Publications
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Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance
(2024)
A unique history examining the evolution of global environmental governance through the lens of one city. It explores the impact of the seminal 1972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment and the outsized role of ...
Rectifiability
(2022)
This short book gives an overview of rectifiability and its deep connections with surprisingly large parts of mathematics. It avoids long technical arguments in favour of the big picture, with full references given via an ...
A Theory of Linguistic Individuality for Authorship Analysis
(2023)
This Element introduces a Theory of Linguistic Individuality that, starting from basic notions of cognitive linguistics, establishes a formal framework for the mathematical modelling of language processing that is then ...
Making English Official
(2024)
Contributing to the field of language policy, this book offers readers a window into the little-known history and strategies behind the English-only movement in the US. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and ...
Bus Station Hustle
(2025)
Through a detailed ethnography of one of Ghana's busiest long-distance bus stations, this book offers a nuanced perspective on the work and workings of an infrastructural hub of transport and exchange. This title is also ...
Design Creativity
(2024)
Design creativity describes the process by which needs are explored and translated into requirements for change. This Element examines the role of design creativity within the context of healthcare improvement. This title ...
Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation
(2023)
Presents a new history of the rise and development of catechesis in Latin Patristic Christianity that foregrounds core questions of knowledge, faith, and teaching. This book focuses on the critical relationship between ...
Measurement for Improvement
(2025)
Outlines the principles underpinning measurement for healthcare improvement, emphasising the importance of using multiple measures and approaches to gathering data. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Constructing Modern Slavery
(2025)
Modern slavery laws are a response to global capitalism, which undermines the distinction between free and unfree labour and poses intense challenges to state sovereignty. Instead of being a solution, Constructing Modern ...
Innovations in Digital Comics
(2024)
The success of popular webcomics is the greatest revolution in the comics medium of the last two decades. After defining digital comics, webcomics and webtoons, this Element presents a case study of Korean platform WEBTOON, ...
Institutionalising Multispecies Justice
(2025)
The Element explores Multispecies Justice, a theory aiming to address the shortcomings of dominant justice theories in responding to planetary disruptions and extinctions. It envisions institutions that respect and care ...
Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
(2023)
Two centuries of sexism obscured Staël's legacy. John Isbell here restores her reputation as historian, theorist of Romanticism, and Revolutionary, revealing her abolitionist and anti-imperialist commitment. This title is ...
Building Pathways to Peace
(2023)
This Element promotes a radical re-think of SSR in the context of conflict and war. Second generation SSR recognizes local communities and non-state actors in security and justice. It argues that a focus on functional ...
Staging Witchcraft Before the Law
(2024)
Early modern witch-hunting faced skepticism and evidentiary barriers, making it difficult to convict witches. Judges and accusers used performance staging to overcome these barriers. This Element examines two cases to ...
The Social Constitution
(2023)
This book examines the Colombian experiment with robust rights protections and traces how those rights came to be meaningful in citizens' everyday lives, allowing them to claim access to goods like healthcare. It develops ...
Performance and Postsocialism in Postmillennial China
(2025)
This Element examines performance in postmillennial China through the lens of postsocialism. It explores how the ideological ambivalence and cultural paradoxes that characterise the postsocialist condition are embodied and ...
Concept Formation in the Wild
(2024)
Based on cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT), this book provides a new theoretical framework for understanding the collective formation of concepts that can guide the course of development in different activities ...
Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE)
(2024)
This book is for students and researchers of ancient Middle Eastern history who work with cuneiform texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE). These sources contain large numbers of personal names of different linguistic ...
Is the Bangladesh Paradox Sustainable?
(2024)
This book offers a novel approach to the role of institutions in development and applies it to Bangladesh with special attention to historical context and the political economy. It will interest development professionals ...
Public Service Explained
(2024)
The Element explores participation in public service delivery, focusing on Public Service Logic and Public Service Ecosystem. It discusses motives, incentives, and tools for citizen engagement, and the dynamic relationships ...
The power of standards
(2019)
Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to ...
Chapter 10 Healthcare Practice, Epistemic Injustice, and Naturalism
(2018)
Ill persons suffer from a variety of epistemically-inflected harms and wrongs. Many of these are interpretable as specific forms of what we dub pathocentric epistemic injustices, these being ones that target and track ill ...
Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960
(2022)
This book explores how an international health statistics system was built and implemented as statistical practices developed in public health schools (Johns Hopkins University and Peking Union Medical College), intergovernmental ...
Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State
(2023)
By using a transitional justice perspective, this book offers a critical evaluation of the responses of Western States and churches to their historical abuses. It assesses the role of power and emotions in various contexts, ...
Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
(2023)
In this Element, the authors investigate the philosophical and foundational issues that arise in statistical mechanics . They introduce the theoretical approaches in SM, Boltzmannian SM and Gibbsian SM, and discuss how ...
Ecology and Management of the African Buffalo
(2023)
This book combines all the current knowledge about the African buffalo, its ecology and management. It provides an innovative way to look at a species from a conservation and sustainable use perspective that will benefit ...
The Tricontinental Revolution
(2022)
The book provides a major reassessment of the global origins and impact of Tricontinentalism. As Cold War interventions revealed the limits of decolonization, socialist revolutions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America used ...
Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy
(2023)
Explains why the liberalism of a group of elites, the owners of Berlin's grand hotels, gave way to a more aggressive nationalism and conservatism after World War I – a shift which contributed directly to Hitler's rise ...
Anti-Racist Shakespeare
(2023)
This Element argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. It advances teaching Shakespeare through race and anti-racism in order to expose students to the unequal structures of power ...
Legal Personhood
(2023)
This Element presents the notion of legal personhood, which is a foundational concept of Western law. It explores the theoretical and philosophical foundations of legal personhood. It presents three categories of legal ...
Natural Kinds
(2023)
The goal of scientific taxonomy is to come up with classification schemes that conform to nature's own. This Element surveys existing philosophical accounts of natural kinds, defends a naturalist alternative, and applies ...
Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance
(2022)
Offering new empirical, conceptual, and normative perspectives on local migration governance, this volume uses a diverse range of case studies to analyse the recent 'local turn' in migration governance from a socio-legal ...
Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics
(2022)
Explores differences in beliefs of what constitutes reliable scientific evidence during public health emergencies, including COVID-19. It stresses the need to assess evidence on the basis of narratives and values rather ...
The History of Knowledge
(2023)
This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. It is an argumentative contribution that seeks to push the field towards studying ...
Expanding Horizons in the History of Science
(2021)
This book challenges a Western modernist perspective for the history of science. The study of ancient societies and modern indigenous groups enables us to critique many of our own assumptions. The realities to be accounted ...
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 ...
Carpe Diem
(2022)
Carpe diem – 'eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!' – is a prominent motif throughout ancient literature and beyond. This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study reveals its significance in ancient poetry and ...
Hylomorphism
(2023)
This Element introduces Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism, which provides an account of substances in terms of their 'matter' and 'form', adapting and applying it to the interface between physics and biology. This title ...
Plato's Charmides
(2022)
A close text commentary on Plato's Charmides, which has been regarded as difficult and enigmatic. Examines the philosophical and dramatic features of the dialogue in great detail and shows how the philosophical issues, the ...
Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy
(2023)
This is a unique and accessible introduction to an underutilised source, Roman tokens, with a focus on those found in Imperial Italy. It explains how tokens can illuminate all kinds of issues such as identity, entertainment, ...