Combining thematic and regional approaches, the book examines the strengths and weaknesses of HSR and presents impact assessments of its benefits and costs. Contributing authors investigate how the characteristics of places, including political systems, the natural environment, population distribution and urbanisation, shape the growth of HSR. They also consider how places can be affected by HSR construction, taking into account geopolitical, environmental and social equity impacts. The book uncovers the reasons behind HSR's spatial distribution and concludes by debating the international issues influencing its expansion.

Scholars and students of transport geography, transport planning, transport economics and spatial planning will find this book an invaluable resource. Policy makers and practitioners within rail- and HSR-oriented organisations will also benefit from the discussions on the social, economic, environmental and political patterns associated with HSR development.

Transitory Urbanism explores how cities are continuously formed and reformed through movement, negotiation, and uncertainty. Rather than viewing transience as an anomaly, it positions instability, mobility, and variation as fundamental to urban life, forces that actively shape cities rather than disrupt them.

The volume explores temporary architectures, mobile infrastructures, and adaptive practices that emerge in response to regeneration, environmental pressures, migration, and precarity. It pays particular attention to small, short-lived interventions, improvised shelters, shifting spatial uses, and informal forms of organisation that can evolve into more enduring transformations.

Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the publication brings together theoretical insights and grounded accounts spanning colonial infrastructures, peripheral regions, refugee settlements, informal housing, and post-disaster contexts. Across these settings, communities adapt, reorganise, and persist despite conditions of inequality and insecurity.

Contributions from architecture, urban studies, anthropology, sociology, politics, and the arts combine conceptual reflection with close attention to places where urban space is actively contested and negotiated. The book further engages themes of inherited systems, diasporic and maritime urbanisms, and everyday strategies for navigating displacement, redevelopment, and environmental change.

Focusing on informal networks, collective organisation, and small-scale practices that sustain urban life, Transitory Urbanism offers a nuanced lens on cities shaped by time, movement, and continual adjustment. It will be of interest to architects, city planners, urban designers, economists, students, and politicians, as well as anyone interested in the current social, cultural, and political issues on a global scale

This important volume focuses on the politics of education reform and the process involved with designing and implementing such reforms in the Gulf region, providing a novel framework for the little-researched K-12 education context in the region.

Chapters demonstrate the involvement, influence and motivation of the ruling establishment in reforming the educational system, and share the experiences of key politicians and policymakers through discussion of the challenges faced in reforming education and perceived outcomes in the region. Using Kuwait as example of teacher policy reform struggle, the chapters then provide a comparative analysis in relation to Qatar and Bahrain to demonstrate regional difference and posit a framework for Arab Gulf states to improve processes and implementation of K-12 educational reforms. Employing political theories to understand education reforms in the Arab Gulf states region from a political perspective, chapters use policy document analysis, international reports, and interviews with policymakers, educators, and faculty to explore solutions and underpin the framework presented.

Contributing much-needed discussion of education reform in the Gulf region from a political perspective, the book will be of use to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education policy and politics, international and comparative education, and educational change and school reform more broadly. Those with specific interest in how educational policy unfolds in regions that lack robust democratic history will also benefit.

Covering core methodological issues, such as the increasing role of reflexivity and evaluation criteria, contributing authors consider how qualitative content analysis applies to different types of data and data sources. They also examine its relationship to other methods and approaches, including grounded theory methodology, thematic analysis and the systematic review. The Handbook concludes by debating recent and potential future developments in qualitative content analysis, especially in the context of generative AI.

Providing guidance on how various types of this method can be implemented, the Handbook of Qualitative Content Analysis is invaluable for scholars and students of sociology, psychology, education and health sciences. Qualitative researchers in these disciplines will benefit from this comprehensive overview of the field.

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) represent a collaboration between the private and public sectors, not only for the purpose of filling gaps related to economic infrastructure but also to improve the quality and diversity of public services. Its strengths have led several governments to launch broad programs for the promotion of PPP in several sectors, particularly in emerging economies. Understanding its main principles, its rationale and characteristics and the current debate on practical implementation complexities is critical for readers interested in public policy and development.

This book presents an analytically grounded treatment of public-private partnerships, with particular emphasis on developing economies. Its main contribution lies in offering a lifecycle-based framework that integrates economic theory, regulatory analysis, institutional design, and empirical evidence to guide both understanding and implementation of PPPs. It presents and examines the current debates around PPP and its strengths and weaknesses compared to other methods of public project implementation. Additionally, it highlights best practices and lessons learned across several areas, such as project planning, design and formulation, risk allocation, financial structuring, awarding processes and ex post assessment, among others. The book concludes by offering an overview of the evolving research trends in the design and implementation of PPPs and their implications, as well as the future research agenda.

This book is particularly useful for researchers, scholars and students of economics, public policy and development specialists as well as practitioners and officials interested in understanding the main concepts, principles and best practices in PPP implementation in emerging economies.

In this volume, Janka Kormos offers a comprehensive historical and theoretical analysis of the life and work of Judith S. Kestenberg, exploring her pioneering contributions to the somatic foundations of psychic development.

The volume traces Kestenberg's journey as a Polish-Jewish emigre in New York's psychoanalytic circles, illuminating her psychodynamic theory of movement and method of movement analysis within postwar American mental health sciences. Kormos presents Kestenberg as a nonconformist, an innovative and eclectic thinker who gravitated towards the unknown and unspoken, highlighting the somatic precursors of psychic development and the kinaesthetic imprints of transgenerational trauma. Through Kestenberg's work, the book explores questions of disciplinary positioning, transdisciplinarity and the evolving relationship between the arts and psychological practice throughout the 20th century. It also contributes to our understanding of postwar American psychological sciences, within which the study of bodily movement became increasingly central.

QR codes throughout the volume offer readers exclusive access to archival material compiled by Kormos. Previously unavailable to the public, these documents reveal intimate details of Kestenberg's life and work and will be invaluable to graduate students and researchers in psychoanalytic studies, body-oriented psychotherapy, dance/movement therapy and the history of psychology. The Life and Work of Judith S. Kestenberg is a vital resource for scholars in the history of psychological sciences, psychoanalysts, arts and dance therapy practitioners, and trainees seeking insight into somatic approaches to trauma and the integration of embodied practices within therapeutic frameworks.

This book presents the concerns, concepts and methodologies of Ecological Discourse Analysis (EDA) based on the shared positions and practices of previous undertakings of discourse analysis. EDA is regarded as an emerging paradigm in discourse studies which undertakes ecologically motivated study of discourses that influences ecological relations.
The authors propose a multifaceted ecosophy that incorporates Chinese ethical and philosophical traditions and ecological principles. The ecosophy of 'Diversity and Harmony, Interaction and Co-existence' describes the features of ecological dynamics, providing a basis for the evaluation of the ecological meaning represented in discourses. This ecosophy contributes to such efforts with its origin in Chinese philosophies, therefore offering new opportunities for East-West dialogues on ecological values.
An ecogrammar built on Systemic Functional Linguistics is provided as the analytical tool and is applied in the analysis of textbooks, news reports and advertisements. The book also examines the provision of EDA for other fields of study, inspiring research possibilities that are beneficial for an ecological future and inspiring interdisciplinary and multi-methodological studies to be integrated with EDA.

Bringing together perspectives from social, developmental and personality psychology and bridging moral psychology with philosophy, this book makes a unique interdisciplinary contribution to the field. Krettenauer proposes that the concept of moral identity is a fundamental category of moral psychology and indispensable for any comprehensive account of human morality. Chapters cover the origins of moral identity research, moral identity development across the lifespan, social-cognitive perspectives, narrative approaches and evidence from cognitive science. Summarising extant theories and research, the book also points towards topics that go beyond its scope, providing a rich source of inspiration for future study.

Understanding Moral Identity is a crucial resource for scholars and students of moral psychology, as well as academics in related disciplines such as philosophy, education and sociology. Krettenauer's directions for prospective study will benefit researchers in the field, while his insights on findings from previous studies will be of interest to any professional specialising in morality.

In a far-reaching analysis, Headey shows that almost all Western governments pay at least lip service to the idea that enhancing well-being is a desirable goal for policy. They issue annual reports that include measures of life satisfaction and well-being, and they have all endorsed some policies and programs, such as working from home, subsidies for community groups and sports clubs, that are plainly intended to increase individual and family well-being. Analysing evidence from economists and psychologists on the causes of life satisfaction and drawing on longitudinal studies, Headey highlights policies and programs for positive intervention in family and social policy, health, mental health, working life and job satisfaction. The book also discusses the political feasibility of an array of national and international approaches, contextualising their impact on positive change and advocating for targeted, effective political strategies.

Public Policy for Well-Being is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the welfare state, social policy, public policy, sociology, political theory and political economy. Social scientists and policy-makers will be interested in its timely suggestions for long-term public policy improvements.

The Essential Guide to Financial Independence blends corporate-level principles with personal finance, distilling decades of market experience into a practical, actionable guide for individuals seeking financial independence-demonstrating how the frameworks used by world's largest firms can be adapted to personal financial planning and work for anyone with disciplined execution.

The book empowers individuals to take control of their financial future through thoughtful planning, smart saving, and disciplined investing. It provides tools to understand income needs, build a sustainable finance portfolio, avoid common investing mistakes, and integrate financial decisions with broader life goals-ultimately helping readers or their clients create a balanced, purposeful life where money supports, rather than dictates, their choices. It enables you to:

* Construct a personalised financial plan tailored to your life goals.

* Determine how much you need to save for a secure retirement.

* Avoid the pitfalls of over-saving and missing out on meaningful life experiences.

* Above all, align your purpose in life with achieving financial independence and what you will do with it.

Independent Financial Advisors will find in-depth analysis, holistic frameworks and case studies that can enhance their professional practice and broaden their toolkit for advising clients. It also bridges the gap between professional finance and personal money management and offers actionable insights grounded in real-world financial practice for individual investors.

Combining standpoints from across medical anthropology, psychology, sociology, political science, history and media studies - including perspectives from low and middle-income countries - leading experts demonstrate how social science can help to make immunisation programmes more effective, ethical and sustainable. Employing illustrative case studies, contributors explore challenges such as vaccine hesitancy, refusal and opposition movements. Chapters further analyse the tailoring of immunisation programmes, engagement with communities, shared decision-making and the ethical dimensions of vaccine mandates. The Research Handbook concludes by considering the emerging discipline of vaccination social science and new technologies which may revolutionise how vaccines are delivered.

The Research Handbook on Immunisation and Society will be invaluable to scholars and students in public health, medicine and the social sciences. Practitioners and policymakers will also benefit from its insights into improving vaccine uptake and the impact of social influence on vaccination-related behaviours.

Acknowledging that there several accepted definition of wisdom, a global array of contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on its societal impact. They embrace the inherent complexity and elusiveness of the concept to address its role in personal development, business, political leadership and individual efforts to make positive contributions to a troubled world. Combining scientific, philosophical and spiritual approaches, entries explore the implications of metaphysics and consciousness, integrating practical and theoretical knowledge to provide a broad and deep overview of wisdom.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Wisdom Research is an essential resource for scholars and students of psychology, business and management, sociology, the humanities and innovation studies. Business leaders as well as ethics policymakers and educators will similarly benefit from its broad analysis and practical recommendations.

Key Features:

• Showcases entries from leading thinkers from around the world, including the Global South
• Analyses the social pre-conditions which foster wisdom to enhance community-led development
• Examines the implications of wisdom for neuroscience, spirituality, religious studies, ethics and philosophy
• Investigates aspects of wisdom that have been under-emphasised in contemporary wisdom research

In Liberatory Research Teams, Labs, and Collectives, Phelps-Ward, Brown, and Bankole provide guidance for research team leaders and members aspiring to facilitate research teams from a liberatory, human-centered, equitable perspective.

Whether leading a lab in chemistry and engineering, research team in the humanities or fine arts, or research collectives and collaboratives in the social sciences (e.g., psychology, social work, education, etc.), the authors provide rich examples, checklists, and resources facilitators and team members can begin using immediately to guide their everyday work. Through discussions on orienting research lab members and onboarding at the beginning of the text, to conversations about envisioned futures for research teams given the forecasted landscape of postsecondary education at the end of the text, this book contributes to the leadership, research methods, faculty, and graduate student development literature.

This text is a guide for those who desire a path to research team facilitation counter to how they may have been socialized in their terminal degree training, whether formally or informally, and aligned with values that center social justice and collective thriving. When the people on research teams thrive, so does the research, and ultimately, the broader impact of those in society.

This textbook explores the environmental impact of business systems, particularly emissions resulting from logistics and intra-company operations. It highlights how transportation activities between suppliers, companies, and end users contribute to emissions, while intra-logistics within companies consume significant energy to move components and subassemblies.

By emphasizing efficient use of material handling equipment and machines, the book:

? Provides actionable strategies to reduce energy consumption and minimize carbon emissions at power generation units.

? Offers practical approaches to achieving sustainable operations in industries.

? Uses Case studies reinforce key concepts, along with chapter summaries, keywords and review questions

? Illustrates concepts clearly using tables and figures

An engaging and practical resource for readers, this book would be ideal for students, researchers, and faculty in supply chain management, operations management, and industrial engineering at both graduate and research levels. It would also serve as a valuable resource for consultants and practitioners, providing insights into models and modeling systems to support better supply chain decisions.

Meet Matt! Matt is the Mathematical and Analytical Thinker as well as the narrator of Anti-Analytics: How Not to and How to Use Data Analytics in Business. Matt explains how managers can successfully apply data analytics to business problems.

Matt shares insight into developing a business analytics mindset that fosters the conditions under which organizations can develop business intelligence, create value, and build sustainable competitive advantage. The book introduces the concept of Anti-Analytics, which are the practices and processes preventing the proper adoption and adaptation of analytics-based approaches. The book explains how to:

• Enhance the sustainability of data analytics projects to achieve higher levels of strategic intelligence
• Determine the best of the mix of managers and technology to create organizational value
• Reduce errors in the analysis and design of data analytics systems

Anti-analytics and the business analytics mind set can also help organizations manage the uncertainty surrounding AI's application and integration into broader organizational and societal systems. Because generative AI models and basic AI solutions are widely accessible, organizations can easily adopt this technology. The real advantage from AI as well as data analytics comes from users with an analytical mindset who can manage and operate organizations in ways that solve increasingly complex problems. This book shows how to develop this analytical mindset that can create business solutions delivering value and competitive advantage now and in the future.

The Greek War of Independence brings together papers from an international conference on the Greek Revolution of 1821, held at Harvard University and the Fletcher School at Tufts University in September 2021. The Greek Revolution marked a pivotal moment in European history: it catalyzed the birth of the modern Greek state, enabled Greeks to reclaim their cultural and national identity after centuries of Ottoman rule, and inspired nationalist movements across the continent.

This volume pursues two primary objectives. First, it situates the Greek Revolution within a broader comparative framework, examining its place among modern revolutionary movements. Second, it illuminates neglected dimensions of the political, historical, and cultural forces that precipitated the Greek uprising against Ottoman rule and shaped its ultimate success. Particular attention is devoted to the formation of the Greek state-a process that represented both the culmination of Greek revolutionary struggle and a reconfiguration of diplomatic, geopolitical, and ideological priorities among the European Great Powers. The volume also explores how this foundational moment in Greek nation-state formation has been received, interpreted, and instrumentalized across diverse political, historical, and ideological contexts from 1821 to the present.

This book is essential reading for scholars and students in modern European history, comparative revolution studies, political science, and Hellenic studies, as well as readers interested in nationalism, state formation, and the enduring legacies of revolutionary movements.

This edited collection offers an exploration and critical reassessment of the sciences in educational research, foregrounding its agential and material qualities rather than treating it as a neutral instrument of knowledge. Addressing the enduring allure of research as expertise and of science as an elixir for enabling the good life, it examines a distinctive form of activism within modernity and challenges the ahistorical assumptions that often frame the practices of the human sciences.

The book comprises original historical and sociological studies by international scholars who examine the infrastructures of ideas, theories, methods, and technologies through which scientific knowledge is produced. Across a wide range of educational contexts, the authors interrogate how science operates performatively, shaping norms, subjectivities, and modes of governance. Part of a two-volume series, Volume One, Infrastructures, Differences and Space of Action in Education explores how science produces new phenomena as comparative logics in kinds of people.

It will appeal to scholars and researchers across interdisciplinary fields including sociology of education, sociology of knowledge, historical sociology, political philosophy, educational policy, comparative and international education, and transnational studies.

Using a child-centred approach, the book explores the wider impacts of poverty on children as it limits opportunities and affects their relationships. Bessell introduces the 'Material-Opportunity-Relational Framework', a rights-based system for understanding, assessing and responding to child poverty. Later chapters analyse the field through an ecological lens, presenting the concept of the socio-ecosphere to shift focus away from individuals to the structures of inequality that fail to support those in need. This book argues that we can end child poverty, but to do so we must transform existing systems.

Illuminating and forward-thinking, Understanding Child Poverty is a vital read for scholars and students of social policy, sociology, childhood and youth studies, and inequality. The book's practical frameworks will also greatly benefit policy-makers, social workers, child poverty activists and other professionals working with children.

Mothering in the Colonies uses a psychoanalytic lens to consider the ubiquitous, but little acknowledged or spoken, relationship between settler colonial children and colonised/indentured/slave-descended women, and the way in which it inaugurated racial identity.

Diana Caine explores this relationship through seven images depicting children and caregivers in different contexts including Brazil, Mexico, India, Australia and South Africa. With reference to Freud and Lacan, Caine considers how this relationship at the heart of coloniality was impelled by socio-political and economic demands that collided with overt and covert interdictions against inter-racial intimacy.

Mothering in the Colonies will be of interest to psychoanalysts and historians of psychoanalysis, and to scholars and students of postcolonial and decolonial studies, race, imperial and colonial history and the history and politics of motherhood. It will also interest a more general readership.

This book offers a holistic view of the complex dynamics of interpreter-facilitated legal interviews, elucidating insights into challenges and opportunities for effective communication in legal settings in today's multilingual world.

The volume sheds light on an underexplored area of research at the intersection of language and the law in its focus on legal interviews, a key dimension of legal communication. Xu adopts an ethnographic approach to data from authentic interviews at several legal aid institutions in Australia, supported by survey data with lawyers and interpreters from across Australia. Drawing on these different data sources, Xu explores the ethical, technological, and communicative challenges in interpreter-mediated legal interviews, from deviations in ethical standards by untrained interpreters to the difficulties of remote interpreting. In so doing, the volume puts in starker relief the importance of professional training, ethical practices, and proactive approaches in facilitating effective communication and access to justice for all clients in multilingual legal settings.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in translation and interpreting studies and language and the law, as well as related areas such as legal studies and immigration studies.

"[The] written style is admirably clear, conversational and free from jargon ... It will be of immense interest to anybody with a general interest in UK law, politics and history." Times Higher Education

This engaging, authoritative text has, since its very first edition, maintained its position as the market-leading introduction to the constitution of the United Kingdom. Adopting a thematic approach, it discusses questions of history, sources and conventions, the role of the Crown, Parliament and the electoral system, government and the executive, the judiciary, and the territorial distribution of power. In addition, it offers analysis of the evolution of the UK's historic non-codified constitution, its strengths and perceived weaknesses, and of reform initiatives. The new edition systematically examines the impact of the recent developments, including how COVID changed how government operated, the revolving door of Prime Ministers, the election of the Labour government, and the accession of King Charles III.

Though introductory in approach, it does not shy away from the complexity of the constitutional landscape in the United Kingdom. It provides a contextual overview of the principles, doctrines and institutions that underpin the elusive constitution, allowing students of law and politics, both from the UK and abroad, to develop an informed view of how it actually works.

This accessible book introduces the fundamental principles of social psychology, providing an overview of this fascinating area in a jargon-free guide. The second edition of Social Psychology: The Basics explores some of the most important questions we face to understanding ourselves as individuals and part of a society.

Discussing the theory and science behind our understanding of how people relate to others, this book explores how we understand ourselves and others, how we relate at an individual and group levels, the key processes underpinning social influence, and how the discipline continues to evolve to face modern challenges. Fully revised in this second edition, the book includes greater focus on the application of social psychology in the real world, and new sections on values, extremism, misinformation, and the impact of new technologies.

Highlighting key issues, controversies, and applications, including case studies, questions, and biographies of important international figures in the discipline, this is the essential introduction for undergraduate students of psychology and anyone approaching social psychology for the first time.

Leading experts examine the core elements of this complex subject, presenting concise summaries of seminal areas of compliance. Entries cover key themes such as certification, polarization, regulation, stakeholder responsibility, encouraging diversity, and risk management. Contributors identify emerging challenges as well as indications for further reading.

The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Compliance Law is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of compliance law, international law, and business law. Legal practitioners seeking introductions to unfamiliar compliance areas will likewise benefit from its comprehensive insights.

Key Features:

• Defines new areas of expertise in a growing sector
• Integrated reading lists to springboard future research
• Postulates the future of compliance law in one concise reference guide
• Over 50 entries from internationally renowned academics and practitioners