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Genome Finland tells a story of genomic medicine in Finland. The book introduces the reader to the scientific and societal surroundings in which Finnish medical genetics evolved from the 1960s to the 2020s. In particular, the book examines and exposes the connections between biomedical science, ‘knowledge-based’ economy and business, and innovation policy in Finland.
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Reconfiguring EU Peripheries explores the diverse nature of the European Union’s interactions with its peripheries. With its focus on the perceptions of politicians, the volume casts new light on the motivations that underpin the political elites’ attitudes towards the EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, Türkiye and Ukraine. By challenging the conventional understanding of contestation and peripherality, this volume is a first step towards looking at the EU and the peripheries it creates from an alternative, and sometimes ignored, point of view.
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An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a new approach to understanding location. Geographical space is often perceived as divided by state borders, but it can also be classified and segmented based on, for example, ecosystems or religious structures and beliefs. The book shows how different locating logics coexist in a single place and how this influences people's lives. The authors are anthropologists who draw on ethnographic and historical research from locations across the Mediterranean region.
Book DetailsThis volume brings together researchers from various fields to enhance discussion of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages as one continuum. With new archaeological data and a focus on both textual and material remains, archaeologists, historians, classicists, and theologians shed light on how religious identities of the people of the past are defined and identified.
Book DetailsGlobal Perspectives on Leadership in Early Childhood Education offers valuable research evidence on how successful leadership is developed in various Early Childhood Education and Care settings and contexts. The contributions of this edited volume provide insightful perspectives on leadership issues from across the world, making it a valuable resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and leaders.
Book Details“Slava Ukraini!” Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance tells the story of the volunteers lauded to have saved Ukraine twice. First in the spring of 2014 after the onset of the war in Donbas, and again in February 2022 after the large-scale Russian invasion. Aimed at an interdisciplinary audience, this volume makes significant contributions to our understanding of events in Ukraine over the past decade. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with volunteer battalion fighters, the volume focuses on strategy, or the creation, control, and use of force. In addition, “Slava Ukraini!” discusses the volunteers’ long-term sociological impact in Ukraine. While the volunteers may have initially exacerbated internal divisions in Ukraine, their spirit of 2014 also embodied the beginning of Ukrainian resistance, which in 2022 flared-up on a national scale.
Book DetailsThis book investigates the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) in the context of the Military Revolution theory that connects military transformations with early modern state formation. Instead of focusing on technological and tactical developments this book examines change and decline in military institutions. This systemic approach offers a reappraisal of the Military Revolution theory and offers new insights into the Thirty Years War.
Book DetailsFor more than 70 years, South Korea has woven the threat of North Korea into daily life. But now that threat has become mundane, and South Korean national security addresses family, public health, and national unity. Banal Security illustrates how as a result, queer Koreans are seen to represent a viral threat to national security. Taking readers from police stations and the Constitutional Court to queer activist offices and pride festivals, Timothy Gitzen shows how security weaves through daily life and diffuses the queer threat, in a context where queer Koreans are treated as viral carriers, disruptions to public order, and threats to family and culture.
Book DetailsThis volume presents theoretical ideas, case studies, and reflective insights on community archaeology approaches across the Middle East, with contributions by scholars working in and from Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria. The contributions provide multiple insights from contemporary public archaeology practice, drawing on theoretical frameworks and discussing the realities of challenges, innovations and opportunities on the ground.
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This book reinterprets the Finnish experiences in North America by connecting them to the transnational processes of settler colonial conquest, far-settlement, elimination of natives, and capture of terrestrial spaces. It places Finns as active participants in settler colonial histories, circulations of knowledge, and their ongoing legacies.
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