Taking into account sociological, anthropological, and historical considerations, this novel volume offers a history and ethnography of Hare Krishnas in the People's Republic of China (PRC), challenging assumptions about both devotees themselves and the institution to which they belong: the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

Drawing on a rich compendium of English- and Chinese-language sources, including archived recordings and interviews carried out through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, chapters explore how Chinese Hare Krishnas maintain their religious practice despite social opposition and describe the role of collective emotions and affective synchronization in strengthening the faith of devotees. The book identifies strategies ISKCON members use to position their tradition and proselytize within China, contextualizing these methods among a broader consideration of how practitioners of unofficial religions in the country conduct outreach differently from those belonging to state-sanctioned ones. The book contributes to a more comprehensive picture of religion in the PRC, broadening the traditional body of knowledge based primarily on ethnographic data collected before the Xi Era from the five religions officially recognized by the Chinese state.

The book will be of value to scholars and researchers in the fields of religious studies, East Asian studies, and anthropology.

This volume offers a comprehensive examination of language policy and planning (LPP) across the Arabic-speaking world, from historical Arabization to contemporary digital revitalization.

Using comparative case studies in education, justice, public services, conflict zones, and higher education, it explores key tensions such as diglossia versus dialect equity, English-medium instruction versus mother-tongue rights, and Modern Standard Arabic standardization amid Tamazight resurgence. The chapters examine implementation gaps, institutional capacity, and innovative tools such as register-aware NLP, while also addressing minority languages, conflict-sensitive governance, and globalization's linguistic hierarchies. Bridging theory and practice, the book presents evidence-based mechanisms including annual reviews, theory-of-change monitoring, and capacity-before-scale to achieve equitable outcomes and linguistic justice.

Essential for scholars of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, Middle Eastern studies, and policy practitioners, it fosters inclusive dialogue to preserve the region's rich multilingual heritage.

Bringing CBT Supervision to Life provides supervisors of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with an invaluable resource for reflecting on their current supervisory style and methods and developing their repertoire of skills in this area.

Research suggests that routine supervision practices over-rely on verbal case discussion, and this can limit opportunities for more active and experiential methods such as role-play, chair work or self-practice of CBT methods that deepen therapist understanding of theory and practice. This book explains why supervision needs to be a more active experience as well as how to do this. It provides readers with specific chapters dedicated to different experiential methods and explains the rationale and benefits of utilising each. Case studies are used throughout to help illustrate the challenges for CBT supervisors, and each chapter contains handouts and worksheets to use with supervisees. The author draws upon their experience of researching supervision and providing extensive supervision and supervisor training to create a resource that supervisors of any level of expertise can dip into when looking to freshen up their skills.

The book is primarily aimed at practitioners who provide supervision or supervision of supervision for CBT therapists and trainees. It will be an accessible resource for both new and experienced supervisors in healthcare, education and
private practice.

Drawing on primary empirical research, this book considers the democratic outcomes of political news avoidance, selective news exposure, and misinformation.

Political information environments across democracies are in flux, fundamentally changing the way citizens gain political information and leading to widespread concerns about consequences for democracy. From selective media use leading to increased attitudinal polarisation, to declining trust in legacy media and journalists compounding political disengagement, the need for a detailed, comparative account of what these changes in the supply of, and demand for, political information mean for democracies is evident. This book focuses on three developments that are seen as particularly concerning for democracies: news avoidance, selective news exposure, and misinformation. Using in-depth interviews, webtracking, panel surveys, and experiments, it investigates the extent of these threats, their causes, consequences, and remedies. Further, it shines a critical empirical light, for the first time, on these developments across four different types of democracies found in countries around Europe as well as Israel and the US. The results of the study are nuanced and context specific, with the authors finding generally that the prevalence of these three developments may be less than previously anticipated.

This is a critical study for researchers and advanced students of journalism and political communication, and bears global implications.

Presenting case studies from across the lifespan, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the causes and complications of complex trauma, as well as a framework for trauma-informed care. Complex trauma significantly impacts upon survivors' sense of identity, emotional self-regulation and relationships.

The author presents four new theoretical underpinnings to address CPTSD's disturbances in a child and non-offending parents' identity, self-regulation, self-compassion, and posttraumatic cognitions. Case studies and trauma survivor testimonies are introduced at the beginning of each chapter and interwoven throughout the theory and research. The chapter narratives support the reader with decision points and reflections to embed learning by practically linking theories, concepts, and practices to real-world examples to embody learning outcomes. Collectively the chapters build a relational model of trauma-informed care grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration across education, psychology, law, policy, medicine, and trauma-informed ethics.

A much-needed contribution to the knowledge and treatment of complex PTSD, this is an essential resource for professionals and educators working in childhood trauma and mental health.

This book introduces the study and reform of curricular structures, an often-overlooked dimension of undergraduate student success.

While student success is influenced by a complex array of factors, many of which lie beyond the control of universities, new research underscores that curricular structures (e.g., blocked courses, extended chains of required courses, pre- and corequisites) can be a significant barrier to success - one that unit-level faculty are uniquely positioned to address. By bringing together national research findings, change management experiments, and expert insights into the transformative potential of rethinking curricular structures, this volume opens an exciting new frontier in educational theory and practice, advancing the pursuit of equitable undergraduate success.

Written in an accessible style for faculty, administrators, and higher education scholars, this book will resonate with leaders committed to building truly student-centered universities.

Key Features:

• Evaluates the doctrine of Kompetenz-Kompetenz in sports arbitration
• Conducts systematic, decision-by-decision analysis of CAS jurisprudence categorised by topic
• Presents dedicated indexes of CAS awards and lists of arbitrators' cases
• Explains the circumstances in which the CAS has jurisdiction to hear a case and how arbitration agreements are interpreted
• Gives guidance on how disputes involving FIFA, clubs, players, agents and other sports governing bodies are allocated between different decision-making forums

Bridging doctrine and practice, this book is a crucial resource for all arbitrators before CAS, and for sports clubs, sports bodies and their legal advisors. Its practice-oriented structure also makes this a key resource for legal professionals seeking a deeper understanding of complex jurisdictional questions in sport.

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

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

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

Port cities of the world are critical nodes for international trade and socio-economic development. Yet they bear several costs, including congestion and pollution, which affect the local environment and population. In certain places, living near the port -together with related industrial and logistical activities -is a synonym of adverse health outcomes, resulting in several diseases and above-average unplanned hospital admissions and mortality. Decades of port-city physical separation have not eliminated such issues, since deep-water facilities, even outside urban cores, impact local populations and reach port and non-port cities through extensive trucking flows. Specific traffic, like cruise, keeps operating within dense urban environments.

This book is one of the first dedicated volumes on such matters, with contributions from scholars on several continents (Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania). It is highly interdisciplinary, covering geography, history, economics, management sciences, regional science, sociology, public and comparative law, physics, energy and industrial engineering, urban and spatial planning, epidemiology, architecture, biology, and environmental sciences. This volume offers an overview of current environmental and health issues in port cities. It starts by presenting the mitigation and perception of port pollution. Next, it examines the health impacts of ports from a historical perspective and reviews and synthesizes the variety of existing approaches to measure the health impacts of ports and shipping. Finally, it proposes a reflection on multilevel governance and policies.

This book is a comprehensive resource for a wide readership, including academics and upper-level students interested in maritime transport, port management, and sustainability, as well as those in public management, planning, and governance.

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.

In response, the authors reconceptualize DEI management for the SME context and introduce a framework and a set of best practices grounded in the lived realities of SMEs and insights from international surveys, interviews, workshops, and real-world cases from Europe. The book offers teaching cases along with online teaching notes and managerial reflections to equip current and future entrepreneurs and SME managers with the competencies needed to leverage social sustainability, in particular DEI, for a firm's growth, strategy implementation, regulatory compliance, and conflict resolution. The book deepens understanding of intersectionality in SMEs and demonstrates how DEI contributes to advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Small and Medium Enterprises is a vital resource for scholars and students of business and management, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. Business educators and SME managers will also benefit from its actionable recommendations for effectively incorporating DEI best practices.

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.

This book argues that post-truth discourses are deeply influencing political debates on migration and border security, blurring the line between fact-based debates and post-truth storylines.

Offering a nuanced analysis of discourse within parliamentary debates on migration across multiple EU countries and the European Parliament, the book challenges conventional assumptions about the drivers of post-truth, highlighting its role in legislative settings rather than solely in informalised public fora like social media. It illuminates the presence and use of post-truth narratives and the pervasiveness of post-factual politics at the centre of democratic policy-making processes, namely parliamentary debates, and highlights how certain post-truth structures become embedded into mainstream political debates and policies.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and professionals in migration policy/studies, political communication, communication studies, and more broadly to public policy, European studies, media studies, international relations and sociology.

Simon Susen's trilogy offers a systematic account of Juergen Habermas's Also a History of Philosophy. It provides a comprehensive overview of the central issues at stake in this magnum opus and, crucially, assesses its most significant limitations and shortcomings.

Susen shows how Habermas's approach to the history of philosophy seeks to reconstruct the genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking by tracing the tension-laden relationship between faith and knowledge back to the major developments brought about during the Axial Age. The trilogy examines how Habermas's latest project invites us to reconsider not only classical antinomies - such as faith vs. knowledge, the sacred vs. the profane, religion vs. science - but also the role of philosophy in the twenty-first century, particularly with regard to its capacity to overcome the tension between 'ideologization' [Verweltanschaulichung] and 'scientization' [Verwissenschaftlichung]. This endeavour, Susen argues, sheds light on the extent to which the emancipatory potential of rational freedom, far from being reducible to a mere product of the Enlightenment, has been present throughout human history - most notably in the processes of 'the linguistification of the sacred' in advanced civilizations during the first millennium BCE. Informed by a meticulous analysis of the Epilogue to the original German-language edition - which contains valuable insights into Habermas's retrospective reflections on his main arguments and engages with the reception of his ambitious theoretical enterprise - this definitive trilogy serves as an essential guide to one of Habermas's seminal works.

The second volume, The Consolidation of Postmetaphysical Thinking, explores the dimensions that are particularly important to Habermas's project of developing a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking.

This trilogy is for all those in the social sciences and humanities studying and researching classical and contemporary social theory, the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, political sociology, cultural sociology, social and political philosophy, epistemology, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of history, the philosophy of language, and the history of social and political thought.

Kristjan Kristjansson justifies the creation of a new category of virtues distinct from both the Big-Five trait of agreeableness and Aristotle's three virtues of agreeableness in everyday encounters. He explores considerateness and intellectual humility, assessing the independent moral value of the kindly virtues and discussing various taxonomies, including Gulliford and Roberts' allocentric virtues. The book rejects the distinction between morality and manners amidst an increasingly harsh landscape of public debate, suggesting a new moral framework for conglomerating kindness and cultural specificity and addressing rarely discussed counterpoints to traditional virtuous behavioural guidelines.

The Kindly Virtues is an essential resource for scholars and students of moral psychology, philosophy and education seeking to develop their understanding of alternative virtue frameworks. Psychologists and curriculum developers will also benefit from its insights.

This book presents a captivating exploration of the often-overlooked experiences, challenges, and enduring triumphs of black farmers in America.

This book examines the historical roots, present-day realities, and future possibilities of Black farming in the United States through the lens of equity, land, and local food systems. Tracing Black agriculture from slavery and Reconstruction to contemporary struggles and innovations, it reveals how discriminatory policies, land dispossession, and structural racism have shaped persistent disparities in farming, food access, and economic opportunity. Centering the local food system as a site of both challenge and possibility, the book explores how community-supported agriculture, cooperative ownership models, urban farming, and land-based reparative efforts are creating pathways toward empowerment and food sovereignty. Through in-depth case studies in the Appalachian region, the Mississippi Delta, the U.S. South, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., the book highlights the resilience, creativity, and leadership of Black farmers navigating systemic barriers while building sustainable, community-rooted solutions. Combining historical analysis, policy review, qualitative narratives, and quantitative data, the book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of how race, land, and food systems intersect, providing both critical insight and practical strategies for advancing equity in agriculture. Ultimately, the book calls readers to action, offering a roadmap for collaboration, advocacy, and investment in a more just and resilient food system that centers Black farmers and growers.

Black Farmers in America is an essential read for anyone seeking to actively participate in transforming our food systems into an equitable and inclusive space for all.

Grounded in the belief that effective leadership inspires and motivates those responsible for an organization's success, this book helps higher education administrators and academic leaders systematically enhance faculty productivity and well-being.

Ford introduces a comprehensive framework focused on motivation and optimal functioning, offering strategies to recruit and retain talented faculty, design supportive workload and evaluation systems, increase compensation and external funding, and prevent burnout. Through firsthand accounts and insights, faculty participants share how and why they were motivationally impacted by each innovation. Essential for current and aspiring leaders, this book provides practical guidance on creating work environments where faculty feel energized, supported, and ready to thrive.

This book explores how the alt-right has appropriated human rights rhetoric - once rooted in progressive ideals - to resist public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Phrases like "My body, my choice" have been retooled to challenge vaccination and state intervention. The author interrogates the historical and ideological malleability of human rights, revealing how their universalist claims are often compromised by exclusionary and reactionary forces. Central to this analysis is the pandemic's role in exposing science as an emerging political cleavage. Through the lens of political mistrust, pseudoscience, conspiracy thinking, and neoliberal crisis, the book examines the conditions that gave rise to right-wing human rights discourse - and asks whether the concept of rights can still hold emancipatory promise in an era of ecological breakdown and rising technopolitical conflicts.

This book argues that modern capitalism has given way to Financialism, a new stage of political economy in which legal institutions, financial markets, and professional norms reorganize corporations, public institutions, and everyday life around the imperatives of finance.

It provides the first systematic account of Financialism as the organizing order of contemporary social life. Drawing from legal history, corporate governance, and political economy, this book explains how law, financial markets, and professional practices have transformed the American corporation. It also demonstrates how these forces have extended financial discipline across labor markets, public institutions, and daily economic activity. This book traces how this transformation altered the temporal structure of economic decision-making and weakened the capacity of democratic institutions to govern society. Finally, it develops principles for post-Financialist capitalism and proposes institutional strategies to restore democratic authority. Central to this reconstruction is a theory of democratic time, a framework for reclaiming control over democratic decision-making from the accelerating demands of finance.

This book is an essential reading for scholars, graduate students, and policymakers in corporate law, finance, political economy, corporate governance, and business history. It is also ideal for readers interested in how financial power reshapes democratic governance and the structure of everyday life.