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Jessica Faecks
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Book Editor @ Palgrave Macmillan | Commissioning Scholarly Books in #Sociology in APAC, #Migration (global) and #ChildhoodStudies, #YouthStudies and #FamilyStudies (global).
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Jessica Faecks @jessicafaecks.bsky.social · Jul 1
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
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...
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Our new Palgrave Macmillan hub is finally online! All #Palgrave books, book series and journals in one place: link.springer.com/brands/palgr... #AcademicSky #SocialSciences #Sociology @hss.springernature.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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#JustPublished – ‘Long Covid and Society: International Perspectives’, edited by Deborah Lupton. Read, download or purchase the hardcopy or e-book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Chapters 1 and 14 are free to read in #OpenAccess. #Sociology #LongCovid #PublicHealth @hss.springernature.com
Book cover for Long COVID and Society: International Perspectives, edited by Deborah Lupton, featuring a person with crossed arms painted in colorful patterns and COVID-19 written across their mask and forehead. At the bottom right, the Palgrave Macmillan logo (publisher's name) is included.
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Announcing the launch of a new Palgrave book series: ‘Platform Societies’. Check out the website and get in touch if you have a book idea for the series: bit.ly/3WFVppn. @jessicafaecks.bsky.social
Platform Societies
October 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#HalloweenSale is here! Enjoy a 30% sitewide discount on @springernature.com #books and #eBooks. Apply code HAL30 at checkout. Hurry, the sale is live until October 31st. bit.ly/47hhQHv #BookSky #AcademicSky
Halloween Sale
October 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#JustPublished in #OpenAccess - 'Growing Up Rural: Qualitative Longitudinal Explorations of Young People Living in the Nordic Countries', ed. by Kaisa Vehkalahti et al. Read, download or purchase the hardcopy or e-book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @hss.springernature.com #YouthStudies
Book cover with a pastel background titled Growing Up Rural: Qualitative Longitudinal Explorations of Young People Living in the Nordic Countries, edited by Kaisa Vehkalahti, Ingunn Marie Eriksen, and Jeanette Østergaard. It includes an Open Access sticker as well as the series title 'Studies in Childhood and Youth' alongside the Palgrave Macmillan logo.
October 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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#JustPublished in 'Studies in Childhood and Youth' - The Public Child: Media Power, Strategic Silencing, and Children's Rights in Australia, ed. by @camillanelson.bsky.social et al. Read, download or purchase the hardcopy or e-book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Sociology #Palgrave
Book cover titled The Public Child: Media Power, Strategic Silencing, and Children’s Rights in Australia, edited by Camilla Nelson, Denise Buiten, and Jodi Death. The cover is light blue with colored accents and includes the Studies in Childhood and Youth book series title as well as the Palgrave Macmillan logo.
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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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...
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.
September 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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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...
jessicafaecks.bsky.social Jessica Faecks @jessicafaecks.bsky.social · Aug 18
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!
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.
link.springer.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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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 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.
August 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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#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
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.
August 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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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
Neighbourhood Ecologies
This book presents an interdisciplinary place-based design methodology to research SDG11-related socioecological stewardship activities in urban spaces.
link.springer.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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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
hss.springernature.com Humanities & Social Sciences @hss.springernature.com · Aug 10
Announcing the launch of a new Palgrave book series: ‘Palgrave Studies in #Disability in Asia and the Pacific’. Check out the call for proposals below and get in touch if you have a book idea for the series: bit.ly/3HiR4V6
@cpetracca.bsky.social @carostevens.bsky.social ♿
A green and yellow flyer calling for book proposals in the new book series 'Palgrave Studies in Disability in Asia and the Pacific' Cover of new book series 'Palgrave Studies in Disability in Asia and the Pacific'
August 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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!
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.
link.springer.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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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/...
August 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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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 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.
August 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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#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
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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.
August 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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#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
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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.
August 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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#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
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...
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July 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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🏄 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
Cover of the book "Chinese Tourism in Australia" published by Palgrave Macmillan, showing a Chinese tourist posing on a beach with a surfboard.
July 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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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

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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.
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July 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#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
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#PalgraveMacmillan
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.
July 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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#SaveSociology: Please endorse @isa-sociology.org's 'A Time for Sociology' Declaration #ISAForum - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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...
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July 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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#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
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.
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July 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
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...
www.megaphone.org.au
July 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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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
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.
June 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM