Bringing together the work of experts from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, this book provides the evidence and guidance required to improve feedback practices for students on placements. The chapters tackle questions such as how feedback can be used in work contexts, what types of feedback can learners engage with and how using feedback in classrooms differs from navigating it in the workplace. It also addresses how learners can make feedback effective for them in work-based placement contexts.

On a practical level, the volume provides directions for educational design and stakeholder engagement, as well as a framework to support students in managing feedback processes for themselves in complex environments. The chapters also outline ways in which university and industry partners can work together to design tasks, conditions and systems to better support learners in navigating feedback in their dual roles as learners and participants "on the job". The approaches presented will improve feedback practices and generate more productive workplace learning experiences to help students to develop "feedback capabilities" that will hold them in good stead as they move into the workforce beyond graduation.

Led by experts Elizabeth Molloy and David Boud, this is an essential resource for educators, curriculum designers, educational leaders and students involved in workplace learning.

Banal Fascism Online: Weaponizing the "Everyday" for Extreme Ends offers a novel lens through which to research, conceptualize, and understand fascism and its place in today's political culture. It allows space for its authors to explore fascism as it exists in the digital world, outside the rigid boundaries of historically recognized fascist states.

The digital seeps into every avenue of the political and social, and thus offers a useful framing for analyzing the inherent banality of fascism. Specifically, this edited volume considers the different ways the digital world supports and structures our political and social identities: How do social media and online fora create spaces for extremist values that are perceived as mundane? What technological affordances provide fascist thought leaders access to - and influence over - various audiences? Which platforms offer the most comprehensive opportunities for anti-democratic political strategizing? As the United States and much of Europe continue to see their democratic institutions come under attack by rising fascist and authoritarian movements, this volume provides an indispensable examination of the ways fascism has not only increased in its mainstreaming and palatability, but also how it has always been integral to our societies. This groundbreaking framework and the chapters evidencing its utility offer a tangible means of identifying and ultimately combating fascist structures.

As a result of the strategic deployment of banal fascism across the globe, this volume will appeal to academics, students, politicians, journalists, and anyone concerned about the precarity of liberal democracy and its potential replacement with, at best, illiberal democracy and, at worst, fascism.

In an era where evidence-based policymaking defines the credibility of governance, Value of Statistical Life in India offers a landmark contribution to the economics of risk, labour welfare, and regulatory design. This ground-breaking volume presents one of the most rigorous empirical estimations of the Value of Statistical Life (VSL) in the Indian context, addressing a critical gap in public policy analytics.

Focusing on occupational risks within India's manufacturing sector-particularly in Gujarat- the book systematically examines compensating wage differentials (CWD), insurance mechanisms, and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) frameworks. Through advanced econometric modelling and a global meta-analysis using mixed-effects regression techniques, the authors situate Indian VSL estimates within international standards, aligning domestic policy discourse with practices in developed economies such as the United States.

Transcending descriptive analysis, the book offers a robust analytical foundation for cost-benefit evaluation, regulatory impact assessment, environmental risk governance, and labour protection reforms. By advocating the institutional adoption of VSL as a cornerstone of policy appraisal, it provides a transformative framework for integrating economic valuation into safety and health legislation.

Scholarly, in depth and strategic in relevance, this volume is indispensable for academics, policymakers, multilateral agencies, and regulatory authorities committed to strengthening risk governance and advancing labour welfare in emerging economies.

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 insightful Research Agenda assesses the ways in which agricultural law can be reshaped to promote a more secure and sustainable food system. Contributions tackle recent challenges such as food price crises, the Ukraine War and tariff barriers on food products, as well as more chronic sources of concern for the industry, such as climate change and the effect of diet on health.

Surveying the latest research in agriculture, international experts examine the shifting boundaries of food sovereignty, ways of regulating new technologies (with focus on cultivated meat and gene-editing) and the role of the consumer. These pertinent topics are supplemented by detailed analyses of future sustainability initiatives, extending from instances of food waste mismanagement on farms to solutions for improved water infrastructure. The book ultimately illustrates that, in order to ensure a successful future for agricultural law, it is necessary for legislators to operate across traditional boundaries and embrace the complexity generated by numerous interlocking legal issues.

Scholars and students of agricultural and environmental law will benefit greatly from the foundational ideas and practical solutions supplied throughout this Research Agenda. It also provides informed, actionable insights for policymakers and specialist practitioners seeking to develop their knowledge in this field.

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.

Key Features:

• Adopts a comparative and cross-jurisdictional perspective
• Identifies key principles that can make arbitration cost decisions fairer and more consistent
• Explores issues such as impecuniosity, security for costs, and other factors which can pose barriers to parties accessing arbitration
• Explains how and why procedural costs arise and how they are paid, as well as how they are apportioned between the parties
• Provides a systematic examination of the different types of costs that arise in international commercial arbitration, including legal fees, tribunal costs, institutional fees, and other related expenses.

Costs in International Commercial Arbitration is a valuable resource for arbitration practitioners and legal professionals seeking detailed and actionable insights into costs in international commercial disputes. It will also benefit policymakers and institutions looking to enhance transparency and consistency in arbitration frameworks, alongside students and scholars researching dispute resolution.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. Its principal focus is on describing the Dutch language; technical issues related to linguistic theory are addressed only if new light is shed on the subject.

The work is organized around the four lexical categories verbs (volumes 1-3),nouns (volumes 4-5), adjectives (volume 6), and adpositions (volume 7). It includes a general introduction to the semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties of these categories, their argument structure, their modification possibilities, and issues related to word order. The functional categories (determiners, complementizers, etc.) are discussed in relation to the lexical categories with which they occur. Volume 8 concludes the work by considering a number of issues that extend beyond proper sentence grammar: main-clause external elements, coordination, and ellipsis.

The Syntax of Dutch will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language.

This book utilises extensive documentary research from the archives of the League of Nations and the Joint Distribution Committee to analyse the displacement of the Jewish population in East-Central Europe and how this issue influenced the development of international law and institutions.

By focusing specifically on Jewish refugees from the end of World War I until the rise of Nazism and the Evian Conference in 1938, the book aims for a deeper understanding of the significant changes the international community underwent during the interwar years, as well as the complex relationship between the evolution of international humanitarian law and the notion of national sovereignty amid newly drawn borders. Jewish refugees, caught in a system where modernity manifested as Bolshevism, Zionism, and nationalism, invested considerable energy and creativity, ultimately finding renewed faith in the framework of international law. While this era may feel distant, the issues that emerged during that time remain central to today's debates and are vital for the future of international politics.

This volume is intended for scholars and readers interested in the history of international institutions, particularly in the impact that the refugee and Jewish questions after World War I had on contemporary international politics.

This book is a study of the dynamic, multi-faceted, and even unorthodox things that are happening within Muslim-majority societies. The mission is to bring together in a single volume an array of anthropological observations of individuals, groups, and movements in contemporary Islamic settings, focusing neither primarily on religion nor on nonreligion or secularism but on the range of activities that people engage in under the umbrella of Islam.

This volume includes 14 chapters by anthropologists in a wide array of Muslim-majority countries, from Morocco to Turkey, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, and Indonesia. It features explorations of unorthodox piety (including "algorithmic faith" and ex-Muslim "digital migration"), economics (Islamic currencies and "market Islam" in the form of Guelen movement), gender (online female entrepreneurship, heavy metal women, queer-feminist pilgrimage, as well as transgender and anti-transgender movements), and arts and environments (eco-Islam, modernist Islamic art, and Ottoman objects and authority). The collected essays illustrate clearly that Islam is much more than "Islamism" or, worse, Islamic terrorism and that contemporary Muslims are creative makers of their own forms of modernity, usually respectful of but also actively reimagining the "discursive tradition" that is Islam.

This volume should be of interest to scholars and students of Islam (and other religions), as well as general readers, who want to see beyond the stereotypes of Islam and appreciate today's Muslims as makers of their own, often unorthodox, cultural realities.

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.

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.

Recent years have seen renewed interest in classical political economy. The essays in this collection, presented in honour of Christian Gehrke, explore the central tenets of classical political economy, its comeback in the aftermath of Sraffa's works and the engagement of major economists.

The chapters in the opening section present a gradual elaboration of what became known as the "classical" approach to political economy, with the theory of value and distribution as its core piece. It concerns what Sraffa called the "standpoint" of the classical economist, which revolves around the concept of "social surplus", its distribution mainly as property incomes, and how "physical real costs" together with income distribution governs relative prices in conditions of free competition. The classical authors dealt with include Francois Quesnay, Richard Cantillon, David Hume, Adam Smith and especially David Ricardo. The second section explores the resurgence of classical political economy. Major elements of this comeback were, first, a new interpretation of the role of the labour theory of value, which especially Ricardo had adopted as a makeshift solution in the absence of a coherent theory of value; and, secondly, the demonstration that relative competitive prices and the general rate of profits can be ascertained in terms of the givens in the classical approach to value and distribution. The implication of the findings within a classical framework of the analysis for marginalist theory are drawn. Finally, there are contributions dealing with the works of major economists, who at different times and in various contexts interacted with and intervened in the debates alluded to or tackled entirely novel problems. This applies especially to the problem of cyclical economic development or business cycles, which was particularly addressed by economists such as Otto Bauer, Friedrich August Hayek, and Joseph A. Schumpeter.

The book will be of great interest to readers in political economy, history of economic thought and economic theory.

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.

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.

Universities shape more than what students know. They shape who students can be and become. This book, therefore, examines how educational systems simultaneously shape knowledge production and ways of being.

Drawing from philosophy of education, decolonial thought, social epistemology, and Japanese aesthetics, the book develops the concept of onto-epistemic educational injustice through theoretical analysis of how injustice in educational contexts, particularly higher education, operates at both epistemological and ontological levels. Unlike existing approaches that focus primarily on knowledge-related harms, the book demonstrates that educational experiences fundamentally shape both what students know and who they become. Through examination of language practices, academic conventions, and philosophical traditions such as the Japanese concept of ma (?), chapters consider how approaches to understanding educational injustice might engage more comprehensively with the intersection between knowing and being. Written across multiple registers-argument, narrative, and poetry-the author practises the intellectual plurality it advocates and experiments with what academic writing itself can become.

The book will be of interest to scholars, students, and educators in the fields of philosophy, philosophy of education, critical theory, higher education, and sociology of education. Those working in student support services and academic advisors will also benefit from it.

Now in its second edition, Applied Spatial Statistics and Econometrics offers a modern and accessible introduction to spatial data analysis using R. Emphasising reproducibility, real-world datasets, and practical workflows, this comprehensive guide introduces spatial thinking from a critical analytical perspective, highlighting the importance of location, distance, and neighbourhood effects in shaping social and economic phenomena.

Readers are guided through foundational concepts, including spatial data structures (areal, point, and grid data), visualisation techniques, and spatial econometric models such as spatial lag, spatial error, and spatial Durbin specifications. Updates reflect the substantial evolution of spatial models and R packages, such as the transition to sf and terra, enhancements to spatstat, new tools for spatial sampling and bootstrap, and fully reproducible analyses with complete R code. Topics include geographically weighted regression, spatial point pattern analysis, DEGURBA classification and spatial principal component analysis.

Accompanied by datasets and complete R code on GitHub and RPubs, the book enables readers to replicate analyses and adapt methods to their own research. It is an essential resource for advanced students of econometrics, spatial planning, and regional science, as well as researchers and data scientists seeking to harness the power of spatial analysis for evidence-based insights and policy recommendations.

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.