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Fabricate 2024: Creating Resourceful Futures is the fifth volume in the series of Fabricate publications. The first conference - 'Making Digital Architecture' - explored the ways in which technology, design and industry are shaping the world around us. Since then, we have become finely attuned to the negative impacts of this shaping. The 2024 conference, hosted in Copenhagen, sets focus on the pressing need to develop new models for architectural production that rethink how resource is deployed, its intensity, its socio-ecological origins and sensitivity to environment.This book features the work of designers, engineers and makers operating within the built environment. It documents disruptive approaches that reconsider how fabrication can be leveraged to address our collective and entangled challenges of resource scarcity, climate emergency and burgeoning demand. Exploring case studies of completed buildings and works-in-progress, together with interviews with leading thinkers, this edition of Fabricate offers a plurality of tangible models for design and production that set a creative and responsible course towards resourceful futures.

In Social Research for our Times researchers from the 50 years of UCL's Thomas Coram Research Unit share some of the most important results of their studies. Taking a unique opportunity to reflect on research context as well as findings, chapters address the key strategic question of what the relationship between research and policy should be.

Educational research can address today's global challenges of sustainability, structural inequality and social justice. Here, diverse international studies investigate the relationship between policy and practice, opportunities and constraints in education systems, challenges and opportunities for higher education, and the perspectives of students.

Global goods - Indian textiles, Chinese porcelain - were central to the material culture of 18th-century country houses. They tied wealthy property owners in Europe, America and Asia into global systems of supply and the processes of empire. This book offers fresh insights into the multi-directional flow of goods and culture of the time.

*Decolonising Andean Identities *interrogates the postcolonial, gendered and political subjectivities currently undergoing dramatic social change in Andean Latin America.

*Decolonising Andean Identities *interrogates the postcolonial, gendered and political subjectivities currently undergoing dramatic social change in Andean Latin America.

From Shakespeare to Autofiction studies authorship throughout modernity, from oral tradition to the shifting roles of authors in recent autofiction.

From Shakespeare to Autofiction studies authorship throughout modernity, from oral tradition to the shifting roles of authors in recent autofiction.

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham Volume 13 contains the texts of all known letters sent both to and from Bentham between 1 July 1828 and his death on 6 June 1832.

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham Volume 13 contains the texts of all known letters sent both to and from Bentham between 1 July 1828 and his death on 6 June 1832.

Brings together historians of popular politics, the civil wars, state welfare, and criminal justice to unveil the widespread influence of petitions in shaping politics and social dynamics in Early Modern Britain. The humble petition was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of civil wars and in everyday local negotiations about taxation, welfare, and litigation. People at all levels of society, from noblemen to paupers, used petitions to make their voices heard, and these are valuable sources for mapping the structures of authority and agency that framed early modern society. The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain offers a holistic study of this crucial topic in early modern British history. The contributors to this volume survey a vast range of sources, showing the myriad ways people petitioned the authorities from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They cross the jurisdictional, sub-disciplinary, and chronological boundaries that have otherwise constrained the current scholarly literature on petitioning and popular political engagement. Teasing out broad conclusions from innumerable smaller interventions in public life, they not only address the aims, attitudes, and strategies of those involved but also assess the significance of the processes they used. This volume makes it possible to rethink the power of petitioning and to re-evaluate broad trends regarding political culture, institutional change, and state formation.

The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain offers a holistic study of this crucial topic in early modern British history. This volume makes it possible to rethink the power of petitioning and to re-evaluate broad trends regarding political culture, institutional change and state formation.

The Science of Naples highlights the importance of Naples in the history of science, exploring the city's contribution to the production of new knowledge from 1500 to 1800.

The Science of Naples highlights the importance of Naples in the history of science, exploring the city's contribution to the production of new knowledge from 1500 to 1800.

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world.

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world.

A critique of current childcare systems, advocating for a transformative shift towards universal, publicly supported early childhood education and parenting leave. Written by two leading experts in early childhood education, Early Childhood in the Anglosphere offers a unique comparison of early childhood education and care services and parenting leave across seven high-income Anglophone countries. Peter Moss and Linda Mitchell explore what these systems have in common, including the dominance of childcare services, widespread privatization and marketization, and weak parenting leave. They highlight the substantial failings of these systems and the causes and consequences of these failings. But this book is ultimately about hope, about how these failings might be made good through major changes. In other words, it is about transformation: Why transformation is both necessary and possible at this particular time? What transformation might look like? And how it might happen? Part of that transformation concerns the need for new policies and structures. Furthermore, it is about how the Anglosphere thinks about early childhood. The authors call for a turn away from speaking of early childhood services as "childcare," conceptualizing it in terms of business and marketized commodities. Instead, they should be envisaged as a public good with universal access for children, supported by well-paid, individual entitlements to parenting leave. Using examples from the Anglosphere and beyond, the book argues that a transformation of thinking, policies, and structures is desirable and doable.

This unique comparison of early childhood education and care services, and parenting leave, across seven high-income Anglophone countries reveals widespread failings, both in systems and the thinking behind them. The book plots a path towards a transformed early childhood system - public, universal, education-based and meeting many needs.