustainable. Employing illustrative case studies, contributors explore challenges such as vaccine hesitancy, refusal and opposition movements. Chapters further analyse the tailoring of immunisation programmes, engagement with communities, shared decision-making and the ethical dimensions of vaccine mandates. The Research Handbook concludes by considering the emerging discipline of vaccination social science and new technologies which may revolutionise how vaccines are delivered.

The Research Handbook on Immunisation and Society will be invaluable to scholars and students in public health, medicine and the social sciences. Practitioners and policymakers will also benefit from its insights into improving vaccine uptake and the impact of social influence on vaccination-related behaviours.

Psychodynamic Foundations of Bioenergetic Analysis, volumes one and two, explores bioenergetic analysis, developed by Alexander Lowen on the foundation of psychoanalytic drive theory, draws on Wilhelm Reich's groundbreaking discovery of the functional unity of physical and mental defense processes.

Volume one, Weaving Insight with Intensity through Body-Psychotherapy examines how the intensity of body-psychotherapeutic processes can be integrated into a coherent therapeutic framework with the help of psychodynamic insights. Key topics such as self-regulation, self-actualization and character analysis are re-examined from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives and incorporated into innovative approaches for both individual and group body-psychotherapy. Additionally, the challenges of working with specific client groups are described in practical terms, using the examples of children, adolescents and clients with complex post-traumatic stress disorders. Volume two, Responses from Body-Psychotherapy to the Uncertainty of Our Times, explores how Alexander Lowen's concept of a grounded self can be cultivated despite the increasing uncertainty caused by rapid political and social changes. The book offers answers to postmodern questions arising from the spread of Bioenergetic Analysis in non-Western societies, changes in the disease spectrum, new insights into the development of gender identities and the revolutionary spread of artificial intelligence. The authors show how the postmodern development toward individual self-construction, which has emerged through the increasing virtualization of life or new sociocultural constructions of femininity, can engage in a productive dialogue with the idea of a grounded self.

This two-volume set is intended for body-psychotherapists and psychodynamically-oriented students or psychotherapists who want to integrate the body more fully into their work. Readers interested in holistic healing approaches will find a comprehensive overview of the diverse European perspectives on Bioenergetic Analysis, supported by case studies, figures, study cards and multiple-choice questions.

The chapters explore the impact of stressors, including Artificial Intelligence, on workplace wellbeing, evaluating the concepts, history and advice necessary to comprehend the field. Hesketh and Cooper outline the key HR challenges for organisations globally and discuss how these impact performance, both in terms of productivity and financial prosperity. They provoke thought through engaging with common practices that alter the working environment, and give practical guidance for navigating and tackling change.

The Spotlight on Absenteeism, Presenteeism, and Leaveism is necessary for students and scholars in business management and organisational psychology. HR professionals, operations managers and those interested in organisational behaviour will also benefit from the focus on enriching wellbeing within working cultures.

The making of multicultural Britain is often dated to the arrival of the Windrush in 1948, but this obscures the lives of the many colonized migrants who were already surviving, and often thriving, in the metropole long before 1948.

This book follows early twentieth century migrants from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean from their recruitment in the colonies through their varied exploits and experiences in Britain. It affords a window into life in multicultural working-class settlements before and between the world wars, offering unprecedented granular detail about who such migrants were, where they came from and moved to, how their networks and institutions in Britain functioned, how much they mixed with and married local people, and whether these patterns persisted or altered as new waves of migrants joined them over time.

Weaving multiple stories together, Colonized Migrants in Imperial Britain tells of the opportunities seized; the networks, communities and kin that were sustained; and the strategies used to make ends meet. Often marginalised, policed and subordinated, this book shows how colonized migrants overcame formidable institutional obstacles to take part in, enrich, and build modern British society.

This book centers on a single, pressing question from a teacher: "What is my role as an ELA teacher in genocide education- and how do I do it ethically?"

Teaching Genocide and Holocaust Education in ELA Classrooms: Language to Remember, Witness, and Repair offers middle and high school English teachers a thoughtful, practice-centered approach to teaching histories shaped by human experience and the ways language has been used to harm, name, witness, and repair. Grounded in an Ethical Literacy Framework, the book brings together classroom-rooted practices-young adult literature, diaspora memoirs, poetry, oral histories, rhetoric, and multigenre research-to help students encounter human stories with care and responsibility. Each chapter offers adaptable structures, mentor texts, and reflective practices that support trauma-informed, student-centered instruction within the realities teachers already navigate, and concludes with reflection questions and resources to extend learning and support planning. Concepts such as critical empathy, the web of passivity, and imagining just futures guide students to examine how language shapes both violence and possibility.

Written for secondary English Language Arts (ELA) teachers, literacy leaders, and teacher educators, this book approaches genocide education as an ethical, relational practice.

In their day the French Impressionists were met with criticism and even disbelief, yet today their paintings are admired and collected worldwide. The leading members of the group included Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley, who dedicated themselves to working in oil paints out of doors, to capturing the transient effects of light and weather and depicting the society in which they lived. These artists challenged the traditions of the French Academy, bringing about a revolution in art during a period of enormous political and social change.


Historical Dictionary of Impressionism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography, as well as practical information on the eight Impressionist exhibitions. The dictionary section comprises cross-referenced entries on the French Impressionists, the locations they worked in (both in France and further afield), their predecessors and followers, and their models, critics and dealers. It also contains useful entries on key political events and figures, as well as the places of entertainment that sprang up all over Paris in the 'belle epoque'. This book is designed to appeal to students, researchers and the general reader.

This is a comprehensive text that provides evidence-based examination of the contentious debates surrounding the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) across global communities.

It employs rigorous statistical analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data to address the most controversial aspects of FGM. The author systematically explores the multifaceted dimensions of this harmful practice through nine focused chapters. Beginning with a methodological framework, the book examines FGM as an adverse childhood experience before investigating the complex intersectionality between socioeconomic factors, women's empowerment status, and cultural determinants that perpetuate the practice. It challenges common misconceptions by analyzing whether religion, ethnicity, or regional factors serve as primary drivers, identifying specific hotspots where FGM remains prevalent. The book also examines FGM's impact on women's sexuality, the concerning trend of medicalization, and the interrelationship between FGM and intimate partner violence. The final chapters provide a comprehensive analysis of FGM's effects on women's reproductive and general health, supported by illustrative case studies.

This book serves as an invaluable resource for public health professionals, policymakers, researchers, activists, and healthcare providers working to eliminate FGM globally.

This book examines how states and corporations across the Global South acquire land, identifying distinct patterns of expropriation and resistance. Across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, economic growth in sectors such as mining, agribusiness, energy, infrastructure, and real estate is driving far-reaching land-use change. Yet the processes of dispossession that underpin these transformations vary considerably. It introduces a comparative framework to explain how legal mechanisms, coercion, and state-business alliances combine in different ways to shape land conflicts.

Drawing on detailed case studies-including India's solar parks, Indonesia's palm oil plantations, Cambodia's real estate developments, East Timor's oil and gas projects, and Brazil's land mafias-the contributors highlight three distinct regimes of dispossession: state-led expropriation, curtailed land rights, and decentralised coercion. By comparing these patterns across contexts, the book deepens understanding of how dispossession is organised and resisted, while offering insight into the broader political economy of land-use change.

This book is essential reading for scholars, researchers, and students in development studies, political economy, agrarian studies, geography, and sociology. It will also appeal to policymakers, civil society organizations, and activists engaged with land rights, resource governance, and social justice issues in the Global South.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Experience firsthand encounters with the paranormal in libraries from around the world!

Have you ever noticed that libraries emanate a certain energy? If you've ever been alone in a library, chances are you've noticed a not-quite-empty feeling. This isn't surprising. From the constant flow of people, the echoing voices from authors on the shelves, and archives full of artifacts and records, libraries are inherently haunting spaces. There is no other place in society quite like the library, in fact, and their liminal nature might just serve as a beacon to the strange. It's no wonder that people experience anomalous phenomena in libraries around the world.

In this work, librarian and paranormal researcher Courtney M. Block collects these encounters and presents the personal paranormal experiences of library workers from around the world. Inside, you'll find firsthand reports from libraries in Canada, Australia, England, India, the United States, and many more! Featuring tales of strange figures seen through the stacks, barcode scanners sending messages, and beloved patrons who might still be visiting their favorite libraries in the afterlife, this book celebrates libraries and the ghosts within them.

A bold and timely exploration of queer joy as both an experience and a method, this book offers a powerful intervention in gender and sexuality studies by theorizing queer joy not as merely pleasure, but as a radical practice shaped by failure, contradiction, grief, risk, and repair.

This book draws its argument from two major research projects: a study on queering sexuality education with over 80 in-service teachers in New Brunswick called SexualityNB and Pride/Swell+, a community-based participatory project involving over 300 2SLGBTQ+ people across Atlantic Canada. It investigates not only how queer joy circulates-through art, intimacy, activism, and chosen families-but also how it fails, revealing heartbreak, exclusion, and exhaustion within queer communities. By examining failure as integral to theorizing queer joy in research and practice, the authors illuminate how breakdowns can become sites of solidarity, transformation, and worldmaking. The book advances queer joy studies, offering new ways to think about pedagogy, research ethics, and queer futurity. Through reflection, analysis, and creative praxis, the book foregrounds queer joy's messiness and entanglement with failure as a methodology for resistance and survival.

This book is intended for students and researchers in gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, education, and critical sociology. It also speaks to activists and artists interested in the intersections of queer joy, failure, and community-building within academic, educational, arts, and community spaces.

Challenges the dominant narratives that frame peace as a civilizational ideal. At a time when millions demand an end to war, occupation, and systemic oppression, this volume gathers diverse voices in a transnational and decolonial conversation. The contributors interrogate how "peace" is too often deployed as a mirage-reproducing systems of exclusion and violence under the guise of stability, order, and reform.

Exposing the coloniality embedded within hegemonic peace discourses, contributors reveal how imperial power configurations transform freedom into occupation, democracy into exclusion, and security into violence. Through critically self-reflective engagement with both religious and secular worldviews, contributors propose that peace is not an abstract ideal, but a deeply political construct shaped by empire, enforced through intervention, and justified by a faith in modernity's civilizing mission. Rejecting both reformist inclusion and idealized neutrality, these essays embody a political commitment to the tormented, the resisting, and the marginalized.

From "post-conflict" pacification to imperial "peace deals," contributors unmask peacebuilding as often war by other means-while advancing liberative spiritualities that reimagine peace as justice from below. This book is not merely critique-it is a call to transformation.

Some situations cannot be taught in library school. With a DEI focus, this book helps library leaders, both formal and informal, with those unexpected challenges.

Library and Information Undergraduate and Graduate Programs do an incredible job examining important methodology of librarianship today. However, any library school graduate will at multiple points in their career declare, "Well they didn't teach me this in library school!" Whether it was taught or not, libraries are a multifaceted, constantly changing landscape. Public, academic, school, and special libraries of all sizes each have their own unique needs, but there are certain skills, techniques, and mindsets that benefit all library staff.

Librarianship Beyond the Textbook is different from others on the market in that it addresses topics that aren't automatically or often associated with librarianship - topics that are otherwise overlooked, but are nonetheless inevitable, capturing those "Finally, some help with this!" moments - moments of both recognition and assistance. The goal of the book is to not only allow the reader to feel heard, but to address evergreen and overlooked topics.

Each chapter features leaders in the library field and beyond sharing their knowledge, advice, and lessons learned. Explore topics like library maintenance, career development, self-care, finance and budgeting, safety and security, and more from a friendly and easy-to-digest perspective. Whether you're in a position of formal library management or just looking for tools to improve your confidence in the field, this book will provide support where you need it most!

This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the internationalization of education in Japan, examining how national efforts to cultivate global human resources reshape education, labor markets, and social inequality.

Drawing on the concept of transnational human capital and a macro-micro-macro framework, the book brings together contributions that analyze policy discourse, institutional practices, mobility infrastructures, and individual life-course trajectories, demonstrating that internationalization is not a linear or purely policy-driven process, but one deeply embedded in Japan's coordinated institutional context. By examining initiatives to promote internationalization in Japan, it reveals just how their outcomes remain uneven and contingent upon institutional recognition and labor market integration, highlighting that internationalization can both create new opportunities and reinforce existing inequalities. It advances current debates by highlighting the limits of mobility-centered approaches and calling for a shift toward more inclusive, institutionally integrated forms of internationalization that link global experiences to meaningful educational and social outcomes.

Providing nuanced empirical and theoretical insights into the dynamics of globalization in a non-Western context, this book will be a valuable resource to scholars and students of sociology, education, and Japanese studies.