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Perspectives in Contemporary Public Policy

Emerging Ideas on Environment, Technology and Urbanisation

Edited by Bidisha Banerji ...

This book is a comprehensive exploration of crucial issues at the nexus of policy, environment, technology, and urban development.It delves into various aspects of technological as well as environmental changes and urban decline on human society, addressing pressing global issues such as climate change, sustainability, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and spatial infrastructure. The topics ... Read more

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This book is a comprehensive exploration of crucial issues at the nexus of policy, environment, technology, and urban development.It delves into various aspects of technological as well as environmental changes and urban decline on human society, addressing pressing global issues such as climate change, sustainability, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and spatial infrastructure. The topics
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Edgeways

by Bidisha, Tania Hershman, Clare Sita Fisher ...

A collection of the best short stories from the Spread the Word Prize 2013.Inspired by the theme of 'ritual', Edgeways contains new fiction from Bidisha, Toby Litt, Tania Hershman, Clare Sita Fisher, K J Orr, Saradha Soobrayen, Nick Black and Deirdre Shanahan.The collection is edited by Courttia Newland.The stories collected in Edgeways are wide in their scope, told in a range of distinct and ... Read more

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A collection of the best short stories from the Spread the Word Prize 2013.Inspired by the theme of 'ritual', Edgeways contains new fiction from Bidisha, Toby Litt, Tania Hershman, Clare Sita Fisher, K J Orr, Saradha Soobrayen, Nick Black and Deirdre Shanahan.The collection is edited by Courttia Newland.The stories collected in Edgeways are wide in their scope, told in a range of distinct and
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Refugee Tales

Volume IV

by Bidisha, Christy Lefteri, Robert Macfarlane, Dina Nayeri, Philippe Sands, Simon Smith, Amy Sackville, Rachel Seiffert, Kyon Ferril, Khodadad Mohammadi, Shami Chakrabarti, Natalia Sierra, Maurizio Veglio ...

Series Book 4 - Refugee Tales
Seventy years after the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UK is guilty of undermining the very principles of asylum, inhumanely detaining those seeking protection and ushering in sweeping changes that threaten to punish refugees at every turn.But the UK’s immigration system is not alone in committing such breaches of human rights. The fourth volume of Refugee Tales explores our present ... Read more

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Seventy years after the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UK is guilty of undermining the very principles of asylum, inhumanely detaining those seeking protection and ushering in sweeping changes that threaten to punish refugees at every turn.But the UK’s immigration system is not alone in committing such breaches of human rights. The fourth volume of Refugee Tales explores our present
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Thanatic Ethics

The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces

Edited by Bidisha Banerjee, Judith Misrahi-Barak, Thomas Lacroix ...

This book emerges from "Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces", an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary project uniting social scientists, postcolonial scholars, and artists worldwide to raise critical issues related to the death of migrants. It urgently calls for migration studies to confront the consequences of Western governments' restrictive and necropolitical ... Read more

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This book emerges from "Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces", an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary project uniting social scientists, postcolonial scholars, and artists worldwide to raise critical issues related to the death of migrants. It urgently calls for migration studies to confront the consequences of Western governments' restrictive and necropolitical
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Resist

Stories of Uprising

by Kamila Shamsie, Eley Williams, Bidisha, Lucy Caldwell, Nikita Lalwani, Luan Goldie, Uschi Gatward, Julia Bell, SJ Bradley, Gaia Holmes, Irfan Master, Jude Brown, Steve Chambers, Martin Edwards, Zoe Lambert, Anna Lewis, Donny O'Rourke, Kim Squirrell, Lucas Stewart ...

Series series History-into-Fiction
At a time that feels unprecedented in British politics – with unlawful prorogations of parliament, casual race-baiting by senior politicians, and a climate crisis that continues to be ignored – it’s easy to think these are unchartered waters for us, as a democracy.But Britain has seen political crises and far-right extremism before, just as it has witnessed regressive, heavy-handed governments. ... Read more

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At a time that feels unprecedented in British politics – with unlawful prorogations of parliament, casual race-baiting by senior politicians, and a climate crisis that continues to be ignored – it’s easy to think these are unchartered waters for us, as a democracy.But Britain has seen political crises and far-right extremism before, just as it has witnessed regressive, heavy-handed governments.
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Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility

Proceedings of the 10th TRA Conference, 2024, Dublin, Ireland - Volume 6: Connected Mobility Ecosystems

Edited by Ciaran McNally, Páraic Carroll, Beatriz Martinez-Pastor, Bidisha Ghosh, Marina Efthymiou, Nikolaos Valantasis-Kanellos ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy issues that are currently reshaping the transport and mobility system in different parts of Europe. Bridging between academic research ... Read more

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This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy issues that are currently reshaping the transport and mobility system in different parts of Europe. Bridging between academic research
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Business Strategies and Public Policies in India and Europe

Ideas for a Sustainable, Inclusive and Resilient Society

Edited by Bidisha Banerji, Sheetal Sharma ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
The book discusses public policy, business strategies, building diverse and inclusive societies, securing climate justice, and building business resilience for the future, analyzing India and Europe simultaneously with the help of comparative design along with dedicated chapters on single country or region from the two entities. Situated in the contemporary times, the book dives into some of the ... Read more

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The book discusses public policy, business strategies, building diverse and inclusive societies, securing climate justice, and building business resilience for the future, analyzing India and Europe simultaneously with the help of comparative design along with dedicated chapters on single country or region from the two entities. Situated in the contemporary times, the book dives into some of the
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Mental Health Research in India

Challenges and Practical Considerations

Edited by Bidisha Banerjee, Amrita Deb ...

Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
·This book addresses the underexplored area of challenges in mental health research in the Indian context by presenting the unique experiences encountered by researchers. This discussion is expected to contribute towards broadening the global perspective on research mental health and illness. Despite being well versed in traditional research methodology topics, researchers often find themselves ... Read more

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·This book addresses the underexplored area of challenges in mental health research in the Indian context by presenting the unique experiences encountered by researchers. This discussion is expected to contribute towards broadening the global perspective on research mental health and illness. Despite being well versed in traditional research methodology topics, researchers often find themselves
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Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility

Proceedings of the 10th TRA Conference, 2024, Dublin, Ireland - Volume 4: Clean Energy Transition

Edited by Ciaran McNally, Páraic Carroll, Beatriz Martinez-Pastor, Bidisha Ghosh, Marina Efthymiou, Nikolaos Valantasis-Kanellos ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy issues that are currently reshaping the transport and mobility system in different parts of Europe. Bridging between academic research ... Read more

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This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy issues that are currently reshaping the transport and mobility system in different parts of Europe. Bridging between academic research
... Read more
Collision

Stories from the Science of CERN

by Steven Moffat, Lucy Caldwell, Margaret Drabble, Luan Goldie, Pete Kalu, Lisa Luxx, Adam Marek, Courttia Newland, Désirée Reynolds, Bidisha Mamata, Ian Watson, Stephen Baxter ...

Series series Science into Fiction
A decade after the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN still leads the world in the search to uncover what the universe is made of, how it was formed, and what fate may lie in store for it. If there is such a thing as a ‘cutting edge’, it surely lies 100 metres below the Swiss-French border, at the point where the beams collide.As part of a unique collaboration, this ... Read more

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A decade after the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN still leads the world in the search to uncover what the universe is made of, how it was formed, and what fate may lie in store for it. If there is such a thing as a ‘cutting edge’, it surely lies 100 metres below the Swiss-French border, at the point where the beams collide.As part of a unique collaboration, this
... Read more
Politics of the 'Other' in India and China

Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts

Edited by Lion Koenig, Bidisha Chaudhuri ...

Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
The social sciences have been heavily influenced by modernization theory, focusing on issues of economic growth, political development and social change, in order to develop a predictive model of linear progress for developing countries following a Western prototype. Under this hegemonic paradigm of development the world tends to get divided into simplistic binary oppositions between the ‘West’ ... Read more

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The social sciences have been heavily influenced by modernization theory, focusing on issues of economic growth, political development and social change, in order to develop a predictive model of linear progress for developing countries following a Western prototype. Under this hegemonic paradigm of development the world tends to get divided into simplistic binary oppositions between the ‘West’
... Read more
Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility

Proceedings of the 10th TRA Conference, 2024, Dublin, Ireland - Volume 2: Sustainable Transport Development

Edited by Ciaran McNally, Páraic Carroll, Beatriz Martinez-Pastor, Bidisha Ghosh, Marina Efthymiou, Nikolaos Valantasis-Kanellos ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy issues that are currently reshaping the transport and mobility system in different parts of Europe. Bridging between academic research ... Read more

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This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy issues that are currently reshaping the transport and mobility system in different parts of Europe. Bridging between academic research
... Read more

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