Palgrave Macmillan

Argues that rankings and indicators are constitutive elements of global knowledge governanceExplores how higher education and innovation policies have become central aspects in national economic...

Unravels the political economy of music analysing private media, state-funded music festivals, self-production and digital culture as key elements in non-Western cultural contextsConnects the...

Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi is one of the first book-length studies of Malawian hip hop. It studies the language and content of contemporary Malawian hip hop as a window onto the country's...

This book explores the Bible's ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence. Each chapter considers the ways that biblical texts and themes engage with...

Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Christian PerspectivesAuthor: Caroline BlythPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 25, 2018Number of Pages: 225 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This volume explores the multiple intersections between rape culture, gender violence, and religion. Each chapter considers the ways that religious texts, theologies, and traditions engage with...

Rape on the Contemporary StageAuthor: Lisa FitzpatrickPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jan 24, 2018Number of Pages: 281 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 3319708449ISBN-13:...

Rape Trials in England and Wales: Observing Justice and Rethinking Rape MythsAuthor: Olivia SmithPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Apr 06, 2018Number of Pages: 292 pagesBinding: Hardback...

Rationality, Time, and SelfAuthor: PearsonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 22, 2018Number of Pages: 273 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 303010138XISBN-13: 9783030101381

This book explores the role of national theatres, national cultural centres, cultural policy, festivals, and the film industry as creative and cultural performances hubs for exercising soft power and...

In this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman's supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical...

This book examines the evolution, contexts and politics of the structures and institutions that shape contemporary Russia. It analyses the Soviet dissolution, revealing the combination of structural...

This book examines how young people can be re-engaged with schooling and their own learning beyond the school gates. Despite attempts by successive UK governments to promote engagement with...

This book re-evaluates the regional organizations landscape and discusses how organizations with similar mandates can exercise strikingly different goals. Even economic organizations, which do not...

Re-Evaluating Women's Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era tells the stories of significant women's page journalists who contributed to the women's liberation movement and the journalism...

Presents a new method for examining the crime drop, based on ideas from political science and comparative historical social scienceOffers an overview of crime drop literature including the common...

This book explores the application of field theory (patterns of interaction) to Russian economic history, and how social and political fields mediate the influences of institutions, structures,...

Spare Rib remains one of the most iconic symbols of Second Wave Feminism, its influence far out-living the span of its publication (1972-1993). This collection examines various aspects of the...

This book stems from the question that we as co-authors grappled with for the past 3-plus years while in our own periods of stasis during the pandemic: What place does the travel writing genre hold...

Re-Visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for HumanityAuthor: Emefa J. Takyi-AmoakoPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Feb 06, 2018Number of Pages: 257 pagesBinding:...

Where do your instincts come from and how can you improve them? Stretched by heavy workloads and facing ever more complex environments, leaders increasingly find themselves running on automatic and...

This collection of essays offers twelve innovative approaches to contemporary literary criticism. The contributors, women scholars who range from undergraduate students to contingent faculty to...

This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive...

This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and...

This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee, generally regarded as one of the world's most significant living writers. The...

Reading Donald Trump: A Parallax View of the Campaign and Early PresidencyAuthor: Jeremy KowalskiPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 14, 2018Number of Pages: 207 pagesBinding: Hardback...

In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements. Yet this deeply felt...

Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities. Yet beneath their distinct projects...

George Grant (1918-1988) was one of Canada?s foremost public philosophers. Though his thought arose out of reflection on the history of political philosophy, pressing political concerns were never...

This book presents and analyses the results of the Lockdown Library Project survey, using a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches to provide a unique insight into the ways in which the...