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Practicing community geography in times of crisis
Community geography emphasizes the centrality of community engagement to socially transformative research. This introduction to a special issue of GeoJournal...
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What is educational entrepreneurship? Strategic action, temporality, and the expansion of US higher education
The massive expansion of US higher education after World War II is a sociological puzzle: a spectacular feat of state capacity-building in a highly...
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The Present and Future of Sustainable Development Goals amid the Transforming Global Order and Social Change. A Decade of Action
Labeled by the UN as a holistic “plan of action for people, planet and prosperity,” the Agenda 2030 embraces 17 ambitious Sustainable Development...
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Decades of Insecurity and Crisis. Authoritarian Temptations Have Reached the Open Society
In the analysis of the development of authoritarian temptations and right-wing threat alliances, the succession of crises since 2000 emerges as a...
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Introduction: The Century of Accelerating Social and Ecological Change
Three forms of global change, the Great Acceleration, the Great Transformation, and Sustainable Development, are analysed in this book. The chapter...
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From reductive to generative crisis: businesspeople using polysemous justifications to make sense of COVID-19
Both lay understandings of crisis moments and influential psychological models of cognition in times of uncertainty emphasize how crises limit...
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Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times
This opening chapter offers a novel perspective and terminology for exploring the complexities of migration, integration and migration governance in...
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State, Society and Environmental Security in International Relations Theory
As emerging non-traditional security issues in global politics such as environmental crises offer new avenues of research on the state-society...
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Underlying Mechanism to the Identifiable Victim Effect in Collective Donation Action Intentions: Does Emotional Reactions and Perceived Responsibility Matter?
While numerous studies have shown that individual donors respond more generously to identifiable victims than to statistically equivalent victims,...
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Climate Resilience: Interpretations of the Term and Implications for Practice
The term ‘resilience’, which is integral to the UK Climate Resilience Programme(Gov)UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCR) (UKCR), has been used...
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Activism, Collective Action and Supporters’ Associations
This chapter investigates fan activism which goes beyond the ‘natural’ context of supporting the local team. The key factor at play here is a...
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Consumption Corridors and the Case of Meat
Consumer policy must address the unsustainability of consumption which now threatens consumer safety in the form of the climate and ecological...
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Conclusion: Mobilize, Repress, Repeat
Paraguay’s shaky and uncertain transition to democracy is embedded in inequality, chronic underdevelopment, and severe repression in Paraguay’s long...
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How to Represent the Unrepresented? Renewing the Collective Action Repertoires of Autonomous Workers in Three Countries
The archetypal model of full-time regular employment is now increasingly challenged by wide-ranging alternatives. The most common feature of such...
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Credit rating agencies and the state: an inter-field regulated relationship
The history of Credit Rating Agencies [CRAs], commonly called Rating Agencies, has a long and distinguished trajectory marked by influence,...
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Children and Sustainability
Childhood and, by implication, education are seen by many as practical stages for engaging people with sustainability. This viewpoint is perhaps...
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The effects of COVID-19 on imagined reproductive futures
Macro-level crises affect individual lives and behaviors. One of COVID-19’s many effects was to disrupt the way people imagined their own and their...
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Changing Social Movements and Social Change Through Direct Action: Challenging Capitalism with Democratic Interference
Social movements embody broadly oppositional subjects and objects against governments and institutional decisions. But the studies about them are...
