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Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong (2016)
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Travagnin, S. (Ed.). (2016). Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315725611

This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and the media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in the lives of individuals and greater shifts within Chinese society in an increasingly media-saturated... Read More about Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation (2016)
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Iwasaki, N., Sells, P., & Akita, K. (Eds.). (2016). The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646695

Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African langu... Read More about The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation.

Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management (2016)
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Surminski, S., & Tanner, T. (Eds.). (2016). Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40694-7

Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters,... Read More about Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management.

Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System (2016)
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Campbell, J. (2016). Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315444802

Based on ethnographic research over a two year period, this book follows and analyzes asylum appeals in the British courts. While the organization of the book reflects the formal asylum process, a focus on specific legal appeals reveals the 'politica... Read More about Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System.

Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe (2016)
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Bruce-Jones, E. (2016). Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315625867

Race in the Shadow of Law offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism. It draws connections between contemporary legal knowledge practices and colonial systems of thought, arguing that many people of colour experien... Read More about Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe.

Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development (2016)
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Al-Attili, A., Karandinou, A., Daley, B., Abdelsabour, I., Farouk, H., Ahmed, M. H., Ahmed, Z. Y., Salet, T. A., Wolfs, R. J., Bos, F. P., Al Shiekh, B., Al-Badry, S., Cheng, C., Lundberg, S., Berdos, G., Al-Jokhadar, A., Jabi, W., Al-Matarneh, R., Fethi, I., Alacam, S., …Gerber, D. J. (2016). A. Al-Attili, A. Karandinou, & B. Daley (Eds.). Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development. Imperial House Publishers

We build on previous technological developments in CAAD by looking into parametric design exploration and the development of the concept of parametricism. We use the phenomenological backdrop to account for our physical experiences and encounters as... Read More about Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development.

Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers of Costas Lapavitsas (2016)
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Lapavitsas, C. (Ed.). (2016). Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers of Costas Lapavitsas. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004272712

The collected papers of Costas Lapavitsas are a pathway to Marxist monetary theory, a field that continues to attract strong interest. The papers range far and wide, including markets and money, finance and the enterprise, power and money, the financ... Read More about Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers of Costas Lapavitsas.

Study on the law applicable to companies (2016)
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Mucciarelli, F., Gerner-Beuerle, C., Mathias, S., & Edmund-Philipp, S. Study on the law applicable to companies. European Commission

While the case law of the Court of Justice has been supportive of foreign incorporations and cross-border corporate mobility in Europe, many problems still persist in practice. This report analyses these practical problems and the relevant domestic r... Read More about Study on the law applicable to companies.

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work (2016)
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Liu, J. (2016). Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0

This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization, objectification and com... Read More about Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work.

State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond, Islam and Security (2016)
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Long, R. D., Singh, G., Samad, Y., & Talbot, I. (Eds.). State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond, Islam and Security. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315696904

Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the history of Pakistan. The entrenchment of landed interests, operationalized through violence, ethnic identity, and power through successive regimes has created a system of ‘authoritarian cli... Read More about State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond, Islam and Security.

Criminal Reconciliation (xingshi hejie) in Contemporary China: An Empirical and Analytical Enquiry (2016)
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Jiang, J. (2016). Criminal Reconciliation (xingshi hejie) in Contemporary China: An Empirical and Analytical Enquiry. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785363115

Criminal reconciliation, a special procedure stipulated in PRC’s 2013 Criminal Procedure Law, allows the alleged perpetrators and victims of certain crimes to resolve criminal cases through reconciliation or mediation. Based on empirical studies on p... Read More about Criminal Reconciliation (xingshi hejie) in Contemporary China: An Empirical and Analytical Enquiry.

Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran (2016)
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Behrouzan, O. (2016). Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran. Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804799591

Prozak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultural shift in how people interpret and express their feeling states, by adopting the language of psychiatry, and shows how experiences that were on... Read More about Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran.

Economics and Austerity in Europe: Gendered Impacts and Sustainable Alternatives (2016)
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Bargawi, H., Cozzi, G., & Himmelweit, S. (Eds.). (2016). Economics and Austerity in Europe: Gendered Impacts and Sustainable Alternatives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315627762

This book brings together the research of leading feminist economists in the area of gender and austerity economics. By conducting a rigorous gender-impact analysis at national and pan-European levels, not only do the chapters of the book offer thoro... Read More about Economics and Austerity in Europe: Gendered Impacts and Sustainable Alternatives.

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions (2016)
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Rees, H., Kraef, O., Ingram, C., Gorfinkel, L., Maliangkay, R., Wang, Y.-F., Gillan, M., Alaszewska, J., Howard, K., & Arisawa, S. (2016). K. Howard (Ed.). Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596723

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage explores the longstanding and extensive efforts to preserve music in East Asia, documenting and charting parallels and differences in legislation and the operation of systems for preservation and conservation, an... Read More about Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions.

Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016)
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Gould, R. R. (2016). Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300200645.001.0001

Spanning the period between the end of the Russo-Caucasian War and the death of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, this groundbreaking book is the first to compare Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani depictions of anticolonial insurgency. Rebecca... Read More about Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus.