Publications
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The Power of the Periphery
(2020)
What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Anker shows how their portrayal of Norway as a pristine ...
Sustainable Development Report 2020
(2021)
The Sustainable Development Report 2020 features the SDG Index and Dashboards, the first and widely used tool to assess country performance on the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. It contains insights ...
Ageing and Health
(2021)
Ageing societies can be healthy and productive- if they get the politics right. This book argues that the population ageing crisis can be solved through policies that reduce inequalities between and within generations. It ...
Trust in Government Agencies in the Time of COVID-19
(2021)
This Element explores variations in trust across various levels of government and government agencies based on a nationally-representative survey conducted in March of 2020. This title is also available as Open Access on ...
The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age
(2022)
Almost all aspects of the historian's research workflow have been transformed by digital technology. The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age equips historians to be self-conscious practitioners by ...
Beyond the Silk Roads
(2021)
Exploring Eurasian connections from the perspective of mobile Afghan traders, Marsden documents how trading communities thrive in geopolitically fraught contexts, analyses the structure of the networks they form, and ...
Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System?
(2022)
This study develops a 'Pathways to De-dollarization' framework and applies it to analyze the institutional and market mechanisms that BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) countries have created at the BRICS, ...
Living for the City
(2021)
A holistic understanding of the diverse history of the cross-border Central African Copperbelt, considered here as a single region, this study integrates neglected aspects of Copperbelt history including women, non-mining ...
Mind, State and Society
(2021)
Mind, State and Society examines reforms in psychiatry and mental health care in Britain during 1960–2010 and their relation to society. A truly multidisciplinary account, it will appeal to psychiatrists, mental health ...
The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law
(2022)
This volume discusses the theory, practice, and interpretation of customary international law, as well as new developments and future research trajectories. Combining discussions of familiar concepts with new ideas, it is ...
Tense-Switching in Classical Greek
(2022)
Provides classicists and linguists in general with a complete account of the 'historical present' in Classical Greek. With its combination of philological and statistical methods and its cross-linguistic scope, it is ...
Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722
(2025)
Bringing illustration studies, the history of reading and transnational book history together, the Element offers an original micro-history of illustrated editions and iconic interpretations of Daniel Defoe's Robinson ...
Aegeomania
(2024)
This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age material culture to create something ...
Radically Legal
(2024)
Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of ordinary citizens discover a forgotten clause that allows them to reclaim their homes from multi-billion corporations. Kusiak argues that to save our cities from ...
Empowering Affected Interests
(2024)
Empowering Affected Interests brings together a group of leading contemporary democratic theorists and philosophers to debate a taken-for-granted principle at the heart of the democratic project but increasingly under ...
Insurgent Cultures
(2024)
Moving beyond the normative frames of terrorism and counter-terrorism, this book shows how world literatures from the Global South can be used to examine the multiple modalities of violence that pervade contemporary world ...
Civil War Settlers
(2022)
Civil War Settlers is the first thorough analysis of Scandinavian Americans, examining citizenship, settler colonialism and whiteness in the Civil War era. Based on thousands of previously unearthed sources in multiple ...
Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region
(2025)
This book will be useful to practitioners, policymakers, graduate students and researchers of environmental law, environmental studies, human rights, sustainable development, social justice and area studies on the Middle ...
Reimagining Prosperity
(2024)
Articulates why the EU is well-placed to articulate and institute a new vision of prosperity that is both credible and appealing, whilst further fostering caring consumption, circular economy, sustainable industry and ...
The Problem of Animal Pain
(2024)
In this Element, atheists cite animal pain as compelling evidence against the existence of the loving God portrayed in the Judeo-Christian Bible. This Element engages the scientific literature in order to evaluate the ...
Embodied Experience in British and French Literature, 1778–1814
(2024)
Combining feminist, materialist, and comparatist approaches, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson reveals evocative and hidden information about objects like diamonds, hats, and statues, demonstrating women's life-preserving ecological, ...
The Water Diaries
(2025)
Provides insights into the regional and local factors influencing water insecurity and its effects on people's daily lives. With practical policy advice, this is a key resource for policy makers and practitioners, as well ...
The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers
(2024)
Since their discovery in 1945, the Nag Hammadi Codices have generated scholarly debate as to their date and function. This study analyses the palaeography and codicology of the manuscripts, focusing on paratextual elements ...
Intellectual Property, COVID-19 and the Next Pandemic
(2024)
This volume critically assesses the role of intellectual property in pandemic times through lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. It broadens our understanding of the implications of intellectual property protection ...
Public Engagement with Science
(2025)
This Element crosses disciplinary boundaries to outline theoretical and practical resources for effectively engaging with the public about science. Useful to academics who would like to conduct or study public engagement ...
Survival of the Greenest
(2024)
Environmental sustainability is no longer a choice but a necessity to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy. This Element shows how nations adjust to -and take advantage of- the new dynamics of structural ...
Rethinking Global History
(2024)
This collection of essays by leading global historians sheds light on the field's conceptual foundations and analytical instruments. Readers are guided to question implicit assumptions, critically assess the extant literature ...
Security in Sustainable Energy Transitions
(2024)
Provides an interdisciplinary analysis of how zero-carbon energy transitions connect to security and defence policy in four European countries between 2006 and 2023. This book is intended for researchers and experts ...
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy
(2025)
Dis- and misinformation propagated across traditional and social media clearly undermines democracy – yet so does repressing political speech in the name of truth. This book brings together legal experts from democracies ...
Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
(2024)
Explains the success of the early Islamic empire as not purely the result of military might but rather as the product of the cohesion achieved through social relationships and local power dynamics, especially between ...
Foundations of General Relativity
(2024)
In this Element, the author offers a comprehensive interpretation of general relativity, describing its potential reality, internal structure, and differences from previous theories. The aim is to shape research agendas ...
International Economic Law in the Era of Datafication
(2024)
This book addresses the challenges of datafication through the lens of international economic law. The target audience includes academics, scholars, graduate students, practitioners and policy-makers in the fields of ...
The IPCC and the Politics of Writing Climate Change
(2024)
Using a new analytical framework, this book examines the history and politics of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and how this shapes its assessment practice and the climate knowledge it produces. It ...
Opinion Pooling
(2025)
This Element survey explores linear, multiplicative, and imprecise probability pooling options. It assesses these based on axiomatic approaches and epistemic and practical goals. It connects opinion pooling to philosophical ...
Herodotus and the Presocratics
(2024)
Explores Herodotus' Histories in dialogue with contemporary philosophical debates. Combining close readings, reader reception, and genre studies, it expands our understanding of Herodotus' context and restores the Histories' ...
Wittgenstein and Aesthetics
(2023)
This Element argues that aesthetics broadly conceived plays a significant role in Wittgenstein's philosophy. It traces a continuous line of thought pertaining to a non-conceptual form of encounter with reality and contributes ...
E-books and ‘Real Books’
(2024)
Laura Dietz explores a paradox of the e-book revolution: mass adoption without full acceptance as 'real books'. Drawing on new data, she investigates how conceptions of e-books as ersatz, digital proxy, and incomplete books ...
Pragmatism and Methodology
(2024)
Designed for social scientists working with big data sets, this book maps out the cycle of research, from epistemology and ethical questions to data collection and analysis. It introduces a unique mixed methods approach ...
Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use
(2023)
Combining insights from two of the most influential approaches in linguistics, Construction Grammar and Relevance Theory, this book furthers our understanding of how meaning comes about. This title is part of the Flip it ...
Nordic Bronze Age Economies
(2024)
Provides a multi-scalar synthesis of Nordic Bronze Age economies (1800/1700–500 BCE), organized around six sections: an introduction to the Nordic Bronze Age, macro-economic perspectives, defining local communities, economic ...