Publications
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Permanent Citizens’ Assemblies
(2019)
For a growing number of people, democracy has become synonymous with broken promises and abandoned commitments. Governments everywhere are not listening to their citizens’ concerns on matters of fundamental importance. As ...
Critical Theories of Crisis in Europe
(2016)
What is to be learned from the chaotic downfall of the Weimar Republic and the erosion of European liberal statehood in the interwar period vis-a-vis the ongoing Europeancrisis? This open access book analyses and explains ...
Sociology and Classical Liberalism in Dialogue
(2024)
The motivation for this open access title, Sociology and Classical Liberalism in Dialogue: Freedom is Something We Do Together is based on two observations: first, sociology as a field is populated with scholars on the ...
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies
(2025)
This new open access handbook combines conceptual thinking with empirical illustrations to understand the trajectories of conflict and violence in our world. Peace and Conflict Studies were broadly founded in the Northern ...
The Emergence of China's Smart State
(2023)
China’s emergence as a technology leader has become a major factor in geopolitics, transforming global political and economic relationships. In its bid to achieve digital great power status, China’s government has reformed ...
The Self, and Other Stories
(2023)
This open access book is an autoethnographic reflection on the value in the act of writing, illuminating the life of the researcher—in particular the researcher as human. Shepherd explores the multitudes of the academic, ...
Decolonising Intervention
(2017)
Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? Sabaratnam argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international ...
Moral Hermeneutics and Technology
(2023)
In Moral Hermeneutics and Technology: Making Moral Sense through Human-Technology-World Relations , Olya Kudina explores the role of technology in the way people arrive at their moral intuitions and choices and revise their ...
Contemporary Ecocritical Methods
(2024)
Ecocriticism has grown into one of the most innovative and urgent fields of the humanities, and many useful ecocritical approaches for addressing our environmental crisis have been developed, discussed, and reconsidered ...
Relational Technologies
(2025)
This open access collection gathers thinkers, media practitioners, scholars, and artists to bring attention to how our relational selves, lives, and lifeworlds emerge within a range of digital platforms, media environments, ...