Transitory Urbanism explores how cities are continuously formed and reformed through movement, negotiation, and uncertainty. Rather than viewing transience as an anomaly, it positions instability, mobility, and variation as fundamental to urban life, forces that actively shape cities rather than disrupt them.

The volume explores temporary architectures, mobile infrastructures, and adaptive practices that emerge in response to regeneration, environmental pressures, migration, and precarity. It pays particular attention to small, short-lived interventions, improvised shelters, shifting spatial uses, and informal forms of organisation that can evolve into more enduring transformations.

Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the publication brings together theoretical insights and grounded accounts spanning colonial infrastructures, peripheral regions, refugee settlements, informal housing, and post-disaster contexts. Across these settings, communities adapt, reorganise, and persist despite conditions of inequality and insecurity.

Contributions from architecture, urban studies, anthropology, sociology, politics, and the arts combine conceptual reflection with close attention to places where urban space is actively contested and negotiated. The book further engages themes of inherited systems, diasporic and maritime urbanisms, and everyday strategies for navigating displacement, redevelopment, and environmental change.

Focusing on informal networks, collective organisation, and small-scale practices that sustain urban life, Transitory Urbanism offers a nuanced lens on cities shaped by time, movement, and continual adjustment. It will be of interest to architects, city planners, urban designers, economists, students, and politicians, as well as anyone interested in the current social, cultural, and political issues on a global scale

High-speed rail (HSR) is the object of conflicting assessments. It is simultaneously viewed as modern, backwards, progressive, conservative, green, unsustainable, disruptive and path-dependent.

This volume takes as its starting point the heterogeneous appraisal of contemporary high speed rail development and unpacks it in order to reveal the diversity of processes and relations out of which HSR projects are born. Moving beyond narrow economic investigations, the broad range of national case studies - from France to China and the US to Morocco - situate HSR planning in the wider political-economic context within which it takes place. Each chapter provides an in-depth study of a national HSR project, placed within multiscalar historical-geographic configurations. The comparative view offered by this volume challenges inherited assumptions about the development of contemporary infrastructure and shows that the analysis of HSR can provide broader insights into state-led planning and market-based governance.

The book is important reading for those interested in the political economy and financialisation of infrastructure, sustainable transition, critical geography and ethnography.

In this book, David Bell explores Freud's oeuvre starting with some of the earliest papers. He situates this work within the context of culture and the history of ideas. Covering such key topics as narcissism, the nature of truth and illusion, and what constitutes knowledge within and outside analytic settings, the chapters take one of Freuds key works and offers an exegesis of that work. With a deep understanding of Freud's work and its place in contemporary psychoanalytic and cultural spheres, this is key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, historians of idea and anyone wanting to better understand the continued importance of Freud's enduring significance.

The Handbook first provides a grounding in key concepts, approaches, and frameworks before moving through four aspects of tourism and migration: consumption, production, regulation, and the future. Leading experts highlight the role of lifestyle in influencing voluntary migration, as well as the importance of political and market forces in shaping mobility and the effects of migration on destinations. Chapters investigate key aspects of the tourism-migration nexus, such as the impact of migrant workers, entrepreneurship, tourism governance, the function of short and long term migration, and sense of place. Emphasising the fluidity of tourism and migration, the Handbook advocates for a better understanding of the dynamic and increasingly contested nature of this interrelationship.

The Handbook on Tourism and Migration is a vital resource for scholars and students of tourism, migration studies, and human geography. Tourism policymakers will also benefit from its broad scope and actionable recommendations.

Organized around three core objectives, the book explains why gender matters in economics; offers expanded course content featuring diverse authors, topics, and methods; and provides suggestions to strengthen gender-responsive teaching to support critical discussion and ethical engagement. Chapters cover everything from principles of micro and macroeconomics to emerging trends such as methodological plurality and generative AI, taking a forward-thinking approach that moves beyond 'add women and stir' by challenging narrow definitions of production, value, and expertise. The book examines the impact of power and hierarchy on what is taught, whose work is centered, and how students experience the economics classroom. Recommendations include classroom activities, research-backed pedagogical strategies, and larger curricular changes.

Instructors and educators of economics at all levels will benefit from these timely, practical strategies and content modules to make their classrooms more inclusive. This guide is also an invaluable read for educators across the social sciences interested in incorporating gender into their teaching.

Influenced by shifting cultural contexts, the chapters provide a framework based around law, policy and principles for comparing and contrasting the modern practice relating to reproductive rights in Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA. O'Halloran explores the leap forward in the availability and efficiency of IVF, the surge in recourse to overseas commercial surrogacy, advances in genetic editing and the implications of recent case law developments including the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Examining the rising rates of maternal and infant mortality, the book highlights the widening gap across the wealthiest nations and their indigenous populations.

Reproductive Rights in Common Law Countries is an essential read for scholars and students of family law, gender and the law, health law and sociology. Policymakers and healthcare professionals seeking to better understand developments in the field will also benefit from its investigation of international legislation and leading cases.

This is not a book about how to build AI. It is a book about what leaders must understand before deploying AI.

This comprehensive guide demystifies AI concepts, explores its history, and empowers readers to navigate its impact on business and society. Grounded in clear, non-technical but mathematically correct explanations, the book explores AI from foundational principles to advanced topics including neural networks and machine learning paradigms. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of how AI systems work, their limitations, and practical strategies for leveraging AI responsibly. The book highlights that AI systems are not built by algorithms alone, but by organizations that choose objectives, learning paradigms, data, thresholds, and incentives-choices that sit squarely with leadership. With its expert analysis and real-world advice, the book bridges the gap between technical knowledge and managerial decision-making, equipping leaders to make those choices confidently and correctly.

Ideal for business leaders seeking to understand and apply AI concepts, this book is also a valuable resource for professionals, educators, and students who want to enhance their knowledge of AI's role in shaping the future.

"[The] written style is admirably clear, conversational and free from jargon ... It will be of immense interest to anybody with a general interest in UK law, politics and history." Times Higher Education

This engaging, authoritative text has, since its very first edition, maintained its position as the market-leading introduction to the constitution of the United Kingdom. Adopting a thematic approach, it discusses questions of history, sources and conventions, the role of the Crown, Parliament and the electoral system, government and the executive, the judiciary, and the territorial distribution of power. In addition, it offers analysis of the evolution of the UK's historic non-codified constitution, its strengths and perceived weaknesses, and of reform initiatives. The new edition systematically examines the impact of the recent developments, including how COVID changed how government operated, the revolving door of Prime Ministers, the election of the Labour government, and the accession of King Charles III.

Though introductory in approach, it does not shy away from the complexity of the constitutional landscape in the United Kingdom. It provides a contextual overview of the principles, doctrines and institutions that underpin the elusive constitution, allowing students of law and politics, both from the UK and abroad, to develop an informed view of how it actually works.

This book explores gender justice, power relations, and social transformation in India by providing an ethnographic, socio-legal view of Nari Adalats (women's courts) and the family disputes that take place before them, in rural northern Karnataka, South India.

The book offers an ethnography of the everyday workings of Nari Adalats based on qualitative interviews, document analysis, and participant observation in a variety of settings where family law and gender justice are negotiated. The book argues that it is essential to examine societal legal forums and the social dynamics within the family (and its social environment) to better understand how changes in gender and power relations can occur. Chapters analyse five cases of Hindu, Muslim and tribal women pursuing claims, and seven further cases of lower caste Hindu women who became judges of the Nari Adalat (one of them a jury member); taken together, they provide rich insights into how successful legal outcomes are achieved, and the structural conditions inherent in the space. Ultimately, the book highlights how Nari Adalats are fundamentally women-centred spaces that challenge gender hierarchies, feminize the public sphere, and reconceptualise gender and ethnic relations in rural India.

Providing an exploration of caste, class, and religion in the wider context of gender justice, the volume will appeal to scholars and postgraduates in the fields of socio-legal studies, in particular gender and justice issues, gender studies, South Asian studies, and legal anthropology.

Chapters evaluate theoretical, methodological and applied perspectives across key interconnected areas: characterising and contextualising loneliness, loneliness in particular settings and populations, and global and national initiatives on policy and practice. Contributors move beyond individual and interpersonal studies to pay particular attention to community and societal levels of analysis, where wider structural forces shape lived experiences. Assessing the delivery and effectiveness of intervention strategies, the Research Handbook builds a comprehensive picture of factors which increase the risk of loneliness, as well as those that foster meaningful connection.

The Research Handbook on Loneliness and Social Connection is a vital resource for scholars and students of psychology, sociology, social policy and mental and behavioural health. Practitioners and policymakers will also benefit from its actionable suggestions and multi-level analysis.

Explores the decades-long erosion of the American Dream from the author's perspective: a working-class kid who became a celebrated economist dedicated to advancing the interests of struggling workers, while also caught in the same currents of job insecurity and downward mobility as the people he aimed to defend.

Worker insecurity, increasing inequality, and downward mobility in our current era contrast sharply with expanding prosperity and opportunity in the first three decades after World War II. What happened? And what can we do to revitalize the American Dream, reduce worker precarity, and foster broadly shared prosperity?

In this historical account of a protracted and expanding national crisis, intertwined with a personal story about growing up in a work-obsessed family and pursuing a career devoted to addressing that crisis, Charles J. Whalen grapples with the social forces that sever the link between hard work and employment success. He exposes the obstacles that mar the path of many people seeking job opportunities and traces the fading of the American Dream, ultimately encouraging readers to take a fresh look at the current economic situation and championing a more constructive set of public policies to shape the future.

This monograph uses critical discourse analysis to examine warning posts shared within an online community of self-identified escorts in the UK. Combining the discourse-historical approach with the narrative practice paradigm it examines how escorts position clients and themselves across three levels: as characters within stories, as members of a professional community, and in relation to broader societal discourses surrounding sex work.

The monograph shows how escorts collectively name, categorise, and circulate knowledge about problematic client conduct from boundary violations and economic harm to verbal abuse and privacy violations, developing sophisticated community practices for managing occupational risk in the absence of formal institutional protection. It examines both stories that explicitly name harassment and those describing experiences that align with legal and scholarly understandings of sexually harassing conduct, identifying what the book terms the grey areas of sexual harassment in sex work: forms of conduct that constitute significant violations of dignity yet remain inadequately captured by existing frameworks.

Moving between the specificity of individual linguistic choices and the broader structures of stigma, legal precarity, and gendered inequality within which escorts' narratives are embedded, the monograph ultimately argues for a contextually grounded and community-informed understanding of workplace sexual harassment and contributes to broader conversations on gendered violence, labour precarity, and sex worker rights.

Cultural management education continues to evolve to meet the needs of the arts industry. Highlighting examples of innovative pedagogical practices, this book brings together an array of academic and practical expertise into cutting-edge teaching methods, emerging trends, and best practices from around the world.

The volume begins with a conceptual framework for understanding the cultural enterprise. Subsequently, the chapters examine the disconnect between academic programs and professional practice; research on teaching foundational courses; creativity as a leadership imperative; interdisciplinary curriculum development; Universal Design for Learning; critical access as fundamental practice; emotional intelligence; essential competencies for cultural leaders; cultural diplomacy; arts marketing reconceptualized through audience engagement; fundraising instruction via case study methodology; arts emergency preparedness; the preservation of popular music as intangible heritage; and a reimagined approach to data literacy in arts administration. The chapters may be read sequentially, as they chart a discipline discovering its contemporary form, or selectively.

Replete with practical strategies for curriculum development, assessment techniques, and experiential learning opportunities, this book is value reading for researchers and faculty engaged with arts administration, creative and cultural industries and higher education more broadly.

Focusing on core topics such as the determination of labour and property incomes and the issue of income and wealth distribution, the textbook identifies effective policies for managing today's overlapping crises.

Key Features:

• Challenges key precepts of mainstream theory
• Tackles critical policy debates in microeconomics
• Evaluates the standard microeconomic model before discussing theoretical and policy-based alternatives
• Investigates topics such as the place of the market as an allocative mechanism, demand and supply and the role of governments

Presenting a critique of dominant mainstream views, Intermediate Microeconomics is an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate economics students, equipping them with the knowledge to assess policy in terms of efficiency, distributional justice, economic stability and democratic potential.

This new edition of Charisma: Micro-sociology of Power and Influence is thoroughly updated and revised for today's classroom and contemporary cultural context. New to this edition is the inclusion of fresh case studies of cultural power and influential figures, new chapters on Taylor Swift and Steve Jobs, and a theoretical introduction to illuminate key processes of personal influence, public image, and expanding social movements. Randall Collins, one of the premier sociologists of the contemporary era, shines critical light on how leadership works in today's fast-paced and changing society, as it evolves beyond the pandemic era. This book asks the vital questions: What is charisma? And how does it relate to the media of communications and the pace of technological innovation? What do charismatic leaders look like under the micro-sociological microscope? World-renowned sociologist Randall Collins provides a highly readable exploration of the various forms of charisma and how they elevated Jesus, Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Lawrence of Arabia, Hitler, Churchill, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Mao Zedong, Taylor Swift, and others. He explores four types of charisma: frontstage, backstage, success-magic, and network-building charisma. The book exemplifies Collins's sophisticated micro-sociology in accessible and compelling prose, to show how sociology unveils hidden discoveries. This will be an essential resource for students, instructors, and researchers in sociology, social theory, cultural sociology, political science, cultural studies, communications, and business management.

Through biographical investigations of gang members' life histories, this open access book illustrates the range of causes, motivations, and consequences associated with being a gang member.

Gangs are one of a small number of truly global social phenomena, present across time and space all over the world. Partly as a result of this ubiquity, gangs are inherently revealing social institutions, and can be connected to a range of fundamental human activities, such as the exercise of power, capital accumulation, socialization, identity formation, territorialization, or the articulation of gender relations, amongst others.

At the same time, however, gangs are also frequently associated with an almost pathological form of violence, generally represented as engaging in senseless forms of brutality, and gangsters are popular global scapegoats. Such representations make it all the more urgent to understand what it is that truly motivates individuals to become gang members, why they undergo particular trajectories, and what the long-term consequences of gang membership might be.

Through a comparison of thirteen life histories of gang members from twelve different countries around the world, this book offers a nuanced and sensitive overview of the global gang experience. Life histories are ideal lenses through which to explore these issues due to their ability to simultaneously reflect both the uniqueness and the embedded complexity of gang lives, but also their capacity to offer fundamentally relatable portraits that elicit empathy and humanize individuals.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council grant (no. 787935).

We live in an algorithmic society. Artificial Intelligence and algorithms have become the main mediators through which power and knowledge are enacted in our society. This book brings together three academic fields - Public Administration, Criminal Justice and Urban Governance - into a single conceptual framework, and offers a broad cultural-political analysis, addressing critical and ethical issues of AI and algorithms.

Governments are increasingly turning towards AI tools to predict criminality, deliver public services, allocate resources, and calculate recidivism rates. Mind-boggling amounts of data regarding our daily actions are analysed to make decisions that manage, control, and nudge our behaviour in everyday life. The contributions in this book offer a broad analysis of the mechanisms and social implications of algorithmic governance. Reporting from the cutting edge of scientific research, the result is illuminating and useful for understanding the relations between AI, power and knowledge.

This new revised and updated edition includes topics such as:

• Algorithmic governmentality
• Transparency and accountability
• Fairness in criminal justice and predictive policing
• Principles of good digital administration
• Digital sovereignty and responsible AI
• AI and the smart city

This book is essential reading for students and scholars of Sociology, Criminology, Public Administration, Political Sciences, and Cultural Theory interested in the integration of AI and algorithms into the governance of society.

This volume presents a wide range of examples using Hegel's 'objective dialectic' as an interpretive key for understanding his philosophical work. It explores the potential of a strictly dialectical approach to central themes in Hegel's logic, philosophy of nature, and philosophy of spirit.

The volume argues for taking contradiction seriously in Hegel's philosophy, understanding it in strictly theoretical terms that defy traditional conceptions of logic and ontology. The contributors demonstrate how Hegel's distinctive logical-metaphysical method, particularly his concept of 'dialectic' and the role of logical contradiction within it, can be applied to logical, epistemological, natural- and social-ontological, psychological, ethical, and political matters. Moving beyond both non-metaphysical readings and earlier ontological interpretations, the volume shows how Hegel's understanding of 'real contradiction' offers a renewed approach to his thematically rich oeuvre and addresses complex post-Kantian philosophical issues.

Reviving Hegel's Dialectic will be of interest to researchers and graduate students specializing in Hegel, German Idealism, post-Kantian philosophy, and the history of logic.

In this book, David Bell examines Melanie Klein's central contributions and their later evolution, contextualising them within a broader cultural and intellectual framework.

Klein, building on the foundations provided by Freud, provided a hugely influential reshaping of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Covering such key concepts as projective identification, unconscious phantasy, the nature of loss, and the death drive, Bell examines how Klein's contributions radically reshaped our understanding of the nature of the unconscious mental life both at the level of theory and of clinical practice.

This deep understanding of Freud and Klein's work and its place in contemporary psychoanalytic and intellectual culture, provides a key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, historians of idea and anyone wishing to better understand the continued importance of the work of Freud and Klein.

The Routledge Handbook of Making: Craft-based Research Methods and Pedagogy is a book that celebrates the embodied process of craft methods. It uniquely centralises crafting, the practice of doing and making, as significant to the research project.

The handbook is a gathering together of several wayfaring crafts based scholars across the globe into one 'knot'. It is a celebration of craft from Indigenous, Asian, European, North American, South American, Australia and New Zealand contexts. These scholars provide a rigorous and passionate exploration of the diverse craft-based methods, pedagogies, and range of theoretical lenses they engage with in their research. The chapters demonstrate transdisciplinary approaches to research and pedagogy through crossing disciplinary boundaries and combining academic disciplines and rich theoretical conversations with practical, non(traditional)-academic knowledge to respond to complex real-world problems. Because this book is about making, the authors provide powerful, engaging and useful images as visual text. There are seven sections in the handbook, although with such creative and theoretical work there is also much crossover. The first section is a series of introduction chapters to key thinking about craft histories, craft pedagogies, craft as embodied practiced and a way to connect, crafting as becoming otherwise and craft as bodily thinking. Section two is a focus on Crafting with ancestors, Section three Crafting as decolonial activism, Section four Crafting as pedagogy, Section five Crafting professional identity, Section six Crafting as feminist practice and Section seven Crafting as healing. The Handbook provides a significant marker, a 'stake in the ground', to establish a definitive position for craft as method in scholarly practice and an invitation for other craft wayfarers to gather.

The book is intended for scholars and researchers across disciplines engaged in complex societal issues, including Indigenous, qualitative, decolonial, narrative, postqualitative, critical, practitioner and feminist researchers; for students at all levels of study (undergraduate, Masters, postgraduate); and for more established scholars in academia and other sectors. In is an invite to make.

This book comprehensively reviews the impact of climate change on livestock production and the innovative technologies for building resilience. The chapters explore emerging concepts and technologies for sustaining animal productivity under climate stress. The volume also examines climate-driven variations in livestock productivity, including effect of heat stress on cattle, sheep, and goats, as well as adaptations in milk yield, meat quality, and reproductive performance. It also highlights the application of omics tools and sensor-based innovations, such as rumen bolus technology, for monitoring animal health under thermal stress. The book also addresses the multidisciplinary approaches, focussing on climate-resilient technologies, feed additives, shelter designs, and precise extension delivery systems for farmers. The book also explores the rising threat of climate-linked livestock diseases, immune system impairments, and one-health perspectives on disease management. The final section outlines future research priorities, including climate indices for resilience assessment, regional vulnerability atlases, and gender considerations in climate-affected livestock systems.

Key Features:

1) Presents emerging concepts and technologies that sustain livestock productivity under thermal and hydric stress.

2) Reviews climate-driven effects on yield, product composition, fertility, and fitness traits

3) Evaluates climate-smart production interventions, feed-based mitigation strategies, and innovative shelter designs

4) Examines climate-linked disease emergence, immune dysregulation, and One-Health mitigation strategies.

5) Highlights OMICS-enabled selection tools and continuous biosensing for precision heat-stress phenotyping.

This book is useful reference for researchers and students of veterinary and animal sciences.

The Skills of Modern Advocacy provides a comprehensive practical guide to modern advocacy, explaining its core components and demonstrating how you can develop and apply the necessary skillsets in practice.

Presented as an engaging mix of explanation and practical examples, each aspect of modern-day advocacy is considered in three stages to suit all readers: the essential rules, practical how-to demonstrations and advanced technique. The book begins with an introduction to the language and etiquette of advocacy before moving to the important witness handling skills involved in examination-in-chief, cross-examination, re-examination and dealing with expert witnesses. The different skills involved in submission advocacy are then addressed in three main areas before the book gives guidance on the separate topics of questioning vulnerable witnesses, remote advocacy and written advocacy. The final chapter deals with the special court environment of the Inquest, an area where new barristers can often expect to receive instructions. The chapters draw repeatedly on a substantial set of mock case documents to give the skills demonstrations a consistent sense of context and realism.

The authors have been practising barristers since the mid-1990s, and the book is packed with their combined experience and skills.

This book will appeal to interested school and college students with little or no experience, to undergraduate law students and students of advocacy on Bar or solicitor training courses, or the SQE, and to newly qualified advocates who wish to deepen their knowledge and expand their skills.

The book is supported by further online resources.

Key Features:

• Enables readers to locate and extract core passages from the ECtHR's procedural case-law
• Presents case-law pertaining to cross-cutting matters emerging from the Court's case-law that have implications across the Convention system
• Traces the lines of jurisprudence and the evolution of Strasbourg case-law from its inception in 1961 to the present
• Systematically analyses specific provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights from the perspective of the Court's case-law, cutting through peripheral detail to consolidate the most critical legal information

The European Convention on Human Rights: Volume II, Procedure is an essential resource for legal practitioners and scholars needing to understand the Court's position on procedure, and forms an ideal companion to The European Convention on Human Rights: Volume I, Substantive Rights.

Drawing on multijurisdictional insights from both legal and economic perspectives, this book provides a structured framework for understanding how competition law and policy can meaningfully contribute to sustainability while safeguarding legal certainty and coherence. The authors explore how competition law not only prevents harmful conduct but also accommodates arrangements that promote sustainability goals. Across the chapters a range of key topics are analysed, including constitutional foundations in EU law, guidance development at EU level and a wide range of the other leading jurisdictions in and outside the EU, as well as emerging anticompetitive enforcement practices, the abuse of dominance and mergers.

This book is an invaluable resource for academics and students in competition and antitrust law, sustainable development and environmental law. Sauter and Nowag's comparative approach is also beneficial to political scientists, policy analysts and practitioners working towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Engaging with the two main models of equality as a central analytical lens, Trenta builds a case for substantive equality over the formal framework and aligns these suggestions with the goals of the UN's Agenda 2030 and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. Tracing the evolution of EU tax jurisprudence from the perspective of human dignity and worth, chapters prioritize fair outcomes over economic neutrality as a step towards a more equal European society. The book outlines concrete policy recommendations for establishing clear legal definitions for vulnerable groups, implementing gender-responsive budgeting, and ensuring fair representation in Europe's fiscal future.

This enlightening book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of development studies, European law, tax law and fiscal policy. Its insights into Agenda 2030 and EU tax law are also beneficial for practitioners and researchers in public finance, tax law and fiscal policy and the sustainable development goals.

This collection offers the first systematic account of the pivotal role of literary translation in the history and future of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The volume explores the complex reciprocal relationship between the prize institution and translation from a transdisciplinary lens. Perspectives from varied disciplines from around the world consider the ways in which the prize relies heavily on translations before and after prize decisions but also the impact of laureate announcements on wider translation patterns. The collection concludes with several chapters on individual case studies and an afterword by esteemed translator Jan Henrik Swahn.

Making the case for a wide-reaching transdisciplinary approach to understanding the interplay of literary translation and the Nobel Prize, this book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies, comparative literature, literary studies, and cultural sociology.

How should late modernity be defined, and its history interpreted? This book critically reflects upon the dynamics and disruptions of transformative change that occurred between the mid-20th century to the early-21st, focusing on themes of political economy, culture, war and terrorism, and the growing conflict between material progress and its impact on the natural world.

Introducing the trope of 'acceleration', the irrepressible dynamics of production and exploitation that stimulate modern progress, this book shows how acceleration has intensified over those few decades, and how this intensity has increasingly provoked historical interpretation. Late Modern Transformations provides a synoptic analysis of issues and developments emblematic of complex changes including the rise of neoliberalism, the introduction of the Anthropocene and new narratives of self-expression.

Demonstrating how these transformations are rooted in the cultural sixties, and tracing their acceleration over the following decades, Late Modern Transformations reflects on the instability of globalised change, which has manifested in outbursts of terrorism, a widening wealth divide and the advance of artificial intelligence. As the human acceleration of progress has come to dominate and disorder the world's natural systems, what can we learn from these transformative changes and how can we better harness 'progress'?

Focusing on BIT practice in middle-income countries, this book provides a systematic analysis of treaty texts and arbitral practice showing how investment protection standards, including fair and equitable treatment, expropriation, and full protection and security, interact with the territorial structure of IP.

Many treaties protect IP in broad terms while leaving unresolved questions about scope, territorial reach, and the boundary between legitimate regulation and treaty breach. The result is legal uncertainty for governments, right-holders, and investors, and a shift of practical dispute resolution away from national frameworks. The book offers a reform agenda grounded in treaty text and practice. It develops concrete drafting options for more IP-sensitive BITs, including definitional choices, safeguards for public-interest regulation, and dispute settlement design tailored to IP claims. It also proposes a longer-term institutional option, a specialised international forum for IP disputes, to support more coherent handling of IP claims than the current fragmented pathways.

This book will be of interest to students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of Intellectual Property Law, International Investment Law, and International Investment Arbitration.