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Medicine in an Age of Revolution
(2023)
This work is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain emanated from puritanism. It seeks to reaffirm the ...
Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy
(2022)
This Open Access book examines the implications of welfare policy for energy poverty and engages with key conceptual debates at the forefront of energy demand research. Academic work on energy poverty has rarely been brought ...
Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Research and Development
(2023)
This open access book provides the first systematic overview of existing challenges and opportunities for responsible data linkage, and a cutting-edge assessment of which steps need to be taken to ensure that plant data ...
Chapter 16 Cloud Backup and Restore
(2023)
Digital devices are prone to failure. An increasing range of cloud backup solutions aim to ensure that no matter what should happen to a user’s device, their files and data can be quickly re-downloaded and re-installed on ...
Electric-Shock Weapons, Tasers and Policing
(2022)
Building on five years of research, and drawing on criminology, science and technology studies (STS), socio-legal studies and social psychology, this book is the first non-medical book written on electric-shock weapons, ...
Chapter 15 Cloudwork
(2023)
Data centres underpin the architecture of cloud computing and form the operational backbone for digital communications and internet media. Yet, despite the rhetoric of the “on demand”, “real-time” and “instant access” that ...
Chapter 16 The always-not-yet/always-already of voice perception
(2019)
As a first step towards tackling vocal presence as a matter of time, the proposed strategy is to attend to a particularly crucial moment in voice training: listening to one’s own voice while in act of voicing. Even if ...
Critical Ancient World Studies
(2024)
This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise ...
Chapter 5 A Critical Analysis of Women’s Petitions and Gender Reform in Saudi Arabia
(2024)
Arabian Gulf, Persian Gulf, dissent, Gulf women’s petitions, Divorce in Gulf countries, Gulf women’s narratives, Women in Gulf media, Gulf women’s politics, gender reform in Saudi Arabia, Gulf societies
Chapter 9 Palestinian Women in the Gulf: Gender, Sexuality and Alienation in Selma Dabbagh’s Fiction
(2024)
Arabian Gulf, Persian Gulf, Gulf women’s narratives, Women in Gulf media, Gulf women’s politics, Gulf societies, Palestinian Women in the Gulf, Selma Dabbagh