The Palgrave Handbook on Participatory Action Research with Children seeks to explore the diverse approaches to participatory action research (PAR) with children across disciplines and in various settings and contexts from around the globe. As interest in participatory action research with children grows, there is a need for more literature detailing the processes and approaches across its various stages.

The Handbook offers insights from researchers across six continents coming from diverse academic and professional backgrounds at varying stages of their careers and experiences in conducting PAR with children. It focuses on the importance of children's participation in research while taking into account their rights, diverse lived experiences and contexts, ethical considerations, power dynamics, social inequalities as well as acknowledging limitations and challenges. The chapters explore the possibilities of advancing methodologies and approaches to PAR with children, inclusive practices throughout the PAR process, relational and curricular impact of PAR with children, and the ethics, challenges and opportunities of conducting PAR with children in different settings with the support of or co-led by community-based organizations. This volume seeks to impress upon the reader that PAR with children can be empowering to everyone involved - adults and children - if done ethically, with adequate training and support, and with the active participation and involvement of children as researchers/co-researchers and co-creators of knowledge throughout the process.

Transform yourself from a trusted strategic advisor to a trusted strategic influencer. Become the advisor/influencer leaders rely on for strategic clarity and trusted counsel.

Executives face relentless pressure, ambiguity, and isolation, requiring advisors who deliver actionable counsel. In Influencing Leaders, James E. Lukaszewski and Helio Fred Garcia provide the proven framework for becoming a trusted strategic influencer partner that leaders turn to when facing critical decisions.

The book presents seven essential disciplines: establishing trustworthiness, mastering verbal influence, developing management perspective, thinking strategically, recognizing patterns, structuring constructive advice, and teaching leaders to apply counsel effectively. Practical tools include the Three-Minute Drill, Five Imperatives for Advisors/Influencers, Pattern Recognition techniques, and assessments for developing capabilities.

Readers will also find:

• The five components of trust and ten ways advisors commonly lose it, providing a clear roadmap for building and maintaining credibility with executives
• Frameworks for structuring advice that's clear, actionable, and strategically relevant
• Pattern recognition techniques that enable advisors and influencers to forecast future challenges by identifying recurring organizational and market dynamics
• Methods for developing a management perspective that allows advisors and influencers to see the world through the leader's eyes and understand executive priorities
• Communication strategies for delivering counsel with the clarity, brevity, and impact that time-pressured executives require

Influencing Leaders: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor is perfect for mid-career professionals, external consultants, and anyone aspiring to influence organizational leaders. Influencing Leaders demonstrates that true influence is about mastering the disciplines of foresight, strategic thinking, and trust that make trusted strategic advisors and influencers essential to leaders making their most challenging decisions.

Becoming a trusted strategic advisor and influencer is a personal journey that requires discipline, self-reflection, and a commitment to serving leaders effectively. By mastering the seven disciplines and adopting a strategic mindset, advisors and influencers can achieve the six aspirations common among all trusted strategic advisors and influencers: acceptance, access, impact, inclusion, influence, and respect, all crucial to the leaders they serve.

Ultimately, the strategic influencer brings integrity based on truth and trust to everything they do.

Examines how young adult second-generation Igbo Americans construct their ethnic and transnational identities in a multicultural society.

Drawing on interviews, cultural narratives, and thematic analysis, this book foregrounds the voices of SGI individuals as they navigate intergenerational tensions, cultural expectations, code-switching, gender roles, and identity formation. It explores identity clashes between Nigerian-born (Igbo) parents and their U.S.-raised children, revealing generational divergences and emergent commonalities.

Uchenna Onuzulike develops an Ethnic Communication Theory (ECT) to show how ethnic identity shapes communication styles within diasporic contexts. He unpacks theories of ethnicity, transnationalism, and emotional belonging and discusses the future of the Igbo language and cultural continuity.

This book contributes to anthropological understandings of African diasporic identity, cultural transmission, and the dynamic interplay between tradition and modernity in immigrant communities.

Examining how people understood the role of the dead and the divine in the curse tablets they created, this book provides unparalleled insights into the lives of those often underrepresented in ancient sources. Looking at these small, handwritten inscriptions in Celtic, Coptic, Greek, Latin and Punic allows us to see into the lives and imaginations of the broader population, including women and enslaved peoples, from the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE.

The book primarily focuses on the roles of the restless dead and divine in curse tablets, from actively carrying out a curse (physically or metaphysically), to their use analogically, and their function as intermediaries and witnesses. By placing the focus always on the individual, Charlotte Spence enhances our understanding both of the lives of ancient individuals and their conceptions of the dead.

Modern-day curriculum leaders too often receive shallow trainings that promise to "fix" schools, yet ready-made solutions to the complex social and moral challenges that face schools do not exist. Curriculum Leadership provides those who lead curriculum discussions with a humanistic foundation that embraces the moral aspect of curriculum.
Null focuses on ten virtues essential for good curriculum making: humility, courage, compassion, justice, wisdom, practical wisdom, perseverance, faith, hope, and love. Each chapter begins with a broad discussion of that virtue before turning to two role models who exemplify that virtue. Readers will gain a richer understanding of how these virtues improve our lives individually and collectively. Only through the formation of people who possess these virtues can our institutions weather the storm that is upon us.

The mixed economies of advanced democracies have undergone a substantial transformation since the 1980s, resulting in a large reduction of government intervention. This book is the first to comprehensively analyze this development.

Comparing five policy instruments - corporate taxation, total public expenditure, product market regulation, industrial subsidies, state-ownership of enterprises, and an aggregate index - in 21 countries, the book examines how far the liberalization of mixed economies in established democracies has gone, and what caused it. It finds that globalization and the diffusion of policies were most relevant for the transformation of economic intervention, whilst European integration and socio-economic changes played less important roles. Despite the overall trend toward liberalization, domestic politics in the form of partisan control of the government also remains important.

The book is of interest to scholars and students of comparative and international political economy, comparative public policy, and comparative politics, as well as economists and journalists who want to better understand the politics of economic liberalization over the last four decades.

In Caste War Now and Never scholar S. B. West considers Yucatan's nineteenth-century Caste War, the longest and most violent Indigenous uprising of the Western Hemisphere, to argue that it actually never occurred.

Instead, West writes that the violent events grouped under the "Caste War" label must be understood through alternative frameworks that resist the emergent logics of race war and include related regulatory matrices like gender and land. Through this lens, the Caste War emerges as a discursive construct rooted in an anti-Indigenous archive that served the political interests of a frustrated regional elite during the rise of liberalism and nationhood. West argues that Caste War discourse unfolds as a technology that mobilized and legitimized genocidal actions against racialized rebels and inspired assimilation into hegemonic political and social structures.

In the second half of the book, West looks at the Caste War to engage its contemporary polysemic nature through close readings of Yucatec Maya texts, stories, and other forms of knowledge production. These sources reframe the Caste War as an important part of a framework of resistance that defies colonial time and reclaims narrative control of its events.

Caste War Now and Never captures how Maya communities understand the conflict as ongoing and demonstrates that although the Caste War never occurred as such, it continues to endure presently.

If the heart of oral history is the interview and the heart of the interview is listening, then how can we learn to listen, and how can we teach interviewers to listen with empathy? This book reframes listening from a natural talent to a teachable skill and presents a series of listening exercises the author created to teach students and other interviewers how to become better listeners. The exercises are suitable for people at various levels and can be used by anyone interested in improving their listening skills or teaching those skills in courses or workshops. The book also includes passages from students' listening journals where they write about what they learned about listening from that exercise. In addition to offering insights into listening the journals serve as examples of how people can write their own listening journals. Other books describe ways to improve listening, but this one offers people a series of specific exercises designed to improve their listening skills.

Explores biopolitical currents in world cinema, paying particular attention to postsocialist and postrevolutionary filmmakers from Iran, Russia, China, and Romania.

The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema explores how cinematic form and content understand and represent relationships of power between the state and life itself. Cinema, it argues, is both technical apparatus and aesthetic object and as such is imminently biopolitical, both as a medium of governmental control and as a site of resistance. The book analyzes a range of cinematic movements, paying particular attention to postsocialist and postrevolutionary filmmakers from Iran (Asghar Farhadi), Russia (Sergei Loznitsa), China (Xiaoshuai Wang), and Romania (Radu Jude). The book concludes by looking toward filmmakers-from Jordan Peele to Albert Serra-who further illuminate the limits of biopolitical paradigms, offering new ways of understanding contemporary political and ethical challenges posed by neoliberal globalization. While this book will appeal to film studies specialists, it is also a comprehensive introduction to film theory and biopolitical thought that will appeal to nonacademic and student readers with an interest in the subjects.

This book examines terrorist manifestos as integral components of political violence. Rather than treating these texts as propaganda or operational signalling, it approaches them as structured acts of meaning-making where personal grievance, ideological conviction, and societal rupture converge.

Through a series of case studies, including Anders Behring Breivik, Dylann Roof, Brenton Tarrant, John Earnest, Patrick Crusius, and Juraj Krajcik, the book traces how manifestos articulate, justify, and ultimately enable acts of violence. It shows that these texts do not merely explain violence after the fact, but participate in its construction.

Moving beyond dismissal or condemnation, the analysis situates manifestos within broader cultural and political dynamics, revealing how they draw on existing narratives while reshaping them into calls for action. In doing so, the book challenges prevailing approaches that treat such writings solely as threat indicators or extremist artefacts, and instead argues for their careful and critical reading as part of understanding contemporary political violence.

Written in a clear and analytically grounded style, this monograph offers a distinctive framework for examining the relationship between language, ideology, and violence. It will be of interest to scholars of terrorism, political violence, and security studies, as well as readers concerned with the role of ideas in shaping acts of destruction.

• Das Werk eignet sich nicht nur zur Vorbereitung auf die Fachanwaltspruefung, sondern ebenso als Arbeitshilfe fuer den Inhouse-Counsel und Unternehmensjuristen, der sich mit ueberschaubarem Zeitaufwand ueber die aktuellen "Brennpunkte" der digitalen Transformation in der Industrie informieren will und einen kompakten Werkzeugkasten mit Praxisbeispielen und Formulierungshilfen benoetigt.

• schnelle Vermittlung der Grundzuege des IT-Rechts bei gleichzeitig vertiefter Darstellung wichtiger Detailfragen
• praxisgerechte Darstellung aktueller Entwicklungen und ihrer wirtschaftlichen und rechtlichen Bedeutung
• leicht verstaendliche Aufbereitung technischer Hintergruende - kein technisches Sonderwissen notwendig
• Praktikertipps, Beispiele und Formulierungsvorschlaege zu allen Teilbereichen des IT-Rechts
• Hintergrundinformationen
• Beruecksichtigung bevorstehender Gesetzesnovellen
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• Die Neuauflage wurde grundlegend ueberarbeitet und erweitert.

This book provides a comprehensive historical and institutional foundation for understanding the shifting power dynamics within the contemporary Indo-Pacific and East Asia. It examines the region's complex security architecture, focusing on the U.S.-led alliance system, ASEAN-centric multilateralism as well as China-led multilateralism, and emerging minilateral networks to explain how regional stability is maintained. The narrative moves beyond a simple overview, tracing the evolution of these institutional frameworks over decades. The chapters explore how the interplay between traditional bilateral alliances and modern diplomatic forums has created a unique security order. Rather than focusing on just one aspect, the text highlights how these different mechanisms adapt to rising tensions and strategic competition. By analyzing the historical roots of these relationships, the volume provides the essential context needed to understand the deeper rivalries shaping the region today. As the first part of a two-volume study, this research establishes the analytical groundwork for understanding regional order. It serves as an indispensable guide for anyone looking to grasp the foundations of great-power competition before exploring the specific Sino-Japanese visions for the future addressed in Volume II.

This book is the first of its kind to discover the first Korean immigrant in Australia and systematically analyse causes of Korean youth migration to Australia since the late 19th century. It offers a comprehensive history of 150 years' people-to-people relations,long before the establishment of official bilateral relations between Australia and South Korea in 1961. It does so by categorically analysing politico-economic factors of youth migration from the seven pillars of human security perspective. Each chapter begins with an individual story of youth migration to Australia from 1876 until today. They include a shearer and miner in Gol Gol, an international student in Melbourne, a former mascot boy for Australian soldiers, and holiday makers in Warrnambool. The volume provides stimulating content for researchers in youth labour migration history, Asian/Australian Studies and people-centric international relations.

In recent years numerous authors have claimed that underneath everything political there lies something religious - an underground religious substance, as it were. These religious elements, it is said, are the essence of political phenomena and the driving force of their history. Even in our modern 'secularized' politics, the heart of the matter, it is alleged, is religious, just as it was in the past. This fashion for the theological-political can be observed in the most varied trends in contemporary philosophy, from the work of Giorgio Agamben and Charles Taylor to that of Richard Rorty and Juergen Habermas.

In Geraldine Muhlmann's view, this 'theological-political' idea is a sham. It sheds no light on the factors that underlie key political developments, such as the crisis of liberal democracies and the rise of authoritarianism. It has nothing to say about the concrete ways in which religious points of reference, when they do exist, are used to wage war or to make politics. It contributes nothing to reflection on political matters and it leads us astray by failing to attend to their specific, complex and intertwined logics.

So what accounts for the rise of theological-political thought? Muhlmann argues that its popularity has less to do with a genuine attempt to understand politics and more to do with a desire by philosophers to demonstrate their ability to grasp the substantial basis of politics and the true direction of political history. In other words, the triumph of the theological-political is a philosophical hubris - and a dangerous one at that.

This ambitious inquiry into the rise of a troubling philosophical zeitgeist will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy, political theory and religious studies and to anyone interested in the ideas that are shaping our world today.

Framing the global "Whistleblowers' Revolution" as a vital response to democratic malaise, this volume examines the socio-legal dynamics surrounding the exposure of illegal or unethical practices in both the public and private sectors. The analysis covers innovative legal frameworks and protective regimes across multiple jurisdictions while also closing the divide between theory and practice. The volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars and practitioners alongside firsthand accounts from whistleblowers, resulting in a holistic approach that evaluates existing and prospective measures aimed at empowering truth-tellers and confronting entrenched cultures of silence.

The volume is structured to connect theory with lived experience. It moves from a transnational socio-legal analysis of global conditions (Part 1) to critical jurisdiction-based assessments across multiple countries (Part 2). The work then culminates in a series of firsthand narratives (Part 3), offered by insiders whose accounts reveal the significance, personal costs, and institutional consequences tied to speaking truth to power.

• kompakte und leicht verstaendliche Orientierung zu den Rechtsaenderungen
• Gesamtueberblick ueber die Reform und detaillierte Darstellung der einzelnen Rechtsakte
• tabellarische Darstellungen zu fuer die Praxis bedeutsamen Fristen und Zustaendigkeiten