This handbook offers a timely and unique authoritative contribution to global debates on gender equality and women's empowerment, in alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goal 5. It presents interdisciplinary research on gender, international relations, and civil society across nine Portuguese-speaking countries, with a particular focus on implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325. Combining conceptual frameworks with case studies, the volume addresses politics, economics, history, peace and security, language, sports, entrepreneurship, and education through an international relations lens. Endorsed by the Association of Portuguese Speaking Universities (AULP), this work stands as a prestigious and globally relevant resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners committed to advancing gender-responsive governance.

This book examines national power in the contemporary international system through an empirically grounded and theoretically integrated framework. Rooted in the trans-structural approach, it builds upon the theory of national-international power and consolidates the World Power Index (WPI) as a comprehensive measure of state capabilities across material, semimaterial, and immaterial dimensions.

The volume applies the WPI to measure, classify, and compare national power across the Global North and Global South, analyzing its implications for the provision of global public goods, health equity, artificial intelligence, ecological asymmetries, and the strategic role of elite sport in revealing national power and generating soft power.

More than a collection of studies, this book establishes the WPI as a reference framework for the study of national power and the international geostructure, offering scholars and policymakers a systematic foundation for interpreting the global power shift.

This book gives readers foundational, step-by-step processes to improve journalistic content and help journalists adapt to today's rapidly-changing media landscape, including evolving technologies. The book establishes a writing progression incorporating narrative flow, thinking about interviewing in a multimedia package, understanding how to incorporate media assets into a story, and evaluating the quality of journalistic work. These practices will connect to the more considerable discussion of defining journalism in the world of media and its more critical connection to society as a whole. Journalists and other media professionals can use this book to practice their skills and critically examine the state of journalism.

Game theory is a very powerful instrumental framework designed to analyze and solve complicated situations, especially decision-making problems under conditions of uncertainty. Major problems and issues in legal practice and jurisprudence are decision-making problems under conditions of uncertainty, therefore, it seems quite natural to use game theory to solve these problems. Moreover, game theory's solutions for these legal problems and issues are very simple, easily applicable, inexpensive and considered to be fair in comparison to other solutions. The objective of this book is to make game theory in the legal context accessible for the reader, especially for legal practitioners, academics and students, using clear, simple and comprehensive theory, explanations and examples from daily legal practice. The applications in law include analysis of the law, existing and ideal, as well as applications in legal practice. Although game theory is classified as a branch of mathematics, the book is written and designed in a way that no mathematical background is required to fully understand the theory itself and its applications.

This edited collection critically assesses and furthers the debates surrounding the meaning of 'justice' in a world grappling with intersecting ecological crises. In response to the growing urgency of the climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, scholars across the globe are rethinking how to conceptualise "justice" in relation to human and more-than-human victimhood, harm, repair, and resistance. Within the framework of green criminology, this reimagining often marks a shift away from human- and crime-centred paradigms. This book explores the wide and expanding array of justice frameworks that have emerged in the field, including restorative justice, environmental justice, climate justice, multi-species justice, reparative justice, spatial justice, ecological justice, transitional justice, water justice, and even invertebrate justice, predominantly focusing on perspectives from New Zealand/Aotearoa and Australia. By addressing critical issues such as restorative justice in the context of environmental harm, the evolving landscape of non-human animal rights, the impact of floods and fires exacerbated by climate change, and pressing concerns surrounding water justice, the book provides both a conceptual foundation and practical insights that resonate universally. It speaks to the urgent need for actionable strategies to address environmental harm, making it invaluable for government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and advocacy groups seeking evidence-based solutions.

This book offers a pioneering, interdisciplinary analysis of gender-based violence in Eastern Europe from the early modern period to the present. Through case studies of various Eastern European countries, the volume examines how empire, war, nationalism, socialism, and post-socialist transformation shaped legal, medical, and state responses to violence against women. It reveals how women's suffering was repeatedly silenced, normalized, or politicized, particularly in times of conflict and authoritarian rule. Challenging Western-centric perspectives, the book positions Eastern Europe as a vital site for understanding the historical roots of contemporary debates on gender, justice, and memory.

This book examines artificial intelligence (AI) and metaverse adoption in education by presenting case studies on what might work and what might not. It shows how AI can personalize learning, translate, and adapt content for diverse learners, and automate routine feedback. Additionally, this book further reveals the challenges and concerns to keep in mind while developing and adopting these technologies. It serves as a practical guide for educators, leaders, and policymakers seeking to use emerging technologies to advance equity, climate literacy, and future-ready skills, and invites readers to co-create trustworthy, human-centered AI and metaverse experiences that expand opportunity, are culturally sensitive, and help learners and teachers everywhere build a sustainable shared future.

? This book addresses the underexplored area of challenges in mental health research in the Indian context by presenting the unique experiences encountered by researchers. This discussion is expected to contribute towards broadening the global perspective on research mental health and illness. Despite being well versed in traditional research methodology topics, researchers often find themselves unprepared for unexpected situations faced in their journey. These include challenges ranging from acquiring ethical approval, developing research designs, and working with vulnerable participants such as those who have lived through loss, trauma, and other mental health challenges. This book offers the experiences and recommendations of researchers who have navigated these challenges successfully, for the benefit of an academic audience. It is expected that these research narratives will contribute towards preparing researchers for the challenges they may encounter in their field work. Overall, this book aims to bridge the gap between textbook information and experiences from fieldwork. We further hope to build awareness and solutions in this area through this attempt. This book also addresses culture specific issues in the research process, ultimately enriching the global discourse on mental health research and practices. This book appeals to a wide readership, including psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, health policymakers, social workers, health economists, anthropologists, and philosophers, fostering a multidisciplinary and comprehensive understanding of mental health research worldwide and inspiring future initiatives.

This book provides an insightful and comprehensive analysis of India's National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. This transformative policy is set to revolutionize the education for young learners in India. The book stands out because of its meticulous examination of the NEP's key aspects, teaching methods, and strategies for practical implementation. This in-depth analysis helps readers to grasp the nuances of the policy and it also helps them to understand its potential impact on the nation's educational system.

This book presents the proceedings of the 2025 5th Asia Education Technology Symposium (AETS). It provides a comprehensive analysis of three critical areas: technological challenges in education, computer-supported collaborative work, and educational software and serious games, with a special emphasis on how artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tools can foster sustainable education systems. It delves into key areas such as blended learning, social media integration, gamified learning experiences, and the practical incorporation of AI-driven tools, providing educators, researchers, and practitioners with actionable insights to harness the power of AI for improved teaching and learning outcomes worldwide. This book also equips readers with a deeper understanding of how AI-driven tools can revolutionize teaching and learning while promoting sustainable education systems. By covering a wide range of topics from e-learning platforms and virtual reality applications to AI-driven educational tools, it empowers educators with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively integrate AI into their teaching practices on a global scale. Furthermore, it offers valuable insights into the potential benefits and challenges of AI adoption, enabling educators to make informed decisions that prioritize ethical considerations, institutional policies, and sustainability principles.

This edited volume explores postdigital orientations to digital games and gaming, focusing on the technopolitical and commercial forces shaping game-based learning. It challenges assumptions about games as inherently critical learning environments and analyzes how design, economics, and pedagogy intersect in educational contexts. Contributors investigate identity formation, literacy practices, and the entanglement of digital and physical learning spaces. By interrogating the role of EdTech and postdigital literacies, the book offers fresh perspectives on how games influence education. This book is of particular use to researchers in education, digital media, literacy studies, and critical EdTech.

This book explores how businesses could benefit from responsible innovative practices and leverage technologies to sustain businesses and guides the next generation future; this book covers different technological and business-related issues including ethical use and cultural sensitivity of data used in businesses, managing data privacy and protection, governance standards for digital transformation, executive leadership strategic decisions, business innovation and sustainability, next generation ethical standards, Technology and AI for Human and Talent Management, Responsible Innovation Practices for Green Economy and Sustainability, Emerging Trends, Policies and Practices in the Concept of Society 5.0, etc. This book is authored by leading experts in the field of business sustainability, ethical digitalization, and responsible innovation; the authors diversity reflects quality of research with high level of impact in the research topic. It is written in accessible language that makes it easy for business leaders, researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in the future of business development to understand the complex concepts and ideas presented in the book. This book provides insight for executive leaders in setting new sustainable practices and strategies towards leveraging responsible innovation with the use of business and technology in different levels of operations to support business sustainability and society 5.0. This book provides different theoretical and practical practices cases studies that could be used as a guideline for policy making and devising innovative directions.

This book provides a historical and contemporary analysis of queer activism in Iceland, and its historical, political, and cultural context. Starting with the Samtoekin 78, the first gay and lesbian organization in Iceland, and progressing through the year 2000, the authors present the gay liberation movement as an assemblage of diverse and interconnected elements-a framework which transcends identity politics and teleological narratives. Ultimately, Queering Iceland shows how queer activism functions as both public pedagogy, focused on education, and as queer heterotopic space. Using the Icelandic context as a case study, this book gives a nuanced analysis of queer activism in Nordic culture that will be of interest in gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, and modern history.

This book formalizes a commons-oriented framework for the formation of cultural value as a way to oppose current neoliberal understandings of the value of culture. In doing so, it analyses the impact of two economic theories on culture: on the one hand, the book assesses how neoliberalism has changed our understanding of culture; on the other, it explains how the concept of the commons provides a way to resist this narrative, and how its emergence in the cultural sphere responds to the need of such an alternative.

This book provides an argument for a more imaginative, radical and fair approach to culture and cultural policy. Indeed, the book represents a first book-length examination of the concept of the commons in relation to cultural policy, especially for the purpose of creating a novel theoretical framework. Such an approach is based on a relational understanding of culture which finds its value as a collective process, rather than an individual product. This framework is not meant to reinforce the idea of culture as a universal panacea for the shortcomings of both the marketing and the state; quite the opposite, it looks to illuminate how culture can be the ideal site for prefigurative politics, to experiment with new political imaginations and to provide hope in neoliberal times. It appeals to practitioners and policymakers, while remaining a work of original and rigorous scholarship.

This volume explores the transformative role of digital cultural heritage in shaping sustainable cultural tourism. It examines how innovations such as 3D reconstructions, immersive media, and memory twins-digital counterparts of monuments and artefacts-enhance visitor engagement and protect fragile sites. By linking physical heritage with digital narratives, the book demonstrates how technology fosters informed, meaningful tourism experiences while addressing challenges like overtourism and environmental stress. Featuring peer-reviewed contributions from the EuroMed2024 workshop under the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage, it bridges theory, policy, and practice. This resource offers scholars, policymakers, and practitioners actionable insights into managing cultural tourism in the digital era, aligning heritage preservation with the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded into the fabric of everyday individual, organizational, and societal life, the issue is not whether leaders should make a binary choice of whether to use it or not, or figuring out what policy to guide its use. The issue we face is the proper alignment between AI and human engagement. This alignment depends on the nature of the problem to be solved. Problems range from simple to complex and evolve over time so there are distinct phases of problems with different problem-solving needs. As problems become more complex, human critical and creative thinking dominate, and when they are simpler, AI dominates. Regardless of the technological advances in artificial intelligence over the next years and decades, there will always be a need for human involvement when faced with complex and human-based problems. This book provides leaders with the knowledge to assign the most effective resource alignment between the level of AI and human engagement to ensure successful outcomes.

This book contains a selection of papers carefully chosen from among those presented at the 6th International Conference on Production Management held in Taiwan in August 2025. The unified theme of the conference was "DX Thinking and Innovation in Production Management," and presentations were based on three areas of research: 1) operations and supply chain management, 2) business strategy and business management, and 3) information technology and its applications. Readers will see how these three fields deal with the creation of innovation that incorporates digital transformation (abbreviated as "DX") thinking in the management of business and production.

This valuable resource is relevant not only for researchers, university professors, and graduate and undergraduate students interested in production and business management in general, but also for businesspeople themselves. With its unified theme, the book provides a trove of facts and applications in both theory and practice.

This book offers the first comprehensive legal-criminological study of terrorism and reintegration in Malaysia, positioning the country within wider Southeast Asian and global debates. Despite its strategic role in regional counter-terrorism and rehabilitation efforts, Malaysia remains understudied compared to Indonesia and the Philippines. Moving beyond ideological or psychological explanations, the book situates terrorism within lived experience.

Drawing on original interviews with ISIS-related returnees from Syria and Afghanistan, former Guantanamo Bay detainees, and individuals prosecuted under Malaysian counter-terrorism laws, it examines how radicalisation, detention, and reintegration unfold in practice. Bridging theory and policy, the analysis explores how law, criminology, and human rights shape both state responses and individual trajectories, and evaluates key counter-terrorism frameworks including SOSMA, POTA, and the Penal Code, against global standards of due process, proportionality, and accountability.

Centred on detainee and returnee experiences, the book explores incarceration, stigma, trauma, and reintegration challenges, foregrounding voices often absent from official narratives, including those from non-Arab-speaking communities. It argues that an overreliance on securitisation and theology perpetuates stigma and undermines long-term prevention, and calls for a more holistic, rights-based reintegration framework.

As marketing scholars, it is important to advocate for a return to the foundational principles of marketing with an approach that emphasizes the relevance and relationship of marketing research with industry while maintaining academic rigor. By doing so, we ensure our research remains impactful and addresses the practical needs of marketers, as well as contributing to the advancement of marketing knowledge. This conference proceedings focuses on re-visiting the foundational principles, history, and core purpose of marketing as a discipline and making marketing more meaningful. Featuring full papers presented at the 2025 Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, this book offers research, theories, methodologies, and case studies that align the foundations of marketing research with pressing societal needs and global challenges to demonstrate marketing research's continued relevance and its societal and social impact. Featuring topics such as human-AI interaction, consumer experience, sensory marketing communications, sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), influencer marketing, AI in advertising, social and multi media, emerging technologies, among others, this book is a useful reference for marketing researchers, scholars, students, and policymakers.

Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses, and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research and insights, complementing the Academy's flagship journals, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review.

Technological and scientific innovation does not simply emerge; it is designed. From organizational systems and data infrastructures to platforms, policies, and everyday tools, design choices shape how power operates, whose knowledge counts, and who benefits from innovation. Technology, Management, and Design for Social Justice brings together global scholars and practitioners to critically examine how design, management, and technological systems reproduce inequality, and how they can be intentionally reimagined to advance equity, dignity, and planetary wellbeing.

Moving beyond views of technology as neutral or inevitable, this volume positions design as a moral and political practice embedded in institutions and governance. Through conceptual frameworks and global case studies spanning algorithmic management, climate-oriented innovation, indigenous digital infrastructures, youth innovation ecosystems, and welfare technologies, the chapters show how justice is designed into (or out of) sociotechnical systems.

Written for scholars, advanced students, and practitioners across management, design studies, science and technology studies, and social justice, this book offers critical tools for rethinking how innovation is shaped, and for whom.

This book explores the dynamic interplay between entrepreneurship and innovation, two pivotal forces driving economic and social development. By examining how entrepreneurial spirit fuels the creation of new businesses and how innovation enables these ventures to thrive in competitive markets, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of their combined impact on progress.

It investigates key concepts such as digital transformation, e-commerce, and the shared economy, providing insights into how these trends expand the possibilities for innovation. With contributions from international experts, the chapters examines sectors including technology, healthcare, and renewable energy, showcasing the transformative power of new ideas. Readers gain a deeper appreciation for how innovative companies not only survive market shifts but also propel technological and social advancements.

This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers, and professionals across disciplines who are interested in fostering an entrepreneurial and innovative culture. It is particularly relevant for those in technology, business, and policy-making fields, providing essential skills in critical thinking, problem-solving, and resilience. Whether you are an academic, a practitioner, or an interested layperson, this book offers the tools to build a more sustainable and competitive future.

Institutional Entrepreneurship in African Fintech explores how technology ventures build legitimacy, navigate institutional voids, and sustain growth in Africa's fast-evolving financial landscape.

Blending scholarly insight with practical application, it introduces the Change Readiness Framework, which highlights three essential entrepreneurial capabilities-Customer Orientation, Collectivism, and Commitment to Impact-and seven corresponding pillars of institutional entrepreneurship. Together, these elements offer a grounded model for understanding how African innovators transform fragmented systems into functional markets.

Drawing on original fieldwork and case studies across the continent, the book bridges academic rigor and practical relevance, offering scholars, entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers a blueprint for studying, building and funding trustworthy, scalable, and socially grounded innovation ecosystems.

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This book offers an in-depth exploration of the rapidly evolving landscape of banking in the era of cryptocurrencies. The authors shed light on the pressing financial security challenges that traditional banks confront as cryptocurrencies continue to gain traction. Furthermore, the book provides a nuanced analysis of the dual-edged nature of cryptocurrencies, exposing both the risks and opportunities they present to banking institutions. On one hand, the book reveals the significant disruptions that cryptocurrencies cause to the traditional financial system, threatening to upend the status quo. On the other hand, it highlights the vast potential benefits that cryptocurrencies can bring to banks, from increased efficiency and reduced costs to new revenue streams and innovative business models.

The book serves as a guide for traditional financial institutions, providing a roadmap for navigating the uncharted waters of the crypto market. It offers practical advice and strategic insights on how banks can adapt to the new norm, mitigate the risks associated with cryptocurrencies, and capitalize on the opportunities they present. For policymakers, the book provides a valuable framework for developing informed and effective regulations that can help traditional financial institutions survive and thrive in a crypto-dominated landscape. The book offers a timely and authoritative analysis of the challenges and opportunities presented by cryptocurrencies, providing a valuable resource for academics, practitioners, and policymakers alike. By understanding the implications of cryptocurrencies on the financial system, policymakers can create mechanisms to mitigate the risks and unlock the potential benefits of this emerging technology.