Palgrave Pivot

Disability Media Work

Katie Ellis
- Palgrave pivot
- 8 Décembre 2016
- 9781137528711
This book interrogates trends in training and employment of people with disabilities in the media through an analysis of people with disabilities' self-representation in media employment. Improving disability representations in the media is vital to improving the social position of people with disab...
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Poststructural Policy Analysis

Susan Goodwin; Carol Bacchi
- Palgrave pivot
- 24 Octobre 2016
- 9781137525468
This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government's best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce "problems" as particular sorts of problems, with importan...
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Exploring University Teaching and Learning

Keith Trigwell, Michael Prosser
- Palgrave pivot
- 30 Septembre 2020
- 9783030508302
This book focuses on university teachers' experience of teaching and learning. Following on from the 1999 volume Understanding Learning and Teaching, which focused on student experiences of teaching and learning, this book provides guidance on how teachers' experiences can be understood in ways whic...
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Sexual Harassment, Psychology and Feminism

Lisa Lazard
- Palgrave pivot
- 3 Octobre 2020
- 9783030552558
This book provides a feminist psychological analysis of contemporary resistance to sexual harassment in and around #MeToo. It explores how women's assumed empowerment in postfeminist and neoliberal feminist discourses has shaped understandings of sexual harassment and social responses to it. This ex...
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Political Marketing Alchemy

Andre Turcotte
- Palgrave pivot
- 17 Août 2020
- 9783030537135
Public opinion research has been under a great deal of criticism over the last few years as it failed to accurately predict a series of important outcomes around the world. As a result, polls are now assumed to be inaccurate at best, manipulative at worst. Nevertheless, corporations, the media, inte...
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Educational Leadership, Improvement and Change

Collectif
- Palgrave pivot
- 25 Juillet 2020
- 9783030470203
This book analyses selected critical concepts of policy and practice in educational leadership in five European countries. The editors and contributors cover Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Denmark and Norway, spanning a wide geographical region as well as diverse historical and political contexts. Th...
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Lifelong Learning and Dementia

Jocey Quinn, Claudia Blandon
- Palgrave pivot
- 22 Mars 2020
- 9783030422318
This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia. A growing social issue, dementia has previously been understood as a wasteland for learning: at best, those with dementia are helped to hold on to some pre-existing skills. This book draws on extensive qualitative data with people w...
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Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings

Jade Tsui-Yu Lee
- Palgrave pivot
- 1 Octobre 2020
- 9789811563638
Departing from Jacques Derrida's appropriations of cinders as a trope of war atrocity aftermath, this book examines writings that deal with war trauma memories in Asian-American communities. Seeing war experiences and their associative diasporas and affects as the core and axis, it considers the mul...
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Risk in Banking

Maura La Torre
- Palgrave pivot
- 21 Septembre 2020
- 9783030544980
Addressing a need for innovative solutions to challenges facing organisations today, this book explores the concept of Knowledge Risk Management (KRM), outlining how this new approach can be implemented in the banking sector. The author proposes the first knowledge risk framework that is specific to...
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Religion, Migration and Business

Olivia Sheringham, Maria Villares-Varela
- Palgrave pivot
- 7 Octobre 2020
- 9783030583057
This book critically interrogates the role of religious faith in the experiences and practices of migrant entrepreneurs against the backdrop of neoliberal Britain. Focussing on Pentecostalism, a popular Christian denomination amongst migrant groups in the UK, the authors draw on primary qualitative ...
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Abortion and Ireland

David Ralph
- Palgrave pivot
- 21 Octobre 2020
- 9783030586928
This book asks the crucial question of how it came to pass that on the 25 May 2018, the Irish electorate voted by a landslide in favour of changing its abortion legislation that, for the previous thirty-five years, had been one of the most restrictive regimes in Europe. The author shows how, alongsi...
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Transgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture

Miguel Cesar
- Palgrave pivot
- 27 Août 2020
- 9783030508807
This book focuses on the theme of the transgression of life and death boundaries through its representation in Japanese contemporary visual media, more specifically in the manga Fullmetal Alchemist, the animated film Journey to Agartha, and the computer game Shadow of the Colossus. By addressing how...
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The Phantom Comics and the New Left

Robert Aman
- Palgrave pivot
- 14 Février 2020
- 9783030398002
This book is about the Phantom in Sweden, or, more correctly, about Sweden in the Phantom. Robert Aman uncovers how a peripheral American superhero - created in 1936 by Lee Falk - that has been accused of both racism and sexism has become a national concern in a country that several researchers have...
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Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri

Victoria Brittain
- Palgrave pivot
- 14 Février 2020
- 9783030375225
This book covers Mai Masri's three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of war and occupation. Former Leban...
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Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture

Kathryn E. Lane, Roxie J. James
- Palgrave pivot
- 7 Mars 2020
- 9783030395858
This book delves into humanity's compulsive need to valorize criminals. The criminal hero is a seductive figure, and audiences get a rather scopophilic pleasure in watching people behave badly. This book offers an analysis of the varied and vexing definitions of hero, criminal, and criminal heroes b...
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Virtual Existentialism

Stefano Gualeni, Daniel Vella
- Palgrave pivot
- 28 Avril 2020
- 9783030384784
This book explores what it means to exist in virtual worlds. Chiefly drawing on the philosophical traditions of existentialism, it articulates the idea that - by means of our technical equipment and coordinated practices - human beings disclose contexts or worlds in which they can perceive, feel, ac...
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Digital Communications at Crossroads in Africa

Kehbuma Langmia, Agnes Lucy Lando
- Palgrave pivot
- 27 Avril 2020
- 9783030424046
Digital communication as it is practiced in Africa today is at a crossroad. This edited collection takes that crossroad as its starting point, as it both examines the complicated present and looks to the uncertain future of African communication systems. Contributing authors explore how western digi...
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The Epochal Event

Zoltan Boldizsar Simon
- Palgrave pivot
- 23 Juillet 2020
- 9783030478056
This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers through technologies that entangle the human and the natural worlds, human beings have become agents of a n...
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Greening the Workplace

Pascal Paille
- Palgrave pivot
- 17 Octobre 2020
- 9783030583880
The phrase "greening of the workplace" refers to the range of resources used by an organization to ensure its management and industrial processes are conducive to the adoption of workplace pro-environmental behaviors by its employees, irrespective of their position, the nature of their work or their...
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The Socio-Economic Foundations of Sustainable Business

Richard Pettinger
- Palgrave pivot
- 29 Septembre 2020
- 9783030392741
This book brings together key aspects of contemporary organisations with regard to the socio-economic foundations of sustainable business. We are now in the middle of the Fourth Industrial Revolution; an unprecedented development in technology and society, driven by social, political and economic de...
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Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers

Bridget Griffen-Foley
- Palgrave pivot
- 29 Septembre 2020
- 9783030546373
This lively and accessible book charts how Australian audiences have engaged with radio and television since the 1920s. Ranging across both the commercial and public service broadcasting sectors, it recovers and explores the lived experiences of a wide cross-section of Australian listeners and viewe...
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The Marketing of World War II in the US, 1939-1946

Albert N. Greco
- Palgrave pivot
- 10 Juin 2020
- 9783030395193
From the late 1930s until December 7, 1941, isolationism and an antipathy toward war in Europe were strong political currents in the US. However, once the US entered World War II, the entire apparatus of the US government was mobilized to "market" the war to Americans who were incredulous and horrif...
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Borges and Black Mirror

David Laraway
- Palgrave pivot
- 21 Avril 2020
- 9783030442385
Borges and Black Mirror convenes a dialogue between one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, the philosophical fabulist Jorge Luis Borges, and one of the most important writers and producers of the twenty-first century, Charlie Brooker, whose Black Mirror series has become a mil...
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The Unprecedented American Presidency

Thomas Sanders
- Palgrave pivot
- 21 Avril 2020
- 9783030378806
This Palgrave Pivot presents a comprehensive introduction along with four essays on the institution of the American presidency, reflecting on broad implications for American political culture and practice. Each by an eminent scholar of the presidency, these pieces provide a thorough understanding of...
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