Systems Thinking for Safety

ISSN: 2571-6913

Advisory board Professor Erik Hollnagel, University of Southern Denmark Professor Ragnar Löfstedt, King's Centre for Risk Management, King’s College London, UK Professor Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Captain Rogers E. Smith, NASA Dryden Flight Research Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng, Imperial College London, UK Professor Dominic Elliott, University of Liverpool Management School, UK Captain Tim Berry, Jet2.com Dr Robert Hunter, British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA), UK Dr Anne Eyre, Trauma Training Ltd, UK Dr David Fletcher, University of Leicester, UK Associate Professor David Ison, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Dr Terry Shevells, University of Leicester, UK Associate Professor Tony Masys, University of South Florida, USA Dr Simon Bennett, University of Leicester, UK 　 　 Series description This series draws on the success of the systems-thinking approach to safety management in commercial and military aviation, with a view to improving safety performance in other complex socio-technical systems, such as health-care, nuclear power generation, chemicals production, oil and gas extraction, deep mining and sea and rail transportation. Following the 1977 Tenerife air disaster (that killed 583 people), a traumatised and vilified aviation industry resolved to improve its safety performance. The adoption of a systems-thinking approach to risk analysis and mitigation, expressed in innovations such as the teamworking protocol crew resource management, has benefited the industry. In 2010 the industry achieved a world accident rate for scheduled flights of 4·0 accidents per million departures. This rate reflects a total of 121 accidents out of 30,556,513 scheduled flights. You are much, much safer in a pressurised aluminium tube cruising at eighty per cent the speed of sound six miles above terra firma than you are driving up the M1 on a sunny day in a modern, gas-bag equipped automobile, fully alert and not under the influence. The series is aimed at practitioners as well as academics and students. To this end, it is written in an accessible style with jargon explained. This reflects its purpose: to leverage change.

1 publications

Genre Fiction and Film Companions

ISSN: 2631-8725

The Genre Fiction and Film Companions provide accessible introductions to key texts within the most popular genres of our time. Written by leading scholars in the field, brief essays on individual texts offer innovative ways of understanding, interpreting and reading the topics in question. Invaluable for students, teachers and fans alike, these surveys offer new insights into the most important literary works, films, music, events and more within genre fiction and film.

25 publications

Vampire Studies: New Perspectives on the Undead

ISSN: 2977-0718

Vampires are everywhere. Appearing on streaming services, in book series and on multimedia platforms, vampires and the undead are an integral part of popular culture in the twenty-first century. But vampires have a long and varied history across cultures from at least the early eighteenth century onwards. Nina Auerbach once commented on their cultural ubiquity: ‘Every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves’. The inherently transformative properties of vampires have made them uniquely able to reflect the age in which they appear. As a result, they provide original and multiple perspectives, not just on culture, but on established and emerging areas of study. Vampires and the undead serve as a useful lens for exploring Indigeneity, environmental studies and the ecogothic; identity, ethnicity and gender politics; material culture, spectatorship and fan cultures; hybridity, post-humanism and futurities; disability, mental health and ageing studies; and theology, philosophy and politics. These new territories and methodologies of vampire studies also retroactively shift the ways we view and understand earlier iterations of the undead and the different cultures they materialized from. In this first book series dedicated to vampire studies, authors will explore the ongoing evolution of vampires and the undead in the broadest sense – including the supernatural, super-human and non-human, and across cultures, histories and media – and will use new theoretical frameworks to offer original and innovative readings of established and more recent texts. This original series aims to provide a focused hub for the diverse and often dispersed body of study that sees the vampire and the undead not as a subgenre of other categories such as the Gothic or horror, but as a genre in its own right that intersects with others. An important dimension of the series is diversity and the inclusion of multiple cultural and minority perspectives, including LGBTQ+, disability, Indigeneity, and any approaches that encourage new ways of viewing the cultural impact of vampires and the undead and widen our understanding of an ever-expanding genre. Proposals for monographs and edited collections are warmly invited. All projects undergo rigorous peer review. Please contact the series editor, Simon Bacon (baconetti@googlemail.com), or editorial@peterlang.com for more information. Editorial Board: Stacey Abbott (Birkbeck, University of London), Katarzyna Ancuta (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), Uzoamaka Melissa Anyiwo (University of Scranton, USA), John Edgar Browning (Savannah College of Art and Design, USA), S. Brooke Cameron (Queen's University, Canada), Sir Christopher Frayling, Tabish Khair (University of Aarhus, Denmark), Lorna Piatti-Farnell (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand), Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Cristina Santos (Brock University, Canada), Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University, USA), Laura Westengard (City University of New York).

0 publications

Theoretical Studies in Second Language Acquisition

ISSN: 1051-6670

6 publications

Global Crises and the Media

From climate change to biodiversity loss, financial meltdowns to forced migrations, pandemics to world poverty and humanitarian disasters to the denial of human rights, these and other crises represent the dark side of our globalized planet. They are endemic to the contemporary global world and so too are they highly dependent on the world's media. Each of the specially commissioned books in the Global Crises and the Media series examines the media's role, representation and responsibility in covering major global crises. They show how the media can enter into their constitution, enacting them on the public stage and thereby helping to shape their future trajectory around the world. Each book provides a sophisticated and empirically engaged understanding of the topic in order to invigorate the wider academic study and public debate about some of the most pressing and historically unprecedented global crises of our time.

54 publications

Monographs in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language

ISSN: 1056-5019

This series will publish original work in theoretical and applied linguistics—both diachronic and synchronic—covering topics in the fields of phonology, morphology, lexis, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It will include philosophical studies in contemporary epistemology, belief and mental representation, rule following, realism, anti-realism, thought and intention, truth, and reference. The volumes will provide a forum for research and discussion of the many related developments between the disciplines of linguistics and philosophy, featuring their respective contributions to the understanding of natural language.

1 publications

Theoretical Approaches in Second Language Acquisition

1 publications

Eastern and Central European Studies

The “Eastern and Central European Studies series“ is dedicated to publishing monographs and collected volumes on History with an emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. Scholars examine for example the intercultural relation between Central and Eastern European kingdoms until the formation of modern nation states. The editors Christian Gastgeber and Alexandru Simon are historians with a focus on medieval and Byzantine history. The “Eastern and Central European Studies series“ is dedicated to publishing monographs and collected volumes on History with an emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. Scholars examine for example the intercultural relation between Central and Eastern European kingdoms until the formation of modern nation states. The editors Christian Gastgeber and Alexandru Simon are historians with a focus on medieval and Byzantine history. The “Eastern and Central European Studies series“ is dedicated to publishing monographs and collected volumes on History with an emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. Scholars examine for example the intercultural relation between Central and Eastern European kingdoms until the formation of modern nation states. The editors Christian Gastgeber and Alexandru Simon are historians with a focus on medieval and Byzantine history.

6 publications

Peter Lang Primer

Peter Lang Primers are designed to provide a brief and concise introduction or supplement to specific topics in education. Although sophisticated in content, these primers are written in an accessible style, making them perfect for undergraduate and graduate classroom use. Each volume includes a glossary of key terms and a References and Resources section. Other published and forthcoming volumes cover such topics as: Standards Popular Culture Critical Pedagogy Literacy Higher Education John Dewey Feminist Theory and Education Studying Urban Youth Culture Multiculturalism through Postformalism Creative Problem Solving Teaching the Holocaust Piaget and Education Deleuze and Education Foucault and Education

0 publications

Peter Lang Ltd.

28 publications

Transnational Cultures

ISSN: 2297-2854

Transnational Cultures promotes inquiry into the cultural productions characterized by the vertical and lateral exchanges of ideas, objects and linguistic practices across the globe with a particular emphasis on South–South exchanges, minor transnational relations and Indigenous experiences. The series strives to offer a renewed understanding of minor and minority expressions and articulations of transnational experiences that often escape national and global discourses. With the growth of diasporic communities, migratory crossings and virtual exchange, cultural productions beyond, across and traversing national borders have become a growing focus of scholarship within historical, contemporary and comparative contexts. The series investigates how a transnational lens might transform existing understandings of cultural exchange, belonging, and identity formation in any period or location. This series addresses a range of questions, including but not limited to the following: What broader flows of knowledge, capital and power mark pre-modern, modern and contemporary cultural productions and identity formations? How do marginal experiences trouble existing narratives of the nation-state and global–local paradigms? What kinds of creolization of cultures and experiences evolve in the processes of transnationalism? How do transnational flows in the Global South, and among marginal or minority communities, facilitate sites of articulation outside normative discourses? Proposals for monographs and edited collections from international scholars are welcome. The series is interdisciplinary in scope and welcomes research on literature, film, new media, visual culture and beyond. All proposals and manuscripts will be subjected to rigorous peer review. The main language of publication is English. Editorial Board: Adeshina Afolayan (Ibadan, Nigeria), Michael S. Gorham (Florida), Weihsin Gui (UC Riverside), Brian Haman (Vienna), Olivia Khoo (Monash, Australia), Amara Lakhous (Yale), Anne Garland Mahler (Virginia), Deepti Misri (Colorado–Boulder), Nasser Mufti (Illinois–Chicago), Valentina Pedone (Florence), Dorothy Price (Courtauld Institute of Art), Oana Popescu-Sandu (Southern Indiana), Sara Pugach (Cal State LA), Mireille Rebeiz (Dickinson), Giulia Riccò (Michigan), Mark Sabine (Nottingham), Lisa Shaw (Liverpool), Shuang Shen (Penn State), Kyle Shernuk (Georgetown), Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez (UC Davis).

5 publications

Judaica et Christiana

ISSN: 0171-676X

19 publications

Schriften zur Sprachförderung

Die Reihe "Schriften zur Sprachförderung" veröffentlicht ausgewählte Studien aus dem Fachbereich der Lingustik. Der thematische Schwerpunkt liegt insbesondere auf der linguistischen, logopädischen und sprachheilpädagogischen Theorie und Förderpraxis. Die Monographien und Sammelbände befassen sich unter anderem mit den Bereichen der Sprachpsychologie, Medizin, Heilpädagogik und Neurolinguistik. Herausgegeben wird die Reihe von Dr. Berthold Simons und Professor Franz J. Stachowiak. Die Reihe wird mit Band 10 unter dem Titel Schriften zur Sprachtherapie und Sprachförderung fortgesetzt. Die Reihe "Schriften zur Sprachförderung" veröffentlicht ausgewählte Studien aus dem Fachbereich der Lingustik. Der thematische Schwerpunkt liegt insbesondere auf der linguistischen, logopädischen und sprachheilpädagogischen Theorie und Förderpraxis. Die Monographien und Sammelbände befassen sich unter anderem mit den Bereichen der Sprachpsychologie, Medizin, Heilpädagogik und Neurolinguistik. Herausgegeben wird die Reihe von Dr. Berthold Simons und Professor Franz J. Stachowiak. Die Reihe wird mit Band 10 unter dem Titel Schriften zur Sprachtherapie und Sprachförderung fortgesetzt. Die Reihe "Schriften zur Sprachförderung" veröffentlicht ausgewählte Studien aus dem Fachbereich der Lingustik. Der thematische Schwerpunkt liegt insbesondere auf der linguistischen, logopädischen und sprachheilpädagogischen Theorie und Förderpraxis. Die Monographien und Sammelbände befassen sich unter anderem mit den Bereichen der Sprachpsychologie, Medizin, Heilpädagogik und Neurolinguistik. Herausgegeben wird die Reihe von Dr. Berthold Simons und Professor Franz J. Stachowiak. Die Reihe wird mit Band 10 unter dem Titel Schriften zur Sprachtherapie und Sprachförderung fortgesetzt.

5 publications

Education and Struggle

ISSN: 2168-6432

"WE ARE THE STORIES WE TELL. The series "Education and Struggle" focuses on conflict as a discursive process where people struggle for legitimacy and the narrative process becomes a political struggle for meaning. But this series will also include the voices of authors and activists who are involved in conflicts over material necessities in their communities, schools, places of worship, and public squares as part of an ongoing search for dignity, self-determination and autonomy. This series focuses on conflict and struggle within the realm of educational politics based around a series of interrelated themes: indigenous struggles; western-Islamic conflicts; globalization and the clash of worldviews; neoliberalism as the war within;colonization and neocolonization; the coloniality of power and decolonial pedagogy; war and conflict and the struggle for liberation. It publishes narrative accounts of specific struggles as well as theorizing "conflict narratives" and the political production of meaning in educational studies. During this time of global conflict and the crisis of capitalism, Education and Struggle promises to be on the cutting edge of social, cultural, educational and political transformation. Central to the series is the idea that language is essentially a dialogical production that is formed through a process of social conflict and interaction. The aim is to focus on key semiotic, literary andpolitical concepts as a basis for a philosophy of language and culture where the underlying materialist philosophy of language and culture serves as the basis for the larger project that we might call dialogism (after Bakhtin’s usage). As the late V.N. Volosinov suggests “Without signs there is no ideology”, “Everything ideological possesses semiotic value” and “individual consciousness is a socio-ideological fact”. It is a small step to claim, therefore, “consciousness itself can arise and become a viable fact only in the material embodiment of signs”. This series is a vehicle for materialist semiotics in the narrative and dialogue of education and struggle."

39 publications

New International Studies in Applied Ethics

New International Studies in Applied Ethics is a series based at Leeds Metropolitan University and associated with Virginia Theological Seminary. The series examines the ethical implications of selected areas of public life and concern. Subjects considered will include, but are not limited to, medicine, peace studies, international sport and higher education. The series aims to publish volumes which are clearly written with a general academic readership in mind. Individual volumes may also be useful to those confronted with the issues discussed in their daily lives. A consistent emphasis is on recent developments in the subjects discussed and this is achieved by publishing volumes by writers who are foremost in their fields, as well as those with emerging reputations. Both secular and religious ethical views may be discussed as appropriate. No point of view is considered off-limits and controversy is not avoided. The series includes both edited volumes and single-authored monographs. Submissions are welcome from all scholars in the field and should be addressed to either the series editor or the publisher.

8 publications

AEJMC - Peter Lang Scholarsourcing Series

ISSN: 2373-6984

Based on the concept of crowdsourcing, Scholarsourcing is a joint publishing initiative between the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and Peter Lang Publishing. The series reimagines the way that scholarly books are proposed, peer-reviewed, and approved for contract during this time of relentless change in both the journalism and publishing industries. Beginning with a call from AEJMC each fall, members are invited to submit short book proposals that are relevant to journalism and communication and speak to the mission of AEJMC. Proposals are uploaded to an online public platform that allows as many AEJMC members as possible to browse, review, and then vote on and pledge support. This platform encourages public dialogue among multiple parties to improve the potential of each book project. Whether awarded a book contract or not, authors benefit by receiving a valuable set of review comments, far more than they might receive via conventional reviewing processes, and from a more diverse range of reviewers (members). Using these votes and review comments, the AEJMC Scholarsourcing editorial committee, appointed by the president of AEJMC, selects the top proposals. The authors of the top proposals are invited to submit complete book proposals. Once those reviews have been evaluated by the editorial committee and the publisher, a decision on which proposals receive contracts is made.

21 publications

Rechtshistorische Reihe

Die Rechtshistorische Reihe hat seit ihrem ersten Erscheinen 1978 zahlreiche Sammelbände, Tagungsbände und Monographien zur Geschichte der Rechtswissenschaft herausgegeben. Die Studien der Reihe decken dabei in Detail- und Überblicksanalysen das gesamte Spektrum der Rechtsgeschichte ab, vom Frühmittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert und beispielsweise vom hansischen Seerecht bis zum Verwaltungsrecht der DDR. Die Qualität der in dieser Reihe erscheinenden Arbeiten wird vor der Publikation durch einen Herausgeber der Reihe geprüft.

484 publications

Schriften zur empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung

Die Reihe Schriften zur empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung publiziert wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, die volks-, regional-, finanz- und betriebswirtschaftliche Fragestellungen anhand statistisch-ökonometrischer Verfahren behandeln. Die Analysen bzw. Prognosen bieten dabei oft aktuelle Bezüge aus z.B. den Bereichen Geld- und Arbeitsmarkt oder Tourismus und Gesundheit. Homepage des Herausgebers: Prof. Dr. Peter M. Schulze

22 publications

Kunstgeschichten der Gegenwart

ISSN: 2235-7122

Kunstgeschichten der Gegenwart ist als wissenschaftliche Publikationsreihe konzipiert, die aus der Lehre und Forschung im Bereich der zeitgenössischen Kunst hervorgeht. Sie versammelt Tagungsakten, Monographien und Dissertationen zu innovativen Fragestellungen und neuen methodologischen Ansätzen. Der kunsthistorischen Meistererzählung wird programmatisch der historiographische Plural entgegengesetzt. Wer erzählt aus welcher Motivation und in welcher Funktion welche Geschichte, welche Rhetoriken und Modelle kommen dabei zum Tragen? Aufgabenstellungen von Dokumentation und Kanonbildung, Kontextualisierung und Deutung werden in exemplarischen Studien kritisch analysiert und zur Diskussion gestellt.

12 publications

Translinguae

In der Reihe „Translinguae“ werden Themen der Germanistik und Linguistik aufgegriffen, die sich auf Kommunikationsformen beziehen, bei denen mehr als eine Sprache beteiligt ist. Wenn die Qualität der internationalen Kommunikation einen ausreichend hohen Standard erreichen soll, bedarf es weiterer Erforschung der linguistischen sowie der kulturellen und kommunikativen Aspekte translingualer Kommunikation im weitesten Sinne. Es geht also sowohl um den freien als auch um den gebundenen Transfer von Inhalten, wie er sich beim Übersetzen und Dolmetschen realisiert. Forschung, Didaktik und Praxis werden in dieser Reihe gleichermaßen berücksichtigt. In der Reihe „Translinguae“ werden Themen der Germanistik und Linguistik aufgegriffen, die sich auf Kommunikationsformen beziehen, bei denen mehr als eine Sprache beteiligt ist. Wenn die Qualität der internationalen Kommunikation einen ausreichend hohen Standard erreichen soll, bedarf es weiterer Erforschung der linguistischen sowie der kulturellen und kommunikativen Aspekte translingualer Kommunikation im weitesten Sinne. Es geht also sowohl um den freien als auch um den gebundenen Transfer von Inhalten, wie er sich beim Übersetzen und Dolmetschen realisiert. Forschung, Didaktik und Praxis werden in dieser Reihe gleichermaßen berücksichtigt. In der Reihe „Translinguae“ werden Themen der Germanistik und Linguistik aufgegriffen, die sich auf Kommunikationsformen beziehen, bei denen mehr als eine Sprache beteiligt ist. Wenn die Qualität der internationalen Kommunikation einen ausreichend hohen Standard erreichen soll, bedarf es weiterer Erforschung der linguistischen sowie der kulturellen und kommunikativen Aspekte translingualer Kommunikation im weitesten Sinne. Es geht also sowohl um den freien als auch um den gebundenen Transfer von Inhalten, wie er sich beim Übersetzen und Dolmetschen realisiert. Forschung, Didaktik und Praxis werden in dieser Reihe gleichermaßen berücksichtigt.

3 publications

Varia Musicologica

ISSN: 1660-8666

The series „Varia Musicologica" treats a wide range of subjects from all fields of musicology. The editions, monographs and collections present the latest research from the music of the Middle Ages to new forms of music culture and adapt historical, cultural-historical, musical-aesthetic, biographical, analytical or source-critical methods. The volumes are presented in the languages English, German, French and Italian. Die Reihe «Varia Musicologica» ist als breit angelegtes Medium für vorwiegend monographische Arbeiten aus allen Feldern der Musikwissenschaft konzipiert. Die Bände erscheinen in freier Folge in den vier Sprachen Englisch, Deutsch, Französisch und Italienisch. Sie präsentieren neueste Forschungen von der Musik des Mittelalters bis zu neuen Formen von Musikkultur und gehorchen dabei historischen, kulturhistorischen, musikästhetischen, biographischen, analytischen oder quellenkritischen Methoden.

27 publications

Schriften zur Sprachtherapie und Sprachförderung

ISSN: 2199-6911

Die Reihe Schriften zur Sprachtherapie und Sprachförderung veröffentlicht ausgewählte Studien aus dem Fachbereich der Linguistik. Der thematische Schwerpunkt liegt insbesondere auf der neurolinguistischen, logopädischen und sprachheilpädagogischen Theorie und Praxis. Die Monographien und Sammelbände befassen sich unter anderem mit den Bereichen der Sprachpsychologie, Medizin, Heilpädagogik und Neurolinguistik. Die Reihe wurde bisher unter dem Titel Schriften zur Sprachförderung geführt.

3 publications

Beihefte zu Simpliciana

ISSN: 1660-9298

16 publications

Sprache – Medien – Innovationen

ISSN: 2190-6386

Die Reihe «Sprache – Medien – Innovationen» hat sprachliche und kommunikative Strukturen in Medien zum Gegenstand und versammelt innovative Arbeiten zur Medienlinguistik. Schwerpunkte bilden die grundlegende Beschreibung und Analyse vermittelter Kommunikationspraxen auf der linguistischen und medialen Ebene sowie die Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage, wie sich diese Formen im Sprachgebrauch und auf das Sprachsystem niederschlagen. Hierbei kann der Fokus auf theoretischen, angewandten oder methodischen Fragestellungen liegen. Die Reihe stellt eine Erweiterung des Wissenschaftsportals mediensprache.net dar und ist offen für Dissertationen und andere Forschungsarbeiten mit innovativem Charakter. Dabei sollen ausdrücklich auch ›Schnittstellenarbeiten‹ eine angemessene Berücksichtigung finden. Als Erscheinungsformen sind sowohl Monographien vorgesehen als auch thematisch gebundene Sammel- oder Tagungsbände. Weitere Informationen zur Reihe: http://www.mediensprache.net/smi/

14 publications

St. Pöltner Osteuropa Studien

ISSN: 1618-629X

3 publications