Jessica Faecks

Book cover with abstract blue and green art. Title reads Everyday Bordering in Migrants’ Access to Rights: Scope, Practices and Strategies of Resistance. Names of five editors are listed below, along with the Palgrave Macmillan logo and the series title Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship.

A new edited volume #JustPublished in #Migration, #Diasporas and #Citizenship: 'Everyday Bordering in Migrants’ Access to Rights - Scope, Practices and Strategies of Resistance, eds. @itiraladaggorentas.bsky.social, @buketozdemirdal.bsky.social et al. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Tune in today! Please note the new link to the Zoom meeting to celebrate the publication of "The Palgrave Handbook on #Decoloniality in #Asia", hosted by the Joya Art Gallery, UP Cebu, and DeZIM-Institut, Berlin:

Webinar ID : 974 5373 7527
Passcode: 15719185
up-edu.zoom.us/j/9745373752...

Book cover titled Acculturation of Korean New Zealander Youth: Re-Ethnicization of the Newer Generation by Changzoo Song, with a leafy orange and yellow pattern on a red and purple background. This Palgrave Pivot is published in Open Access by Palgrave Macmillan.

A new #PalgravePivot just published in #OpenAccess: 'Acculturation of Korean New Zealander Youth: Re-Ethnicization of the Newer Generation' by Changzoo Song. Read, download or purchase the hardcover here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @hssf415.bsky.social #sociology #migration

Book cover with green concentric circle patterns on a dark background. Title reads Neighbourhood Ecologies: Creative Ethnographies of Urban Environments by Ilaria Vanni and Alexandra Crosby, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Forgot to add the cover!

A smiling young girl of Indian descent with long hair in a ponytail raises her fists joyfully. The book title reads: Young Indo-Fijian Women Breaking Barriers in Fijian Sporting Spaces: An Arts-Based Approach by the author Rohini Balram. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in the New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures book series.

#JustPublished in link.springer.com/series/15874: 'Young Indo-Fijian Women Breaking Barriers in Fijian Sporting Spaces - An Arts-Based Approach' by Rohini Balram. Read, download or purchase the book here (HC, e-book, MyCopy): link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Sociology @hss.springernature.com

Neighbourhood Ecologies This book presents an interdisciplinary place-based design methodology to research SDG11-related socioecological stewardship activities in urban spaces.

A new #PalgravePivot #JustPublished: 'Neighbourhood Ecologies - Creative Ethnographies of Urban Environments' by Ilaria Vanni and Alexandra Crosby. Read, download or purchase the book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... (or ask your trusted librarian!) @hss.springernature.com #PalgraveMacmillan

Check out our new series Palgrave Studies in Disability in Asia and the Pacific: bit.ly/3HiR4V6

If you have a book idea or would like to know more about publishing opportunities in our new #DisabilityStudies programme, contact me at clelia.petracca@palgrave.com

The Palgrave Handbook on Decoloniality in Asia This Handbook brings together a plethora of perspectives on decoloniality from scholars of the social sciences and humanities, focusing on Asian countries.

Hybrid #BookLaunch Alert 'The #Palgrave Handbook on #Decoloniality in #Asia' (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...), hosted by the University of the Philippines Cebu. When? 3 Sep 2025, 10:00 AM CEST; 4:00 PM PhST; 5:00 AM GMT. Join via Zoom (995 4172 2980 / UPCebuCCAD) and celebrate with the editors!

I'm excited to be hosting an interactive author workshop at this year's @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social's conference in Melbourne: Academic book publishing – From proposal to publication. More info in the online programme which has just been released: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74508/...

Book cover titled Visual Culture in the Philippines, edited by Veronica L. Gregorio, with a foreword by Linda Simensky. The design features Filipino handicrafts comprising a round coaster with a woven bamboo and lacquer lattice design, placed on a coconut wood place mat on a hand-woven cotton table runner. In the bottom left-hand corner, the logo of the Social Visualities research group of the International Sociological Association (RC 57) is included with the Palgrave Macmillan logo in the bottom right-hand corner.

New week, new books: #JustPublished - 'Visual Culture in the #Philippines', ed. Veronica L. Gregorio and published in our 'Social Visualities' book series. Read, download or purchase the book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Sociology #PalgraveMacmillan @hss.springernature.com

Book cover with abstract red, yellow, and orange textured artwork. Title text: South Asians in Southern Europe: Exploring Labour, Identity, and Desire, edited by Reena Kukreja. Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan.

#JustPublished: 'South Asians in Southern Europe: Exploring #Labour, #Identity, and #Desire', edited by Reena Kukreja. Download or purchase it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #sociology #migration #diaspora #SouthAsia #SouthernEurope
@hss.springernature.com #PalgraveMacmillan

Book cover titled "Diaspora and Soft Power: Influence of Indian American Elites in US Foreign Policy" by Eva Loreng, published by Palgrave Macmillan, with an abstract yellow and blue background.

#JustPublished: 'Diaspora and Soft Power: Influence of Indian American Elites in US Foreign Policy' by Eva Loreng. Download or purchase it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #sociology #diaspora #migration #ForeignPolicy #IR
@hss.springernature.com #PalgraveMacmillan

Chapter abstract submission for Future of Work and Care Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the traditional labour market by substituting human employment areas that were previously thought to be uncomputerizable (Bruun and Duke, 2018; Joyce e...

#AcademicSky: Are you a social scientist researching the future of #work and #care? Do consider submitting an abstract for a contributed volume, edited by a stellar team: docs.google.com/forms/d/11V0... #sociology @hss.springernature.com @lutfunlata.bsky.social @drshereegregory.bsky.social

Cover of the book "Chinese Tourism in Australia" published by Palgrave Macmillan, showing a Chinese tourist posing on a beach with a surfboard.

🏄 Behind the headlines on Australia's major tourism deal with #China.

What does Chinese #tourism in #Australia looks like in the 21st century? This book by John Connell, Phil McManus and Xuesong Ding explains link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @hss.springernature.com

Analyzing Motives in Semi-Structured Interview Data This book offers qualitative social scientists a practical, replicable method for motive analysis grounded in an interdisciplinary theoretical framework.

My coauthored book with Rosario Rizzo Lara, Analyzing Motives in Semi-Structured Interview Data: A Guide for the Social Sciences, has just been published! Please let me know if you're interested.
@jessicafaecks.bsky.social @springernature.com
#sociology

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Book cover titled "Analyzing Motives in Semi-Structured Interview Data: A Guide for the Social Sciences" by Luis Antonio Vila-Henninger and Rosario Rizzo Lara. Palgrave Macmillan logo.

#JustPublished: 'Analyzing Motives in Semi-Structured Interview Data: A Guide for the Social Sciences', by @vilahen.bsky.social and Rosario Rizza Lara. Download or purchase it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #sociology #socialsciences
@hss.springernature.com
#PalgraveMacmillan

A Time For Sociology At a moment marked by global crises, rising inequalities, growing intolerance, and threats to academic freedom, this statement reasserts the values of a rigorous, independent, public, critical, and gl...

#SaveSociology: Please endorse @isa-sociology.org's 'A Time for Sociology' Declaration #ISAForum - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises This edited book investigates how disaster-related experiences and needs of LGBTIQA+ people differ across national, cultural, and regional boundaries.

#JustPublished in our cross-imprint #SustainableDevelopmentGoals book series (#SDG5): 'Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises', ed. by Dale Dominey-Howes et al. Download or purchase it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @hss.springernature.com #PalgraveMacmillan

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

Promotional banner for the Springboard Blog by Springer Nature, featuring a blurred background with colorful bokeh lights in yellow, pink, blue, and purple. The text reads: 'Springboard Blog What's in a name? Celebrating 25 years of Palgrave Macmillan By Christina M. Brian, Vice President, Books, Springer Nature.

2025 marks 25 years since Palgrave Macmillan revived the Palgrave name, continuing a long Macmillan tradition of publishing leading thinkers in Humanities, Social Sciences & Business 🎉. We caught up with Christina Brian, VP, Books: bit.ly/3HaHoeZ #PalgraveMacmillan25

Why Humanities and Social Sciences Matter for Today’s AI Landscape

📢 In a new podcast with @choicereviews.bsky.social, we reflect on 25 years of Palgrave Macmillan and explore why Humanities & Social Sciences are essential to shaping today’s AI research landscape. 🎧 Listen to Part 1: bit.ly/4easRwl, and Part 2: bit.ly/3FMBdxv. #AcademicSky #AI

And another one #JustPublished by#Palgrave: Reshaping #Rohingya Futures - Coping Strategies and Emerging Agencies, edited by Nasir Uddin, explores unaddressed aspects of #post-genocide Rohingya lives in #Bangladesh's camps while shedding light on their #resilience, survival strategies and #agency.

#JustPublished: The Palgrave Handbook on #Decoloniality in #Asia, edited by Phoebe Sanchez, Regletto Imbong, Matthew Ming-tak Chew, Caroline Schöpf: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... includes more than 25 contributions by humanities and social science scholars from the Global North and Global South

#JustPublished in #OpenAccess: Claudine Burton-Jeangros' 'Experiences of Health Risks' in our 'Critical Studies in #Risk and #Uncertainty' book series: shorturl.at/ozyAg for sociologists of #health and #illness, #risk studies, as well as health professionals and policymakers.

@springernature.com's key title of the month: Robert Bartholomew's and Paul Weatherhead's 'Social Panics & Phantom Attackers': shorturl.at/XpzLL. Listen to the author interviews here: shorturl.at/CcqWt (BBC Radio Leeds), shorturl.at/WCQKA (New Zealand Radio), shorturl.at/QRY5p (New Zealand Radio).

There are a few commissioning topics on my wishlist, which include:
Intersectional Inequalities
Race, Ethnicity and Identity in Asia-Pacific
Decolonisation
The Future of Work and Care
Platformisation and Gig Economies
Labour and South-South Migration
Digital Childhoods & Youth
DIY and Subcultures

Happy Friday, #AcademicSky: Is a special book project on your agenda for this year? Have you ever wanted to launch a new book series, edit a handbook/reference work or write a textbook in #sociology (APAC), #migration (global) or #childhood, #family and #youth studies (global)? Do get in touch!