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Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel (1956–2022): A legacy of foraminiferal research and scientific eminence (2023)
Book Chapter
Price, G. D., & Montenari, M. (2023). Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel (1956–2022): A legacy of foraminiferal research and scientific eminence. In Stratigraphy of Geo- and Biodynamic Processes (1-36). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2023.08.010

Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel, a prominent marine paleontologist, dedicated over 40 years to academic excellence at University College London. Her unparalleled expertise in foraminifera reshaped our paleontological and geological understanding of signi... Read More about Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel (1956–2022): A legacy of foraminiferal research and scientific eminence.

Slow Neutron-Capture Process in Evolved Stars (2023)
Book Chapter
Hirschi, R. (2023). Slow Neutron-Capture Process in Evolved Stars. In Handbook of Nuclear Physics (3537-3571). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6345-2_118

The slow neutron-capture process (s process) contributes to the production of roughly half of the elements heavier than iron. The main component of the s process takes place in the late phases (AGB phase) of low-mass stars and is the topic of most re... Read More about Slow Neutron-Capture Process in Evolved Stars.

Green fiscal systems: Their role in the European Green Deal (2023)
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Fernandez Martin, R. M. (2024). Green fiscal systems: Their role in the European Green Deal. In Making the European Green Deal Work: EU Sustainability Policies at Home and Abroad (29-44). (1). UK: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003246985-4

Environmental policies in Europe have progressively shifted the way in which resources are allocated towards more sustainable practices. The European Green Deal (EGD) aims to boost changes in this area to achieve EU climate and energy targets. The EG... Read More about Green fiscal systems: Their role in the European Green Deal.

Economics for a low carbon future (2023)
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Fernandez Martin, R. M. (2023). Economics for a low carbon future. In P. Molthan-Hill (Ed.), Sustainable Management. A complete guide for faculty and students (237-264). (3). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003294665-12

In this chapter you will learn about the interactions between economy and environment as well as how economists try to solve the puzzle of giving the right value to our environmental resources so that sustainable development can be achieved. In this... Read More about Economics for a low carbon future.

Gyekye and Contemporary Idealism (2023)
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Tartaglia, J. (2023). Gyekye and Contemporary Idealism. In Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and AI. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36163-0_2

I begin with a defence of both Gyekye’s universalist and African metaphilosophies. In light of these metaphilosophies, I discuss the contemporary Western hegemony of materialist philosophy of mind and its origins in Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind... Read More about Gyekye and Contemporary Idealism.

The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity (2023)
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Williams, A. (2023). The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity. In The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology (63-72). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003042983-8

This chapter evaluates the critical musicologies of the 1990s and follows their subsequent trajectories. It compares such models of encoded meanings with alternative approaches whereby meaning resides primarily in social use or in other forms of shar... Read More about The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity.

Designing financial products that support rural livelihoods: making microfinance work for the poor (2023)
Book Chapter
Zana Naab, G., Arora, R., Anand, P., Zana Naab, F., Tiwasing, P., & Kwadwo Danquah, J. (2023). Designing financial products that support rural livelihoods: making microfinance work for the poor. In Entrepreneurial Financial Resilience and Financial Innovation in a Turbulent Era (155-189). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802203929.00016

Markets matter for everyone. Inclusive market systems tend to offer the poor the services needed to sustain their livelihoods. The chapter examines the operations of three financial institutions: Sinapi Aba Trust (SAT), St Joseph's Cooperative Credit... Read More about Designing financial products that support rural livelihoods: making microfinance work for the poor.

2D Asymptotic Analysis of a Thin Elastic Beam with Density-Dependent Generalized Young’s Modulus (2023)
Book Chapter
Erbaş, B., Kaplunov, J., & Rajagopal, K. R. (2023). 2D Asymptotic Analysis of a Thin Elastic Beam with Density-Dependent Generalized Young’s Modulus. In Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials (501-513). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28744-2_22

The elastic equilibrium of a thin elastic beam is studied using asymptotic analysis starting from a 2D formulation within the context of plane elasticity. The aim of the paper is to elucidate the influence of density and hence small volume strain of... Read More about 2D Asymptotic Analysis of a Thin Elastic Beam with Density-Dependent Generalized Young’s Modulus.

Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes (2023)
Book Chapter
Dupre. (2023). Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes. In Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, vol. 3 (57–86). (3). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198879466.003.0003

There is a tension at the heart of much contemporary work in philosophy of psychology—specifically, within representational theories of mind. On the one hand, the central insight of this tradition is that mental and behavioral processes are understoo... Read More about Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes.

Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS (2023)
Book Chapter
Sheikh, N. S. (2023). Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS. In Politics Between Nations (497-517). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24896-2_24

When the Islamic State group reinvented itself as the new Caliphate in 2014, this illocutionary act followed from an extended process of semantic Islamization of brute politics. Its unholy violence, which for over half a decade made it the scourge of... Read More about Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS.

Conway's World Soul and Monism (2023)
Book Chapter
Head, J. (in press). Conway's World Soul and Monism. In New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy

This paper considers the place of the ‘Middle Nature’ in Anne Conway’s philosophy, as a kind of ‘World Soul’-type figure that is both intimately present in all things in nature and acts as a mediator between God and creation. It is argued that consid... Read More about Conway's World Soul and Monism.

Introduction (2023)
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Sadek, H., & Jones, S. (2023). Introduction. In Contemporary British Muslim Arts and Cultural Production (1-21). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003330714-1

After more than 15 years of state securitisation, hostile media coverage and rising levels of Islamophobia, many Muslims in the UK express a widespread sense of being held ‘under siege – spied on, interrogated, routinely asked to “put their house in... Read More about Introduction.

Technology and Rorty’s Cultural Politics (2023)
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Tartaglia, J. (2023). Technology and Rorty’s Cultural Politics. In Handbuch Richard Rorty (831–845). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16253-5_39

In Sect. 1, I point out the tension in Rorty’s commitment to both pragmatism and materialism. In Sect. 2, I explain how Rorty sought to justify this combination, and argue that his account is not only implausible but incomplete. In Sect. 3, I explain... Read More about Technology and Rorty’s Cultural Politics.

Sutton, Katherine (2023)
Book Chapter
Adcock, R. (2023). Sutton, Katherine. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Springer

The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare (2023)
Book Chapter
Mandelbaum, M. (in press). The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare. In Variations on Sovereignty. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003287506-3

This chapter traces the discursive and phantasmic (re-)productions of state sovereignty in IR theory from traditional scholarship to contemporary mainstream IR theory, thus contributing to recent analyses of sovereignty in critical and historical IR.... Read More about The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare.