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    Social Control Policies

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.The repertoires of institutional and administrative governance tools used during the pandemic are studied in their unique institutional, socio-geographic, and cultural settings, in ... Read more

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  • Causation and Modern Philosophy

    Edited by Keith Allen, Tom Stoneham ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the History of Philosophy
    This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early modern period, from Descartes to Lady Mary Shepherd. Aimed at researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates, the volume advances the understanding of early modern discussions of causation, and situates these discussions in the wider context of early modern philosophy and ... Read more

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  • Locke and Leibniz on Substance

    Edited by Paul Lodge, Tom Stoneham ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    Locke and Leibniz on Substance gathers together papers by an international group of academic experts, examining the metaphysical concept of substance in the writings of these two towering philosophers of the early modern period. Each of these newly-commissioned essays considers important interpretative issues concerning the role that the notion of substance plays in the work of Locke and Leibniz, ... Read more

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    On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Political journalism is often under fire. Conventional wisdom and much scholarly research suggest that journalists are cynics and political pundits. Political news is void of substance and overly focused on strategy and persons. Citizens do not learn from the news, are politically cynical, and are dissatisfied with the media. This book challenges these assumptions, which are often based on single ... Read more

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  • Care and the City

    Encounters with Urban Studies

    Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, and ... Read more

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    School Culture, Distance Learning and the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book is an insightful meta-narrative about schooling which explores the global natural experiment of the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential impact on school culture.The proposed book discusses how the abrupt and somewhat forced digital transformation of schooling on a global scale (caused by the COVID-19 pandemic) did not change the educational status quo. It states that online teaching and ... Read more

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    Routes to a More Just Future

    Edited by Fay Niker, Aveek Bhattacharya ...
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  • The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women

    Shifting the Needle

    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The international strategy of criminalising the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and use of certain psychoactive substances has failed to achieve a ‘drug free world’. Examining the impact of drug criminalisation and enforcement on a previously overlooked demographic, this edited collection argues that women ... Read more

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    International Insights

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  • Spatial Justice and Cohesion

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