Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
A Visual Approach for Green Criminology
Exploring the Social Perception of Environmental Harm
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This book brings the visual dimension of environmental crimes and harms into the field of green criminology. It shows how photographic images can provide a means for eliciting narratives from people who live in polluted areas – describing in detail and from their point of view what they know, think...
Football and the FA Women’s Super League
Structure, Governance and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in the UK. This book critically explores women's elite football from a sociological perspective, analysing the growth, governance and impact of the FA Women's Super League from its inception onwards.
by T. Nefes
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This is the first study that examines online anti-Semitism in Turkey. Nefes surveys important historical events concerning Turkish-Jewry and analyses people's online expressions about Adolf Hitler in the most popular forum website in Turkey, Ek?i Sözlük.
Gender Pedagogy
Teaching, Learning and Tracing Gender in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
When addressed in its full reactive potential, gender has a tendency to unfix the reassuring certainties of education and academia. Gender pedagogy unfolds as an account of teaching gender learning that is rooted in Derrida's concept of the 'trace', reflecting the unfixing properties of gender and even shaking up academic knowledge production.
Open-Air Shakespeare
Under Australian Skies
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Many people today first encounter staged Shakespeare in an open-air setting. This book traces the history of open-air Shakespeares in Australia to investigate why the anomaly of adapting 400-year old plays under Australian skies exerts such a strong appeal.
Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones
Shade Shifters
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with the global multi-billion dollar market...
Geography Meets Gendlin
An Exploration of Disciplinary Potential through Artistic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geography’s resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience. It introduces Eugene Gendlin’s philosophical and methodological work to stimulate geographical...
A Century of American Economic Review
Insights on Critical Factors in Journal Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
By using information collected from numerous American Economic Review publications from the last 100 years, Torgler and Piatti examine the top publishing institutions to determine their most renowned AER papers based on citation success.
Domestic Violence Laws in the United States and India
A Systematic Comparison of Backgrounds and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Domestic Violence Laws in the United States and India is a comparative study of the domestic violence laws in India and the United States, seeking to illuminate the critical issues of intimate partner violence through the lenses of these two societies.
by Mark R. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Following Barrington Moore Jr., this book raises doubts about modernization theory’s claim that an advanced economy with extensive social differentiation is incompatible with authoritarian rule. Authoritarian modernism in East Asia (Northeast and Southeast Asia) has been characterized by economically...
Community Reparation for Young Offenders
Perceptions, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Community reparation for young offenders involves unpaid work such as painting and decorating, litter picking and graffiti removal. Whilst remaining a major part of the youth justice landscape, concern has been raised about the poor quality of workplace provision.
In this book, Nicholas Pamment...
Professional Learning, Induction and Critical Reflection
Building Workforce Capacity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
How should a teacher be taught? This book suggests that it is necessary to move away from the highly technicist and one-size-fits-all approaches to teaching in order to instil confidence throughout a teacher's training. Instead a pedagogy of induction should engage the student in their profession from the outset of their studies.
Maxwell, Sutton, and the Birth of Color Photography
A Binocular Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Sutton were closer to true partners than has commonly been assumed, and shows how their experiments illuminate the role of technology, representation, and participation in Maxwell's natural philosophy.
by P. Formica
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Traditionally, company experts and outside collaborators innovate by developing the knowledge map. Success or failure of incremental innovation hinges on this path. The Role of Creative Ignorance suggests the knowledge map should be abandoned and replaced with a new methodology, that of creative ignorance....