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Knowledge and Space eBook Series

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  • Placing the Future

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Matthias Garschagen, Robert Panitz ...
    Series Book 20 - Knowledge and Space
    This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the uncertainties of the future that humanity faces. Leading scholars from the fields of future studies, planning, geography, history, sociology, design, and the humanities sensitize for the intricate role of geography in building knowledge to anticipate probable, to imagine alternative, and to enact desirable futures. Part I, knowing the future, ... Read more

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  • Knowledge and Institutions

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby, Regina Lenz ...
    Series Book 13 - Knowledge and Space
    This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, ... Read more

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  • Routledge International Handbook of Failure

    Edited by Adriana Mica, Mikołaj Pawlak, Anna Horolets, Paweł Kubicki ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This Handbook examines the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and the modalities of dealing with it – both in theory and in practice. It draws together a comprehensive approach to failing, and invisible forms of cancelling out and denial of future perspectives.Underlining critical mechanisms for challenging and reimagining norms of success in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Faces of Precarity

    Critical Perspectives on Work, Subjectivities and Struggles

    by Jean-Claude Barbier, Emiliana Armano, Cristina Morini, André Barata, Klaus Dörre, Charles Umney, Valeria Pulignano, Glenn Morgan, Agnieszka Piasna, Patrick Cingolani, Mireia Bolíbar Planas, Francesc X. Belvis, Mariana Gutiérrez-Zamora, Charlotta Hedberg, Barbora Holubová, Marta Kahancová, Alice Mattoni, Jane Hardy ...
    The words ‘precarity’ and ‘precariousness’ are widely used when discussing work, social conditions and experiences. However, there is no consensus on their meaning or how best to use them to explore social changes.This book shows how scholars have mapped out these notions, offering substantive analyses of issues such as the relationships between precariousness, debt, migration, health and workers’ ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Cogs and Monsters

    What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

    by Diane Coyle ...
    How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today and examines what ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Another Economy is Possible

    Culture and Economy in a Time of Crisis

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability of unfettered capitalism as a fact of life. A number of economic practices and organizations emerged in Europe and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Humanistic Management

    Protecting Dignity and Promoting Well-Being

    by Michael Pirson ...
    In a world facing multiple crises, our foundational institutions are failing to offer effective solutions. Drawing on the emerging consilience of knowledge, Michael Pirson debunks the fundamental yet outdated assumptions of human nature that guide twentieth-century management theory and practice - as captured in the 'economistic' paradigm - and instead provides an urgently needed conceptual and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics

    Nature and Society

    Edited by Clive L. Spash ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Since becoming formally established with an international academic society in the late 1980s, ecological economics has advanced understanding of the interactions between social and biophysical reality. It initially combined questioning of the basis of mainstream economics with a concern for environmental degradation and limits to growth, but has now advanced well beyond critique into theoretical, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Knowledge for Governance

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Gary Herrigel, Michael Handke ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how governance affects the creation and use of knowledge and innovation in geographical context. Scholars from the fields of ... Read more

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  • Uncertainty and Enterprise

    Venturing Beyond the Known

    by Amar Bhidé ...
    Uncertainty--doubt about what is or could be--fuels our ambitions and fears. Tantalizing possibilities spur us to innovate and explore. Yet, we also strive to reduce uncertainty. Mountain climbers and deep-sea divers plan carefully. Rules, routines, and research in business, the law, and medicine are designed to increase predictability and forestall unpleasant surprises. Mainstream economics, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD