Doing Qualitative Research Critically: Disruptive Practices and New Materialist Entanglements interrogates practices of doing qualitative research in the social sciences. It inspires researchers to think differently about doing qualitative research and entering into contact with emergent methodologies of gathering, analysing, and writing about social and organisational events.

In advancing the critical agenda of qualitative methodologies, the authors introduce theoretical perspectives, such as poststructuralism, posthumanism, and feminist new materialism, to disrupt mainstream methodologies and develop more affirmative engagements with human/non-human relationalities. The problematisation of qualitative research is achieved through introducing art pieces (painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and film) to engage the reader at different levels: to generate emotions, and to provoke thoughts and reflections on the ethical and political character of qualitative research.

This engaging book is an essential read for research students and researchers across the social sciences and humanities, interested in exploring the landscape of critical qualitative methodologies and experimenting with doing research differently.

The second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption showcases the most innovative research being conducted globally in the field of political corruption and provides a new point of reference for all interested in the topic.

In presenting current research trends, the handbook addresses the pressing need for more detailed understanding of the intricacies of political corruption, including the need to adapt to emerging challenges and devise more effective strategies to curb its impact on societies. The handbook provides a balance between reviewing the 'state of the art' within different disciplines and subdisciplines and offering in-depth insights into the most recent developments in the field. Alongside some updated chapters, it also covers new topics, including democratic backsliding and populism, media capture and digital journalism, illicit financial flows and money laundering, corruption in contexts of conflict and migration, and the growing use of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies in anti-corruption efforts. Its structure, themes, and direction underscore the interdisciplinary nature of corruption research, bridging disciplines such as economics, psychology, political science, and law.

The Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption is an essential reference for scholars and students within comparative politics, global governance, economics, development studies, criminology and criminal justice, sociology, anthropology, psychology, law, and international relations. More broadly, it will appeal to policymakers, activists, journalists, and practitioners in civil society organisations, focusing on transparency and accountability.

The Muslim Brotherhood and Ennahda: Organisational Dynamics in Egypt and Tunisia since 2011 examines the organisational dynamics and capacity for change of the Arab world's two most influential Islamist movements.

Rather than foregrounding external political pressures, the book explores the internal organisational worlds of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Tunisia's Ennahda, treating them as long-standing institutions shaped by their own cultures, structures, and internal debates. Drawing on an analytical framework that places organisational culture and intra-party politics at the centre of the analysis, it investigates how each movement confronted the pressures of governing, adapting, and redefining its political role and identity after 2011. The study argues that the capacity for change within these organisations was shaped by internal dynamics: the Brotherhood's strong commitment to preserving its long-standing mission and organisational vision often constrained reform, while Ennahda struggled with a weak conceptualisation of how and why change should occur. By comparing their contrasting trajectories of party formation and institutional reconfiguration, the book highlights how each movement came to understand organisational change differently - whether as variation or replication, and as an opportunity or a threat to their foundational identity.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East politics, political Islam, and comparative politics, as well as to readers seeking an alternative analytical lens to Social Movement Theory and a deeper understanding of the evolution of Islamist movements in the post-Arab Spring era.

This volume provides comprehensive analysis of bird naming systems in southern Africa, examining scientific nomenclature, English and Afrikaans vernacular names, and indigenous African language names, including:

• Comprehensive analysis of bird naming systems across scientific, vernacular, and indigenous languages in southern Africa
• Historical examination of English bird names from Anglo-Saxon origins through contemporary standardization efforts
• Detailed study of Afrikaans bird names tracing development from Cape Dutch to modern usage
• Extensive documentation of African language bird names including semantic categories, cultural integration, and environmental contexts
• Analysis of scientific nomenclature examining etymological origins, semantic patterns, and interface with vernacular naming systems

This title has been co-published with UKZN Press. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book examines caste-based discrimination in India through the practice of manual scavenging and exclusion within higher education. It analyses how Untouchability persists across these distinct yet interconnected sites, adopting a legal lens grounded in international human rights law. Drawing on empirical data, the book critically engages with legislation, governmental schemes, institutional mechanisms, and case law, with particular attention to affirmative action as enshrined in the Indian Constitution. By bridging lived realities with legal framework, it highlights both the limitations and transformative potential of law in addressing caste-based inequalities. This work will be of significant interest to scholars and researchers of law, human rights, sociology, and South Asian studies, as well as policymakers.

Johanson and Aboagye propose that economics too often focuses on tools for calculation and accounting, leading to excessive consumption and a negative impact on occupational health and safety. Drawing on examples from diverse work environments, they argue that constant reflection on ethical principles and societal norms must be present when economic decisions are made. Chapters advocate for a new democratic economic model which aims to build a world where the economy serves humanity, enabling people to live with less fear and uncertainty.

Pluralistic Economics is a prescient resource for scholars and students of business and management, finance and economics. Governance policymakers and business managers will also benefit from its human-focused insights and practical suggestions for improved workplace dynamics.

Resilience in Emergency Management: Core Concepts and Practical Applications delivers essential knowledge and practical tools for navigating the complexities of emergency management and resilience.

This comprehensive handbook provides readers with the tools to understand and apply core concepts of resilience and emergency management, including societal resilience, crisis communications, recovery strategies, and the integration of innovative technologies like VR and AI. It offers detailed case studies, ethical decision-making frameworks, and actionable guidance to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Readers will gain insights into working with stakeholders, vulnerable communities, and managing humanitarian responses, while also learning to audit emergency plans and evaluate post-incident reviews. By addressing current challenges and future trends, the book empowers professionals and students to develop critical skills for effective emergency response and resilience-building.

Ideal for students, lecturers, researchers, and professionals in emergency management, this book is particularly suited for UK-focused contexts while offering globally relevant insights.

The book is supported by supplementary materials, including case studies and test banks.

This book explores the development of the ecological monetary paradigm in which money is created for the restoration and improvement of the Earth's ecology in a way that simultaneously addresses environmental and human well-being issues. Ecological money is created via the facilities of monetization and proliferated by the pricing of products.

The book, however, postulates that the development of an ecological monetary paradigm is hampered by a trilemma between inflation, the expenditure needed to mitigate ecological and climate crises, and the profit-making behaviour of enterprises. Namely, undertaking such massive expenditure would increase cost-push inflation, whilst, simultaneously, the refusal of enterprises to compromise on their profit-making would lead to profit-led inflation remaining intact if not strengthened. The book identifies the causes of the trilemma and calls for the emergence of new enterprises that would help mitigate the trilemma. The categories of such enterprises are derived, and the examples of enterprises that would satisfy these criteria are illustrated.

This book will interest any reader working in ecological, environmental, and sustainable development topics. It will also appeal to those working on ecological macroeconomics, monetary theory and policy, valuation of firms, and the history of economic thought.

This book explores the introduction and localization of the political concepts of left and right in Chinese media discourse from the late Qing to the late 1920s, analyzing their shift from spatial metaphors to political symbols that redefined Chinese society, politics, and culture.

Globally established as political terms in 1789, left and right began to appear in Chinese media by the late nineteenth century. This study traces their evolution, analyzing their construction and transformation within Chinese discourse. It explores their metaphorical extensions into morality and value judgments, uncovering the power structures in media narratives. The book also demonstrates how left-right discourse intersected with radical, conservative, and liberal ideologies, forming intricate conceptual networks that influenced ideological contestation and the development of political communities.

Designed for researchers and graduate students in political communication, media studies, conceptual history, Chinese studies, and comparative politics, this provides valuable insights into the evolution of political discourse, ideological categorization, and the adaptation of global political concepts in non-Western contexts.

Saidov systematically examines global case law, revealing the richness of commercial and legal landscapes to provide a balanced reflection on the diversity of trade sectors. Across the chapters he assesses different types of sale contracts, including those used in the commodities trade, long-term sale contracts, contracts of sale of manufactured goods and sale contracts embedded in supply chains. The book concludes that no single sales law is equally well suited to all contracts, sectors and commercial contexts, unless specialist sub-sets within each sales law were to be developed for each sector.

A thorough yet accessible account, International Sale of Goods Law is an essential resource for scholars and students of contract law, international commercial and sales law and comparative law. It will also benefit legal and commercial practitioners when considering which law best suits any given contract or transaction.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of inappropriately obtained evidence in international investment arbitration, an increasingly pressing issue given technological advances and evolving notions of impropriety.

Despite the broad procedural discretion of investment tribunals, clear guidance on approaching inappropriately obtained evidence remains lacking, risking inconsistency and unfairness. To address this gap, the book proposes a structured evidentiary test, drawing on doctrinal, empirical and comparative analyses. It examines relevant case law from investment arbitration, international courts and domestic tribunals, alongside key legal principles such as evidentiary discretion and tribunal duties. Beyond theory, the book provides tribunals with a practical framework for approaching inappropriately obtained evidence, including the balancing of probative value with the degree of impropriety in evidence procurement. By situating its analysis within broader trends in investment arbitration, including state conduct and systemic reforms, this work serves as an essential resource for navigating one of the most challenging evidentiary issues.

The book will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in the field of international investment arbitration and beyond.

Delving into the case of Georgia, this volume illustrates how the soft power struggle between Russia and the West has not only redefined international power dynamics but also deeply impacted Georgian nation-building.

The book systematically analyses the evolution of soft power strategies of the USA, the EU, and Russia in relation to Georgia from the 1990s to the present. It also adds the relevant historical context, the analysis of diverse cultural production, and pertinent media research, including research in libraries and archives.

Soft Power Competition Between Russia and the West will be beneficial for postgraduate students of international relations as well as foreign policy practitioners.

This monograph explores British Conflict Related Metal Boxes (CRMBs) and the memories they contain that come directly from, or are influenced by, the First World War.

This book identifies for the reader many of the 'tins' and other CRMBs from the period of the First World War that were used to convey 'comforts' to the soldiers and sailors serving during the war. It details, often for the first time in print, the background context to the 'gift-giving' and places it in context regarding funding, eligibility, design and production. All of the examples given in the book (with the exception of one item that is so rare that it is represented only by a photograph) are taken from the author's own collection which has allowed for a more in-depth examination and analysis of the materiality of these objects. So many of these objects are either so rare or are held in museums or collections which make understanding how they 'feel', far beyond the reach of literature or internet image accession can ever achieve alone.

This book is for students and researchers of modern conflict archaeology, material culture, military history and social history as well as collectors of militaria, antiques and social history objects.

Centered on Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, this book interrogates the complex entanglements between extractivism, state power, class formation, and geopolitical reorientation in North Africa. While the global energy transition promises economic diversification and sustainable development, the international contributors to this volume show how "green extractivism" often reproduces older structures of dependency and inequality, and therefore authoritarianism consolidates.

Rather than fostering transformation, rent economies adapt, stabilize, and reconfigure themselves through new sources of rent and new modes of social control. The book makes three core contributions. First, it offers a historically grounded and theoretically informed understanding of rent economies in the Maghreb, tracing how colonial legacies of resource extraction evolved into postcolonial patterns of rentier governance. Second, it introduces a class-analytical perspective to debates on extractivism, arguing that rent not only finances authoritarian regimes, but also shapes dynamic social coalitions, "state classes," and cycles of contention and co-optation. Third, the book develops a comparative approach to the political economy of green transformation, focusing on the interplay between domestic rent regimes and external pressures from global markets, international donors, and climate politics. By anchoring each case study in concrete struggles, everyday experiences, and contested claims to resources, the book reveals how global transformations are mediated, resisted, and reappropriated from the following.

The book will be vital reading for those interested in political economy, development studies, and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) studies. It will particularly appeal to scholars working on extractivism, rentier states, authoritarianism, postcolonial development, and the political sociology of class and class struggle.

This book examines the evolution of Russian hybrid warfare in the post-Soviet era through a long-term, historically grounded, and systematically integrated perspective.

Contemporary strategic studies literature often portrays hybrid warfare as an innovative approach to conflict. However, this volume demonstrates that Russia's hybrid approach is neither new nor improvised, but the product of a strategic culture shaped across imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet history. The book combines doctrinal analysis, close reading of primary strategic texts, and a comparative study of the major conflicts fought by the Russian Federation since 1991. Drawing on the writings of Russian and Soviet military thinkers, party-state documents and open-source military sources, the research reconstructs how non-military and non-conventional instruments gradually shifted from ad hoc wartime expedients to components of an increasingly coordinated strategic repertoire. The various case studies adopt a cross-case comparative approach to trace continuities and ruptures. The analysis reveals hybrid warfare as a structural feature of Moscow's strategic culture - an enduring method through which Russia seeks to offset conventional limitations, exploit systemic vulnerabilities in rival states, and shape the international environment below the threshold of open escalation.

This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and advanced students in the fields of security and strategic studies, Russian/Eurasian studies, and international relations and political science more broadly. It will also be of value to think tank analysts and government and military security professionals.

The book provides a macro-level analysis of international trade law and the UN SDGs, before delving into specific issues, focusing on the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Leading scholars examine how international trade dispute settlement mechanisms such as the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body and those established under free trade agreements are responding to the implementation of sustainable development policies. Chapters analyse case studies spanning Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, illustrating how sovereign states are leveraging their influence in global markets and adopting specific trade policies to advance the SDGs worldwide.

This comprehensive book is a valuable resource for scholars and students of international law with an interest in economics, trade, environmental and climate studies. It is also highly beneficial for practitioners and policymakers working in international trade.

This book investigates Russian approaches to military intervention, war and armed conflict in relation to the wars in Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. It provides a comprehensive examination of Russian resistance to, and initiation of armed interventions as enabled by the collective, rather than Kremlin-centric, production of danger and Otherness.

Applying a poststructuralist approach to foreign policy analysis, the book examines the significant yet often overlooked role of the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament in foreign policymaking. It explores the discursive interactions between the Parliament, the Presidency, and the government to highlight the social processes and mechanisms that made various forms of intervention and violent military actions conceivable, imaginable, and ultimately possible over time.

This volume will appeal to academics and students specializing in Russian foreign policy, intervention, state sovereignty, and Russia-West relations. The empirical focus makes it particularly relevant for those studying the wars in Libya and Syria, the conflict in southeast Ukraine (2014-2015), and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Additionally, the book's theoretical and methodological framework offers valuable insights for scholars and students interested in discursive approaches to foreign policy analysis.

How do young children comprehend complex sentences when intervening elements disrupt understanding? This book explores a key puzzle: children often struggle to link phrases across distance when similar phrases intervene - an "intervention effect" that sheds light on how the mind constructs grammatical structure.

Using Mandarin Chinese passive sentences as a uniquely clear test case, the author integrates naturalistic speech data with carefully designed comprehension experiments involving Mandarin-speaking preschoolers. The findings reveal that children's difficulties are not merely due to memory constraints or unfamiliarity with the construction. Instead, they stem from a stricter application of a grammatical principle that also governs adult language. Importantly, only mismatches in features that are actively involved in a language's grammar - rather than any perceptible differences between phrases - help children to overcome these challenges.

Drawing on evidence from languages such as Hebrew, Italian, Greek, English, and Mandarin, this study offers fresh perspectives on the universal architecture of grammar and its development in early childhood. It is an essential resource for scholars and students in Linguistics, Chinese Language Studies, and Developmental Psychology.

Benz evaluates federal democracy as a complex system which is based on complementary principles that combine incongruent institutions. Based on historical, society-centred and actor-centred approaches, he analyses the potential frictions and constructive dynamics across diverse forms of federal government. In particular, he highlights the advantages of parliamentary democracy over presidential government. Chapters demonstrate the processes linking parliaments, parties, executives and interest groups across federal and regional jurisdictions, exploring how to enable intergovernmental coordination without restricting governments' autonomy.

Understanding Federal Democracy is an important resource for scientists and students of political science and public policy, particularly those focusing on governance and democracy, federalism studies and regional government. Policymakers in the field will equally benefit from the book's academic and practical insights.

Detailed international case studies outline novel approaches in geography education, such as GIS integration and formative assessment strategies, to trace a secure path ahead for the field. Contributing authors evaluate the impact of field experiences, spatial technologies, social labs, education networks, and teacher capacity on future improvements to global geography education. They highlight innovations in geography teaching and learning, combining theoretical and practical insights to provide key recommendations for forthcoming programs.

This book is a crucial resource for scholars and researchers in geography education, as well as geography educators seeking to advance their practical teaching methods. Educational policymakers will likewise benefit from its astute and timely strategies for development and curriculum planning.

Teaching Second Languages through Dialogue and Interaction: Action, Turns, and Sequences advances an interaction-focused approach to second language teaching by placing social actions, turns, and sequences as central objects of instruction. Drawing on interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, and second language acquisition research, the book demonstrates how dialogue and social interaction can be taught systematically rather than left to incidental exposure or communicative practice alone.

While learning to say "what's next" in interaction is a critical competence for language learners, such interactional abilities are rarely addressed explicitly or coherently in instructional materials. This book shows how teachers can design and integrate materials that target the organization of talk itself, linking words, grammar, and multimodal resources to the social actions they accomplish. Presenting foundational research alongside empirically grounded teaching units across several languages, Huth illustrates how learners can be guided to recognize, produce, and respond to actions such as openings and closings, requests, complaints, stance-taking through so-called "little words," and other recurrent interactional practices. Additional teaching resources freely available to download complement this volume, encouraging practical applications and flexible personalization.

Research-based and classroom-tested, this book offers practical resources for designing lessons, developing assessments, and supporting curricular change. It will be of interest to current and future language teachers, as well as to students and researchers in second language teaching, second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and related fields focusing on language use as social action.

The crisis of liberal democracy is clearly visible today, manifesting itself, inter alia, in the declining interest of citizens in participating in elections; the disappearance, or at least weakening, of the traditional axis of social conflict between labour and capital; the growing importance of populism; attacks on democratic institutions; and the efforts of leaders in many countries to centralize power. Across the globe, anti-establishment, anti-system, anti-elite and populist sentiments are on the rise, accompanied by the increasing prominence of anti-democratic parties. This volume aims to identify universal mechanisms of de-democratization using the example of Poland, by searching for reliable indicators of these processes. The authors examine and analyse the weakening of democratic institutions, the limitation of civil liberties, and the growth of authoritarian tendencies and political polarization, seeking out indicators of de-democratization phenomena in the legal-institutional, political-social and economic spheres, while also looking into actions that strengthen and protect de-democratization, which take place in the symbolic, social, political and economic domains.

The authors thus seek to expand the existing analyses of de-democratization processes in a volume which will be of great use to those researching and studying democracy, the rule of law, contemporary politics and de-democratization in Poland and beyond.

Discover how to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom through practical applications. If you want to learn about the advantages that AI offers to facilitate your work as a teacher, you've come to the right book. Aimed at the entire educational community, this title transforms curiosity about AI into concrete tools for improving teaching.

From theoretical foundations to teaching proposals with virtual assistants, the author will guide you with clarity, rigour and pedagogical sensitivity to show you the advantages that AI offers. To this end, this book includes:

• 28 activities ready to be used in the classroom
• A selection of useful digital tools for teachers
• Access to complementary materials including explanatory and demonstrative videos

Each chapter combines innovation, accessibility and values, with examples adapted to all educational levels. More than a manual, it is an invitation to lose your fear and discover how AI can help you become a more creative, efficient and approachable teacher. If you ever thought that technology was not for you, this book will help you discover all that AI can bring to your daily life in the classroom.

This volume traces the historical development of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment through apartheid to contemporary unity efforts. The study examines mission-to-church transitions, responses to apartheid, and multiple attempts at achieving unity including the formation of FELCSA, LUCSA, and includes:

• Comprehensive historical analysis of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment to contemporary unity efforts
• Examination of mission-to-church transitions and responses to apartheid within Lutheran denominations
• Critical assessment of unity initiatives including FELCSA, LUCSA, and joint theological education at LTI
• Analysis of the 1964 UELCSA and 1975 ELCSA formations and their impact on racial divisions within Lutheran churches
• Documentation of failed unity attempts and the 2008 collapse of unity talks with lessons for future efforts

This title has been co-published with UKZN Press. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Sub-Saharan Africa.