The International Conference on Evolving Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences: Theory, Practice, and Transformation (ICEPHSS'25) aims to provide a dynamic platform for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to engage in interdisciplinary dialogues that address critical issues and emerging trends in the humanities and social sciences. The conference seeks to bridge theoretical insights with practical applications, exploring how advancements in technology, globalization, and societal shifts reshape these fields.

Key features include sessions on Digital Humanities, Education, Socioeconomic Dynamics, Cultural Transformations, and emerging areas like Food Culture and Identity. A distinct focus on integrating traditional disciplines with contemporary challenges-such as AI, sustainable development, and diversity-sets this conference apart. ICEPHSS'25 emphasizes not only academic rigor but also actionable strategies for addressing real-world problems.

Intended for academicians, policymakers, students, and professionals, the conference promotes collaboration across disciplines to foster innovative ideas and holistic understanding. Unlike other conferences, ICEPHSS'25 uniquely incorporates underexplored areas like culinary heritage and media literacy while prioritizing the impact of research in societal transformation. Participants will gain insights into evolving methodologies, network with global experts, and explore opportunities for future collaborations in shaping the future of humanities and social sciences.

Using a novel theoretical framework contributing authors analyse individual, spatial-structural and institutional contexts of homelessness. They evaluate how homelessness emerges, such as the failure to protect women and migrants, and how it can be combatted, including through social work and shelters. The book advances existing scholarship on homelessness and highlights practical examples of action that can be applied to reduce the crisis in the future.

Homelessness in Affluent Societies is a crucial resource for scholars and students of sociology, politics, social and public policy and urban geography. Policymakers, social workers and policy advocates seeking a deeper understanding of this urgent social challenge will also benefit from the insights in this book.

Leading experts illustrate that Africa's energy landscape is defined by a paradox of abundant renewable resources alongside severe energy poverty, requiring a transition rooted in justice, inclusivity and strategic industrial policy. They argue that, if the continent adopts context-specific policies, attracts equitable financing and strengthens regional cooperation, it could become a potential leader in global energy transition. Assessing diverse case studies, authors advocate for an integrated approach to enable Africa to build a resilient low-carbon future on its own terms, bridging the gap between high-level policy analysis and on-the-ground technical implementation.

Enlightening and incisive, this Handbook is an invaluable tool for academics and students in energy studies, African studies, development economics and environmental policy. Policymakers and government advisors will likewise benefit from its innovative and pragmatic recommendations for the future.

A diverse array of leading experts survey the latest research in the area, with original insights into the complex legal facets of European integration through the conceptual, terminological, and theoretical lenses of constitutional law. In both analytical and normative terms chapters discuss core topics such as European democracy, the rule of law, federalism, national identity, fundamental rights, citizenship, competences and governmental architecture, reflecting on the challenges facing European constitutional law and the resilience displayed at both EU and member state levels.

Foundational yet forward thinking, this Research Handbook is an essential resource for students and scholars working in European, constitutional and administrative law. Policymakers will also benefit from its timely recommendations for the future of constitutional development and conflict resolution.

Exploring how different scholars conceptualise norms and how these principles have emerged, the book analyses the implementation and impact of norms on global environmental governance. Chapters examine a diverse array of case studies that investigate the rights of nature, anti-fossil fuel, recycling and species protection norms, among others. The book advances norm theory, particularly in the context of international relations, providing fresh insights into how morality shapes humanity's impact on the planet.

Understanding Environmental Norms is a valuable resource for scholars and students of international politics, political science, environmental law, geography, sociology and environmental studies. It is also beneficial to practitioners and policymakers working on environmental governance and seeking a better understanding of the evolving power of norms.

Taking a holistic view of the field, Paul Bernal explores recurrent challenges of identity and anonymity, age-verification and biometrics, encryption and related technologies, surveillance, extraterritoriality and cross-border enforcement, and the power of the internet giants - as well as the developing fields of machine learning and AI, cryptocurrencies, and the nebulous concept of the metaverse. He examines how major legislation, such as the Online Safety Act 2023 and the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, attempt to address these challenges, and illustrate why making laws for the internet is difficult and often unsuccessful. The book highlights the common themes that underpin different areas of internet law, including unpredictability, political influence and rapid technological advancement, reflecting on future avenues for development.

Internet Law is a crucial resource for scholars and students of information and media law, internet and technology law and internet governance. It will also benefit legal practitioners and policymakers interested in furthering their understanding of the key theoretical ideas underpinning the implementation of internet law.

For 50 years, the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) has been responsible for enforcing the state's campaign finance, conflict-of-interest, and lobbying laws. Created by citizen initiative in 1974, the agency has faced constant political pressure, including eight legislative attempts to abolish it. This book traces APOC's turbulent history and shows how public opinion, court rulings, and repeated citizen-led initiatives kept the agency alive despite ongoing efforts to weaken it. It offers a rare inside look at how a regulatory body survives in a politically charged environment.

Unlike most studies of campaign finance, which focus on national trends or compare multiple states, former APOC Executive Director Paul R. Dauphinais offers an in-depth, unbiased examination of a single state, Alaska, grounded in firsthand experience and a nonpartisan historical lens. Alaska's geographic isolation, extractive economy, and small legislature create a distinctive political ecosystem that allows for unusually close study of how laws are enforced and resisted. Dauphinais highlights how oil wealth, lobbying pressures, legislative turnover, and shifting political incentives have shaped APOC's work and the controversies surrounding it.

By examining what happens after elections, how laws are implemented, how violators fare, and how voters respond when elected officials attempt to weaken oversight, the book offers a fresh perspective on democratic accountability. It will appeal to scholars and students of state politics, public administration, political reform, and the evolving relationship between citizens and the institutions designed to regulate those who govern them.

This book examines how the Soviet past is culturally negotiated, reimagined, and recreated in new temporal regimes; how the Soviet project is "recycled" and used as a key component in the construction of a new Russian collective identity; and how it has metamorphosed from a historical dimension to the sphere of myth.

These processes, conceptualized under the term "Soviet myth," are crucial for understanding the growing nostalgia for the USSR in Russia, recent cultural and ideological developments, and current domestic and foreign policies. The scope of this study extends from the late Soviet period to the present, but most chapters examine the pivotal decade in the formation of the Soviet myth, 2012-2022. Written by experts in the field, the book presents a broad spectrum of examples of how the Soviet legacy has been transmuted into the realm of mythology in visual arts, film, television, urban narratives, music, and video games.

Soviet Myth in Post-Soviet Russia is of value to researchers studying Slavic and Russian studies, in particular post-Soviet culture, languages, literatures, anthropology, and political science.

Written as an engaging narrative, and presenting a wide range of historical and geographical accounts, the book traces IP from the Biblical era to the Industrial Revolution and from Edinburgh to Baghdad. Each chapter explores a self-contained historical period, highlighting the diversity of people, locations, periods, and circumstances prior to the modern harmonisation of legal IP. The narrative illuminates the motivations for protecting creation and invention, underscoring notable attitudinal differences between then and now. Rather than seeking to uncover historical antecedents to the modern IP system, the book addresses intellectual historical creations and inventions on their own terms and within their own milieu.

IP before IP is an essential resource for scholars and students of intellectual property law, and legal, cultural and literary history. Intellectual property lawyers seeking to broaden their understanding of historical IP will also benefit from its diverse, expansive scope.

Tracing its evolution, the Handbook contextualises GCE in the current political and social climate and explores its conceptual framings, practical applications and emerging problems, while also distinguishing GCE from related fields through its integrative and action-focused orientation. Assessing questions of power, sustainability and technology, contributors evaluate topics such as studying abroad, human-centered AI and shared languages. This Handbook supports research and practice in GCE, providing innovative frameworks and case studies that highlight current challenges in the field as well as opportunities for future development.

The Handbook on Global Citizenship Education is a valuable resource for students and scholars of international education, particularly those with a focus on curriculum studies and global citizenship education. This multidisciplinary Handbook also provides crucial insights for researchers interested in global citizenship and nationalism, as well as practitioners and policymakers looking to improve their understanding of how education contributes to the creation of a planetary society.

Contributors examine the pedagogical, ethical, and political stakes of teaching terrorism and security from critical perspectives. Through a range of innovative approaches-including visual and creative methods, the use of technology to interrogate power structures, and the incorporation of videogames and playful tools-chapters demonstrate how to actively reframe the study of political violence. Grounded in real-world examples, the book also reflects on the future of teaching in an era of AI and digitalisation, arguing that meaningful transformation depends less on the tools we adopt than on the pedagogical commitments that shape their use.

Teaching Terrorism and Counterterrorism is an essential resource for instructors of terrorism, counter-terrorism, and security studies. It will also appeal to scholars and students in international relations, security studies, and public policy seeking fresh, practical ways to teach complex and sensitive topics.

Leading experts reframe sustainable tourism as a transformative, multi-scalar process shaped by governance reform and community empowerment. They critically trace the evolution of the field and interrogate persistent gaps between rhetoric and practice. Chapters introduce novel frameworks to tackle key issues such as global polycrises, climate change, socio-economic instability and long-term behavioural changes. Drawing on conceptual insights and applied case studies, the Modern Guide highlights the interconnected roles of tourists, communities, businesses and policymakers in fostering just and resilient tourism futures.

A Modern Guide to Sustainable Tourism is an essential resource for scholars and students of tourism management, geography, economics and sustainable development. Industry professionals seeking to realign tourism with long-term sustainability will similarly benefit from its actionable recommendations.

This book investigates China's evolving relations with the Liberal International Order (LIO) over the 40 years of China's Reform and Opening since 1979.

Arguing that China's recent ascendance in wealth and power is more explained by the effective function of the historic LIO than that of the Chinese model of political economic organization, the book goes on to proffer that the same structural, institutional, and normative forces that motivated engagement also led to the pluralization of the international system. By utilizing systemic time series data on key indicators of global industrial production and distribution, alongside network analysis, the book identifies international structures in global industrial production and distribution at key points of time in China's industrial rise, highlighting the effects and consequences of the structural change on the organizing principles and mechanisms of the international economic order.

Revealing how dynamic interactions among the structural, institutional, and civilizational forces were pivotal for China-LIO relations, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Chinese Politics, International Relations, and International Political Economy.

Beginning with a historical perspective, the book provides an analytical overview of patent law as a dynamic system shaped by digital transformation, and traces how the foundational doctrines of patent law have evolved and adapted to the realities of Industry 4.0, digital transformation, and AI innovation. In addition to delivering doctrinal analysis of the fundamentals of patent law, such as eligibility, novelty, inventive step, infringement, claim scope, remedies and defenses, the book also presents research questions inviting readers to examine how platform ecosystems, servitization, and AI tools challenge how these fundamentals are approached. It situates novel developments within the structure of traditional patent principles and concludes with forward-thinking research questions designed to stimulate future inquiries.

The Law and Theory of Patents is a crucial resource for scholars and students of patent law, innovation policy, and intellectual property (IP) law. Patent practitioners, judges, and regulators will also benefit from its comparative guidance and actionable insights into the complex future of patent law.

This essential book brings together leading criminology researchers from across the globe to explore the critical role of the 'evidence base' in crime and criminal justice. It began with a simple question: if experts were asked to write about the evidence base in their area of expertise, what would they say? Casting the net widely to ensure a diverse range of topics, contributors were given a straightforward brief: 5000 words on any aspect of the evidence base within their field. The result is a lively and accessible collection of papers offering critical assessments and insightful commentary on the state of research evidence.

This book is designed for students, academics, policymakers, and practitioners in criminology, criminal justice, and related fields. It addresses the challenges of turning empirical evidence into effective policy and practice, while highlighting methodological, political, and practical issues faced by researchers. The chapters provide research-driven insights into the evidence base across various areas, making this an invaluable resource for understanding the intersection of research and public policy in criminal justice.

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

A concise, accessible, and engaging introduction to the complex interplay between climate change and human migration, this book provides key analysis of the scientific, social, political, and economic factors of climate migration.

Keeping away from dense theories and jargon, Climate Change, Migration, and the Global Search for Home details the primary causes and consequences of human-driven climate disruption, the evolution of climate science, from early observations to today's advanced data collection methods, to the real-world impacts, including extreme weather events and shifts in ecosystems. Informed by the voices of scientists in the Global South, who provide a much-needed perspective on this important topic, this book presents key concepts in a clear, relatable way, providing the foundational knowledge needed to engage with one of the most pressing issues of our time.

This book offers a fresh approach that connects complex ideas to real-world relevance, fostering a deeper engagement with this critical topic, by speaking directly to students and newcomers seeking deeper insight into climate migration by meeting them where they are in a way that resonates with them.

This unique volume delves into the intricate world of teaching learning resources (TLRs) across India's diverse educational landscape. Exploring a broad spectrum - from time-tested Montessori materials to cutting-edge digital tools - it examines the profound impact of TLRs on student engagement and learning outcomes across various subjects and levels in school and teacher education. It illuminates the challenges of textbook development and highlights innovative approaches, such as the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme, that empower both teachers and learners.

Through rich case studies and expert perspectives, this book reveals how TLRs can be harnessed to foster critical thinking, creativity and a deeper understanding of the world. From the role of images in social studies textbooks to the use of everyday objects in science experiments, this book showcases the power of TLRs to inspire curiosity and make learning a joyful experience. Whether you're a teacher seeking practical classroom strategies or a researcher exploring the theoretical foundations of TLRs, this book offers valuable insights into the dynamic and evolving landscape of education in India.

This book would be useful to the students, researchers and teachers working in the fields of education, psychology, development studies, social work and sociology. It will also be an invaluable companion to in-service teachers, policy
makers and educational administrators, curriculum developers and NGOs.

This book offers a historical and critical analysis of mutualism in Chile between 1920 and 2020, challenging the conventional view that regards it as a residual phenomenon following the consolidation of the welfare state.

Drawing on an approach that integrates social, cultural, and economic history, the book demonstrates that mutual aid societies not only persisted but also underwent cycles of crisis, recomposition, and transformation throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It examines the relationship between mutualism and the state, its role in the provision of health, welfare, and sociability, as well as the construction of collective assets and networks of solidarity. It also incorporates underexplored dimensions, such as female mutualism and the projection of mutualism beyond its classical institutional forms. Extending into the neoliberal period, the analysis shows how these organizations faced processes of displacement, adaptation, and reconfiguration, without disappearing as a social practice.

Aimed at scholars, advanced students, and specialists in history and the social sciences, this volume proposes a rethinking of mutualism as a historical form of social security and as a potential alternative, or complement, to contemporary market-based welfare systems.

Building on the 1999 work of Kenneth Zeichner and Lars Dahlstroem, this timely volume provides first-hand accounts as well as both empirical and theoretical case studies on how teacher education is being operationalized in postcolonial Namibia, working to decolonise and democratise the Namibian educational system at all levels.

Chapters are comprehensive in approach, offering accounts of decolonisation and democratisation of teacher education during the period immediately after the country's political independence from apartheid South Africa; contemporary issues of quality in terms of curriculum, pedagogy and epistemology; and how to cultivate sustainable and lasting resilience to mitigate further disruptive events such as the pandemic. Ultimately recognising Namibia's role as an exemplar for other postcolonial countries, given its status as a stable postcolonial democracy, the book provides a blueprint for how to develop education policy and curriculum for a truly equitable education system.

The book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of teacher education, education and development, and African education studies more generally. Policy makers and curriculum designers may also find the volume of use. The book will have particular appeal in Namibia and South Africa, but also across the global South and amongst other postcolonial countries.

Richly illustrated with the author's exquisite drawings, this visual manual provides a concise and practical introduction to contemporary urban landscape architecture with trees and forest: Sylvan City Design.

Aimed at student and professional landscape architects and environmental designers, the manual will also appeal to other urban disciplines and to communities engaged with neighbourhood spaces in the context of the potential for trees to transform city living for climate resilience, green health, social equity, biodiversity and - at the same time - enriched urban culture.

A sylvan city is foremost 'made, shaped or formed of woods or trees'. Catherine Dee sets out to demonstrate how and why settlements may be better designed by considering trees as the indispensable 'ground' of a city, forming a life-giving, long-term dwelling matrix into which buildings and built infrastructure are fitted.

The manual is organised in two parts. Part I: Principles, Strategies + Methods introduces the central aims of sylvan city design and establishes key design principles, strategies and ethos: 1 What is a Sylvan City? 2 What is Sylvan Design? 3 Sylvan Space, 4 Sylvan Time, 5 Sylvan Climate and 6 Sylvan Specificity, Diversity + Robustness.

Part II: Forms, Functions + Habitats explores context-specific design, illustrating a wide range of urban situations, scales and types of tree environment from tiny street corners through to city-wide tracts using the patterns: Forest, Locale, Greenway, Grove, Glade, Parkland, Avenue, Hedgerow, Thicket, Garden, Farm, Woodland, and Wilderness. In each section, the design approach is to refresh and re-orient long-practised forms of tree cultivation and ecological management by matching them with urban social, cultural and biodiversity functions to create a contemporary environmental language adaptable to evolving sylvan cities in diverse global regions and changing climates.

Communicated in vivid drawings inspiring new ways to dwell with trees, this is a DIY landscape architecture manual for all.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intertwined cultural, historical, and geopolitical landscape of Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB)-two regions separated by the Line of Control (LoC) yet bound by deep-rooted connections. Moving beyond conventional security and strategic discourse, this volume focuses on humanitarian concerns and the lived experiences of local populations who continue to bear the impact of political instability, militarization, and border tensions.

Through a multidisciplinary approach, the book critically examines key issues including border dynamics, divided families, socio-economic marginalization, climate vulnerability, and environmental security. It sheds light on emerging protests in Ladakh post-abrogation, political aspirations in GB, and the militarization of everyday life along contested borders. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork, legal analysis, and normative frameworks, the chapters amplify voices from within these communities, offering rare insights into the aspirations, anxieties, and resilience of borderland populations. Rich in case studies and real-life narratives, the book bridges academic scholarship with grassroots perspectives, making it both rigorous and accessible.

This book is useful to the departments of Border Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Anthropology, Sociology, and Security Studies. It would be an indispensable resource for policymakers, journalists, and readers interested in South Asia and border conflicts.

This book explores the role, impact and experiences of animals within organisations and the wider socioeconomic contexts in which they participate.

Animals are vital to business. From agriculture to tourism, logistics to digital media, animals work, reproduce, create value and support livelihoods. Yet business and management theory still largely treats organisations as purely human domains. Animals and Business challenges this view. By introducing an interspecies approach to responsible management, the book explores how animals are not just resources or external ethical concerns, but key actors within organisations and industries. It examines how business practices shape animals' lives and how, in turn, animals influence how value is created and sustained. Each chapter takes an animal-centred approach to a familiar idea such as work, consumption and innovation. Case studies range from broiler chickens in global supply chains to bees in forest honey economies and medical scent-detection dogs in Nordic healthcare. Developed in dialogue with international scholars, the book's central claim is simple: Business is better understood, and better practised, when we recognise the animals whose lives and labour are intertwined with it.

This book is essential reading for students and researchers working at the intersection of business studies, animal studies and sustainability.

Connecting historical aspiration with contemporary reality, this book examines post-independence Bangladesh from a sociological perspective, discussing the structural and cultural factors that threaten its achievements, and how it might overcome existing hurdles to ensure continuity and long-term stability in its social transformation.

Structured around three broad phases of transformation - post-liberation reconstruction (1972-1990), globalization and digitalization (1991-2010), and contemporary transformations (2010-2025) - the book traces continuity, rupture, and reconfiguration across the evolving sociopolitical landscape of Bangladesh. The chapters chart key developments in Bangladesh's history such as July Uprising of 2024, the evolution of religious and cultural politics since 2012, and the rapid expansion of the service and digital sectors in recent years. The book also examines the transformative impact of digitalization, social media, and technology on kinship, marriage, youth culture, and everyday life.

Ultimately developing an integrated analytical framework for understanding Bangladesh's societal dynamics, the book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of sociology, political science and South Asian studies.

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.