Studying Lacan's Seminar IX presents the combined teachings and exegeses of three eminent Lacanian scholars of one of Lacan's notoriously difficult seminars in a set of detailed commentaries on the lessons of the seminar.

Olga Cox Cameron, Dan Collins, and Don Kunze offer chapters that attempt to navigate the twists and turns of Lacan's logic, offering multiple access points to the mystery of identification, transforming an intimidating seminar into a fertile space for critical thought.

The volume will be an indispensable resource for those seeking to understand the structural patterns of the psyche through a rigorous topological lens and will appeal to scholars and students alike, as well as psychoanalytic therapists and analysts interested in Lacan's teachings.

Why do some people seem to effortlessly succeed in college, graduate school, or as faculty-and why do many others struggle? The answer to this can be found in a phenomenon called the "hidden curriculum," the unwritten set of rules of the game in academia that can determine who finds and climbs the ladders, and who falls through the chutes. Familiarity with the "hidden curriculum" and how to navigate it is part of the academic safety net that increases resilience, persistence to matriculation, and success in academia-and afterward-at all levels. If academia is a game, the "hidden curriculum" is the secret map showing where the pitfalls are and how to avoid them. It shows where the opportunities are and how to leverage them to advance to the next level.


Academic Chutes & Ladders: The Hidden Curriculum that Makes or Breaks Academic Careers is both an action plan and a rallying cry; it exposes the academic chutes and ladders, and outlines the systemic changes needed to best serve all scholars and to support institutional missions in a way that makes academic success-whether defined as matriculation and degree attainment, tenure and promotion, or other career achievement milestones-more accessible for everyone.

Key Features:

• Over 130 entries from leading experts
• Divides lines of inquiry into three themes: philosophy of law, interdisciplinary studies and empirical or experimental research
• Explores key concepts and fundamental ideas underpinning the main schools of thought in legal philosophy and interdisciplinary movements relevant to law
• Presents accessible and authoritative entries on the most significant debates, ranging from work on the concept and the authority of law to established and emerging methods for the study of law and legal institutions

This Concise Encyclopedia is an essential resource for scholars and students of law, legal philosophy and legal theory. Legal analysts and practitioners interested in the development of legal theory will also benefit from its invaluable insights.

Talmud uncovers the 'folk economics' - laymen imaginaries and rituals - which have sustained Bitcoin's value beyond pure markets through recessions, time-warped algorithms and patchy regulations. Chapters analyse Bitcoin's unique temporal orders, where algorithms entwine socioeconomic hopes and future imaginations, Bitcoin's regulatory gaps and the architectural role of the state to map the currency as a financial asset. Exposing the socially crafted nature of money in the digital age, the book argues that Bitcoin has not overthrown banks or states, but has been absorbed into their web of power plays, fresh infrastructures and enduring hierarchies.

Embedded Digital Money is a vital resource for scholars and students of economics and finance, social policy, sociology and political economy. Cryptocurrency policy analysts and stakeholders will also benefit from its detailed assessment of government fintech regulation.

This book analyses the structuring role that gender plays for accessing work, experiencing work, and working conditions in Pakistan.

Considering how these structures have been challenged and changed, the collection provides a fine-grained engagement with the role of gender at work in Pakistan against the backdrop of policy and academic discourses that often invisibilise the work and employment of women and transgender persons while normalising a male breadwinner model and masculine norms in and beyond the workplace. The book engages explicitly with feminist thought from South Asia and informs wider feminist discourses with fresh perspectives from Pakistani thinkers. Chapters straddle the analysis of occupations as diverse as agricultural labour, home-based industrial outwork, and domestic and unpaid care work. In line with transnational feminist thought, this book contextualises gendered labouring practices whilst paying attention to how gendered relations at work are embedded within cross-border dynamics, colonial histories and the global political economy. This wide perspective includes a critical engagement with neoliberal discourses around women's paid employment as empowerment and the celebration of women's entrepreneurship. Taking on board how gender can become a resource for resistance, this book counters and complicates the trope of 'victimised' Southern or Muslim women.

Informed by disciplines including organisation theory, sociology, economics and social psychology, and including contributions from practitioners, government and NGO workers and academics, this book will be of interest to scholars and professionals concerned with challenging binary notions of gender in the workplace, and how this is complicated through the intersections of gender with ethnic, class, caste, religious, generational and other social divisions and hierarchies in the global South.

Key Features:

• Examination of how competition law operates in energy markets shaped by decarbonisation, infrastructure expansion, industrial competitiveness and digitalisation
• Revised analysis of anti-competitive agreements and practices, abuses of dominance and merger control
• Analysis of recent developments in the law and policy of State aid in the energy sector

EU Energy Law Volume II: EU Competition Law and Energy Markets is a valuable resource for practitioners, academics, regulators and policymakers working at the intersection of EU law, competition law and energy law.

Artificial Intelligence Ethics argues that we cannot afford to repeat those failures.

Across nineteen chapters, Georgios Dimitropoulos deploys a rigorous historical-comparative method, drawing on the Industrial Revolution, the nuclear age, civil rights movements, environmental regulation, and the evolution of weapons governance, to expose recurring patterns in which transformative technologies outpace the institutions designed to govern them.

The result is a diagnostic framework: failure patterns that recur across multiple domains where AI operates, and an Ethical Implementation Architecture that translates ethical principles into organisational practice.

This book is a vital resource for scholars and researchers across AI ethics, philosophy of technology, law, public policy, and business analytics, as well as governance practitioners and policy advisors seeking to bridge the gap between ethical principle and institutional implementation.

This book shows how AI must be governed by learning from what we have already survived.

This transformative guide will help parents and caregivers navigate the complexities of raising resilient, emotionally capable children in today's challenging environment. This resource uniquely introduces a strength-based approach that shifts the focus from addressing deficits to uncovering and nurturing the unique strengths within every child. Backed by cutting-edge research, it offers practical strategies to foster positive emotions like gratitude, kindness, and optimism, while empowering children to embrace mistakes, develop intrinsic motivation, and regulate their emotions effectively.

Accessible and engaging, this book provides tools for parents of children across all age groups. It tackles pressing issues such as the impact of technology and social media, the benefits of mindfulness, and the importance of physical activity and nature in promoting emotional well-being. Special attention is given to supporting children with diverse learning and emotional profiles, ensuring that every child can thrive.

Authored by a seasoned psychologist with decades of experience in schools, clinics, and private practice, this resource is a must-read for anyone seeking to strengthen their bond with children while fostering resilience and emotional growth. Whether you're a parent, childcare professional or a teacher, this book provides actionable insights and exercises to help children and families flourish in a rapidly evolving world.

No matter how smart we are, we end up grappling with ideas that resist understanding. In this book, Byzantium is identified as the archetypical civilization that nurtured its innermost doubts. It shows how religious dogma was riddled with inscrutable quandaries, where the highest imaginable entity-God-is considered incomprehensible. Byzantine writers develop a doctrine of divine knowledge as a holy hiatus, and many of the features of Byzantine culture that look odd or irregular to modern eyes are expressions of a religious outlook that venerates a God who cannot be grasped.

From this perspective, Byzantium From the Inside Out solves many puzzles. Why did Byzantine artists paint pictures where spatial recession points the wrong way? Why did they create mosaics and icons with a gold backdrop when it negates space? Why were the faithful so terrified of a worm that chewed their flesh in the grave after death? Why did Byzantine people sigh so much, and why did they speculate about what people did not say rather than what they did say? And why were they constantly reproaching themselves?

Beginning with what is special about Byzantium, the book reveals how incomprehensibility became a dimension of later aesthetics. The study of this inside-out civilization gives non-Byzantinists a new reason to look back to Byzantium, where the aesthetics of incomprehensibility were born. Byzantium From the Inside Out uses philological methods to support its theories, but it does not demand a knowledge of Greek and is written in accessible language.

The book offers a reassessment of Diodorus Siculus' historiographical principles and their application in the Bibliotheke Historike, approached through systematic analysis of the text rather than assumptions about its author as a passive compiler.

Readers will gain a rigorous re-evaluation of how Diodorus conceived, organised and executed his universal history, including its genre, programme, polemical method, use of speeches, structural principles, and moral framework. Rather than relying on presumptions about the author to explain the text, the book analyses the Bibliotheke on its own terms across five thematic chapters before synthesising the findings into a revised portrait of Diodorus as a historian. By uniting philological precision with interpretive moderation, this study aims to bridge a long-standing divide in scholarship between the two sides of the modern debate on the author.

The book is intended for scholars and students of ancient Greek historiography, Hellenistic history, and classical studies, as well as for those working on ancient literature. It will also be of interest to historians who rely on the Bibliotheke Historike as a source of information or are concerned with the broader questions of how universal histories were conceived and written in the ancient world.

This guide will help leaders, executive coaches, and organisation development practitioners to enhance the effectiveness of their reflective practice for themselves and their teams.

Containing easy-to-follow exercises and activities based on theory, practice, and the authors' own experiences, this companion guide to The Wise Leader expands on the Wise Leader model and introduces the Reflective Difference. The first three sections of the book describe the Reflective Difference, three ways in which effective leaders reflect differently to other leaders: Growing With-and-Through Others; Grounded Positivity and Reflective Momentum. The fourth section of the book expands these individual practices for use with teams.

The Reflective Difference is written for anyone seeking to translate the knowledge gained from The Wise Leader into leadership programs or team coaching sessions, or into their everyday practice. It will be of interest to independent practitioners, including team coaches and facilitators, as well as those responsible for leadership development in organisations.

Justice Needs of Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence examines the experiences of Rwandan victim-survivors during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, exploring their justice needs, how the gacaca courts addressed them, and implications for justice responses to sexual violence in other settings.

This book draws on interviews with twenty-three Rwandan victim-survivors to examine their hopes, motivations, and experiences having their cases tried by gacaca. Established to try genocide-related crimes, these courts combined restorative and retributive justice, setting them apart from conventional criminal justice and standard restorative justice practices. The victim-survivors' accounts form the foundation of this book, shaped by fifteen years of research and collaboration with practitioners and scholars, and by the perspective of a psychotherapist who counselled many of the participants. It introduces two key categories of justice needs: process-related and outcome-related. It evaluates how effectively gacaca addressed these justice needs and compares victim-survivor experiences across conflict, post-conflict, and peacetime contexts globally, highlighting commonalities and differences.

Justice Needs of Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence makes a significant contribution across transitional, restorative, and criminal justice contexts, genocide studies, and sexual violence research. It offers practitioners, policymakers, and scholars a framework for understanding and responding to victim-survivor justice needs across diverse settings.

In this new edition of Ancient Greece, Dillon and Garland provide translated sources from the Greek world, from the earliest inscriptions and the first lines of Greek literature to the death of Alexander the Great, covering all the main historical periods and social phenomena of archaic and classical Greece.

The material is taken from a variety of sources: historians, inscriptions, graffiti, law codes, epitaphs, decrees, drama, and poetry. It includes the major literary authors, as well as a wide selection of non-Athenian writers. While focusing on the main cities of ancient Greece - Athens and Sparta - the sourcebook also draws on a wide range of material concerning the Greeks in Egypt, Italy, Sicily, Asia Minor, and the Black Sea. Ancient Greece covers not only the chronological, political history of the ancient Greek world but also explores the full spectrum of Greek life through topics such as sexuality and gender, social class, ethnicity, labour, and religion. This new edition has been updated to include recently discovered inscriptions and documents found since the previous edition, with an updated introduction and bibliography to take account of the last decade of scholarship. The volume also includes new and additional maps, as well as images to highlight the importance of considering non-textual sources.

Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great, fourth edition remains a comprehensive introduction for students to the sources for the ancient Greek world. While primarily aimed at undergraduates, it is also suitable for use in schools, and is accessible for students with no background in historical or classical studies.

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.

Employing examples and stories from Tolkien's series, Moore outlines basic principles of organization theory and illustrates how management concepts can apply to organizations of any kind. Chapters relate Tolkien's notion of stewardship to sustainability management, discuss how to cultivate 'servant leadership' and examine The Lord of the Rings as a study in good diversity management. The book concludes by exploring the lessons and personal philosophies readers can draw for their own careers as managers, employees and businesspeople in a changing world.

Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is an informative resource for scholars and students of business and management, especially those interested in the relationship of management theory to popular culture. It will also benefit managers and practitioners seeking a greater understanding of general organizational theories.

Collective Autoethnography: A Practical Guide for Studying Shared Experience Across Research, Teaching, and Practice introduces a rigorous and accessible qualitative methodology for researchers who want to study shared lived experience collaboratively. The book presents CoAE as a complete six-phase method, guiding readers from forming a research group and generating data together, all the way through analysis, interpretation, and collective writing. The book walks readers through every phase of the CoAE process: building a research container, developing shared interview protocols, conducting and transcribing collaborative interviews, coding independently before synthesizing together, reaching genuine consensus through structured dialogue, and weaving individual voices into a unified narrative. Throughout, readers encounter a sustained worked example drawn from a real 2020 study, alongside practitioner tools, readiness checks, and field-tested templates ready for immediate use. The book gives careful attention to the ethical dimensions unique to collective inquiry, including iterative consent, power dynamics, and the researcher-participant dual role, and extends the method across dissertation research, K-12 school inquiry, healthcare, and community-based settings.

This book is written for qualitative researchers, doctoral students, teacher educators, and practitioners across education, healthcare, social work, and the organizational sciences who are ready to do research that is as relational, rigorous, and generative as the questions they are asking.

Practice-Based Research: Foundations and Frameworks is an essential resource for understanding and applying practice-based research methodologies across disciplines. This concise and accessible guide distills key insights from The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research while incorporating new chapters to address emerging trends and challenges. With contributions from leading experts, it equips readers with the tools to navigate the complexities of practice-based inquiry, fostering impactful research and knowledge creation. This guide bridges theory and practice with a focus on interdisciplinary applications in fields such as art, design, music, performance, health, and technology. Key features include practical frameworks, insights into the practice-based PhD, and models for practitioner knowledge development. Designed to be engaging and comprehensive, it emphasizes collaboration, reflective practice, and innovative methodologies, making it an invaluable tool for researchers and practitioners alike. Ideal for graduate students, supervisors, research leaders, and professionals, this companion offers guidance for navigating the evolving landscape of practice-based research. Whether used as a core text in academic programs or a reference for interdisciplinary inquiry, it supports readers in producing meaningful, rigorous, and impactful work.

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.

In addition to a historical overview of interdependence, chapters analyse the subject's primary components. Authors demonstrate how this phenomenon is distinct from other relationship processes, as well as the involvement of factors including biological sex, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. With a detailed exploration of nuances such as cognitive aspects, affect, and behavioural processes within interdependence theory, the book presents directions for future research into this foundational pillar of contemporary relationship science.

Understanding Interdependence in Close Relationships is an illuminating read for scholars and students in psychology, sociology, communication studies, and family studies. It is also highly relevant for counsellors, clinicians, and other practitioners in psychotherapy contexts who specialise in interpersonal relationships.

Primarily exploring political systems outside the Anglosphere, this book conducts a theoretical and comparative analysis of unwritten constitutional norms, focusing on their role in legislative and executive functions, as well as their recognition by the judiciary.

It provides an in-depth exploration of selected contexts in which unwritten norms operate across a wide range of constitutional systems, illustrated with concrete examples of how unwritten constitutional norms are applied. The interaction between written and unwritten norms emerges throughout the book as a factor shaping not only institutional behaviour but also patterns of constitutional interpretation. Together, the chapters offer insight into the complexity of contemporary constitutions and the informal dynamics that underpin their practical operation.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of constitutional law, legal theory, legal philosophy, and comparative law.

Restitution From A Global Perspective: Memory, Identity and Politics provides a critical, global analysis of the ongoing discussions and debates that promote or hinder restitution. Chapters within the book are authored by a diverse, international group of well-established thinkers in this area and cover a wide range of subjects, including decolonization, democratization, reparation, repatriation, post-colonialism, human rights, migration and globalization.

Taking a truly global approach, the book considers the role of restitution in the production of local and national histories and religious and cultural practices. It will also critically examine the embedded national, regional and geopolitical implications of the debate, arguing that it is no longer only a North-South or African-Europe phenomenon, but an interregional and intercontinental issue. Providing a critical look at the roles of museums and the exhibition of heritage properties, the book also examines the narratives accompanying objects in current use, considering how they influence the discussion on restitution. The various conventions and other international and local instruments that have been put in place will also be under scrutiny, as contributors consider whether they facilitate or hinder the restitution process.

Restitution From A Global Perspective: Memory, Identity and Politics is essential reading for academics and researchers, as well as students, of heritage studies, museology, cultural diplomacy, history and anthropology.

Mobility and Migration in Antiquity investigates human movement in the context of the ancient world from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indian Ocean, addressing small-scale, everyday mobility as well as movement that engenders major socio-political change.

The volume's fundamental concern is to interrogate how historical transformations in Antiquity may be better understood once movement is recognised as a pervasive phenomenon. The chapters span a wide chronological and geographical range, collectively providing openings for a new history of societal change that takes movement as its starting point - in its myriad of forms - from personal to community, from local to long-distance, from temporary to permanent, from voluntary to forced. It is organised in seven sections: borders and boundaries; environmental adaptions; cosmopolitanism; forced mobility and displacement; trade, craft, and labour; journeys and pilgrimages; and sedentism, gender, and immobility. The final part of the volume pivots towards the future of these disciplines in their approach to mobility. Each of these sections is united by an overarching theme and focus while also addressing larger historical questions associated with mobility in the ancient world and explicitly placing approaches from classical literature, history and archaeological sciences side by side.

Mobility and Migration in Antiquity is an invaluable resource for anyone working on mobility and migration in the ancient Mediterranean world, as well as those interested in theories of migration across history, and societal change more broadly.