Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan.

Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a fascinating journey through Japan’s folklore through profiles of the legendary creatures and beings who continue to live on in pop culture today.

From the sly kitsune to the orgrish oni an...

Written by the founding father of media studies, this book offers a unique analysis of the dynamics and wider implications of communications inequality.

This book explores the flesh and breath of African feminist politics as embodied in activism over the past thirty years against sexism, militarism, homophobia and transphobia, global economic inequality, and religious fundamentalism, and towards freedoms that can be felt by African women and gender non-conforming people in the everyday.

In combining a critical, philosophical approach with an expertly selected body of practical examples, this landmark text provides both the intellectual understanding and the technical skills required to produce sophisticated, robust literature reviews of the very highest standard.

In 2010 werd Emile Kolthoff benoemd tot eerste hoogleraar Criminologie van de Open Universiteit. Vanuit de leerstoel werd onderzoek naar organisatiecriminaliteit en georganiseerde criminaliteit geïnitieerd, werd het onderwijs in de criminologie opgezet en werd het onderzoeksprogramma De veilige stad met bijbehorende minor ontwikkeld. De politie was daarbij een specifiek aandachtsgebied. In zijn afscheidsrede kijkt Kolthoff terug op de ontwikkelingen binnen het vakgebied sinds de instelling v...

Written by a scholar with firsthand experience as a police officer, military officer, and fire service commander, this book offers a rare and compelling combination of academic insight and operational expertise. It provides a unique perspective for professionals and researchers working in the domains of use of force, public order, and high-risk operations within both military and policing contexts – as well as for those involved in the training, education, and leadership of personnel operat...

Risk asserts the ongoing importance of the analysis of risk in our age of permacrisis and mounting scepticism about experts and science, and calls for a ‘re-turn’ to risk theory. This fully revised and expanded new edition includes a new chapter on risk information and denial in the context of the climate crisis and COVID-19 pandemic.

The book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard field work in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time.

This book examines proximity as a benchmarked concept that can be deployed across a range of humanities disciplines to rethink the ways in which existences in the world are always already coexistences – and to parse the heuristic, ethical, epistemological, praxeological consequences of this recognition.

Loss, Grief and Existential Awareness introduces the Integrated Process Model (IPM), a new interdisciplinary and interprofessional model for grief research, education, and accompaniment that distinguishes and integrates five dimensions of grief: physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual.