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Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure (2025)
Book Chapter
This chapter reflects on research using MG Leonard’s Beetle Boy to consider how reading for pleasure has the potential to impact upon social and environmental action. Research with children and teachers revealed how reading the book supported them to... Read More about Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure.
Post-apocalyptic computing and technology towards computing from natural colloids and micro-fragments (2025)
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Having established a solid software and hardware protocol to perform microwave impedance spectroscopy of substances in the liquid state, we discuss some numerical and practical aspects of the key figures related to this technique, and highlight the p... Read More about Post-apocalyptic computing and technology towards computing from natural colloids and micro-fragments.
The transformative potential of Ricoeur's narrative self (2025)
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This chapter explores how Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity responds to the problem of identifying a self through change by developing a dynamic concept of the self which is always open to transformation. Ricoeur aims to provide a descript... Read More about The transformative potential of Ricoeur's narrative self.
Women, ageing and wellbeing at work: Exploring vulnerabilities across the life course (2025)
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This chapter explores the vulnerabilities women face in respect of gendered inequalities that are demonstrated to exist in society including the gender health gap, with evidence from the UK showing how women are disproportionately predisposed to cert... Read More about Women, ageing and wellbeing at work: Exploring vulnerabilities across the life course.
Navigating vulnerability and resilience: Pregnant women's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (2025)
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The chapter examines the labelling of pregnant women as vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, examining its implications and the broader concept of vulnerability. While the labelling aimed to protect pregnant women, it also reinforced ge... Read More about Navigating vulnerability and resilience: Pregnant women's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Scrutinizing the archetypical relation between vulnerability, organizing and women (2025)
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Vulnerability has become a focal point of ethical, philosophical, social, and environmental debates, with its usage extending across various fields of inquiry to describe both human and non-humans. Often, "vulnerable" is used to refer to others —whet... Read More about Scrutinizing the archetypical relation between vulnerability, organizing and women.
Introduction (2025)
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The book you are about to read focuses on examining women’s organizational vulnerability both conceptually and empirically, contributing to theory, methods, and cross-disciplinary knowledge. Understanding “vulnerability” is conceptually rich and comp... Read More about Introduction.
Polarity (2025)
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Evaluating cybersecurity frameworks safeguarding the software industry against evolving threats (2025)
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The primary objective of this chapter is to evaluate the cybersecurity framework for software security, which has gained significant importance due to the rise in malicious attacks and other hacker-related threats to computer systems in recent years.... Read More about Evaluating cybersecurity frameworks safeguarding the software industry against evolving threats.
Challenges to national frameworks of minority integration in Western Europe minority accommodation, transnationalism and dual citizenship (2025)
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The accommodation of post-war ethno-cultural and ethno-religious communities has been exclusively framed within the boundaries of nation-states. National frameworks of diversity governance across Western Europe often overlook mobilities and transnati... Read More about Challenges to national frameworks of minority integration in Western Europe minority accommodation, transnationalism and dual citizenship.
‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2025)
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It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was ‘canonized’ as the ‘Good Witch’ of English literature following her death which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This chapter... Read More about ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization.
Employability barriers and challenges for those who sexually offend (2025)
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Sexual offending results in lifelong consequences for both the victims and perpetrators. As such, practitioners seek to reduce the risk of recidivism. One method for reducing risk is to focus on increasing protective factors - defined as social or ps... Read More about Employability barriers and challenges for those who sexually offend.
Understating the epidemiological criminology approach and how it relates to preventing sexual abuse (2025)
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This chapter will discuss the current literature on Epidemiological Criminology (EpiCrim) and why it is important in shaping the way that professionals frame preventing and responding to sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. An EpiCrim approach combi... Read More about Understating the epidemiological criminology approach and how it relates to preventing sexual abuse.
Misfitting Together (2025)
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On limits and limitlessness: Revisiting Gadamer’s reflections on being and language (2025)
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This article explores Hans-Georg Gadamer’s reflections on the finitude and openness of language, with particular attention to the way in which language constitutes both the condition and the limit of understanding. Against views that treat language a... Read More about On limits and limitlessness: Revisiting Gadamer’s reflections on being and language.
The megamachine and its social costs (2025)
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This preface discusses the social costs of capitalism as megamachine. The focus is on linking the book's main thesis on capitalist double-entry book keeping as essence of the megamachine with the heterodox economics theory of social costs. The social... Read More about The megamachine and its social costs.
The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye (2025)
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Vulnerability and exclusion have been explored from a career lens, with concepts such as the glass ceiling (Cotter et al., 2001), glass chains (Arifeen and Gatrell, 2020), glass cliffs (Ryan and Haslam, 2007), sticky floors (Booth et al., 2003), and... Read More about The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye.
"Before we open our mouths, society has labelled us": Double jeopardy and the identity of Black, female trailblazers (2025)
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The notion of vulnerability characterises the separated nature of cultural contexts, uniting women through the pernicious need for coping mechanisms. Confronting the ‘double jeopardy’ of race and gender (Beal, 2008), female minorities are at highest... Read More about "Before we open our mouths, society has labelled us": Double jeopardy and the identity of Black, female trailblazers.