Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- 1 The problem of radioactive wastes -- 2 Inflexible technologies and incrementalism -- 3 Nuclear power and the problem of radioactive waste -- 4 Nirex and the search for...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Globalisation, capitalist crises and Turkey -- Interpretations of globalisation -- Globalisation, homogenisation and global inequalities -- Periodic crises and capitalism -- Globalisation and TNCs --...

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals...

In Africa, where poor roads, ports and railway infrastructure often constrain the rapid and efficient transportation of goods earmarked for export as well as passengers, air transport holds both a potential for growth and a role for the economic development of the continent by fostering trade...

The fall of the New Order government in 1998 and the political reform that followed posed substantial challenges for Indonesia's bureaucracy to continue fulfilling its mandate. This book analyses the process of bureaucratic reform in the irrigation sector. Using Irrigation Management Transfer...

Remaking Politics, Markets and Citizens in Turkey critically analyses the travel of neoliberal ideas, policies, experts and institutions from the West to Turkey. Through an ethnographic investigation of the newly established tobacco market, Ebru Kayaalp considers how they are being adopted and...

In this eye-opening book, Lorenzo Fioramonti provides a much-needed critique of the current 'data fever', showing both the direct consequences and indirect implications of the increasing power of numbers. At the same time, it investigates innovative attempts to resist the invasion of mainstream...