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Chapter 5 “Creative Technicians” and “Technical Creatives”
This book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary engagement with the future of paid and unpaid work in the context of the twin challenges of decarbonisation and the growing impacts of an unstable climate. It is innovative in its grounding of such discussions in the everyday realities of workers’…
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Chapter 3 Journalism and the economic crisis
Focusing on an oft-neglected geographical region of study, this book critically analyses the state of journalism in the European South and considers challenges that may indicate a profession under duress. Focusing on three Mediterranean media systems, Greece, Cyprus, and Malta, this book summarizes…
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Chapter 10 The transformative power of art
This study offers a fresh perspective on Ali Smith’s work, analysing her fiction through a truly interdisciplinary lens. José I. Prieto-Arranz explores Smith’s engagement with contemporary issues such as digital violence, disinformation, pornography, nationalism, climate change, discrimination, and…
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26: Financing energy innovation
Achieving net-zero emissions will require both radical and incremental technological advancements, necessitating substantial investment for clean energy innovation. However, many energy technologies are characterized by investment barriers like a high capital intensity or revenue uncertainty, that…
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3: Unveiling visibility: interrogating LGBTQI+ security in Kazakhstan
This chapter examines the intersections of geopolitics, security, and LGBTQI+ rights in Kazakhstan, with a focus on the securitisation of queer identities. As sexuality and gender become tools for delineating symbolic cultural boundaries between the West and the East, their geopolitical…
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Chapter 9 Other artistic encounters
This study offers a fresh perspective on Ali Smith’s work, analysing her fiction through a truly interdisciplinary lens. José I. Prieto-Arranz explores Smith’s engagement with contemporary issues such as digital violence, disinformation, pornography, nationalism, climate change, discrimination, and…
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5: Realisable utopias in a turbulent era: positioning civil society
This chapter pursues the inception of ‘realisable utopias’ in response to disheartening dialectics of grand utopian and dystopian narratives. It deconstructs dominant discourses on ‘migration crises’, situating them within a broader conjuncture of racial capitalism, neo-liberal austerity, and…
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31: From the welfare triangle to the care square: family, state, market and community care for older people
This chapter focuses on welfare sociology, which has analysed the roles of the family, the state, the market and the community as providers of care for older people. This strand of research has been influenced by feminist social policy scholarship and has become a key area of welfare state research…
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1.8: Transit safety across the rural–urban continuum
Transit safety, encompassing both fear of crime and actual risk of victimisation, varies significantly across the rural–urban continuum. Despite increasing global mobility and recognition of transport as a basic right, most mobility policies remain urban-centric, overlooking the specific needs of…
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21: Mainstreaming gender in research: between policy gains and political pushback
This chapter examines the evolution of gender equality policy in European research, situating it within broader global efforts to mainstream gender in science and higher education. It focuses on mainstreaming gender through the institutional change approach and growing policy attention to…
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7: Energy security in the maritime Arctic: pouring old wine into new oceans
Energy security has traditionally been framed in terms of ensuring stable and affordable access to energy sources, such as oil and natural gas, where it is understood that the countries that control the oil spigot control the global economy. As the world shifts towards renewable energy systems…
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4: Ordering labour: a shifting labour regime of a ‘green investment’
This chapter examines the evolving labour regime associated with the establishment of Northvolt's battery factory in Skellefteå, Sweden, with particular attention to its socio-economic impacts on the local community and migrant workers. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the authors explore the…
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Alfonsine Astronomy: Computational Practices
From the late thirteenth century, when Alfonsine astronomy began to take shape under Alfonso X’s patronage in Castille, to the first decades of the sixteenth century, when Alfonsine astronomy had become a common computational tool throughout Europe, astronomers compiled works on tables…
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5.4: Homelessness in transit settings
Many in homelessness seek shelter on transit vehicles, at transit stations, and in transit facilities. Surveys find that homelessness is prevalent on public transport, with especially high concentrations on larger systems and at central nodes. In regions with detailed counts, cold-climate cities…
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11: So test, therefore, who joins forever – deciphering consistency of datafication technology, leadership, and institutional logic configurations for meeting 21st-century challenges
In this chapter, we aim to decipher the datafication technology control “implementation challenge” of leaders from a strong holistic, i.e., configurational theory perspective. In doing so, we use institutional logics as a construction manual to achieve consistency between datafication technology…
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Lived Experience of Disability
This volume is informed by authors with lived experience of disability as well as genuine disability allies who hold a common passion towards making positive and practical differences in the lives of people with disability across Australia and further afield. It provides you with an opportunity to…
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El desafío del cadmio en cacao: Ciencia, biotecnología y soluciones naturales
El T. cacao como materia prima tiene su importancia económica y productiva en el Ecuador, la elaboración de derivados para su exportación deben cumplir con el reglamento de la Unión Europea 2021/1323 donde los límites de cadmio no deben ser superior de 0,80 mg Kg-1, el objetivo de esta…
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Chapter Skill, industrial transformation and work in a climate-changing world
This book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary engagement with the future of paid and unpaid work in the context of the twin challenges of decarbonisation and the growing impacts of an unstable climate. It is innovative in its grounding of such discussions in the everyday realities of workers’…
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15: Cost recovery as a water policy principle
One of the economic instruments that are laid down in Article 9 of the Water Framework Directive is cost recovery for water services. The provision contains, among others, instructions on water-pricing policies and the contributions of different water uses to the costs of water services. It focuses…
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17: Felt accountability of employees
Accountability is an essential element of work, ensuring that employees’ actions are aligned with organizational goals. While it is possible to objectively determine the accountabilities that an employee faces (their accountability systems), it is ultimately how a worker experiences their…
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