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The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest scholarship in this expanding field. At once ambitious and timely, the volume provides an ideal map for those looking to position their work, find new analytic insights and identify research gaps.

A unique and timely volume in a burgeoning field, it is ideal for policy-makers, researchers and professionals to develop their risk expertise. Gathering together the leading risk scholars across the full range of disciplines and approaches - from social to scientific - it will stand as the definitive volume for years to come.

The Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology and Society seeks to capture the dynamism and breadth of the STS field by presenting work which pushes the reader to think about science and technology and their intersections with social life in new ways.

The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street art. Chapters are written by experts from around the world with expertise that spans the fields of Art Theory, the Social Sciences, and Visual Studies.

The second edtion of this authoratitive handbook draws on the work of leading academics from four continents in order to introduce up-to-date perspectives on a wide range of issues that affect and shape youth and young adulthood.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Legacy addresses perhaps the most important issue in the hosting of major contemporary sporting events: the problem of `legacy¿. It offers a rigorous, innovative and comparative insight into this contested concept from interdisciplinary and practical perspectives. From `hard¿ legacies, such as stadia and infrastructure, to `soft¿ legacies including skill development, attitude change and capacity building, the book establishes the limits of what can realistically be achieved in terms of economic, social, cultural, physical and sporting development.Including contributions from world leading scholars and practitioners and featuring detailed case studies of major sports events from around the world, this book is invaluable reading for students and researchers working in sport studies, events management, human geography, economics or planning, and an essential reference for any professional engaged in delivering legacy through sport.

The handbook presents a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the rapidly growing field of political ecology. With contributions from over 50 leading authors, the Handbook presents a systematic overview of political ecology's origins, practices and core concerns, and aims to advance both ongoing and emerging debates.

The Routledge Handbook on Victims¿ Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current victims¿ issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services. The editor provides an introduction and conclusion to the handbook, synthesizing original contributions from current leaders in the field, surveying victims¿ rights in the United States, victim participation in the criminal justice system, victims¿ welfare and needs, and most notably the services that have been developed in response. A section on special populations in the United States brings focus to current and emerging issues faced within the United States, while a section covering international and transnational victimization explores globalization and the implications of other legal traditions and systems.

This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication, building a critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first.

Organized into four sections, this Handbook provides knowledge on what poverty is, how it has developed, and what type of policies might be able to succeed in reducing poverty.

Written by expert scholars, service providers, policy analysts, and health-care professionals, this Handbook is an invaluable resource for those already working in the field, as well as for students in any discipline who want to learn (or learn more) about HT and modern-day slavery.

The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values is a comprehensive exploration and assessment of current and future issues facing social work practice and education.

Featuring forty-six essays written by leading international and multidisciplinary scholars, this fully revised second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies offers a conceptual and truyely global approach to the study of international migration.

Written in collaboration with the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) and Le Notre, this handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of teaching landscape subjects, from geology to landscape design, reflecting different perspectives and practices at university level landscape curricula.

The handbook engages with comprehensive, contemporary and critical theoretical debates on Latin American development. It draws on contributions from across the humanities and social sciences and highlights the disruptions to the field being brought by a range of anti-capitalist, decolonial, feminist, and ontological intellectual contributions.

The Routledge Handbook of Postsecularity offers an internationally significant and comprehensive interdisciplinary collection which provides a series of critical reviews of the current state of the art and future trends in philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual terms.

This thoroughly updated edition provides an unparalleled overview of cutting-edge scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the world, the handbook charts diverse new pathways for understanding culture in our global era.