Writing Positionality for Qualitative Inquiry: A Meta-Analysis of Written Research provides fundamental instruction for researchers on expressing positionality and incorporating written positionality statements into their research writing. The book offers a distinctive progression from identifying problems to implementing solutions, serving as a practical manual that emphasizes positionality's importance while guiding researchers through critical reflections on their data collection and analysis practices.

Structured in three comprehensive parts, the work provides an overview of research writing practices and engages with existing scholarship to demonstrate how positionality has expanded scientific knowledge development beyond traditional objectivist foundations. Readers gain deep understanding of positionality's necessity within qualitative research through discussion of four major dimensions of written positionality, covering crucial issues such as sociocultural identities. The book explores future modes of positionality through pathways including intersectionality, intertextuality, and temporality, while an appendix featuring the author's own positionality statement serves as a practical reference exemplifying the concepts explored throughout.

This valuable resource serves both emerging and established researchers across social science disciplines seeking to enhance research rigor by situating their role in data collection and analysis. It proves particularly useful for graduate students, qualitative researchers, ethnographers, and academics in sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, and related fields who need practical guidance for developing and articulating their positionality within scholarly work.

Antisemitism and Sexism: Ideological Constellations Before and After 7 October analyses the manifold ways in which antisemitism and sexism appear not as isolated ideologies but as intersecting ones, exploring their historical, social, political, economic, and psychological constellations. Drawing on Critical Theory, the book offers a comparative historical analysis of these entanglements from nineteenth-century Europe-particularly Germany and Austria-through National Socialism and its preconditions, to the historical and contemporary formations of Islamism. The sexist antisemitism of 7 October and its aftermath are examined as a contemporary eruption of these enduring ideological patterns, while Critical Theory itself is sharpened in light of these events.

Structured around distinct analytical dimensions, the book opens with a theoretically dense examination of the damaged relationship between human beings and nature under modern labour society, identified by Critical Theory as a key source of both antisemitism and sexism. Subsequent chapters analyse the contradictory constructions of Judaism and femininity, the relation between body and mind, and socially regulated forms of sexuality. Conspiracy myths linking weakness and omnipotence, the psychosocial roots of authoritarian dispositions, and the embedding of these ideologies in specific formations of capitalist modernity and repressive communities are examined in turn. The book also offers a critical examination of intersectional feminist antisemitism in the aftermath of 7 October and advances a proposal to reformulate intersectionality as an ideology-critical framework for a feminist critique of antisemitism.

This book will be of interest to scholars of gender studies, feminism, Critical Theory, history, and antisemitism studies.

This book equips students and researchers with practical, creative strategies for gathering original data. It challenges the overreliance on surveys and secondary datasets, placing data collection at the center of quantitative social science.

Covering diverse methods-including archival research, media analysis, field observation, experiments, natural experiments, and linking disparate datasets, this study shows how to move beyond routine approaches and uncover sources others overlook. Real-world case studies range from student projects to Nobel Prize-winning research, demonstrating how innovative data gathering can unlock new insights. The chapters combine methodological guidance with vivid examples, prompts for discussion, and suggestions for further reading. Readers learn how to design feasible, ethical, and methodologically sound data collection strategies that suit a wide range of topics and contexts.

An accessible complement to standard research methods texts, this book is ideal for social science students, doctoral candidates, and early-career researchers looking to think outside the checkbox.

A comprehensive overview of manifestations of Islamophobia worldwide.

With Islamophobia becoming a household term during the past decade, it has become more urgent to investigate the history and development of this modern concept.

Although the term 'Islamophobia' has a relatively recent origin, historians recognise that fear and hatred of Islam and its followers have a long and unfortunate lineage. Expressions of Islamophobia have had world-altering consequences-from the premodern Christian theological hostility to the Islamic faith and the papal discourses that helped prompt the First Crusade, to Orientalist scholars and contemporary politicians who have used it to justify imperial domination. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this volume brings together experts from around the world to analyse the global, historical, theological and political dimensions of Islamophobia. The contributors cover topics including historical practices of Orientalism; the impact of theological disputes with Islam within faith traditions; state policies on immigration; the role of gender, empire and post-colonialism; government-led discrimination against Muslims; ethnic cleansing; and the relationship between Islamophobia and the rise of the national security state.

Featuring chapters from leading and emerging voices in recent scholarship on Islamophobia, this volume provides the vital historical context to understand the growing intolerance of today's world.

The first global overview that maps out Muslims' military, economic, political and logistical contributions to the Allied victory in the Second World War.

The participation of Muslims in the Second World War is frequently ignored, overlooked or mischaracterised. A profound Western-centric scholarly bias has downplayed Muslims' immense military, economic, social and logistical support for the Allied victory, while overstating the role of a small minority who collaborated with the Axis powers, many under duress as prisoners of war.

Yet at least five million Muslim soldiers fought in every major theatre of war across Asia, Africa and Europe. Their contributions remain so thoroughly marginalised that not a single monograph has been dedicated to their role. This volume attempts to fill this glaring historiographical gap by offering the first overview, in any language, of Muslims' various wartime contributions to the Allied cause. It brings together senior and emerging scholars from Europe, Asia, Africa and North America to set the record straight on Muslims as forgotten allies.

The objective is not to glorify their contributions or construct a narrative of Muslim heroism. It is rather to challenge selective memory by recounting the histories of a shared past, with the aim of integrating Muslims into the collective memory of the Second World War.

Evaluates the instrumentalisation of Sufism in the politics of Pakistan and its consequences for the nation.

Pakistan, historically known for its veneration of Sufi saints and shrines, has long struggled to reconcile this heritage with a governing discourse of 'Muslim modernism', which sees local expressions of Sufism as deviations from Islam.

Farzana Shaikh explores the disputed role of Sufism in how Pakistan has come to define its Muslim identity since 1947, charting this contestation through the prism of state-led 'modernist' critiques of Sufi practices. She reveals how attempts by successive governments to mould the language of Sufism to support contrasting visions of Pakistan have in fact fuelled tensions and accentuated doubts about its place in Pakistani nationhood. She also suggests that state efforts to appropriate Sufism were constrained by the fragile legitimacy of Pakistan's ruling 'modernist' elites, who relied on Sufi religious authority to authenticate their claim to be 'acting in the name of Islam', as well as to fend off a politically ambitious clerical establishment committed to the creation of an Islamic state.

In the aftermath of 9/11, Pakistan cultivated an image of itself as a 'moderate' Muslim state resting on Sufi foundations. But as Shaikh shows, this may only deepen anxieties over the meaning of the country's Islamic identity, rather than dissolve them.

In recent years, scholars from many disciplines have contributed to the literature on the 'proper' role of markets, but they often overlook the contribution of many economists who have also called for a broader understanding of the market beyond pricing. This book explores the place of the market in the history of economic thought from the origins of neoclassical economics onwards, and examines what has been written about the role of markets in promoting cooperation and trust.

The first part of the book explores the debate about markets among those British economists who shaped neoclassical economics. Two eras are distinguished, each with its own story of the market. The first era, from Henry Sidgwick to Alfred Marshall and from the laissez-faire approach to Keynes' interventionist policies. The second era highlights the scarcity and efficiency- approach of Philip Wicksteed and Lionel Robbins, which laid the groundwork for the neoliberalism of Hayek and Friedman. The second part of the book explores the possibility of a new story of the market after fundamental beliefs about the market have been questioned, not least by the excesses and drawbacks of the neoliberal market. Clues to such a story may be found in efforts to expand on the basic ideas of analysis - such as human agency, the context and driving forces of economic action - which challenge foundational elements of Robbins' scarcity approach. The book concludes by venturing into the contours of a newly evolving story of the market.

This book will be essential reading for historians of economic thought and political economy who are interested in changing ideas about the role of the market.

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Sport for Development and Peace serves as the first comprehensive resource dedicated to exploring the diverse methodological approaches essential for advancing research and practice in this growing interdisciplinary field.

The handbook provides a dedicated and rigorous exploration of the diverse methodologies and research approaches essential for understanding and advancing this increasingly vital area of study and practice. As a comprehensive guide to the methodological landscape of inquiry within the dynamic field of Sport for Development and Peace, the book delves into the fundamental principles and practical application of research methods tailored to this unique interdisciplinary space. The book's central objective is to provide both academics and practitioners with a state-of-the-art resource that directly addresses the critical role of rigorous methodology within the field. Accordingly, the handbook's primary themes revolve around three pillars: Epistemological Foundations, where the underlying assumptions and frameworks that shape research approaches are critically examined; Diverse Research Paradigms, exploring a spectrum of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods designs; and Researcher Narratives, which feature insightful accounts regarding the practical challenges of conducting research in diverse contexts. Part I addresses foundational conceptual frameworks and diverse methodological approaches employed within the field. Part II elaborates upon various research methods and associated techniques pertinent to the investigation within the Sport for Development and Peace field. Finally, Part III presents critical reflections and empirical research findings pertaining to endeavors across distinct global regions.

This book is designed for researchers, students, academics, and practitioners in the fields of sports studies, physical education, Sport for Development and Peace, sport-based youth development, sport and politics, sociology of sport, sociology, anthropology, human geography, peace studies, gender and sport, and conflict resolution.

Adhering to Marxism as its guiding principle, this book is grounded in China's socialist fundamental system and oriented toward serving the practical needs of Chinese government regulation.

It emphasizes the necessity and urgency of developing a theoretical framework for government regulation with Chinese characteristics. This framework is an integrated system primarily composed of the fundamental elements of government regulation, including its legal system, regulatory agencies, regulatory methods, oversight mechanisms, and performance evaluation. The book systematically examines the theoretical foundations, systemic characteristics, and development pathways of these elements. The book also conducts empirical analyses across six representative sectors: energy, food, the environment, workplace safety, finance, and the new economy. Such analyses provide foundational insights for optimizing regulatory systems in specific domains and enhancing government oversight effectiveness.

This book will be valuable for scholars and students of economics, public policy, and political science.

This volume examines the intertwined meanings of reason, crisis, and Europe against the backdrop of acute political, ethical, and geopolitical instability. Eschewing any singular diagnosis or overarching interpretive frame, it assembles a range of disciplinary, methodological, and normative approaches in productive tension. Through analyses of war and unrest, democratic backsliding, persistent colonial legacies, neoliberal forms of governance, and divergent philosophical lineages, the volume invites readers to reassess the foundations, limits, and possible futures of European thought and institutional life.

Organized into four parts, the volume opens by tracing key moments in the philosophical history of reason and its recurrent crises within modern European intellectual traditions. Parts II and III extend this framing by introducing new theoretical perspectives and intellectual histories. Part II highlights the contradictions, contestations, and negotiations that have shaped the evolution of European philosophy. Part III offers a critical examination of political and legal discourses forged in response to the crises of the twentieth century, interrogating how these normative projects have influenced the trajectory of late modern Europe. Part IV concludes the volume with contemporary theoretical and political reflections on Europe's present and its possible reconfigurations.

Reason, Crisis, and Europe will appeal to scholars and advanced students in European philosophy, European studies, political theory, and the history of legal and political thought, as well as readers seeking a rigorous, interdisciplinary account of European modernity and its enduring crises.

This book explores the interaction of European Enlightenment thinkers with Chinese theory and shows how ideas from China and ideas about China had a profound impact on Enlightenment thought.

Challenging the orthodox account of the Enlightenment as an innovation that emerged solely among European men, the book argues that many ideas which led to human progress originated outside Europe. Focusing on the cultural interaction between Europe and China it demonstrates how Chinese theory precipitated debate and demanded theorization by fundamentally challenging the intellectual framework inherited from European antiquity. The result was neither European nor Chinese, but a dynamic fusion that has continued to produce theory right up to the present day.

In illustrating how cultural interaction with alien perspectives, civilizations, and worldviews can further human development, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese and European history and philosophy.