The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge
Book Chapter
Lawson, S. (2020)
The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge. In M. P. Eve, & J. Gray (Eds.), Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (161-172). Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press). https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11885.001.0001
To complement contemporary discussions on open access, this chapter considers public libraries as one element of the longer history of access to scholarly knowledge. A histori...
Pushing the theoretical boundaries of restorative justice: Non-sovereign justice in radical political and social theories
Book Chapter
Maglione, G. (2018)
Pushing the theoretical boundaries of restorative justice: Non-sovereign justice in radical political and social theories. In T. Gavrielides (Ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Restorative JusticeLondon, UK: Taylor & Francis
This chapter is an exercise in political and ethical imagination. It starts from the premise that the recent centralised institutionalisation of restorative justice has outstr...
Theories of the state
Book Chapter
Maglione, G. (2017)
Theories of the state. In S. Morley, K. Corteen, J. Turner, & P. Taylor (Eds.), A Companion to State Power, Rights and Liberties. Policy Press
The concept of 'State' is one of the most deep-rooted answers that western (originally European) social and political thought has ever offered to the question of how to organi...
LGBT Issues and the Queer Approach
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2011)
LGBT Issues and the Queer Approach. In M. Breuning, & J. T. Ishiyama (Eds.), 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook (856-864). Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412979351.n99
The primary focus of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the contemporary debates surrounding LGBT issues in U.S. politics. It is done by looking at LGBT movements and ...
Private schools and political conflict in Nepal.
Book Chapter
Caddell, M. (2007)
Private schools and political conflict in Nepal. In G. Walford, & P. Srivastava (Eds.), Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries: Asian and African Perspectives
You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production
Book Chapter
Macleod, K. (2015)
You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production. In H. Savigny, E. Thorsen, D. Jackson, & J. Alexander (Eds.), Media, Margins And Popular Culture (28-40). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137512819_3
This chapter draws on the author’s practice-led research in community-based media to explore how participatory production techniques and strategies create opportunities to inc...
Foreign Direct Investment in Zimbabwe and Botswana: the elephant in the room
Book Chapter
Gutu, M., Anastasiadou, C., Omar, M., & Osei, C. (2017)
Foreign Direct Investment in Zimbabwe and Botswana: the elephant in the room. In A. Ahmed (Ed.), Managing Knowledge and Innovation for Business Sustainability in AfricaPalgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41090-6_10
Purpose: In Sub-Saharan Africa, FDI performance is considerably different between Zimbabwe and its neighbouring countries. This chapter examines FDI determinants for Sub-Sahar...
Restorative justice and criminal justice reform: forms, issues and counter-strategies
Book Chapter
Maglione, G. (2021)
Restorative justice and criminal justice reform: forms, issues and counter-strategies. In E. Jeglic, & C. Calkins (Eds.), Handbook of Issues in Criminal Justice Reform in the United States (717-736). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77565-0_36
Restorative justice is a growing field of theory and practice. Once a marginal phenomenon, with very limited traction among criminal justice reformers, today restorative justi...
Dignity in revolution.
Book Chapter
Moran, C. (2014)
Dignity in revolution. In J. Carby-Hall (Ed.), Essays on human rights: a celebration of the life of Dr. Janusz KochanowskiIus et Lex Foundation
‘Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being,’ but the central responsibility in international human rights law is placed on the shoulders of the State to guarantee...
Early Printing along the IJssel: Contextualising Deventer’s Success as a Centre of Incunabula Production
Book Chapter
Cooijmans-Keizer, L. (2023)
Early Printing along the IJssel: Contextualising Deventer’s Success as a Centre of Incunabula Production. In A. Hagan (Ed.), Spotlights on Incunabula (11-30). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004681378_003
During the latter half of the fifteenth century, the city of Deventer occupied a singular position within the northern Low Countries. As a thriving riverside centre of commerc...