Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Service Operations Dynamics
Managing in an Age of Digitization, Disruption and Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This innovative book presents an up-to-date account of service operations, spanning topics such as IT-enabled services, service supply chain and volatility of demand and supply. Combining a systems perspective with a focus on service supply chains, the chapters provide a clearly framed set of mechanisms...
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment?
Benefit Sanctions in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
The book subjects the largely hidden phenomenon of benefit sanctions in the UK to sustained examination and critique. It comprises twelve chapters dealing with the terms ‘cruel’, ‘inhuman’ and ‘degrading’ that are used as a benchmark for assessing benefit sanctions; benefit sanctions as...
President Trump and General Pershing
Remembrances of the “Moro” Insurrection in the Age of Post-Truths
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
This book provides a critical analysis of Donald Trump’s mention of General Pershing and his alleged use of bullets dipped in pig’s blood to kill 49 out of 50 captured Muslims during the suppression years in the Philippines. The author argues that most observers who heard this “fable” dismissed...
Black Scholarly Activism between the Academy and Grassroots
A Bridge for Identities and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
This book explores the 'invisible' impact whiteness has on the lived 'black' experience in the UK. Using education as a philosophical and ethical framework, the author interrogates the vision of Black Radicalism proposed by Kehinde Andrews, exploring its potential applicability to grassroots activism....
by Joshua Spier
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book explores the lived meanings of being a university educator from an existential perspective. The book enriches our understanding of educators' experiences in light of Martin Heidegger's early philosophy, and vice versa (opening our understanding of Heidegger's philosophy through educators'...
Fringe Regionalism
When Peripheries Become Regions
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
This book introduces the novel concept of fringe regionalism to the field of international studies. It examines how regions are practiced by peripheral borderlands rather than centrally planned, thus offering new avenues for researching regionalism beyond the conventional focus on formal intergovernmental...
Brexit and Internal Security
Political and Legal Concerns on the Future UK-EU Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
This book explores the viability of future UK-EU internal security arrangements in light of Brexit, including their impact on the UK’s and the EU’s security and international standings. The authors discuss on-going negotiations and address the main political and legal concerns of possible future...
Devotion to St. Anne in Texts and Images
From Byzantium to the Late European Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
St. Anne was popular with representatives of various segments of society – from monks, nuns, members of the clergy, royal patrons, to church-goers of every rank. This book looks into both the public and private worship of this holy woman and brings to the surface some under-exposed aspects of it....
Behavioral Economics and Bioethics
A Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
This book takes readers on a journey through the wide universe of bioethics, raising the following question: what is the proper attitude towards health, life, and death from the perspective of contemporary behavioral economics? Drawing on fields as diverse as economics, ethics, ecology, biology, and...
by Thanasis Lagios, Vasia Lekka, Grigoris Panoutsopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant crisis vs. the economic crisis. The chapters shed light on the thread that links these two issues by first examining immigration and the transformations regarding its control and administration via border...
Philosophy in Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man
World, Metaphor, Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
This book shows how a masterpiece of experimental cinema can be interpreted through hermeneutics of the film world. As an application of Ricœurian methodology to a non-narrative film, the book calls into question the fundamental concept of the film world. Firmly rooted within the context of experimental...
by Maurice Hamington, Ce Rosenow
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Care Ethics and Poetry is the first book to address the relationship between poetry and feminist care ethics. The authors argue that morality, and more specifically, moral progress, is a product of inquiry, imagination, and confronting new experiences. Engaging poetry, therefore, can contribute...
by Patrick Spread
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
This book provides an introduction to the theory of support-bargaining and money-bargaining. Support-bargaining arises from the propensity of all individuals to seek the support of those around them and is the underlying mechanism of democratic societies. It is also the underlying mechanism of theory...
by Ignas Kalpokas
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
This book combines political theory with media and communications studies in order to formulate a theory of post-truth, concentrating on the latter’s preconditions, context, and functions in today’s societies. Contrary to the prevalent view of post-truth as primarily manipulative, it is argued...