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Science and Innovation: A Cyclical Approach
To formally understand cyclicity in innovation and to tie to Schumpeter’s idea about waves of creative destruction, we elaborate upon Thomas Kuhn’s...
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Metropolitan Dynamic in the Spanish Urban System. Two Decades of Cyclical Context and Crisis
This contribution provides conceptual and empirical references to understand of the growth and crises process of the Spanish metropolitan system. For... -
Loss of Control and Technology Acceptance in (Digital) Transformation Acceptance and Design Factors of a Heuristic Model
In the context of the (digital) transformation of economy and society, the technology acceptance of the population is increasingly influenced by a...
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From Fear and Distrust to Trust and Collaboration: Exploring Transitions in the Quality of Relationships in the Encounters Between Immigrant Parents and Child Welfare Services
This article examines the characteristics of transitions in the quality of relationships from fear and distrust to trust and collaboration in the...
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Urban Agenda and Metropolitan Governance in Pamplona: Lessons from a Multi-level and Multi-actor Process
This chapter analyzes the process of metropolitan governance in Pamplona, Spain, as an example of a multi-level and multi-actor process in line with... -
Time and the Civilizing Process
Human ideas about time evolve and change as knowledge and ways of life change. In the work Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation: Soziogenetische und... -
The Messy Process of Making Environmental Policy
In the third decade of the twenty-first century, there is much debate among citizens and lawmakers as to what the government should do about myriad... -
Youth unemployment in Nigeria: nature, causes and solutions
This study investigates the nature and causes of youth unemployment in Nigeria, with the aim of proffering evidence-based workable solutions as...
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From De-Problematized Expert Knowledge to Politics of Critical Dialogue: Toward Process-Relational Policy Theories
In Chap. 9 we take the final steps toward process-relational approaches to theories of the policy... -
Myanmar’s Peace Process and Ceasefire Monitoring Mechanism: A Post-mortem
This chapter highlights the main tasks of the Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (JMC) to monitor ceasefire, verification and conflict resolution.... -
Transforming the sacred: a neo-Durkheimian analysis of the aesthetic modification and cultural resignification of Barcelona’s municipal crèche (1961–2021)
This article builds upon Durkheim’s theorization of the “ambiguity” of the sacred to analyze dynamics surrounding religious symbols in the public...
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Don’t call it a comeback! Revictimization and the cycle of violence at micro-places
This study presents a new perspective on the influence of time and the reoccurrence of crime problems at micro-places. I examined 342,690 aggravated...
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Turistification and Urban Heritage in Spanish Historic Centres: Permanence and Changes in a Long Process
This text addresses the touristification of the historical centres of Spanish cities. Two major cycles of recent touristification processes are... -
IMF’s Surcharges as a Threat to the Right to Development
This article focuses on the implications of the IMF’s surcharges policies, jointly with its de facto preferred creditor status, on the right to...
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Archaeology in the Fourth Dimension: Studying Landscapes with Multitemporal PlanetScope Satellite Data
For the last seven years, PlanetScope satellites have started near-daily imaging of parts of the Earth’s surface, making high-density multitemporal,...
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Political differentiation and consolidation of choice in a U.S. media malaise environment: indirect effects of perceived alikeness on voter participation
Political marketing campaigns expend enormous effort each campaign season to influence voter turnout. This cyclical democratic process and nonstop...
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Self-Organized Cultural Cycles and the Uncertainty of Archaeological Thought
Contributing to the issue of complex relationship between social and cultural evolution, this paper aims to analyze repetitive patterns, or cycles,...
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Colonisation of Manipur: Cause, Process, Native Resentment and Resistance
The English East India Company with their initial objective of expanding trade with the East succeeded in colonising many indigenous societies.... -
Spatial Modeling: an Approach for Estimating the Effect of Industrial Emissions on the Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Sectoral emissions of carbon dioxide and their spatial distribution are explored in carbon monitoring and reporting. However, emissions are not...
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Nonprofit Journals Publication Patterns: Visibility or Invisibility of Gender?
Publication patterns contribute to a cyclical pattern—what gets written influences what gets read, taught, cited, and pursued for further research....