The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet.

In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen breathes new life into the discussion around global modernity, bringing an anthropologist’s approach to bear on the three interrelated crises of environment, economy and identity. He argues that although these crises are global in scope,...

What does it mean to be secure? In the global news, we hear stories daily about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, about domestic-level conflicts around the world, about the challenges of cybersecurity and social security. This broad list highlights the fact that security is an idea with multiple meanings, but do we all experience security issues in the same way? In this book, Nicole Detraz explores the broad terrain of security studies through a gender lens. Assumptions about masculinity and ...

A new research project guide for social science students used to hybrid teaching and research; it comes from two young, energetic methods experts who map the individual’s journey through a contained project.

Your all-in-one guide to completing a systematic review, including advice on working with all kinds of data and supported by a wealth of real-life examples.Â

Approaches to Mixed Methods Research focuses on the choices social scientists make when designing a study that mixes quantitative and qualitative data. Authors Lisa D. Pearce and Jessica Halliday Hardie explore ways to weave together strands of research using qualitative and quantitative data to speak to and enhance each other; a strand being a series of steps involved in collecting and analyzing a single type of data.

The result, they show, is a more holistic body of evidence that emerges, a...

"Designing research is about making decisions to transform an idea into a plan that can provide answers to a research problem or question. Thinking about, and then making these decisions results in the research design – the plan that will be followed to conduct the research and answer the question. This text engages in a dialogue with the reader, providing a serious but accessible introduction to research design, for use as a guide when designing your own research or when reading the resear...

Dit rapport onderzoekt de opkomst van child en family influencers in Nederland. Het richt zich op het ontwikkelen van wetenschappelijke methoden om deze influencers te identificeren, hun bedrijfsmodellen te onderzoeken en geautomatiseerde benaderingen voor monitoring voor te stellen. Het rapport benadrukt de complexiteit van het onderwerp en biedt geen uitgebreide juridische analyse, maar richt zich eerst op het begrijpen van de online dynamiek, activiteiten en verdienmodellen van influencers...

Milieucriminaliteit is een vorm van criminaliteit met verstrekkende gevolgen voor mens, natuur en maatschappij. In wetenschap en beleid is er vooral aandacht voor de betrokken bedrijven. Over de individuele daders van milieucriminaliteit is nog weinig bekend. De huidige studie is de eerste studie in Nederland, en wereldwijd, waarin een grote groep milieudaders systematisch in beeld wordt gebracht, met aandacht voor het soort milieudelicten, hun criminele ontwikkelingspaden over de levensloop,...