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Women’s representation in politics (2021)
Book Chapter
Wolchik, S., & Chiva, M. (2021). Women’s representation in politics. In K. Fábián, J. Johnson, & M. Lazda (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia (441-449). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781138347762-74

This chapter argues that in order to understand the historical trajectory of women’s representation in politics in Central-Eastern Europe since the collapse of state socialism, it is important to focus on the interaction of two main factors: the pers... Read More about Women’s representation in politics.

The influence of YouTube videos on the learning experience of disabled people during the COVID-19 outbreak (2021)
Book Chapter
Tahat, K., Al-Sarayrah, W., Salloum, S., Habes, M., & Ali, S. (2022). The influence of YouTube videos on the learning experience of disabled people during the COVID-19 outbreak. In A. Hassanien, S. Elghamrawy, & I. Zelinka (Eds.), Advances in Data Science and Intelligent Data Communication Technologies for COVID-19 : innovative solutions against COVID-19 (239-252). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77302-1_13

A record number of individuals are not attending educational institutions during the Covid-19 outbreak. This situation is highly thought-provoking, yet; the use of new media technology can overcome this challenge. In this regard, this chapter investi... Read More about The influence of YouTube videos on the learning experience of disabled people during the COVID-19 outbreak.

System of systems as a solution to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 (2021)
Book Chapter
Yousuf, H., Zainal, A., & Salloum, S. (2022). System of systems as a solution to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. In A. Hassanien, S. Elghamrawy, & I. Zelinka (Eds.), Advances in Data Science and Intelligent Data Communication Technologies for COVID-19 : innovative solutions against COVID-19 (77-91). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77302-1_5

System of systems is a compilation of systems that focus on a specific task or a system by combining multiple resources to create complicated task-oriented or dedicated systems that combine their resources and skills to develop a new, more complicate... Read More about System of systems as a solution to mitigate the spread of Covid-19.

How Can Wikipedia Save Us all?: Assuming Good Faith from all Points of View in the Age of Fake News and Post-truth (2021)
Book Chapter
Sant, T. (2021). How Can Wikipedia Save Us all?: Assuming Good Faith from all Points of View in the Age of Fake News and Post-truth. In Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society: From Fake News, Datafication and Mass Surveillance to the Death of Trust (133–143). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211010

The world's most popular noncommercial website is built on five pillars, which include an assumption of good faith and ensuring all points of view are included in every encyclopedia article. How does this pan out in the day-to-day reality of fake new... Read More about How Can Wikipedia Save Us all?: Assuming Good Faith from all Points of View in the Age of Fake News and Post-truth.

Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice (2021)
Book Chapter
Whitaker, E. (2021). Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice. In K. Jacobsson, & J. Gubrium (Eds.), Doing Human Service Ethnography (83-99). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.47674/9781447355809

Human service work of all kinds is full of documentation; it is central to the creation and maintenance of the work itself and to stabilising local professional cultures and identities. Yet, all too often, practices of authorship and readership are o... Read More about Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice.

‘This is not a success story’ : Florence Fulton Hobson, architect in Northern Ireland (2021)
Book Chapter
Poppelreuter, T. (2021). ‘This is not a success story’ : Florence Fulton Hobson, architect in Northern Ireland. In A. Sokolina (Ed.), The Routledge companion to women in architecture (83-94). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429278891-8

Florence Fulton Hobson (1881–1978) was the third women architect to be licensed by the RIBA and the first professional women architect in Ireland. Fulton Hobson attended the School of Art in Belfast, was an apprentice in the Belfast practice of James... Read More about ‘This is not a success story’ : Florence Fulton Hobson, architect in Northern Ireland.

Urban innovation districts as hotspots for innovators (2021)
Book Chapter
Trillo, C. (2021). Urban innovation districts as hotspots for innovators. In I. Bernhard, U. Gråsjö, & C. Karlsson (Eds.), Unlocking regional innovation and entrepreneurship : the potential for increasing capacities (38-62). Edward Elgar Publishing

Pandemic geographies of physical geography (2021)
Book Chapter
Coen, S., Cook, S., & Hayes, S. (2021). Pandemic geographies of physical geography. In G. Andrews, V. Crooks, J. Pearce, & J. Messina (Eds.), COVID-19 and similar futures : pandemic geographies (165-172). Springer Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70179-6_21

Public health measures implemented to control COVID-19 (e.g., lock downs, social distancing) have dramatically changed the geographies of recreational physical activity, closing off traditional exercise places, and pushing people both inside homes... Read More about Pandemic geographies of physical geography.

Understanding the impact of FinTechs on service innovation on the future sustainability of global business (2021)
Book Chapter
Ali, M. (2021). Understanding the impact of FinTechs on service innovation on the future sustainability of global business. In Remote Work and Sustainable Changes for the Future of Global Business (45-59). Business Science Reference. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7513-0.ch004

The availability of FinTechs has greatly proliferated in recent years, and this has caused an uptick in FinTech research in the finance field. Despite the recent surge in popularity of FinTech, there is still a severe lack of research on FinTech comp... Read More about Understanding the impact of FinTechs on service innovation on the future sustainability of global business.

Disabled environmentalisms (2021)
Book Chapter
Larrington-Spencer, H., Fenney, D., Middlemiss, L., & Kosanic, A. (2021). Disabled environmentalisms. In K. Bell (Ed.), Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism (15-33). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003099185-2

This chapter develops an agenda for the fostering of disabled environmentalism, demonstrating how such an agenda, through the centralising of disabled bodies, can enable environmental justice movements to be truly inclusive of all people's needs. It... Read More about Disabled environmentalisms.

La risposta del governo italiano al Covid-19 e la "costruzione" di un primo ministro (2021)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2021). La risposta del governo italiano al Covid-19 e la "costruzione" di un primo ministro. In A. Giovannini, & L. Mosca (Eds.), Politica in Italia. I fatti dell'anno e le interpretazioni. Edizione 2021 (57-78). Bologna: Mulino

This chapter (which is an Italian translation of an article published in Contemporary Italian Politics) analyses the Italian government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the period until the end of 2020, and the impact this had on the political... Read More about La risposta del governo italiano al Covid-19 e la "costruzione" di un primo ministro.

Modelling the impact of melting and nonlinear radiation on reactive Buongiorno nanofluid boundary layer flow from an inclined stretching cylinder with cross diffusion and curvature effects (2021)
Book Chapter
Garvandha, M., Narla, V., Tripathi, D., & Beg, O. (2021). Modelling the impact of melting and nonlinear radiation on reactive Buongiorno nanofluid boundary layer flow from an inclined stretching cylinder with cross diffusion and curvature effects. In D. Tripathi, & R. Sharma (Eds.), Energy Systems and Nanotechnology (279-306). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1256-5_15

The composite effects of nonlinear radiation, melting (phase change) heat transfer and Soret and Dufour cross diffusion in nanofluid boundary layer flow external to an inclined stretching cylinder is studied theoretically. Buongiorno’s nanoscale mode... Read More about Modelling the impact of melting and nonlinear radiation on reactive Buongiorno nanofluid boundary layer flow from an inclined stretching cylinder with cross diffusion and curvature effects.

Thermal analysis of γAl2O3/H2O and γAl2O3/C2H6O2 elastico-viscous nanofluid flow driven by peristaltic wave propagation with electroosmotic and magnetohydrodynamic effects : applications in nanotechnological energy systems (2021)
Book Chapter
Prakash, J., Tripathi, D., & Beg, O. (2021). Thermal analysis of γAl2O3/H2O and γAl2O3/C2H6O2 elastico-viscous nanofluid flow driven by peristaltic wave propagation with electroosmotic and magnetohydrodynamic effects : applications in nanotechnological energy systems. In D. Tripathi, & R. Sharma (Eds.), Energy Systems and Nanotechnology (223-259). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1256-5_13

Motivated by new developments in electromagnetic nano/microfluidic energy systems, in this chapter a novel study is described of the thermal performance in unsteady peristaltic electro-osmotic hydromagnetic viscoelastic (Jeffreys model) flow of wat... Read More about Thermal analysis of γAl2O3/H2O and γAl2O3/C2H6O2 elastico-viscous nanofluid flow driven by peristaltic wave propagation with electroosmotic and magnetohydrodynamic effects : applications in nanotechnological energy systems.

Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields (2021)
Book Chapter
Whitaker, E., & Atkinson, P. (2021). Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields. In D. vom Lehn, N. Ruiz-Junco, & W. Gibson (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism (425-434). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429276767-43

Symbolic interactionist research has long been associated with qualitative methods, and with ethnographic fieldwork in particular. This chapter outlines the basic principles that underpin such affinity, while acknowledging that there is no one-to-on... Read More about Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields.

Dramaturgical frameworks and interactionism (2021)
Book Chapter
Smith, G. (2021). Dramaturgical frameworks and interactionism. In D. vom Lehn, N. Ruiz-Junco, & W. Gibson (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism (70-81). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429276767-8

As a sociological perspective, dramaturgy takes seriously the similarities between life and theatre. It is ineluctably associated with Erving Goffman’s 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and its central notion of impression managemen... Read More about Dramaturgical frameworks and interactionism.

States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion (2021)
Book Chapter
Kaufman, J. (2021). States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion. In The Imposter as Social Theory :Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans (171-190). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529213102.ch008

Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of an international agenda to reorganize welfare states and their social security provisions around the ‘activation’ of benefit recipients, often in the form of ‘welfare-to-work’ programmes. In the United K... Read More about States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion.

Narratives of motherhood (2021)
Book Chapter
Smith, K., & Lockwood, K. (2021). Narratives of motherhood. In M. Montero-Sieburth, R. Mas Giralt, N. Garcia-Arjona, & J. Eguren (Eds.), Family Practices in Migration (175-191). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003132561-9

Focusing on the subjective and relational nature of stories and storytelling, in this chapter the authors adopt a feminist narrative approach to understand the way in which mothering identities are constructed through storytelling in the context of a... Read More about Narratives of motherhood.

Going remote (2021)
Book Chapter
J. Annand, P., Spike Hudson, M., Esi D. Yankah, M., Burrows, M., Burridge, S., Cornes, M., …Platt, L. (2021). Going remote. In COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy and Practice (113 - 122). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.47674/9781447361794

For a group co-producing participatory homeless health research, the COVID-19 pandemic presented challenging circumstances, notably physically distanced working. With limited technology among the research team and participants alike, remote resea... Read More about Going remote.