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Introduction: Relationships Between Islamophobia and Radicalization
While the themes of radicalization and Islamophobia have been broadly addressed by academia, to date there has been little investigation of the...
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Pedagogical Micro-communities: Sites of Relationality, Sites of Transformation
My pedagogical approach builds from a relational ontology that emphasizes the ongoing process of coming to know our selves and our location in global...
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“Love’s Labor’s Lost”: Teaching IR in Germany
In my contribution to this volume, I relate my experiences in teaching IR at political science departments in Germany. I argue that due to structural...
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The Attention Economy Is Coming (Fast)
Most marketers accept that attention is a vital part of advertising success, but many still wrongly believe in the notion of hypnotic attention that...
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Science in the Twenty-First Century
The paradox that defines today’s world is that every day we depend more and more on science and technology, every day science knows more and more and...
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Friedrich Schneider Recommends “Public Choice III” by Dennis C. Mueller
Public choice is the study of behaviour at the intersection of economics and political science. Constitutional political economy provides important...
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Klaus F. Zimmermann Recommends “Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being” by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton
Economists explain individual behavior by market prices, total income, and preferences through a utility evaluation of alternative actions. A new...
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David Iselin Recommends “The Superiority of Economists” by Marion Fourcade, Etienne Ollion, and Yann Algan
In 2015, Marion Fourcade, Etienne Ollion, and Yann Algan published an article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives that sheds light on economics...
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Carol Tavris: Writing About Psychological Science and Skepticism
This chapter opens with a short biography of the American social psychologist and science writer Carol Tavris. Tavris speaks with Witkowski about the...
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Dump the Concept of Rationality Into the Deep Ocean
I am professor of sociology who studied economics, and I am an advocate of the rational choice approach in sociology that applies the economic model...
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Human Spaceflight
Human spaceflight inevitably became the most high-profile part of Japan’s space programme. Following an early American invitation to join the...
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Deepening Divides? Implementing Britain’s Prevent Counterterrorism Program
The reciprocal and recursive relationship between radicalization and Islamophobia and the extent to which policy interventions exacerbate or...
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Introduction
Two worrisome themes are currently running through the West: a disturbing rise in fake news and an alarming loss of vocations in science, technology,...
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Guidelines for Teaching the Market Approach to Scaling Impact
In this chapter, we discuss some of the challenges that instructors may face when working with the materials provided in Chapters 1–6, and introduce...
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Parallel Societies
Swedish society is not only growing more unequal in terms of income; it is also separating geographically. In areas such as Malmö’s Rosengård,...
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Humanity: Martha Nussbaum/Olga Urbani
“Italy’s green heart” is the oft-used phrase to describe Umbria, the sinuous region, half mountain, half hillside, to the northeast of Rome. The...
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#Crime Social Media, Crime, and the Criminal Legal System
As research continues to accumulate on the connections between media and crime, #Crime explores the impact of social media on the criminal legal...
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Immigration and Crime
Immigration is closely linked to crime in Sweden, as most crime suspects are now immigrants or the children of immigrants. In some categories, such...
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Introduction
This chapter will outline the structure, content and overall approach of the book. It is important to start with a clear statement of the purpose of...
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Describing the Critical Cultural Social Marketing Approach Used in the Lead My Learning Campaign
This chapter provides a close analysis of how a critical cultural social marketing approach was used to adapt social marketing concepts and...