#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAcces #book on #comics: Shababz! : A Graphic Journey Through Islamic Feminisms and Decolonial Empowerment - Sirri, Lana - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95811 - Join the four protagonists on an exciting journey as they dive into the most current discussions about Islam and feminism, typically reserved for academia and specialized feminists. Zahra proudly wears the hijab and challenges the widespread assumption that Islam and feminism are mutually

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Capitalism, Colonisation and the Ecocide-Genocide Nexus - Crook, Martin - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95749 - With climate change and a looming ecological crisis impacting the systems and institutions that support life, this timely publication examines the drivers of ecologically induced genocide – the environmental destruction resulting in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social group’s cultural or

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean : Decentring the Human in Environmental History - Edited by: Diogo de Carvalho Cabral; Gascón, Margarita; Vasques Vital, André; de Carvalho Cabral, Diogo - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92999 - The Latin American and Caribbean regions’ historical trajectories have been shaped by complex human-nonhuman interactions. In these histories people are important, even

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Chapter 3 Nothing as practical as an analytical strategy in realist evaluation : Findings and recommendations from a comprehensive review - Lemire, Sebastian; Nielsen, Steffen Bohni - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95756 - Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary realist evaluation, showcasing how skilled practitioners navigate diverse fieldwork contexts. Authored by

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Navigating Uncertainty : Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World - Scoones, Ian - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95698 - Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don't know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – where we cannot predict what may happen – is essential and, as the book explores,

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: A Cultural History of Waste Disposal : Environmental Policy and Park Redevelopments - Lawson, Benjamin - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95753 - This book offers a historical analysis of landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments. New York, Toronto, and Tel

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology - Edited by: de Boer, Bas - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95731 - Our contemporary world is undeniably intertwined with technology, influencing every aspect of human life. This edited volume delves into why modern philosophical approaches to technology closely align with phenomenology and explores the implications of this relationship. Over the past two decades, scholars have

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Chapter 7 From informative to transformative practice? Addressing challenges of human rights education in Norway - Vesterdal, Knut - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95764 - Backed by a range of case studies and recent developments in human rights education research, Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education guides readers through an analysis of educational inequities and identifies how internationally agreed-upon human

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Observing Dark Innovation : After Neoliberal Tools and Techniques - MacNeil, Ryan T. - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93409 - Why does scholarship on innovation fixate on certain classes of technology? Could our research tools and techniques be concealing as much as they reveal?Ryan T. MacNeil shows how the common instrumentalities of innovation research carry neoliberal market biases. He calls for critical scholars to

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010 - Winder, Jon - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93000 - Children’s playgrounds are commonly understood as the obvious place for children to play: safe, natural and out of the way. But these expectations hide a convoluted and overlooked history of children’s place in public space – one shaped by implicit social, political and environmental

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Chapter 1 A Cultural History of Waste - Lawson, Benjamin - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95754 - This book offers a historical analysis of landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments. New York, Toronto, and Tel Aviv are currently redeveloping giant landfills

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Chapter 7 Visual Perception in Dante's Commedia According to the Early Commentaries (1320–1400) - Galli, Francesca - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95744 - Dante’s Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante’s engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological disorders. The

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Governing Urban Development in China : Critical Urban Studies - Wu, Fulong; Zhang, Fangzhu - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95734 - The book investigates urban development and governance in China and introduces China perspectives to the understanding of governing urban development in the 21st century. Building upon a rich and burgeoning literature on China, the book explains major changes in governance, offers a

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: The Open Society as an Enemy : A critique of how free societies turned against themselves - J. McKenzie, Alexander - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95707 - Nearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper gave a spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society in his two-volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this book, J. McKenzie Alexander argues that a new defence is urgently needed because, in the decades since the end of

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Dante’s Visions : Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond - Edited by: Panti, Cecilia; Piccolino, Marco - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95743 - Dante’s Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante’s engagement with the science of his time, particularly with

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change : Water Security in the Global Context - Buser, Michael - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93404 - This book investigates and analyses places in Europe, North America and Asia that are facing the immense challenges associated with climate change adaptation. Presenting real-world cases in the contexts of coastal change, drinking water and the cryosphere, Michael Buser shows how the

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Realist Evaluation : Principles and Practice - Edited by: Manzano, Ana; Williams, Emma - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95755 - Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary realist evaluation, showcasing how skilled practitioners navigate diverse fieldwork contexts. Authored by experts spanning academia and evaluation backgrounds across five continents in fields including

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Chapter 15 Peering through Time : Harnessing Anticipation in More‑than‑Human Design - Epp, Felix A.; Moesgen, Tim; Poikolainen Rosén, Anton; Salovaara, Antti; Sanchez, Camilo - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94792 - This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: States of Emergency and Human Rights Protection : The Theory and Practice of the Visegrad Countries - Edited by: Florczak-Wątor, Monika; Gárdos-Orosz, Fruzsina; Malíř, Jan; Steuer, Max - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94824 - Emergencies are ubiquitous in 21st-century societal discourses. From the rise of emergency pronouncements in the United States since 9/11 accompanied by the associated violations of fundamental rights,

#OAPEN Library - new #OpenAccess #book on #ClimateChange: Chapter Introduction - Botero, Andrea; Juul Søndergaard, Marie Louise; Poikolainen Rosén, Anton; Salovaara, Antti - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94788 - This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and methods to the forefront. There is an urgent need to