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HarperCollins Publishers National 45 Geography Comprehensive Textbook to
Book SynopsisExam Board: SQALevel: N4/5Subject: GeographyThe National 4 & 5 Geography Course Notes provide comprehensive guidance through the entire CfE course. Course Notes give a practical, supportive approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer an appropriate blend of sound teaching and learning with exam and assessment guidance.Progress and attainment for all A complete core resource covering all the Physical and Human Environments topics, and the three most popular Global Issues: Impact of Human Activity on the Natural Environment, Environmental Hazards and Tourism Course specifications are fully covered Extensive Geographical Skills' chapter covers all the mapping, data and research skills you will use throughout the course Separate Questions' for N4 and N5 ensure that every student can progress securelyActive learning Make the link' features encourage broader thinking between and across subjects Hint' features give helpful tips and highlight important information Activities' provide
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Oxford University Press Modern Japan
Book SynopsisJapan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it remains an enigma to many, who see it as a confusing montage of the alien and the familiar, the ancient and modern. The aim of this Very Short Introduction is to explode the myths and explore the reality of modern Japan - by taking a concise look at its history, economy, politics, and culture.Trade ReviewA wonderfully engaging narrative of a complicated history, which from the beginning to end sheds light on the meaning of modernity in Japan as it changed over time. An exemplary text. * Carol Gluck, Columbia University *With remarkable clarity and breadth of coverage, Goto-Jones introduces the major topics and themes of the modern history of Japan, giving particularly thoughtful attention to the complex and tortured efforts of figures seeking to define and defend a properly Japanese modernity, and those striving to come to grips with the trauma and shadow of World War II. * Andrew Gordon, Harvard University *Lively, lucid, and full of insight, this is an outstanding exploration of Japan's troubled modern past. * Stephen S. Large, Wolfson College, Cambridge University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is Modern Japan? ; 1. Japan's Encounter with the Modern World ; 2. Overcoming Modernity in Imperial Japan ; 3. Overcome by the Modern: the US Occupation ; 4. Japan's Miraculous Modern Economy ; 5. Towards a Post-Modern Society ; 6. Normalcy and Japan's Place in the Modern World ; Further reading
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Taylor & Francis Cricket
Book SynopsisCricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishness. On the other, it endures as a global game and does so by skilful adaptation, trading partly on its mythic past and partly on its capacity to repackage itself. This ambitious new history recounts the politics of cricket around the world since the Second World War, examining key cultural and political themes, including decolonisation, racism, gender, globalisation, corruption and commercialisation. Part One looks at the transformation of cricket cultures in the ten territories of the former British Empire in the years immediately after 1945, a time when decolonisation and the search for national identity touched every cricket playing region in the world. Part Two focuses on globalisation and the game's evolution as an international sport, analysing: social change and the Ashes; the campaigns for new cricket formats; the developmTrade ReviewShortlisted for The Cricket Writers’ Club book award 2018"An astonishing piece of deep scholarship and stylish concision. The book possesses a richness and an intellectual grasp far greater than a short review can properly reflect." - Paul Edwards, The Cricketer"The injunction to keep politics out of sport is age-old. Muddle-headed too, as Stephen Wagg's comprehensive comparative history of the politics in cricket demonstrates. This thorough and necessary book should become a standard reference." - Gideon Haigh, Australia's leading cricket writer"Building thoughtfully on the work of the late Mike Marqusee, this is an insightful and richly rewarding labour of love. Astutely structured and deftly researched, the book draws on the author’s deep knowledge of geopolitical reality and how it manifests itself in post-Imperial cricket, enabling an ambitious brief to be admirably met. At times, indeed, you wonder how the game has survived the context in which it is played. If you want to know why cricket is the world’s most racialized, politicised and fascinating ballgame, look no further." - Rob Steen, Senior Lecturer and award-winning sports journalist, University of Brighton, UK"Cricket is one of a few sports where nation vs nation remained a primary contest well into the new millennium. Inexorably tied to a colonial past, cricket also reflected the aspiration of its new nations and nationhoods over the last five decades. In a masterful work of scholarship, Wagg gives us an engaging, comprehensive new history of modern cricket. From the relentless churn of events, achievements and controversies around the cricketing globe, he teases out the sport’s engagements with the zeitgeist: the tussle between the old world and the new, the tumult of race and gender, the advent of "professionalism", globalisation and the corporatisation of cricket. As much as the book is about modern cricket around the world, Wagg has also skilfully identified the world's footprints on modern cricket." - Sharda Ugra, Senior Editor, ESPNcricinfo and ESPN India"Now seems the ideal time for the publication of a book pertaining to the history of how cricket has developed in and out of step with the political and social sphere … Among others, the book is dedicated to the late American writer and political activist Mike Marqusee, and leans heavily on his totemic treatise Anyone but England. Though this book is less polemic than that work, it slots in comfortably next to it on a cricket love’s bookshelf, and loses little in comparison to its relative. There can be little higher praise than that." - WisdenTable of ContentsPart 1: Cricket and the End of Empire 1. Fossilised Reactionaries? English Cricket Since 1945 2. A Nation of Blow-Ins? Cricket in Australia Since 1945 3. ‘The Partnership of the Horse and its Rider’: Cricket in Southern Africa Since 1945 4. A Relative Lack of Interest: Cricket in New Zealand Since 1945 5. Father, King, Statesman, General, Prince, Don: West Indian Cricket Culture Since 1945 6. The Soul of a Nation, Long Suppressed? Cricket in India Since 1945 7. Cricket in a Hard Country: Pakistani Cricket Since 1947 8. ‘We Rule Here, You Rule There’: Cricket in East Pakistan and Bangladesh Since 1947 9. After Brewing Tea for the Empire: Cricket in Sri Lanka Since 1945 10. Straight Shooting Blokes: Social Distinction, Masculinity and Myth in The Ashes 1945 to 2015 Part 2: Cricket in the Age of Globalisation 11. ‘Everyone Seemed to Be ‘With It’: Cricket Politics and the Coming of the One Day Game, 1940-1970 12. ‘Paint a Picture, and Keep it the Right Way Up’: Cricket and the Mass Media 1945-2015 13. Women’s Cricket: The Feminism That Dared Not Speak Its Name 14. Remove the Gunk in the Middle: The Coming of Twenty20 and the Indian Premier League 15. Have You Made This Team Great, or Have They Made You? Cricket, Coaching, and Globalisation 16. Beyond the Boundaries: The Drive to Globalise Cricket, and its Limits 17. Afterword
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Taylor & Francis African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation
Book SynopsisAfrican Philosophy and Environmental Conservation is about the unconcern for, and marginalisation of, the environment in African philosophy. The issue of the environment is still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies, academics and specifically, philosophers in the sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which give a place of privilege to one thing over the other, as for example men over women, is the same attitude that privileges humans over the environment. This culturally embedded orientation makes it difficult for stake holders in Africa to identify and confront the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the environment. In a continent where deep-rooted cultural and religious practices, as well as widespread ignorance, determine human conduct towards the environment, it becomes difficult to curtail much less overcome the threats to our environment. It shows that to a large extent, the African cultural privileging of men over women and of humans over the environment somewhat exacerbates and makes the environmental crisis on the continent intractable. For example, it raises the challenging puzzle as to why women in Africa are the ones to plant the trees and men are the ones to fell them.Contributors address these salient issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, demonstrating what African philosophy could do to ameliorate the marginalisation which the theme of environment suffers on the continent. Philosophy is supposed to teach us how to lead the good life in all its forms; why is it failing in this duty in Africa specifically where the issue of environment is concerned?This book which trail-blazes the field of African Philosophy and Environmental Ethics will be of great interest to students and scholars of Philosophy, African philosophy, Environmental Ethics and Gender Studies.Table of Contents Introduction Prof. Bruce B. Janz (University of Central Florida, USA), "Peripherality and Non-Philosophy in African Philosophy: Womanist Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy and Other Provocations." Prof. Alexander Animalu & Mr. Jeff Unegbu (University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria), "Gaia Hypothesis from an African Perspective." Prof. Thaddeus Metz (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), "How to Ground Animal Rights on African Values: A Constructive Approach." Dr. Kevin Behrens (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), "An African Account of the Moral Obligation to Preserve Biodiversity." Prof. Olatunji Oyeshile (University of Ibadan, Nigeria), "Transformation of Urban Space in South-West of Nigeria, 2011 to Present: Ethical Issues in Development and Aesthetics" Prof. Ebunoluwa Oduwole & Dr. Fayemi Kazeem (Olabisi Onabanjo University & University of Lagos, Nigeria), "Animal Rights vs. Animal Care Ethics: Interrogating the Relationship to Non-Human Animals in Yorùbá Culture." Prof. Workineh Kelbassa (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia), "Women and the Environment in Africa." Prof. Oladele Balogun & Dr. Fayemi Kazeem (Olabisi Onabanjo University & University of Lagos, Nigeria), "Women Identities in African Environmental Ethics: A Conversational Engagement." Dr. Jonathan Chimakonam (University of Calabar, Nigeria), "Ohanife: An Account of the Ecosystem based on the African notion of Relationship." Dr. Angela Roothaan (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands), "Hermeneutics of Trees in an African Context: Enriching the Understanding of the Environment ‘for the Common Heritage of Mankind.’" Victor Nweke (University of Calabar, Nigeria), Global Warming as an Ontological Boomerang Effect: Towards a Philosophical Rescue from the African Place." Dr. Ralph Madu (Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria), "Laudato Si and the Ecological Crisis." Dr. Ada Agada (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria) "Catalyzing Climate Change Action in Nigeria: Moderate Anthropocentrism and the African Perspective of the Cosmos". Prof. Fainos Mangena (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe) "Zimbabwe’s Environmental Crisis: Questioning Ubuntu?" Francis Diawuo and Abdul Karim Issifu (University for Development Studies, Ghana and University of Cape Coast, Ghana) "Exploring the African Traditional Belief Systems (Totems and Taboos) in Natural Resources Conservation and Management in Ghana"
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Taylor & Francis New Perspectives on RussianAmerican Relations
Book SynopsisNew Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture, and more, the essays show how the two nations related to one another across time from their first interactions as nations in the eighteenth century to now. Instead of being dominated by the narrative of the Cold War, New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations models the exciting new scholarship that covers more than the political and diplomatic worlds of the later twentieth century and provides scholars with a wide array of the newest research in the field.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction – William Benton Whisenhunt and Norman E. Saul1: Russia, the United States, and Great Britain on the Pacific Northwest at the End of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries – Alexander Iu, Petrov2: The Russian Federalist Papers: Aleksei Evstaf’ev, the War of 1812, and Russian-American Relations -- Susan Smith-Peter3. The End of the Winans Brothers Railroad Enterprise in Russia --Vladimir V. Noskov4. In Service to the Tsar: American Surgeons in the Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- William Benton Whisenhunt5. Abolition of Serfdom in Russia and American Newspaper and Journal Opinion – Ivan Kurilla6. Intrigue, Scandal, and International Diplomacy: A Reexamination of The Perkins Claim—Lee Farrow7. The Establishment of Russian Studies at the University of Chicago—Pavel Tribunskiy8. The Tsar's power explained to America: Notes from a 1905 homily. -- Monica Cognolato9. A Sick Dostoevsky and Rich, Healthy Shopkeepers: Maxim Gorky’s Critique of America via Dostoevsky -- Erich Lippman10. Rediscovering the "Living Human Documents" of a Goodwill Initiative: Letters from Russian Soldiers Cared for at the City Hospital of the American Colony in Petrograd, 1914– 1918 -- Lyubov Ginzburg11. Rethinking Russia in the United States during the First World War:Mr. Sigma’s American Voyage -- Victoria I. Zhuravleva12. The American YMCA and Russian Politics: Critics and Supporters of Socialism, 1900-1940 -- Matthew Lee Miller13. Cyril Briggs and The Crusader: Black Engagement with Soviet Russia -- Kathleen S. Macfie14. Margaret Bourke-White and Soviet Russia -- Ada Ackerman15. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the USSR, 1933-1945. An Interpretation -- Vladimir V. Sogrin16. The Program that Shattered the Iron Curtain: The Lacy-Zarubin (Eisenhower-Khrushchev) Agreement of January 1958 -- Norman E. Saul17. "Academic Détente": Soviet Americanists as Exchange Scholars during the Brezhnev Era -- Sergei I. Zhuk18. The US, Russia, and Ukraine: End of an Era or Same Old Story? -- Paul D’AnieriContributorsIndex
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Taylor & Francis Chinas International Transboundary Rivers
Book SynopsisChina has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower. This book provides an understanding of water security in Asia by investigating how shared water resources affect Chinaâs relationships with neighbouring countries in South, East, Southeast and Central Asia. Since China is an upstream state on most of its shared transboundary rivers, the countryâs international water policy is at the core of Asiaâs water security. These water disputes have had strong implications for Chinaâs interstate relations, and also influenced its international water policy alongside domestic concerns over water resource management.This book investigates Chinaâs policy responses to domestic water crises and examines Chinaâs international water policy as well as its strategy in dealing with international coopTrade Review"Lei Xie and Shaofeng Jia’s book makes a robust contribution to the discussion of international fresh watercourses by combining the Chinese perspective on national interests with the Global South narrative of riparian neighbouring states, all of which are developing countries. Xie and Jia examine and link research areas such as human security, diplomacy, intergovernmental relations, and policies, and the authors contribute insights to the current debate on fresh water management in relation to sustainability and the reduction of tension and conflict." - Francisco José Leandro in China Information (2018) Table of Contents1. China’s transboundary rivers: politics, diplomacy and security: an introduction 2. The governance of water resources in China 3. China’s policy over international rivers: Perception and diplomatic practices 4. Theoretical debate: water diplomacy 5. Southeast Asia: China’s water diplomacy on the Mekong River 6. South Asia: China’s evolving attitude over the GBM 7. Central Asia: Sino-Kazakh water diplomacy on Ili and Irtysh Rivers 8. Northeast Asia: Sino-Russian cooperation over the Amur River 9. Comparison and conclusions 10. Policy recommendations
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Taylor & Francis Aid and Development
Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of what aid is, how it has changed over time and how it is practiced, as well as debates about whether aid works, for whom and what its future might be.The text shows how aid' is a contested and fluid concept that involves a wide and changing variety of policies, actors and impacts. It equips the reader with an understanding of what aid is, where it comes from and where it goes, how it is delivered and what its impacts are, and whether shortcomings are a result of a fundamental problem with aid, or merely the result of bad practices. It explores the changing political ideologies and conceptions of development that continually reshape how aid is defined, implemented and assessed, and how, despite a global commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, we are at a point where the very notion of aid is being questioned and its future is uncertain. Each chapter includes case studies, chapter summaries, discussions, weblinks and further reading, toTable of Contents1. Aid: an introduction 2. What is aid? 3. Patterns of aid 4. Trends in aid 5. How is aid delivered? 6. Does aid work? 7. Conclusions: futures for aid
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African
Book SynopsisThis handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a single source of reference on issues such as migration history, trends, migrant profiles, narratives, migration-development nexus, migration governance, diasporas, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, among others.The handbook assembles a multidisciplinary contributor team of distinguished and upcoming Africanist scholars, practitioners, researchers, and policy experts both inside and outside Africa to contribute their perspectives on contemporary African migration. It attempts to address some of the following pertinent questions: What drives contemporary migration in Africa? How are its patterns and trends evolving? What is the architecture of migration governance in Africa? How do migration, diaspora engagement and development play out in Africa? What are the future trajectories of African migraTable of Contents1. Contemporary African Migration: An Introduction Part I –History of African Migration 2. Migration as Empowerment - A Selected History of Migration and Displacement in Africa 3. Postcolonial States and Migration 4. African Philosophy and International Migration Part II –Patterns and Trends of Contemporary African Migration 5. Patterns and Trends of International Migration within and out of Africa 6. Issues, Patterns, and Trends in Contemporary African Migration to Europe and North America 7. The Contemporary "African Coolie" in the Middle East: Interrogating the Narratives of the Modern-Day African Slaves or Migration between Africa and the Arab States? 8. Lesotho-South Africa Relations: A case for free movement of persons across the common border Part III – Migration Governance, Forced Displacement and Irregular Migration 9. Migration Policy Frameworks in Africa 10. Refugee Politics in Africa 11. Contemporary Forced Migration in Africa 12. Migrating out of Migration: Diminishing seasonal migration options and conflicts among the Pokot of Kenya 13. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on African Migration 14. Part IV – Migration, Diaspora Engagement and The Politics of Development 15. The Remittances-Development Debate in Africa 16. Return Migration to Africa and its Development Potential 17. Re-considering the concept of international return in the African context: the place of immobile cognitive return 18. The Nature and ‘Lived’ Experiences of Contemporary African Diasporas 19. The Landscape of the African Diaspora 20. Engendering Migration in Africa: The Case of Ethiopian Migration to South Africa Part V –Future Trajectories of African Migration 21. Africa without Borders 22. The African Continental Free Trade Area and Migration Patterns 23. Climate Variability and New Fish Eldorados in Africa 24. Migration Data Management in Africa 25. The Future of Immigration in Africa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Geopolitics of Region Building in the Black
Book SynopsisOffering theoretical insights on region building, this book explores the attempts to formulate a political and institutional vision for the Black Sea region in the post-9/11 era and in the context of the enlargements of the EU and NATO. It investigates in depth these attempts, viewed as a failure by the key actors involved, in order to understand how regions emerge in international politics as well as how and why they may fail to come into being. To this end, the book explores a range of factors that impacted region building in the Black Sea, considering the role of region builders involved, their practices and the context of their actions, and the spatial representations and security discourses that were integral to the region building process. Hence, attention is paid to how these factors both enabled and constrained the discursive construction of the Black Sea region, thus identifying the elements that distinguish the Black Sea from other successful cases of region buildinTable of Contents1. Regions and Their Study: A Critical Reading 2. The Theoretical Framework: Towards a Genealogy 3. The Narrative(s) of a "Black Sea Region" 4. Region Builders: Unravelling the BSEN 5. Practices As Tools of Region Building 6. Writing Space: The Cartography of the Black Sea 7. Different Logics of Security, Clashing Region Building Visions
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Taylor & Francis The Swahili World
Book SynopsisThe Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban tradition found there today. Swahili towns contain monumental palaces, tombs, and mosques, set among more humble houses; they were home to fishers, farmers, traders, and specialists of many kinds. The towns have been Muslim since perhaps the eighth century CE, participating in international networks connecting people around the Indian Ocean rim and beyond. Successive colonial regimes have helped shape modern Swahili society, which has incorporated such influences into the regionâs long-standing cosmopolitan tradition.This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective. Each chapter offers a unique wealth of detail on an aspect of the regionâs past, written Trade ReviewWinner of the 2021 Book Prize of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists for best edited volume on any topic.“This edited volume provides a compilation of research carried out on the Swahili coast and its archaeological sites” Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan Centre, UK, Antiquity Publications "This book is a great resource for those working along the Swahili coast and interior areas with similar archaeological deposits. Indeed, I finished reading the book with a better understanding of the history, archaeology, linguistics, and anthropology of the Swahili coast. From these perspectives, the authors have explored the Swahili coast’s history from what they consider to be the earliest settlements to the remains of complex monumental structures found there today. This unique wealth of the detail on past of the Swahili coast is the true strength of the book that Wynne-jones and LaViolette produced for us."Elgidius B. Ichumbaki, African Archeological ReviewTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesMapsPrefaceNote on TerminologyContributors1. The Swahili worldSection I: Environment, background, and Swahili historiography2. The eastern African coastal landscape3. Resources of the ocean fringe and the archaeology of the medieval Swahili4. The eastern African coast: researching its history and archaeology5. Defining the Swahili6. Decoding Swahili genetic ancestry7. Early connections8. The Swahili language and its early history9. Swahili origins10. Swahili oral traditions and chronicles11. Manda12. Tumbe, Kimimba and Bandari Kuu13. Unguja Ukuu14. Chibuene15. Urbanism16. Town and village17. Mambrui and Malindi18. Shanga19. Gede20. Mtwapa21. Pemba22. Zanzibar23. Mafia24. Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara25. Mikindani and the southern coast26. The Comoros and their early history27. The Comoros 1000 - 1350 CE28. Mahilaka29. The social composition of Swahili society30. Metalworking on Swahili sites31. Craft and industry32. Animals in the Swahili world33. Plant use and the creation of anthropogenic landscapes: coastal forestry and farming34. The progressive integration of eastern Africa into an Afro-Eurasian world-system, first-fifteenth centuries CE35. Eastern Africa and the dhow trade36. Early inland entanglement in the Swahili world, c. 750-1550 CE37. Mosaics and interconnectivity38. Links with India39.Links with China40. Currencies of the Swahili world41. Glass beads and Indian Ocean trade42. Quantitative evidence for early long-distance exchange in eastern Africa: the consumption volume of ceramic imports43. Islamic architecture of the Swahili coast44. Swahili houses45. Navigating the early modern world: Swahili polities and the continental-oceanic interface46. Zanzibar old town47. The Kilwa – Nyasa caravan route: the long-neglected trading corridor in southern Tanzania48. Islam in the Swahili world: Connected authorities49. The legacy of slavery on the Swahili coast50. Life in Swahili villages51. The modern life of Swahili stonetowns52. Identity and belonging on the contemporary Swahili coast: the case of Lamu53. Pate54. Mombasa55. The Swahili house: a historical ethnography of modernity56. The future of Swahili monuments
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Taylor & Francis Remaking Cities
Book SynopsisThis book presents a systematic analysis of the differential implementation of the urban reforms in two Indian cities, Ahmedabad and Kanpur. It analyses the enactment of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), launched in 2005 by the Indian government, which aimed to spatially reorient cities into market-friendly places across 65 cities but finished with only modest success.The volume discusses the specificities of urban governance systems, colonial municipal histories and nationalist struggle in relation to urban planning and policy reforms to showcase how policies insensitive to these are likely to fail. It identifies historically constituted municipal capacity â located in the municipal organisation at the city level â as the key determinant of divergent trajectories of the spatial changes. The analysis demonstrates that in Ahmedabad the politics of the city was historically oriented towards peoplesâ relationship with their spaces, enabling a coherent
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultures of Populism
The rapid global spread of populism has become an arresting and often disturbing phenomenon in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays explores the complex histories and diverse geographies of populist activity, examining its manifestations on both the political left and the right while tracing its dangerous association with nativism, racism and xenophobia. Established socio-political theories are questioned and challenged, giving way to fresh philosophical or cultural perspectives. At the heart of this collection lies a concern with the capacity of the humanities and especially literary studies to interpret, evaluate and intervene in this populist moment. Literary discussion ranges from Henry James and William Faulkner to Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, Ali Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates. These essays demonstrate the pertinence and value of enquiries from multiple perspectives if we are to come to terms with the impact of populist rhetoric on m
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Taylor & Francis Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart
Book SynopsisOffering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters.This guide to Chinua Achebeâs compelling novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things Fall Apart a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of critical writing on Things Fall Apart, by Abiola Irele, Abdul JanMohamed, Biodun Jeyifo, Florence Stratton and Ato Quayson, providing a variety of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions forTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Texts and Contexts 2. Critical History 3. Critical Readings 4. Further Reading and Web Resources Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Samkaras Advaita Vedanta
Book SynopsisSamkara (c.700 CE) has been regarded by many as the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time. A great Indian Vedantin brahmin, Samkara was primarily a commentator on the sacred texts of the Vedas and a teacher in the Advaitin teaching line. This book serves as an introduction to Samkara's thought which takes this as a central theme. The author develops an innovative approach based on Samkara's ways of interpreting sacred texts and creatively examines the profound interrelationship between sacred text, content and method in Samkara's thought. The main focus of the book is on Samkara's teaching method. This method is, for Samkara, based on the Upanishads' own; it is to be employed by Advaitin teachers to draw pupils skilfully towards that realisation which is beyond all words. Consequently, this book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Indian philosophy, but to all those interested in the relation between language and that which is held to transcend it.Trade Review'This book provides an excellent introduction to Samkara's work, while making a number of original arguments that are sure to be influencial in future studies on Samkara' - Brian Black, South Asia Research, Vol. 26 (2)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Studying the Teacher 1. The Teacher Himself 2. The Need for the Teaching 3. The Source for the Teaching 4. The Methods of the Teaching 5. The Context of the Teaching: The World of Name and Form 6. The Context of the Teaching: The Lord 7. The Language of the Teaching 8. The End of the Teaching
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Taylor & Francis The Buddhist Unconscious
Book SynopsisThis is the story of fifth century CE India, when the Yogacarin Buddhists tested the awareness of unawareness, and became aware of human unawareness to an extraordinary degree. They not only explicitly differentiated this dimension of mental processes from conscious cognitive processes, but also offered reasoned arguments on behalf of this dimension of mind. This is the concept of the 'Buddhist unconscious', which arose just as philosophical discourse in other circles was fiercely debating the limits of conscious awareness, and these ideas in turn had developed as a systematisation of teachings from the Buddha himself. For us in the twenty-first century, these teachings connect in fascinating ways to the Western conceptions of the 'cognitive unconscious' which have been elaborated in the work of Jung and Freud. This important study reveals how the Buddhist unconscious illuminates and draws out aspects of current western thinking on the unconscious mind. One of the most intriguinTrade Review'This work weaves together into one fabric yards spanning some one thousand years of Indian Buddhist thought, and will prove to be an invaluable source of information for scholars of Buddhist literature.' - East and West SeriesTable of ContentsPart I - The Background and Context of the Ãlaya-vijñãna Part II - The Abhidharma Context 15. The Abhidharma Project and its Problematic Part III - The Alaya-vijñana in the Yogacara Tradition, The Alaya-vijñana in the Early Tradition Part IV - The Alaya-Vijñana in the Mahayana-samgraha I : Bringing It All Back HomePart V - The Alaya-Vijñana in the Mahayana-samgraha II: Looking Beyond
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Taylor & Francis Geopolitics and Development
Book SynopsisGeopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War and the War on Terror. It illustrates the various ways in which the meanings and relations of development as a discourse, an apparatus and an aspiration, have been geopolitically imagined andTable of Contents1. Introduction: geopolitics and the assemblage of development 2. Post-colonialism, geopolitics and the periphery 3. Modernising the Third World 4. Cold War geopolitics and Foreign Aid 5. The State and Development 6. The political geographies of contemporary US foreign assistance 7. The rise of the South 8. Conclusions: development and (counter)insurgency
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Taylor & Francis Geographies of Globalization
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFeedback on the second edition: A comprehensive, up-to-date and eminently readable critical exploration of the idea that as globalization marches on, geography and its core principles matter more than ever for understanding the process, its challenges, and its impacts on places from the local to the global scale. - Emeritus Professor Peter Daniels, Department of Geography, University of Birmingham, UK‘Genuinely global, unlike much of its competition, the new edition of Geographies of Globalization continues to provide an extremely well-written, enjoyable, thoughtful and occasionally provocative analysis of globalization. Already highly successful, the book is well on the way to becoming a classic.’- Professor John Connell, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia'A first rate introduction to globalization encompassing economic, cultural, political and environmental processes and perspectives. This accessible and well-structured textbook combines a critical discussion of various theories of globalization with wide-ranging and up to date examples, presenting globalization as a dynamic and geographically unequal phenomenon that is central to understanding the modern world.' - Professor Michael Woods, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK'Globalization became a buzzword in the 1990s. Two decades on and writing from the southwestern Pacific, Warwick Murray and John Overton provide an excellent review of the debates: looking backwards, forwards and beyond the polemics' - Professor James D Sidaway, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore Reviews of the first edition:'Geographies of Globalization is a must read. It offers reasons why geographers have been marginal to the wider globalization debates, an agenda for rectifying this issue, and a call to arms to geographers on how to make their discipline distinct and valuable to the debates.' - Canadian Geographer Review'A valid contribution to the globalisation literature as an introductory level or foundation text, combining key themes and empirical case studies with some key theoretical ideas. As part of the Routledge Contemporary Human Geography Series the book serves its role as a teaching aid, providing a concise introduction to the subject while is also amenable to delivery as, or as an accompaniment to, an undergraduate lecture courses.'- Tim Vorley, University of Leicester'The book is very well written, carrying the reader along with all the zest and enthusiasm that characterise a winner of one of the 2006 national tertiary teaching awards. Reading it often seems like being in a high-energy classroom.' - New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences'Geographies of Globalization is written in a very clear, accessible and concise manner and is a book that offers students something of a route-map through the uncertainty, confusion and misunderstandings that surround this now widely debated phenomenon.' - New Zealand Geographer, 2006'This book will travel well beyond the discipline of geography and will be equally useful for students of a range of other social science disciplines.' - Marcus Power, Department of Geography, University of Durham'Geographies of Globalization is a must read. It offers reasons why geographers have been marginal to the wider globalization debates, an agenda for rectifying this issue, and a call to arms to geographers on how to make their discipline distinct and valuable to the debates.' - Canadian Geographer Review'I am certain that Geographies of Globalization will make an excellent text for many geography courses that focus on globalization' - Annals of the AAG Feedback on the second edition: A comprehensive, up-to-date and eminently readable critical exploration of the idea that as globalization marches on, geography and its core principles matter more than ever for understanding the process, its challenges, and its impacts on places from the local to the global scale. - Emeritus Professor Peter Daniels, Department of Geography, University of Birmingham, UK‘Genuinely global, unlike much of its competition, the new edition of Geographies of Globalization continues to provide an extremely well-written, enjoyable, thoughtful and occasionally provocative analysis of globalization. Already highly successful, the book is well on the way to becoming a classic.’- Professor John Connell, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia'A first rate introduction to globalization encompassing economic, cultural, political and environmental processes and perspectives. This accessible and well-structured textbook combines a critical discussion of various theories of globalization with wide-ranging and up to date examples, presenting globalization as a dynamic and geographically unequal phenomenon that is central to understanding the modern world.' - Professor Michael Woods, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK'Globalization became a buzzword in the 1990s. Two decades on and writing from the southwestern Pacific, Warwick Murray and John Overton provide an excellent review of the debates: looking backwards, forwards and beyond the polemics' - Professor James D Sidaway, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore Reviews of the first edition:'Geographies of Globalization is a must read. It offers reasons why geographers have been marginal to the wider globalization debates, an agenda for rectifying this issue, and a call to arms to geographers on how to make their discipline distinct and valuable to the debates.' - Canadian Geographer Review'A valid contribution to the globalisation literature as an introductory level or foundation text, combining key themes and empirical case studies with some key theoretical ideas. As part of the Routledge Contemporary Human Geography Series the book serves its role as a teaching aid, providing a concise introduction to the subject while is also amenable to delivery as, or as an accompaniment to, an undergraduate lecture courses.'- Tim Vorley, University of Leicester'Geographies of Globalisation is written in a very clear, accessible and concise manner and is a book that offers students something of a route-map through the uncertainty, confusion and misunderstandings that surround this now widely debated phenomenon.' - New Zealand Geographer 2006'This book will travel well beyond the discipline of geography and will be equally useful for students of a range of other social science disciplines.' - Marcus Power, Department of Geography, University of DurhamTable of ContentsPart I: Globalization in Three Dimensions – Place, Time and Space 1. Globalization and Place – Geography is Dead? 2. Globalization and Crisis – Three World Challenges 3. Globalization, Time and Space – History and Theory Part II: Globalization in Three Spheres – Economic, Cultural and Political 4. Globalizing Economic Geographies 5. Globalizing Cultural Geographies 6. Globalizing Political Geographies Part III: Globalization and Three Crises – Development, Environment and Uneven Capitalism 7. Inequality, Development and Globalization 8. Environment, Sustainability and Globalization 9. Uneven capitalism, globalization and recession 10. Progressive Globalization – Long Live Geography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Hinduism
Book SynopsisHinduism: The Basics introduces readers to the third largest, and arguably the oldest, living religious tradition. It opens a vista into the rich and dynamic ethos of the Hindu religious tradition in India and other parts of the world. The book explores the variety of philosophical schools, priestly rituals, and popular practices common in the Hindu faith, presenting the layered diversity of its traditions and how they function in everyday life.Chapters unpack key concepts from the tradition and discussions about its various aspects, including: The historical development of Hinduism Religious practices such as pilgrimage, meditation, and life cycle rituals The organisation of Hindu society into castes and related social justice issues The spread of Hinduism around the world, the rise of Hindu nationalism, and other challenges of modernity The continuum between sacred texts in both elite Sanskrit and in South Asian vernacularTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Hinduism in History 2. Foundational and Formative Sacred Texts and Concepts 3. Functional Sacred Texts: Vernacular Performativity 4. Social Organization and Goals for Individual Life 5. Religious Action and Expressions 6. Embracing Modernity 7. Hinduism Beyond India Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Translocal Geographies Spaces Places Connections
Book SynopsisBringing together a wide range of original empirical research from locations and interconnected geographical contexts from Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America, this book sets out a different agenda for mobility - one which emphasizes the enduring connectedness between, and embeddedness within, places during and after the experience of mobility. These issues are examined through the themes of home and family, neighbourhoods and city spaces and allow the reader to engage with migrants' diverse practices which are specifically local, yet spatially global. This book breaks new ground by arguing for a spatial understanding of translocality that situates the migrant experience within/across particular 'locales' without confining it to the territorial boundedness of the nation state. It will be of interest to academics and students of social and cultural geography, anthropology and transnational studies.Trade Review'An energetic and exciting volume, Translocal Geographies uses diverse empirical examples from around the world to illustrate a groundbreaking concept, and in so doing sheds new light on the experience of mobility in the 21st century. Rarely has Geography seemed so relevant.' Khalid Koser, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland 'Deploying and developing the concept of translocal this book advances transnational migration studies by situating migrants within specific places and times. This is a much needed multi-scalar corrective for the tendency of scholars to conflate locality of origin and settlement with national identities in mapping a geography of transnational connection.' Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester, UK 'This book provides an exciting insight in to the personal, emotional and corporeal geographies that are active agents of change in translocal relations... The book concludes in a very thought-provoking manner, highlighting numerous issues to be explored further, linked to geographies of power, class, agency and affect.' Social and Cultural Geography 'This book is a rich and varied collection of case studies that broaden the concept of translocality, and use a range of methodologies... I truly recommend this book to everyone who is interested in movement, migration, locales and the relationship between them, as they appear in different parts of the world, in different scales and in different forms.' Australian PlannerTable of ContentsContents: Part 1 Introduction: Translocal Geographies: Introduction: translocal geographies, Katherine Brickell and Ayone Datta. Part 2 Translocal Spaces; Home and Family: Translocal geographies of 'home' in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Katherine Brickell; Translocal family relations amongst the Lahu in Northern Thailand, Brian A.L. Tan and Brenda S.A. Yeoh; British families moving home: translocal geographies of return migration from Singapore, Madeleine E. Hatfield. Part 3 Translocal Neighbourhoods: Translocal geographies of London: belonging and 'otherness' among Polish migrants after 2004, Ayona Datta; ' You wouldn't know what's in there would you?' Homeliness and 'foreign' signs in Ashfield, Sydney, Amanda Wise; Ways out of crisis in Buenos Aires: translocal landscapes and the activation of mobile resources, Ryan Centner. Part 4 Urban Translocalities: Spaces, Places, Connections: Fear of small distances: home associations in Douala, Dar es Salaam and London, Ben Page; Translocal spatial; geographies: multi-sited encounters of Greek migrants in Athens, Berlin, and New York, Anastasia Christou; Translocality in Washington, DC and Addis Ababa: spaces and linkages of the Ethiopian diaspora in two capital cities, Elizabeth Chacko. Part 5 Epilogue: Translocality; a critical reflection, Michael Peter Smith; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Uganda Tarnished Pearl Of Africa Nations of the
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Taylor & Francis Unarchived Histories
Book SynopsisFor some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that the very act of archiving is accompanied by a process of un-archiving. Michel Foucault pointed to madness as describing one limit of reason, history and the archive. This book draws attention to another boundary, marked not by exile, but by the ordinary and everyday, yet trivialized or trifling. It is the status of being exiled within â by prejudices, procedures, activities and interactions so fundamental as to not even be noticed â that marks the unarchived histories investigated in this volume.Bringing together contributions covering South Asia, North and South America, and North Africa, this innovative analysis presents novel interpretations of unfamiliar sources and insightful reconsiderations of well-known materials that lie at the centre of many current debates on histoTable of Contents1. Unarchived Histories: The "Mad" and the "Trifling" Part 1: The State and its Record(s) 2. Peasant as Alibi: An Itinerary of the Archive of Colonial Panjab 3. A Death Without Cause: Mary E. Hutchinson’s Un-archived Life in Certified Death 4. "Standard Deviations": On Archiving the Awkward Classes in Northern Peru Part 2: Everyday as Archive 5. Feminine Ecriture, Trace Objects and the Death of Braj 6. Brown Privilege, Black Labor: Uncovering the Significance of Creole Women’s Work 7. Unfriendly Thresholds: On Queerness, Capitalism and Misanthropy in 19th Century America Part 3: Signs of Wonder 8. Of Kings and Gods: The Archive of Sovereignty in a Princely State 9. Geography’s Myth: The Many Origins of Calcutta 10. Un-archiving Algeria: Foucault, Derrida, and Spivak
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific
Book SynopsisCommunity Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim presents different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific Rim region. It focuses focus on how people respond and readjust to changes and captures the long-term community development outcomes and the critical moments that facilitate this development.Interdisciplinary and using diverse research approaches, the book includes contributions by authors from a variety of disciplines across disaster research, sociology, urban planning, architecture, anthropology, earth science, and education. Mixed methods are adopted to carry out the research projects that ground this volume, including qualitative research for social scientific research, ethnographic methods and more importantly, Participatory Action Research (PAR) is also included by authors who have a background in design professions and a few indigenous scholars who are themselves survivors of disasters. The chapters are structured in the following five thTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction. Placemaking in Displacement: Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim Session I. Learning as place-making in displacement Chapter 2. Schools as community assets for placemaking in post-disaster resettlement: Reciprocal impacts of housing and education recovery in Tacloban, Philippines; Chapter 3. Collaborating Across Borders: Placemaking and Local Climate Adaptation in Rural Nepal and the Philippines; Chapter 4. Making place for Indigenous Learning in Displacement: Cultivating Land Wisdom in Recovery in Southern Taiwan Session II. Gendering place-making in response to displacement Chapter 5. More than mushrooms: Local food culture and place making after “Fukushima”; Chapter 6. Where are the women’s voices? A Case study of Otsuchi Town after the Great East Japan Earthquake; Chapter 7. Displacement as unfolding spatial and gender politics: A Case Study of Indigenous Women’s Participation in Place-Making in Rinari Session III. Community Resilience and Indigenous Sense of Place Chapter 8. The real tsunami in North Pagai: Indigenous survivors living between old and new settlements after the 2010 Mentawai disaster; Chapter 9. Resilience to Disaster-driven Relocation Through Paiwan Inheritance Culture after Typhoon Morakot: the Laiyi case in Taiwan; Chapter 10. Finding Culture Through Agriculture: Rukai Communities at a Post-disaster Recovery Site in Southern Taiwan Session IV Community (Re)building in Post-tsunami Relocation Chapter 11. Diversification of Meanings of the Disaster-Stricken Area of Arahama: Towards a Recovery by the “Design of Meanings”; Chapter 12. Making a Community Around a Table: Reconstruction of Mutual Help System by Tea Parties (Ocha-kai) and Lunch Parties After the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake; Chapter 13. Re-starting Traditional Events After Small-scale Community Relocation Post-tsunami in Toyoma Village Session V. Transnational Placemaking from Bottom-up: Talk to the Actors (Transcribed/edited by Shu-Mei Huang, Elizabeth Maly, Yu- Yu-Hsin Chang) Chapter 14. Community/place-making in Otsuchi: A conversation with Mio Kamitani; Chapter 15. Transnational collaboration in the Pacific Rim: A conversation with Robert Olshansky, Ikuo Kobayashi, and Liang-Chun Chen; Chapter 16. Teaching and practicing in the Tohoku region: A conversation with Yasuaki Onoda; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Czechoslovakism
Book SynopsisThis collection systematically approaches the concept of Czechoslovakism and its historical progression, covering the time span from the mid-nineteenth century to Czechoslovakia's dissolution in 1992/1993, while also providing the most recent research on the subject. Czechoslovakism was a foundational concept of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic and it remained an important ideological, political and cultural phenomenon throughout the twentieth century. As such, it is one of the most controversial terms in Czech, Slovak and Central European history. While Czechoslovakism was perceived by some as an effort to assert Czech domination in Slovakia, for others it represented a symbol of the struggle for the Republic's survival during the interwar and Second World War periods. The authors take care to analyze Czechoslovakism's various emotional connotations, however their primary objective is to consider Czechoslovakism as an important historical concept and follow its chanTable of ContentsIntroduction: Czechoslovakism: the concept’s blurry history Part One: From Kollár to Masaryk 1. Latent Czechoslovakism: a topic of politicization for 19th century liberal elites 2. Czechoslovakist reasoning at the turn of the 19th and 20th century 3. Hungarian government, administrative and supervisory bodies and the Czechoslovakist movement, 1895-1914: surveillance, misinterpretation and countermeasure 4. “Jews are Slovakia’s misfortune”: Czechoslovakism and antisemitism from the late 19th to the mid-20th century Part Two: Czechoslovakism in the time of “nation-state” building 5. Czechoslovakism in the first half of the Czechoslovak Republic: state-building concept or hackneyed old phrase? 6. Czechoslovakism in the eyes of interwar Slovak political parties 7. The failure of Czechoslovakism as a state-civic concept: the army and its minorities, 1918-1945 8. State festivities and constructing a Czechoslovak national community during the First Republic 9. The idea of Czechoslovakism in Czech history and civic education textbooks published between 1918-1938 10. Czechoslovak visual arts Part Three: Czechoslovakism during the communist dictatorship and democratic transformation 11. Czechoslovak ideology and Slovak communists 12. Discussions of Czechoslovakism and luďák-ness in the reformist era of 1960s 13. Czechoslovakism and Party theory of the so-called “national question” 14. Debating Czechoslovakism and Czechoslovak identity in the federation’s final years, 1989-1992 15. The problem of Czechoslovakism in Slovakia after November 1989 16. Yugoslavism throughout the 20th century: developments and tendencies
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking Civil Society Regionalism in Africa
Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the extent to which regional civil society organisations have evolved as actors in West Africa. Examining civil society democratic participation in regional integration and involvement in regionalism of peacebuilding, it rethinks how we study civil society in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region. Beyond the functional typology of civil society actors as âpartnerâ, âlegitimiserâ, âresistance/counter-hegemonicâ and âmanipulatorâ, the book develops a new analytical framework to understand how organisations such as the West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF) and West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) have evolved. Offering analytical perspectives of the actorship of specific regional civil society actors, the book draws attention to the tendencies in the previous studies of mistaking an action or misdeed that is empirically specific to particular civil society organisations within a region to the generality of the civic space of the
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Taylor & Francis Distance Equity and Older Peoples Experiences in
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs and wishes in diverse surroundings in the Northern periphery and beyond. It asks how physical, social and emotional distances shape older peopleâs everyday lives and practices. Contributions from leading experts provides interdisciplinary investigations into the experiences and stories of older people in the Northern periphery. These insights demonstrate the utility of the concept, distance, when reflecting on the central aspects of contemporary ageing societies. The book explores key themes such as care, age politics, technology, intergenerational relations and migration, providing perspectives that are applicable across a variety of international geographical contexts. This innovative book offers a valuable theoretical and methodological contribution with critical new perspectives on ageing in relation to distances. It will be of interest to students and scholars interested in sociology, human geography, health and social care, ageing and gerontological studies, gender studies and Arctic studies.
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Taylor & Francis European Civil Society and International
Book SynopsisThis book explains how and why European non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) engage in advocacy towards the European Union (EU).It analyses the heterogenous structure of the sector, with examples ranging from large multinational networks to essentially single person NGDOs. The book provides a detailed map of the topics which have featured in NGDO advocacy since 2006, arguing that NGDOs have generally been reactive in their advocacy towards the EU. The author explains how they have contested a number of policy issues on the agendas of the EU institutions, especially around the diversion of aid to manage migration and leverage private sector investments. Furthermore, some NGDOs have used the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to re-package their pre-existing policy demands. Based on an analytical framework focused around three variables, namely moral vision, funding concerns, and the need to build/maintain a good' reputation, the book explains these advocacy choi
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fake News and Elections in Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisThis book offers a regional analysis of the impact of fake news misinformation, malinformation and disinformation on electoral democracy and freedom of expression in Southeast Asia, which has taken place in the middle of a global health pandemic.The book maps the impact of social media and the internet on democracy in the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that have already been in the throes of democratic regression for some time. Including an analysis of countries that do not have national elections, the chapters provide detailed information on the extent of internet and social media penetration in each country, the laws that are deployed to reel in its political potential for critics and demonstrate the impact on democracy or the prospects for democracy. Collectively, contributors note that disinformation is a serious problem in the region that negatively impacts elections and how governments' attempts to deal with the phenomenon inevitably lead to theTable of Contents1 Introduction – Fake News and Elections in Southeast Asia 2 Shaping the Fake News Discourse: Laws, Electoral Arenas and the Emergence of Truth as a Public Interest 3 Fake News in Cambodia: A Pretext for Preventive Political Repression 4 Fake News and Violence against Women in Indonesia’s Elections 5 Najib Tun Razak, 1MDB, Social Media and the Fall of Barisan Nasional in the 14th General Election 6 Fake in the Mainstream: The Media, the Military and Myanmar’s Elections 7 Fake News and Elections in Myanmar 8 Fake News and State Violence: How Duterte Hijacked the Election and Democracy in the Philippines 9 Singapore’s Anti-Fake News Law: Grabbing the Election by Using Falsehoods to Discredit the Opposition 10 Thailand’s 2019 General Election: Anti-Fake News Practices and the Securitisation of Media Spaces 11 Political Criticism as Fake News: How Brunei, Laos and Vietnam Suppress Democracy 12 Conclusion – The Future of Democratic Elections in Southeast Asia
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Taylor & Francis The Bantu Languages
Book SynopsisWritten by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification. It is estimated that some 300 to 350 million people, or one in three Africans, are Bantu speakers. Van de Velde and Bostoen bring together their linguistic expertise to produce a volume that builds on Nurse and Philippsonâs first edition.The Bantu Languages, 2nd edition is divided into two parts; Part 1 contains 11 comparative chapters, and Part 2 provides grammar sketches of 12 individual Bantu languages, some of which were previously undescribed. The grammar sketches follow a general template that allows for easy comparison. Thoroughly revised and updated to include more language descriptions and the latest comparative insights.New to this edition:â new chapters Table of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsAbbreviations1. IntroductionKoen Bostoen & Mark Van de VeldePART 12. An inventoryof Bantu languagesHarald Hammarström3. The sounds of the Bantu languagesIan Maddieson & Bonny Sands4. Segmental phonologyLarry Hyman5. ToneDavid Odden & Michael Marlo6. Word formationThilo Schadeberg & Koen Bostoen7. Aspect, Tense and MoodDerek Nurse & Maud Devos8. Nominal Morphology and SyntaxMark Van de Velde9. Clausal morphosyntax and information structureLaura Downing & Lutz Marten10. Reconstructing Proto BantKoen Bostoen11. Classifying Bantu languagesGérard Philippson & Rebecca Grollemund12. Language contactMaarten MousPART 213. Kwakum A91Elisabeth Njantcho & Mark Van de Velde14. Nsong B85dJoseph Koni Muluwa & Koen Bostoen15. Pagibete C401JeDene Reeder16. Zimba D26Constance Kutsch Lojenga17. The Mara languages JE40Lotta Aunio, Holly Robinson, Tim Roth, Oliver Stegen & John B. Walker18. Mbugwe F34Vera Wilhelmsen19. Kami G36Malin Petzell & Lotta Aunio20. Shingazidja G44aCédric Patin, Kassim Mohamed-Soyir & Charles W. Kisseberth21. Vwanji G66Helen Eaton22. Totela K41Thera Crane23. Chimpotot N14Robert Botne24. Cuwabo P34Rozenn GuéroisLangage IndexSubject Index
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Taylor & Francis Good Practices for Disaster Risk Management of
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Superpowers Playground
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the evolving geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region and explains how Djibouti fits in the global strategies of four major powersthe US, China, Japan, and France. It shows how Djibouti is emerging as a key nation in the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, explores the interconnections between Djibouti and the Indian as well as Pacific Oceans, and through Djibouti examines broader trends in contemporary great power politics in the Indo-Pacific region, including the Belt and Road Initiative of China. Moving beyond contemporary works on the region, the author integrates Africa and the Middle East with discussions on the Indo-Pacific to illustrate the coalescing of strategic geography from Eastern Africa to the Western coast of the Americas.A major intervention, the volume will be essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and researchers of politics and international relations, security studies, African studies, peace and conflict studies, and maritime studiesTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Why Djibouti Matters 2 A French Homecoming? 3 From Kilimanjaro to California 4 The Confl uence of the Two Seas 5 Building a New Silk Road Conclusion Index
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Taylor & Francis Central Asias Economic Rebirth in the Shadow of
Book SynopsisThis volume describes the unique development of Central Asia as defined by its landlocked geography. Particular attention is paid to the achievements and challenges of the regionâs post-Soviet economic and political transformation, as well as to its relationship with the participants in the New Great Game â Russia, China and the West. Located as it is in the geographical centre of booming Asia, and with the opportunity to become a key logistics bridge connecting the worldâs largest economies, Central Asia is well placed for rapid development. However, the region faces a range of complex problems that are explained and analysed in the volume. The Eurasian powers that encircle Central Asia look certain to become the engines of global economic growth, but how will this affect the region? Will Central Asia join the powerful locomotive of history, or will it remain on the sidelines?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Narrative Performances of Mothering in South
Book SynopsisExamining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between diaspora studies and gender studies. It shows how discourses of diaspora benefit from re-examining their own critical relation to concepts of the maternal and the motherland. Rather than considering maternity as a fixed or naturally given category, it challenges essentialist conceptions and explores mothering as a performative practice which actively produces discursive meaning. This innovative approach also involves an investigation of central metaphors in nationalist and diasporic rhetorics, bringing critical attention to the strategies they employ and the unique aesthetic forms they produce. Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations 1. Introduction: more than one mother 1.1 Gender and nation 1.2 Theories of the maternal 1.3 Theories of diaspora 1.4 Outline of chapters 2. Historical performances: reading Mother India in nationalist discourse and Kipling 2.1 Bharat Mata 2.1.1 Vande Mataram 2.1.2 The mother-as-metaphor 2.1.3 Condensation and transaction 2.1.4 Metaphorical performances 2.2 Kipling’s imperial Mother India 2.2.1 Imperial doublings 2.2.2 The native-born diaspora 3. Citational performances: "Talking major mother country" in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children3.1 Diasporic maternal practices 3.2 Victorian Mothers3.3 The performance of mothering 3.4 ‘De-condensing’ Mother India 3.5 Diasporic bastards 4. Exile performances: Pakistani mother-daughter relationships in Bapsi Sidhwa’sCracking India and Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days. 4.1 Sidhwa’s matricide 4.1.1 Allegorical readings 4.1.2 Hired Mother India 4.2 Suleri’s mother elegy 4.2.1 A poetics of unbelonging 4.2.2 Mother(ing)land 4.2.3 Performances of abjection 5. Maternal performances: mother tongues in Ravinder Randhawa’s A Wicked OldWoman and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane 5.1 Performing the mother tongue 5.2 A wicked old mother 5.3 Herethics and diasporic mothering 5.4 Diasporic seas 5.5 Ali’s coming-of-agency 6. Outlook and conclusion: diasporic maternal aesthetics 6.1 Indo-Caribbean labours 6.2 Retrospects and prospects 7. Appendix8. Works cited 9. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religion and Transnational Citizenship in the
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on Akan-speaking Ghanaians in London and explores in detail the experience of African migrants living in Britain, investigating how they construct their British citizenship through their membership of the church.Building on extensive ethnographic research in London and Ghana, the author explores the relationship between religion and citizenship, the emergence of transnational subjectivities, and the making of diaspora aesthetics among African migrants. Starting from the understanding that citizenship is dialogical, a status mediated by a subject's multiple and intersecting identities, the author highlights the limitations of existing conceptualisations of migrant citizenship. Anchored in a case study of the British/Ghanaian Methodist Church as a transnational religious organisation and cultural polity, the book explores diasporic religious subjectivities as both cosmopolitan and transnational, while being configured in emotionally and morally significant wayTable of ContentsIntroduction: The New African Diaspora: Ethnicity, Religion, and Citizenship in the Gateway City 1. Haringey: Associational Life and Black Leadership in a North London Borough 2. Migrant Spaces and Transnational Networks Between London and Ghana 3. "Virtuous Citizenship": Ethnicity and Encapsulation among Akan-Speaking Ghanaian Methodists in London 4. Agape Love: Gender, Class and Transnational Subjectivities in a Methodist Women’s Fellowship 5. ‘Showing-off Aesthetics’: Looking Good, Making Relations and ‘Being in the World’ in the London Akan Diaspora 6. Intimacy, Citizenship and Transnational Family Lives between London and Ghana Conclusion: Everyday Practices of Citizenship and the Struggle for Recognition and Distinction in Akan London
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Taylor & Francis Ltd TwentyFirst Century Arab and African Diasporas in
Book SynopsisThis volume considers the Arabic and African diasporas through the underexplored Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Africans, and Mahjari (South American and Mexican authors of Arab descent) experiences in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches, the authors explore the ways in which individual writers and artists negotiate the geographical, cultural, and historical parameters of their own diasporic trajectories influenced by their particular locations at home and elsewhere. At the same time, this volume sheds light on issues related to Spain, Portugal, and Latin American racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of the Middle East and Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American economic crunches in shaping attitudes towards immigration. This collection of thought-provoking chapters extends the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism, forcing the reader to reassess their prTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I. SPAIN1 Integration, School, and the Children of North African Immigrants in Spain2 Finding and Recording the Invisible: The Porteadoras of the Spanish-Moroccan Border in Documentary Film3 Saharaui Women Writers in Spain: Voices of Resistance in Mil y un poemas saharauis II [One Thousand and One Saharaui Poems II]4 Sex, Identity, and Narration in the Equatoguinean Diaspora5 Mothering, Mestizaje and the Future of Spain PART II. PORTUGAL 6 Black Migration, Citizenship, and Racial Capital in Post-Imperial Portugal7 We Are Not Your Negroes: Analyzing Mural Representations of Blackness in Lisbon Metropolitan Area8 Reclaiming an Individual Space: The Angolan Diaspora in Portugal9 Luso-Arabic Poetry: Reviewing the Concept10 Portugal Against the Moors in the 21st Century: Invisible Diasporas and the "Mediatic Romanticism" of a Contemporary OperaPART III. LATIN AMERICA11 Chilestinians and Journalism12 Writing South, Facing East: Arab Argentine Narratives13 Chronicling "the Death of the Arab" in Colombian Literature14 The Otherness That Remains. The Past From The Future: Cuaderno de Chihuahua [Chihuahua Notebook] by Jeannette Lozano Clariond15 The Idea of Translation in Ancient Tillage, by Raduan Nassar
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dissent with Love
Book SynopsisThis book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulations of dissenting love in contemporary South Asia including negotiations with parents to assert choice of partner, migration, elopement, live-in relationships, singlehood, new' ideas of masculinities, and embracing diverse sexual identities. It studies these forms of dissent in the context of changing legal discourses, impact of media in everyday life, and transforming social attitudes.As such, this book is the first of its kind to analyse the myriad ways in which love and dissent constitute each other shaping the social, political, and cultural mores and movements of South Asia. The contributions are based on ethnographic research cutting across diverse religious, ethnic, and gender and sexual identities of South Asia.Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, this book will be of interest to students and
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Taylor & Francis On the Crisis of Boko Haram Terrorism
Book SynopsisThe book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. It describes the terrorism as a by-product of unresolved conflict emanating from unequal hegemonic power exchange with respect to the non-fulfillment of socio-economic goals between the political state and the citizenry. Rather than follow the popular notion of religion as the root causes of Boko Haram crisis, the book widens its scope to cover terrorism as a whole with a view to laying a more viable foundation for its readers to understand the concept of terrorism, provoking causes and perspectives, as well as influential factors that may interplay to sustain extremist terrorism in contemporary global society. Using Boko Haram as a potentially useful model, the book contends that the discursive framework of terrorism cannot be isolated from its socio-economic perspectives. In view of the foregoing, the simplistic response toTable of ContentsChapter 1: General introduction and Analytical Explanation of Key Concepts in Terrorism StudiesChapter 2: Towards a Demystification of Pervasive Understanding Boko Haram TerrorismChapter 3: Patterns that Maintain the Boko Haram Terrorism in NigeriaChapter 4: Boko Haram Insurgency: Democratic Failure and Youth Degeneration into Terrorism in NigeriaChapter 5: Boko Haram Terrorism and Socio-economic Decays in NigeriaChapter 6: Community Policing as an Antidote for Terrorism: Lessons from Boko Haram Chapter 7: Theories and Perspectives on Terrorism: A Boko Haram Model AnalysisChapter 8: Methodology and Qualitative Research Strategy Chapter 9: Synopsis and general conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and Popular Visual Culture in India
Book SynopsisPerhaps, male-mindedness seems to have adapted to changing-contemporary circumstances to become more covert and conspiratorial. Sexist suggestionsthrough objectification and substantiated subordinationfor instance, may have been explicit in Indian media a decade earlier. But in the contemporary times of online social media and vociferous feminism, such openness of unfairness against women in the media will, more often than not, be met with strife and unpalatable backlash - fearing which blatant prejudice is prudently steered clear of. It is, hence, understandable that patriarchy, to sustain itself as a culture, has adapted to become more benevolent in an increasingly hostile environment. To identify such sly and stealthy sexism embedded in media content, one may need a reconfigured grasp of contemporary feminist issues and an altered nuance for isolation and identification of discriminatory depictions. This book exposes redefined and hidden sexism that predominates the popular visuaTable of ContentsForeword Introduction Part 1: Evolving Sexism 1. Introduction to Part 1 2. New Wine in Old Bottles: Benevolent Sexism in the Indian Popular Visual Media 3. Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? Sexism in Fourth-Wave Feminism 4. Feminine Materiality and Masculine Narratives in Gaming 5. Androcentrism and Gender Stereotyping in Matrimonial Advertisements Part 2: Characterising Contemporary Feminist Cultures 6. Introduction to Part 2 7. Fourth-Wave Feminism: World View and the Indian Context 8. Gendered Memes: Stereotypical Representations to Agentic Counter-Conduct 9. New Dimensions in Relationships: Portrayal of the Culture through Cinema 10. Cinema for Change: Feminist Impressions in Heroine-Centric Plots Part 3: Indian Media and Sexism 11. Introduction to Part 3 12. Female Politicos in Indian Web Series: The Politics of Portrayal 13. Does Sexism Still Sell? Bigotry in Advertisements and its Effect on Body Image and Buying Behaviour 14. Sex Workers and Bollywood: A Study of Misrepresentations and Blurred Lines 15. Women and Emergent Agency in Hindi Partition Cinema 16. The Men and the Media 17. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The World of the Oxus Civilization
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays presents a synthesis of current research on the Oxus Civilization, which rose and developed at the turn of the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC in Central Asia. First discovered in the 1970s, the Oxus Civilization, or the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), has engendered many different interpretations, which are explored in this volume by an international group of archaeologists and researchers. Contributors cover all aspects of this fascinating Bronze Age culture: architecture; material culture; grave goods; religion; migrations; and trade and interactions with neighboring civilizations, from Mesopotamia to the Indus, and the Gulf to the northern steppes. Chapters also examine the Oxus Civilization's roots in previous local cultures, explore its environmental and chronological context, or the possibly coveted metal sources, and look into the reasons for its decline.The World of the Oxus Civilization offers a brTrade Review"The World of the Oxus Civilisation brings to life one of the great ‘lost civilisations’ of the ancient world, lost only because, while extraordinarily rich and extensive in its reach, its story has long been hidden from the broader world of scholarship by extreme political and linguistic barriers. This volume, telling the full story of the Oxus Civilisation for the first time, is a magnificent gift for anyone interested in the rich complexity of the ancient world and the early rise of internationalism across Asia. Its comprehensive coverage, presented as a series of specialist essays by a range of international scholars, will be warmly welcomed as a much needed authoritative work of reference filling a critical gap in the early history of Old World development." - Alison Betts, University of Sydney, Australia."This ambitious book provides a comprehensive overview by many experts of the remarkable Bronze Age Civilization of the Oxus including detailed description of the settlement systems, the archaeological evidence for a complex and unique culture as well as discussions of relations with neighboring civilizations in Iran, the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia. The astounding richness of the burials at the site of Gonur are testimony to the wealth and sophistication of this culture which flourished as part of the expansive network of trade and exchange that linked the riverine cultures of the Near East from Troy to the Indus valley." - Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania, USA.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE OXUS CIVILIZATION BACKGROUND 1. Questioning the Oxus Civilization or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture (BMAC): an Overview 2 The Oxus Civilization and Mesopotamia: A Philologist’s Point of View 3. Environmental Changes in Bactria and Sogdiana (Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan) from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age: Interaction with Human Occupation 4. The Rise of the Early Urban Civilization in Southwestern Central Asia (from the Middle Chalcolithic to the Middle Bronze Age in Southern Turkmenistan) PART II: THE "CORE AREA" 5. The Architecture of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture 6. Some Thoughts on the Imaginary Representations in the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture 7. Myths and Gods in the Oxus Civilization 8. BMAC Glyptics: Typology, Context, Function, and Background 9. Chlorite Containers from the Oxus Civilization: Between Technical Choices and Iconographic Codes 10. The "Royal Necropolis" at Gonur Depe: an Attempt at Systematization (Plan, Constructions, Rituals) 11. Polychrome Inlayed and Painted Mosaics from Gonur Depe (Turkmenistan) 12. Animal Burials at Gonur Depe 13. Funerary Rituals and Archaeothanatological Data from BMAC Graves at Ulug-Depe (Turkmenistan) and Dzharkutan (Uzbekistan) 14. Bioarchaeology of the BMAC Population: A Short Review 15. Animal Exploitation at Gonur Depe 16. Life in the Countryside: the Rural Archaeology of the Sapalli Culture 17. Who Interacted with Whom? Re-Defining the Interaction between BMAC People and Mobile Pastoralists in Bronze Age Southern Turkmenistan 18. The End of the Oxus Civilization PART III: THE "SURROUNDING AREAS" 19. The BMAC Presence in Eastern Iran: State of Affairs in December 2018. --Towards the Greater Khorasan Civilization? 20. The Relationship between the Oxus Civilization and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands 21. Interaction between the Worlds of South Asia and Central Asia 22. The Oxus Civilization/BMAC and its Interaction with the Arabian Gulf: A Review of the Evidence 23. The Formation of the Oxus Civilization/BMAC in Southwestern Tajikistan 24. The Zeravshan Regional Variant of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex: Interaction between Two Cultural Worlds 25. The "Classical Vakhsh Culture": a Bronze Age Culture of the 3rd and early 2nd Millennium BC in Southern Tajikistan 26. The Oxus Civilization and the Northern Steppes PART IV: METALS AND METAL DEPOSITS 27. Archaeometallurgical Studies on BMAC Artifacts 28. Metal Sources (Tin and Copper) and the BMAC 29. The Acquisition of Tin in Bronze Age Southwest Asia APPENDIX: Radiocarbon Dates Related to the BMAC/Oxus Civilization
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Exploring Russias Exceptionalism in International
Book SynopsisThis book explores Russia's sense of its own uniqueness and the impact this has had on Russia's conduct of international relations. Examining concepts such as Russia's special civilising mission, its difference from the West, its proneness to conduct violent warfare, and more, and discussing these concepts in relation to Russia's history and its present behaviour, and also in relation to other countries' views of themselves as exceptional, the book highlights Russia's sense of its own identity as a key factor shaping current international events.Table of ContentsChapter 1 “Rethinking How Historically Exceptional Russia Has Been” Raymond TarasChapter 2 “Beyond the Core: Conceptualising Russia's Hybrid Exceptionalism in Times of War” Kevork OskanianChapter 3 “Mission Narrative in Russian Foreign Policy. The Comparative Perspective”Alicja CuranovićChapter 4 “Squaring the Circle: Legitimizing the Putin Regime after February 24, 2022” Bo PeterssonChapter 5 “Exception and Analogical Reasoning in Ukrainian and Russian Political Discourses”Yulia Kurnyshova and Andrey MakarychevChapter 6 “Messianic Discourses and the Ideology of Putinism” Mikhail SuslovChapter 7 “Human Rights and the Exceptionalism of Russian Law and Politics Mikhail AntonovChapter 8 “The Emergence of Contending Universalisms: Russian and American Exceptionalist Diplomacy 1917-1918”Molly O’NealChapter 9 “Russia’s Exceptional Role in Managing Kazakhstan’s Postcolonial Identity”Vera Grantseva AgeevaChapter 10 “The Soviet Federative State: Its Exceptional Formation - and Dismemberment”David Lane
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Taylor & Francis Geographical Journeys
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Taylor & Francis Slavery and Bondage in Medieval North India
Book SynopsisThis book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule. It focuses on the northern Islamic regimesâ treatment of slavery but not limited or determined by the actions and demands of the ruling class alone. Societies normalized the practices, and the norms were socially constituted, which included slavesâ acceptance, resistance, and use of agency in the process. It shows how the transformations on the ground made the social-economic and ethical environment of slavery no longer the same over the centuries and the expansion or contraction of slavery corresponded to the structural changes and ethical developments specific to the Indian milieu.The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, history and slavery.
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Cambridge University Press A Report of a Magnetic Survey of South Africa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd International Feminist Perspectives on Educational Reform
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Education in the Third World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Forms of Urbanization
Book SynopsisThere is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes. An important element in context is the type of settlement in which people live and work and so, it is vital to be able to categorise people into particular settlements types. This book brings together a leading team of social scientists to present the latest information on urbanization around the world, highlighting examples of development patterns that are not adequately captured by the UN''s type of reporting systems and drawing attention to other ways of representing current trends.Trade Review'This book is a milestone in our understanding of the way cities are developing as we head towards a post-industrial, global world. Everyone interested in what our cities will look like in the 21st century should read this book.' Professor Michael Batty, University College London, UK 'The book is indeed a valuable contribution towards conceptualising the rapid rural-urban transformation in the developing countries. The case studies from Mexico, India and China makes the book a useful tool in understanding the emerging diversity of urban forms important for urban and metropolitan planning. The book is innovative in setting the agenda for new classification of settlements relevant for human lives in the rapidly changing world.' Ram B. Bhagat, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India 'By 2020 the world will for the first time have more than 50 per cent of its population living in urban places. This will involve a huge increase of urban population. This book provides a major review of these processes of urban change. The authors are among some of the leading researchers and practitioners in this field and ensure that this book will be a seminal contribution to the study of urbanization.' Professor Terence McGee, University of British Columbia, Canada 'A deft handling of ongoing discussions about statistical methodology for measuring the populations and demographic characteristics of cities, New Forms of Urbanization tackles the issues of comparability, areal units, methods of aggregation, and measures of urban and rural in standards for the presentation of urban statistics. New Forms of Urbanization does so ably by bringing in perspectives from all over the world. This book should help address the global disparities in data, paving the way to greater efforts to streamline and coordinate approaches.' David R. Rain, US Census Bureau, Washington DC, USA 'This book should be of major interest to scholars, students and government officials interested in urban planTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction: Introduction: moving beyond the urban-rural dichotomy, Tony Champion and Graeme Hugo; Lest we re-invent the wheel: lessons from previous experience, Tony Champion; World urbanization: trends and prospects, Hania Zlotnik. Part II: Regional Perspectives on Settlement Change: The fading of city-suburb and metro-nonmetro distinctions in the United States, William H. Frey; Population dynamics and urbanization in Latin America: concepts and data limitations, Alfredo E. Lattes, Jorge RodrÃguez and Miguel Villa; Urbanization trends in Asia: the conceptual and definitional challenges, Gavin W. Jones; Analyzing urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Philippe Bocquier. Part III: Case Studies: The transformation of the urban system in Mexico, Gustavo Garza; Urban development and population redistribution in Delhi: implications for categorizing population, Véronique Dupont; Urbanization and metropolitanization in Brazil: trends and methodological challenges, José Marcos Pinto da Cunha; Changing urbanization processes and In Situ rural-urban transformation: reflections on China's settlement definitions, Yu Zhu. Part IV: Conceptualizing Settlement Systems: An evolutionary approach to settlement systems, Denise Pumain; The conceptualization and analysis of urban systems: a North American perspective, Larry S. Bourne and Jim Simmons; The nature of rurality in postindustrial society, David L. Brown and John B. Cromartie; Rethinking 'Rurality', Keith Halfacree. Part V: Moving From The Conceptual To The Operational: Multiple dimensions of settlement systems: coping with complexity, Mike Coombes; Using remote sensing and geographic information systems to identify the underlying properties of urban environments, John R. Weeks; Reflections on the review of metropolitan area standards in the United States, 1990 - 2000, James D. Fitzsimmons and Michael R. Ratcliffe. Part VI: The Way Forward: Conclusions and recommendations, Graeme Hugo and Tony Champion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Geographies of Rural Cultures and Societies
Book SynopsisThe last decade or so has witnessed a flourishing of research in rural geography; in particular, approaches which have developed socio-cultural perspectives on rural issues. This book brings together well-established and newer researchers to examine the position of rural social and cultural geography at the beginning of the 21st century and to suggest new research agendas. It offers critical evaluations of theoretical positions and advances, introduces new conceptual and methodological tools and reports on recent empirical work on a variety of topical issues in a number of countries. With diverse theoretical and empirical content, the book makes a valuable contribution to the development of research into changing social and cultural geographies of rurality in ''developed'' or ''Western'' countries.Trade Review’...bound to attract a wide range of readers including researchers, policy makers, planners, managers, investors, farmers and all those connected, directly or indirectly, with the new image of rurality.’ Journal of Rural CooperationTable of ContentsContents: Geographies of rural cultures and societies: introduction, Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey. Part I: Thinking Ruralities: Obese and pornographic ruralities: further cultural twists for rural geography?, Martin Phillips; Spatial stories: preliminary notes on the idea of narrative style in rural studies, Rob Fish; (Re)positioning power in rural studies: from organic community to political society, Graham Gardner; Constructing multiple ruralities: practices and values of rural dwellers, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen and Lene Møller Madsen. Part II: Rural Societies: Inclusions and Exclusions: Politics and protest in the contemporary countryside, Michael Woods; Geographies of invisibility: the 'hidden' lives of rural lone parents, Annie Hughes; Constable countryside? police perspectives on rural Britain, Richard Yarwood and Caroline Cozens. Part III: Community and Governance: Mobilizing the local: community, participation and governance, Bill Edwards and Michael Woods; A sense of place: rural development, tourism and place promotion in the Republic of Ireland, David Storey; 'Community'-based strategies for environmental protection in rural areas: towards a new form of participatory rural governance?, Susanne Seymour. Part IV: Cultures of Farming and Food: Lost words, lost worlds? Cultural geographies of agriculture, Carol Morris; Producing-consuming food: closeness, connectedness and rurality in four 'alternative' food networks, Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey; Winners and losers? rural restructuring, economic status and masculine identities among young farmers in South-West Ireland, CaitrÃona Nà Laoire; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge History Handbook of Central and
Book SynopsisStatehood examines the extending lines of development of nation-state systems in Eastern Europe, in particular considering why certain tendencies in state development found a different expression in this region compared to other parts of the continent. This volume discusses the differences between the social developments, political decisions and historical experience that have influenced processes of state-building, with a focus on the structural problems of the region and the different paths taken to overcome them. The book addresses processes of building social orders and examines the contribution of state institutions to social and cultural integration and disintegration. It analyzes institutional and personnel continuities that have outlasted the great political changes of the twentieth century and addresses the expansion of state activity in shaping property relations in agriculture and industry as well as in social security and family politics. Taking a comparaTable of ContentsVolume introduction 1 Projections and representations of statehood 2 Towards a new quality of statehood: bureaucratization and state-building in empires and nation states before 1914 3 Deconstructing and reconstructing statehood: the impact of the World Wars (Part I) – the First World War 4 Statehood in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: the Interwar Period 5 Deconstructing and reconstructing statehood: the impact of the World Wars (Part II) – the Second World War 6 Statehood in socialism 7 1989 and beyond
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge History Handbook of Central and
Book SynopsisViolence analyzes both the violence exerted on the societies of Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century by belligerent powers and authoritarian and/or totalitarian regimes and armed conflicts between ethnic, social and national groups, as well as the interaction between these two phenomena.Throughout the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was hit particularly hard by war, violence and repression, with armed conflicts in the Balkans at the start and end of the period and two world wars in between. In the shadow of these full-scale wars, ethnic, social and national conflicts were intensified, found new forms and were violently played out. The interwar period witnessed the emergence of authoritarian states who enforced their claim to power through continued violence against political opponents, stigmatized ethnic, national and social groups, and were themselves fought with subversive or terrorist techniques. This volume focuses specificallyTable of ContentsVolume introduction 1. The Balkan Wars: patterns of violence in the Balkans leading up to the First World War 2. The war in the East, 1914–16 3. The radicalization of violence and Intermarium‘s interwar 4. Mass violence and its immediate aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War, 1939–47 5. State socialism: violence, oppression and surveillance 6. The violent dissolution of Yugoslavia, 1989–2001
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