This edited volume brings together international scholars to examine how leadership, communication, and culture intersect to shape the modern PR workplace. Through a multidisciplinary lens, the book explores critical issues of well-being, diversity, engagement, and digital transformation across public relations and communication industries.

Drawing on research from Europe, North America, and Asia, contributors reveal how culture, technology, gender, and informal practices influence how professionals lead, connect, and thrive in increasingly hybrid and global work environments. The chapters span a wide range of topics-from empathetic and accountable leadership in times of crisis, to the invisible pressures of digital surveillance, to the role of informal rituals such as shared meals in building engagement and belonging. Together, they illustrate how communication is not only a professional skill but a social process that constructs organizational identity and community.

Offering theoretical insight for researchers and post-graduate students as well as practical lessons for managers, educators, and practitioners, this book highlights pathways toward more ethical, inclusive, and human-centered forms of leadership.

Becoming a Self-Differentiated Leader offers a transformative framework to understand why ruptures in communication happen and equips readers with the tools to overcome them.

Authentic leadership potential hinges on bridging the gap between the sway of external pressures and your own internal compass. Drawing from decades of experience in psychology, executive leadership, and coaching, the authors provide a psychological and theoretical understanding of secure and insecure attachments, relational systems, and how they feed into our everyday motivations, behaviors, and decisions. This book uncovers the hidden dynamics of Loyalty Contracts - the spoken and unspoken agreements we make with ourselves and others that can quietly erode leadership, fuel burnout, and diminish impact. Each chapter equips readers with practical tools as well as case studies to seamlessly elevate your leadership effectiveness, breaking free from self-sabotaging tendencies that can lead to relational and organizational dysfunction, stagnation, and breakdown.

Whether you are a business leader, executive coach, manager, mentor, HR professional, organizational psychologist, or pursuing your own journey of self-differentiation, this book delivers the tools, insights, and practices required to lead and thrive in the age of artificial intelligence.

This book is a practical, research-informed, and deeply accessible guide for mid-career professionals who feel the growing pull to rethink their relationship with work and intentionally shape their next steps. Drawing on design thinking, Lean management principles, continuous improvement, adult development theory, and real-life stories from individuals navigating major transitions, the book introduces a structured Life Design framework specifically designed for people aged 40-60. Unlike traditional retirement planning books that focus almost exclusively on financial readiness, this book reframes the "second act" as a multidimensional life phase defined by purpose, well-being, creativity, contribution, identity, and freedom.

Through clear tools, reflective exercises, and real examples, readers learn how to imagine, prototype, and implement a second act that fits their values, personality, strengths, and aspirations. At its core, the book operationalizes life design using the same disciplined, iterative thinking that drives successful organizational transformation. Readers are guided through foundational clarity - identifying their purpose, values, and grounding beliefs, and readiness across health, wealth, and purpose - before moving into structured exploration.

The IDEA Cycle (a personal adaptation of the Lean Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle) serves as the engine of experimentation: readers generate hypotheses for possible next-chapter paths, design and run small prototypes, evaluate results, and refine their direction. Tools such as the Life Design Purpose Wheel, Life Design Playbook (a personal A3), Foundations Readiness Check, and a simplified fishbone diagram bring structure to questions that are often emotional, ambiguous, and overwhelming. These tools have already been piloted with coaching and workshops, demonstrating both usability and meaningful impact. The methodology is grounded in more than two decades of Lean practice, including the author's experience as a Certified Lean Leader, Six Sigma Black Belt, and Kaizen Fellow.

This book examines the impact of COVID-19 on restorative justice programs in several provinces of Canada and the emerging practices that have resulted. The COVID pandemic seems to have influenced Canadians' perceptions of public safety, with reported changes in the frequency and types of crimes committed, as well as changes in how justice institutions and restorative justice programs operate.

This book explores some of the innovative virtual and blended restorative justice practices that emerged as a result of the pandemic, documenting the impact of COVID-19 on restorative justice from the lenses of resilience and creativity.

This book will be of interest to a wide variety of readers, including government agencies and justice stakeholders who are interested in being responsive to community justice needs; justice practitioners seeking to understand policy implications and formulate policy recommendations; researchers within community-based organizations; and graduate and undergraduate course developers within disciplines such as sociology, criminology, justice studies, law and society, and Indigenous studies; and anyone concerned with emerging restorative justice practices and decolonization efforts in Canada.

In the maelstrom of globalization and cyberspace, organized crime continues to defy definition. A diverse array of activities is perpetuated by criminal organizations, criminal groups and associations, and gangs, and it is clear that one specific label is no longer adequate. This book offers a uniquely global approach to organized crime and the multitude of forces that shape it in the 21st century.

The new edition has been revised and reorganized to include even more global and comparative coverage of various forms of organized crime, spanning the US, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, Russia and Europe, Asia and Africa. Some of the topics included are:

• Global definitions of organized crime
• The evolution of maritime piracy
• Female participation in organized crime and the overlap of victim-offender binary
• Discussions on contemporary drug crisis: opium and the Taliban, fentanyl crisis and the role played by China and Mexico, Myanmar and the Golden Triangle, the impact of Covid on Latin American cannabis production
• Forms of environmental crime and the "ecomafia"
• Rise in cyber and technology driven crime across Asia and Africa, including discussions on Dark Net, deep web, TOR
• Reorganization of the Latin American criminal economies
• Updated coverage on terrorist groups
• Discussions on new international cooperation frameworks, the use of AI, case studies of Interpol and Europol cases in the 2020s, including Operation Lionfish Hurricane (2025) and Greenlight/Trojan Shield (2021)

This book is essential reading for students engaged in the study of global and transnational organized crime, with features including chapter overviews, key terms, critical thinking questions, and case studies.

Compassionate Digital Innovation examines the ethical tensions at the heart of the digital innovations that shape contemporary life, from artificial intelligence and blockchain to social media platforms. Rather than treating harm as an accidental by-product of progress, this book argues that recurring dilemmas are embedded in the structural logics of digital infrastructures.

Through a pluralistic conceptual framework, it shows how amplification, personalisation, persistence, automation, and simulation generate predictable tensions at scale. Drawing on moral philosophy and empirical research, this book proposes compassion as a constitutional orientation for navigating these tensions. Compassion is framed not as sentimentality, but as a disciplined commitment to reduce avoidable suffering and redistribute responsibility in proportion to power. Across social media, Web3 governance, and AI companionship, readers encounter concrete analyses of both promise and peril. This book moves beyond appeals to "personal responsibility" to envision organised compassion through resistance to extractive models, regulatory reform, and the construction of public-interest alternatives.

For managers, technologists, policymakers, researchers, students, and engaged citizens, this book offers a rigorous yet accessible framework for redesigning digital innovation in service of dignity, justice, and the common good.

This book explores how creativity is being redefined in the age of artificial intelligence and information overload. Tracing the evolution from Drucker's knowledge worker to Florida's creative class, it examines how generative AI reshapes work, decision-making, and measurement. Drawing on major psychological thinkers such as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Teresa Amabile, Daniel Kahneman, and Herbert Simon, it connects creativity research with cognitive science and behavioral decision theory. By combining management theory, creativity studies, and historical insight, the book reveals what remains uniquely human in a world increasingly shaped by algorithms.

Readers will gain a nuanced understanding of creativity as a dynamic human capacity rather than a vague buzzword or mystical gift. The book clarifies key distinctions-between abilities, skills, and competences; between Big-C and little-c creativity; and between algorithmic novelty and human originality rooted in intention and cultural meaning. It integrates major psychological traditions, from Guilford and Torrance to Boden and Sawyer, while critically engaging with contemporary definitions such as those proposed by PISA and the OECD. Through historical examples, theoretical reflection, and contemporary cases-including the role of AI in creative production-the book shows how creativity operates cognitively, socially, and culturally. It equips leaders, educators, and professionals with conceptual tools to cultivate creativity intentionally, without romanticizing it or reducing it to measurable output alone.

At its core, this book argues that creativity remains the decisive strategic advantage in the AI era - but only when organizations consciously design environments that protect attention, nurture intrinsic motivation, and cultivate reflective leadership. Written for scholars, managers, policymakers, and advanced students in management, innovation, and education, it provides a rigorous yet accessible framework for navigating creativity, knowledge, and human agency in the algorithmic age.

This book offers an innovative alternative methodology for managing negotiations grounded in the lived experiences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Drawing on behaviourographic analysis of their speeches, writings, and life episodes, the work introduces the conceptual framework of "state of relatedness" and five tangible relationship frames - inclination, influence, interpretative, interaction, and issues handling - that underlie all negotiated engagements. The book demonstrates how Gandhi and Mandela navigated power negotiators, profit negotiators, and polarising negotiators through their unique perspectives, competencies, and sensitivities, ultimately embodying the construct of the "Zero Negotiator" leaders who respond to near-impossible challenges through self-renunciation imbued with larger purpose. Through comprehensive literature review, case studies, and actionable insights, the methodology reveals pathways for managing negotiations in struggles against injustice, inequality, and discrimination.

The work presents managing negotiations ideas including Actionable Consequentialism, Mobilisational Managerialism, Combative Resistance, Secular Mobilisation, Redemptive Magnanimity, and Emancipatory Holism. It will be essential reading for postgraduate and doctoral students in Sociology, Social Work, Public Policy, Public Administration, Management, Law, and International Relations, as well as negotiations scholars, practitioners, trainers, and civil administrators seeking transformative approaches to conflict resolution in domestic and international contexts.

This book presents the essential ideas of influential Chinese philosophical traditions that have shaped the Chinese nation, explaining the core propositions of major thinkers in a clear and accessible way.

It traces philosophical developments from the pre-Qin and Han periods to the modern era, offering a panoramic overview of Chinese philosophical traditions and cultural wisdom. Emphasizing their practical relevance, the book examines the synergy between cultural revival and national rejuvenation, showing how Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist perspectives continue to inform ethical reflection, social values, and everyday decision-making. By integrating historical exposition with contemporary application, it provides a cohesive framework for understanding both the continuity and evolution of Chinese philosophy.

This book will serve scholars and students of Chinese philosophy and comparative philosophy, as well as readers interested in Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and the application of classical wisdom to contemporary issues.

This book revisits the period of rapprochement tourism between China and Taiwan from 2008 to 2016, highlighting the role it played in facilitating cultural exchange despite ongoing political tensions.

Contextualizing rapprochement tourism within broader discussions on cross-border tourism in politically sensitive regions, this book proposes a concept of 'cultural geopolitics' and an interdisciplinary framework - Mobility, Morality and Materiality - to offer a fresh perspective on heritage management. It employs tourist interviews, photographs and other visual aids to communicate complex theoretical concepts in an accessible manner. Topics covered include border repoliticization, the role of heritage in national narratives, the commodification of historical figures, and the intersection of spirituality and tourism. The book closes by outlining future directions for research, including difficult heritage management, individualized mobilities, and kinship-based return tourism, before concluding with reflections on sustainable peace and well-being.

This book will interest a range of scholars spanning the social sciences, including critical tourism studies, heritage management, cultural geography, and Chinese studies.

Urbanization is expanding at rapid rates worldwide. This growth depletes resources, destroys habitats, and negatively affects mental health by distancing people from nature. On the other hand, per-capita resource and space consumption decreases significantly in cities compared to suburban and rural forms of life. By concentrating people into dense settlements, cities render resource usage more efficiently and they free up spaces for other species and natural processes. Yet these apparent ecological benefits risk coming at the cost of human alienation from the rest of the natural world. This tension raises a fundamental philosophical question: Must the city stand in opposition to nature? Or can it be reimagined as a shared habitat in which human and other forms of life co-inhabit and co-produce the world? How can it become a city for all, including other species?

The book surveys emerging ways of conceptualizing the relationship between the urban, the natural, and the wild. It explores different models through which cities and nature might coexist, reflects on why the concept of "nature" remains philosophically meaningful despite its contested history. Although the city is nature in a trivial ontological sense-insofar as everything is, in some way, nature-ordinary language often treats the city as an entity or space opposed to nature. The book explores avant-garde approaches in urbanism and architecture that seek to conceive of and then build cities that are in various ways reconciled to nature. It analyzes possible issues of justice and aesthetics, as well as efforts to integrate the wild into the civic sphere of the city.

Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics: Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in environmental philosophy and environmental humanities, political philosophy, environmental ethics and aesthetics, philosophy of the city, urban ecology, and animal ethics.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license. Published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Forensic Psychology in Prisons and Probation provides a broad overview of practice in the field by discussing the contribution of forensic psychology in the HMPPS context.

Divided into four parts, the book begins by considering the role of assessment and intervention, before discussing the specific requirements of specialist populations. The book then explores how forensic psychologists can work with the system before concluding by covering professional issues such as ethics. Each chapter draws on core psychological theory and research, including HMPPS generated research outcomes and innovative practice, and focuses on the positive impact that psychological practice can have alongside implications for the future.

Bringing together experienced practitioners from within HMPPS, the book provides a must-read overview of how forensic psychologists can manage offenders and forensic services more widely. This book is a chance to hear from HMPPS Psychologists, applying theory to practice across HMPPS.

This book provides a detailed comparative analysis of independent police complaints bodies (IPCBs) in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK. It explores the distinctive political, cultural and institutional contexts shaping police accountability arrangements within each country, as well as the transnational dynamics behind the remarkable proliferation of IPCBs over the past three decades, assessing the prospects for future convergence around international standards.

Drawing on findings from the international project 'Police Accountability: Towards International Standards?', the book examines the inherent dilemmas and challenges in the everyday functioning and dynamics of IPCB reform. Each chapter presents integrated comparative analysis of key themes co-written by experts on police accountability in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK. The scholars involved approach the topic from range of scholarly disciplines: police studies and public administration, law, sociology, human geography, and history. Its qualitative comparative analysis adds to the existing literature on IPCBs based on single-country research.

The book facilitates exchange of knowledge and experiences across political cultures and linguistic boundaries, revising theoretical perspectives and through its empirical findings providing scholars, complaints practitioners and rights activists with unique frameworks to contextualise and assess current and emerging IPCB models in any country or jurisdiction.

This book will be useful reading for all those engaged in policing, public administration, rights activism, and law and policymaking.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 International license.

Not a blueprint but a source of insight, this book reveals how the people behind Galois Inc. built a thriving company without managers, using principles over policies and trust-based collaboration, proving you can create successful organizations that reflect your deepest values.

This practical guide shares insights from 25 years of organizational experimentation, showing how to establish effective conversational practices, build collaborative workflows, implement distributed decision-making, and maintain alignment without traditional hierarchy. Through real examples of both successes and failures, you'll discover how to create workplaces where people genuinely want to contribute and how to transform principles into sustainable organizational systems. The book is unique in its effort to guide readers to create their organization on their terms, rather than encourage them to make an organization like Galois. This book is especially valuable for technical entrepreneurs, engineering leaders, and teams of scientists who recognize that building great technology isn't enough: the human systems matter just as much.

It's for founders and leaders who want to create organizations that reflect their values rather than simply copying "best practices," and for anyone interested in alternative approaches to organizational design that prioritize both effectiveness and human flourishing.

Sustainability is often described as urgent, complex, and transformative. In practice, it is frequently experienced as fragmented, abstract, or difficult to translate into decisions. Many organisations are not lacking intent; they are lacking clarity about how sustainability fits into governance, strategy, execution, and everyday trade-offs.
Decoding Sustainability brings structure to that challenge. It examines sustainability as a systemic condition that reshapes markets, business models, risk exposure, and organisational responsibility. Rather than presenting a catalogue of frameworks or a maturity ladder, the book focuses on integration - how sustainability becomes part of how organisations think, decide, and operate.
The chapters move from conceptual foundations and organisational readiness to culture, governance, value creation, measurement, reporting, and long-term adaptation. Throughout, the emphasis remains on coherence: connecting expectations, systems, and decision pathways so sustainability does not remain symbolic or isolated.
Written in clear language and grounded in lived organisational realities, this book supports readers at different stages of experience - from those seeking orientation to those refining practice. It offers not universal answers, but a structured way to navigate complexity with judgement, credibility, and confidence.

Women Leaders in Central and Eastern Europe: Organizing, Politics, and the Path to Change is a groundbreaking edited volume that redefines leadership through the lens of women's experiences across a historically and culturally unique region. Drawing on rich, qualitative narratives, the book explores how women have led transformation in politics, public institutions, and organizational life in Central and Eastern Europe. This concise and compelling volume features case studies of individual women leaders, each situated within their country's socio-political context. Highlighting leadership as a practice of meaning-making and collective action, the book challenges dominant Western models centered on hierarchy and individualism. Instead, it offers inspiring accounts of resilience, cooperation, and visionary organizing. Each chapter includes analysis and reflections that bridge personal stories with wider themes in organization and gender studies. Ideal for researchers, scholars, students, and practitioners in organization studies, management, leadership, gender studies, and Central and Eastern European studies, this book is a vital contribution to the global conversation on inclusive and alternative leadership models. It also serves as an invaluable resource for educators and professionals seeking diverse perspectives on organizing and governance.

The future belongs not to those who maintain the status quo, but to those who can envision and create systems that allow humanity and our planet to flourish together. This book is an invitation for you to become an evolutionary leader.

As we face unprecedented polycrises-climate change, social inequality, economic instability-traditional leadership approaches are proving inadequate. This groundbreaking book challenges business leaders to transcend conventional thinking and become architects of a more sustainable, abundant future. Drawing on Buckminster Fuller's visionary framework and cutting-edge systems thinking, this book offers more than theory-it provides a practical pathway to becoming an evolutionary leader capable of addressing our most complex challenges. It presents seven transformative competencies that elevate you from problem-solver to systems transformer and actionable strategies for designing innovations that serve people, profit, and planet simultaneously.

While other books merely diagnose global challenges or present utopian visions, this work bridges the critical gap between awareness and action. It is for forward-thinking executives, entrepreneurs, social innovators, policy makers, and change agents committed to creating meaningful impact and collaborate in an interconnected world.

Family business governance is often thought of as a set of formal policies and structures that every family business should adopt. This is misleading. This book introduces the concept of Natural Governance to broaden the debate and explains how family businesses are actually governed effectively using a combination of informal and formal processes.

Written by Ken McCracken, who has worked as an adviser to family business over many years and gained significant insight, the book provides a framework to describe and sustain Natural Governance, and challenges some popular views about how family businesses should, or do in practice, behave and progress. It describes the more informal governance practices and processes that first emerge spontaneously in a family business, which are sustained by the natural inclination of a family business to move forwards by doing more of what has worked well in the past while trying to avoid repeating previous mistakes.

This book is an essential read for any member of a family business, as well as all professionals who provide services to family businesses. It will also interest researchers and teachers who want to explore this neglected area of family business governance.

Music festivals are increasingly expected to respond to environmental and climate challenges, yet little is known about how sustainability is actually organised across the sector.

This book offers a comparative and research-based analysis of how music festival organisations engage with environmental sustainability, examining not only environmental practices and performance, but also the strategies, decision-making processes, and certification pathways through which greening takes shape. Focusing on festivals in Northern and Southern Europe, the book shows that environmental action is shaped by uneven combinations of organisational capacity, strategic priorities, stakeholder pressures, and contextual conditions. Drawing on original mixed-method research, the book combines a large-scale survey of music festivals with expert interviews and contextual desk research. It explores three interconnected dimensions of festival greening: environmental practices and performance across key impact areas such as mobility, energy, waste, water, and procurement; sustainability strategies and organisational decision-making; and the adoption and role of environmental certification. In doing so, it moves beyond single-case descriptions and selective best practices to provide one of the first systematic comparative studies of how key festival characteristics, including size, budget, ownership, age, genre, and territorial context, relate to greening processes in the live music sector.

Green Music Festivals in Europe will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in festival and event studies, cultural management, sustainability, and cultural policy. It will also be valuable to festival organisers, sustainability managers, consultants, educators, certification bodies, and policy makers seeking a deeper and more practically grounded understanding of how environmental sustainability can be developed across music festivals and the wider cultural sector.

Fully revised and updated in its second edition, Events and Sustainability provides a comprehensive introduction to a full range of issues and topics relevant to event sustainability.

Topics covered across the book's insightful and extensive chapters include impacts, operating and policy environments, stimulating urban regeneration and creating lasting legacies, as well as practical knowledge on how to plan and achieve a sustainable event. The volume takes an holistic approach, drawing on multidisciplinary theory to offer insight into the economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts, and how these can be adapted or mitigated. This approach is supported by a host of interactive learning features, including discussion questions and guidance for further reading. Content new to this edition includes:

• Coverage of the impact of technology on sustainable events, including live and hybrid events.
• New content on international policy, climate change and measuring impacts.
• Revised and original international case studies throughout on a wide range of event types, from mega events to community festivals. Case studies use real-world examples to illustrate impacts, best practice and how sustainable practice can be best achieved in the future.

This timely and innovative book is essential reading for students, scholars and academics within the event management field, as well as future managers within this sphere.

Absolute Essentials of Social Marketing provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to Social Marketing theory and practice, offering systematic approaches to influence behaviour for personal and social good through marketing principles and behavioural science.

Readers will gain practical knowledge of how to develop, implement and evaluate effective social change programmes through this concise guide. It delivers these benefits through a structured six chapter approach covering essential concepts, behavioural strategies, planning methodologies, evaluation techniques and organisational integration, with practical tools and real-world case studies from diverse global settings.

This book serves both students studying various courses with modules on influencing behaviour for social good and professionals in government agencies, NGOs and for-profit organisations interested in creating social value.

This book is supported by case studies, the STELa toolkit with over 30 planning tools, links to key readings and connections to training provided by the International Social Marketing Association.

This book critically examines how public relations theory and practice are being redefined within the sociopolitical, cultural, and technological realities of the Global South. Grounded in Southern African scholarship, the book challenges dominant Western paradigms by foregrounding relational, ethical, and contextually embedded approaches to strategic communication.

Through theoretically rich and empirically informed chapters, the volume explores key contemporary themes shaping the field, including metamodernism, dialogic engagement, digital intermediation, sustainability communication, anti-fragile crisis management, participatory governance, and the future of PR education in an AI-mediated world. Collectively, these perspectives advance a more inclusive understanding of PR as a discipline that transcends functionalist traditions to embrace social responsibility, authenticity, and transformative dialogue.

Intended for scholars and reflective practitioners, this volume positions Southern Africa as an intellectual contributor to global PR thought. It underscores the field's evolving role in cultivating trust, transparency, and resilience, and in shaping public relations as a strategic and ethical force for societal progress in an interconnected, rapidly changing world. The book will particularly appeal to advanced public relations scholars seeking critical insights into developing PR practice and theory in the context of AI and related fields, including strategic communication, advertising, journalism, and digital marketing.

Stupidity and Self-Absorption offers the first full-length philosophical exploration of human stupidity, reinterpreting it as a pervasive existential condition rooted in self-absorption. It argues that stupidity is not merely a cognitive or moral failing but a habitual resistance to reality, where excessive focus on oneself distorts one's relationship with the world.

Drawing on social epistemology, phenomenology, existentialism, and psychology, the author develops a systematic account of stupidity as a breakdown of openness to the world under the gravitational pull of one's own positionality and propositional horizon. He examines the structural features of the self-interiority, positionality, and propositionality-that enable self-absorption, illustrating how these dimensions coalesce into a retreat from reality. Extending the analysis to collective contexts, he reinterprets phenomena such as propaganda, ideological rigidity, and tragedy of the commons as expressions of suprapersonal self-absorption. The book culminates in a critical diagnosis of late-stage capitalism, which systematizes and rewards patterns of self-absorption on both individual and collective levels. Engaging with thinkers like Arendt, Gadamer, Heidegger, and Murdoch, it offers a bold and original diagnosis of the epistemic and moral pathologies underpinning contemporary society, urging readers to confront the inevitability of stupidity with wisdom and responsibility.

Stupidity and Self-Absorption will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in continental philosophy, ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, psychology, and cultural theory.

This book celebrates a kaleidoscopic process of permanent critique and a diversity of social and scientific knowledges. It examines complex and global crime issues in light of the many alternative scientific, artistic, empathetic, campaigning, and otherwise imaginative criminologies that attempt to understand and/or fundamentally change why crime and justice take the forms they do.

From cutting-edge topics such as crimes against humanity, the criminology of mobility, terrorism, cybercrime, corporate crime, and green criminology; to gendered perspectives on violence against women, sexualities, and feminist and queer criminologies; to key issues in penology such as mass incarceration, the death penalty, desistance from crime, risk, and the political economy of punishment; Alternative Criminologies demonstrates the breadth, the variety, and the vibrancy of contemporary perspectives on crime, criminalization, and punishment.

Bringing together 39 leading experts from around the world, this collection unites fresh and insightful theoretical positions with innovative empirical research and marks an important juncture for criminologies and their imagined futures.

This second edition builds on the strengths of the original volume through careful revision and expansion. Several chapters include refined terminology and conceptual clarifications, updated literature and references, new empirical material, and revised case studies and examples. Contributors also reflect on significant global and regional developments shaping crime and justice in the years following the publication of the first edition, with the volume further extended by two new chapters: one on Southern and Decolonial criminologies, and another examining criminology and criminal justice in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alternative Criminologies remains essential reading for students of criminology and criminal justice.

This book brings together the thought-provoking reflections of Zhao Tingyang, a distinguished Chinese philosopher, on the philosophy of science and technology, exploring and responding to transformative advancements in artificial intelligence.

Originally entitled The Myth or Dirge of Artificial Intelligence in its Chinese edition, this book is a collection of essays on artificial intelligence. Organized around the ChatGPT divide, the author contrasts the pre-AlphaGo era with the current age of large language models (LLMs). From the perspectives of ethics and political philosophy, Zhao Tingyang vigorously challenges mainstream AI ethics and offers two political forecasts arising from the technological upgrade: a high likelihood of a new "service is power" despotism and less than a 50% chance of civilizational regression. Ultimately, Zhao proposes "verb philosophy" as a potential metaphysical key to unlocking advanced world-model AI or embodied AI. The chapters explore the distinction, essence, dangers, and possible solutions of modern artificial intelligence, balancing academic rigor with accessibility for general readers. This book offers a philosophical vision and depth that is rare nowadays.

This book will serve as an essential reference for scholars and students of the liberal arts, especially philosophy, as well as for any reader concerned about technological advancement and the future of the human world.