Regional geography Books

Book SynopsisThe Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty have been described as the jewels of the English landscape, and the North Wessex Downs, the third largest AONB, is no exception. Its predominant feature is its underlying chalk geology, and it covers one of the most continuous tracts of chalk downland in England. As well as its treasures in the form of chalk and ancient woodland, the North Wessex Downs also has a fascinating human history, stretching back some 5,000 years. The archaeology of the area is both rich and varied, with a number of impressive monuments, including the Neolithic stone circle at Avebury-which forms part of a World Heritage Site-the truly beautiful Uffington White Horse, and the magical Wayland''s Smithy, plus a myriad of Bronze Age barrows and Iron Age hill forts. Despite being located in southern England-a densely populated region-the North Wessex Downs is surprisingly unspoiled and sparsely populated, giving it a true sense of the idyllic England of old. Hidden amongst t

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Book SynopsisThe history of 12,000 years of the British landscape, from the Ice Age to the twenty-first century, by prizewinning author Nicholas Crane, co-presenter of COAST.Trade Review'Ambitious, magnificent . . . Crane is excellent at describing climate, geology and shifting shorelines, but is at his best when plaiting together earth-shaping events with humankind and civilisation' -- Andrea Wulf * Guardian *'Pungent, dramatic and drawing deeply on recent research . . . a geographer's love letter to the British and the land that formed them - and which they transformed over many millennia of creative labour. As such, it is dramatic, lyrical and even inspiring, and given all those rocks, remarkably readable' -- James McConnachie * SUNDAY TIMES *'This is a magnificent, epic work by a national treasure . . . Nothing escapes his eye . . . and the sweep of history, brought to life in superb prose, is oddly moving. A tour de force' -- Bel Mooney * DAILY MAIL *'Crane's book earns its place in the pantheon and it will hopefully inspire a passion for our landscapes in a new generation of readers' -- Richard J Mayhew * LITERARY REVIEW *'The book I admired most was Nicholas Crane's The Making of the British Landscape as panoramic as it is revelatory' -- Tom Holland * OBSERVER Books of the Year *'The book I want most for Christmas is the satisfyingly hefty The Making of the British Landscape by the ever reliable Nicholas Crane' -- Bill Bryson * OBSERVER Books of the Year *'Crane provides a masterful account of how landscapes were settled and shaped' * THE NATIONAL *'A definitive, encyclopaedic read and an evocative paean to the evolution of our scenery by the vastly knowledgeable BBC presenter, Nick Crane. A revealing glimpse of the Britain that once was and how we made it the place it is today' * BBC COUNTRYFILE *'Nicholas Crane's sweeping The Making of the British Landscape shows how fragile are the views we love best, and how critical it is to guard them' -- Simon Jenkins * EVENING STANDARD *'This is his greatest work for those curious to understand the geographical layers that have shaped Great Britain. From diminishing ice to the peak of our London urban Shard, Crane has captured the chronology of change of our landscapes, full of facts, imagination and archaeology' -- Nigel Winser * GEOGRAPHICAL *

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Book SynopsisContemporary processes of economic, social, political and cultural restructuring are having profound impacts on the form and function of rural areas within the countries of the European Union and beyond. Furthermore, rural development policies and programmes at EU and national levels have been critical in shaping the responses of different rural areas across Europe to these wider processes of restructuring. Contrasting empirical studies of ten European countries, this volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the restructuring processes and the various national, regional and local rural development programmes. Adopting a different national perspective in each chapter, it focuses particularly on issues of power and leadership in the evolution and administration of these programmes. Five broad issues are examined in each case: socio-economic changes in rural areas, the administrative context in which rural development and political activities take place, the sociological context, Trade Review'This comparative perspective is indeed an ambitious and welcome addition to our understanding of the commonalties experienced, but also of the diversity that is evident, across rural Europe.' Urban Studies 'The book attempts to aid our understanding of the wider economics and social restructuring taking place in rural Europe. This comparative perspective is indeed an ambitious and welcome addition to our understanding of the commonalties experience, but also of the diversity that is evident, across rural Europe.' Urban StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: a comparative European perspective, Keith Halfacree, Imre Kovách and Rachel Woodward; Changing patterns of leadership and local power in rural Ireland, Chris Curtin and Tony Varley; The politics of rural development in The Netherlands, Henri Goverde and Henk de Haan; Influences on leadership and local power in rural Britain, Rachel Woodward and Keith Halfacree; Leadership, local power and rural restructuring in Hungary, Imre Kovách; Rural restructuring, power distribution and leadership at national, regional and local levels: the case of France, Nicole Mathieu and Philippe Gajewski; Recent rural restructuring in East and West Germany: experiences and backgrounds, Lutz Laschewski, Parto Teherani-Krönner and Titus Bahner; Rural restructuring and the effects of rural development policies in Spain, Fernando Garrido, José R. Mauleón and Eduardo Moyano; Regional and rural development in Austria and its influence on leadership and local power, Thomas Dax and Martin Hebertshuber; Recent rural restructuring and rural policy in Finland, Torsti Hyyryläinen and Eero Uusitalo; Rural development and policies: the case of post-war Norway, Nina Gunnerud Berg and Hans Kjetil LysgÃ¥rd; Conclusions, Keith Halfacree, Imre Kovách and Rachel Woodward. Name index.

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Book SynopsisCriminology assumes the position of an established discipline, yet its influence is limited by its primary focus on the West for both theoretical and empirical substance. But the growing interest in comparative criminology now means that countries compare notes, thereby broadening the parameters of criminology. Still relatively ignored in the literature, however, are issues of crime and justice as they affect people of African descent around the globe. Drawing upon materials from countries in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, and Europe, this stimulating book reflects on the experiences of people of African descent to offer a convergence of criminologies in and outside the West. Simultaneously, it acknowledges Western criminology as a significant angle from which to comprehend crime and justice as they are conceptualized outside the West. The volume also investigates whether Western criminological accounts are relevant to the comprehension of crime, criminality and systems of justice in Africa, the Caribbean and South America.Trade Review’Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice is a powerful and, in every sense, radical contribution to the criminological literature. It tackles neglected crime problems, unearths injustice, develops progressive lines of inquiry and offers radical proposals for the future. This collection is essential reading for students, academics and activists concerned with criminal justice in Africa and for communities of the diaspora.’ Professor Ben Bowling, King's College London, UK and University of the West Indies, Barbados ’...[a] timely collection of essays about the criminological crisis facing people of African descent...Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice deserves a wide readership.’ Criminal JusticeTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton and Biko Agozino; Criminology and orientalism, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton; Human rights, gender and traditional practices: the Trokosi system in West Africa, Robert Kwame Ameh; Crime, justice and social control in Egypt, Jon Alexander and Camy Pector; Crime, social change and social control in Namibia: an exploratory study of Namibian prisons, Annelie Odendaal; Criminal fraud and developing countries, Udo C. Osisiogu; Transnational crimes: the case of advanced fee fraud in Nigeria, Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe; Women faced with violence: a view on skin colour in Brazil, Alice Itani and Wagner Volpe; Working from the inside/out: drama as activism in Westville female prison, Miranda Young-Jahangeer; Women and (African) indigenous justice systems, Ogbonnaya Oko Elechi; Crossing the wrong boundaries: the dilemma of women's drug trade participation in Jamaica, Marlyn J. Jones; Gunboat criminology and the colonization of Africa, Emmanuel C. Onyeozili; Reparative justice: a Pan-African criminology primer, Biko Agozino; Index.

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Book SynopsisRegionalism has regained momentum in the post-Cold War era. New economic groupings continue to spring up across the globe, while older regional organizations have strengthened their institutional bases and broadened their scope. Explaining the reinvigoration of regionalism requires comparative analyses that not only highlight the commonalities that characterize various regional experiments but also account for the differential outcomes and divergent trajectories such projects exhibit. This collection of seminal articles on regionalism advances theoretical concepts that can stimulate useful comparisons, along with scholarly surveys of important instances of regionalism in the contemporary world. Besides classic studies of the European Union, the volume includes authoritative overviews and case studies of regionalist projects in East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Central Eurasia. An introductory essay situates these articles in the context of the five decTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I General: Comparative regional integration: concept and measurement, Joseph S. Nye; Explaining the resurgence of regionalism in world politics, Andrew Hurrell; The new wave of regionalism, Edward D. Mansfield and Helen V. Milner. Part II Sub-Saharan Africa: Regional integration and the crisis in sub-Saharan Africa, Peter Robson; Africa's record of regional co-operation and integration, Percy S. Mistry; The African Union and the new partnership for Africa's development: strong institutions for weak states?, Keith Gottschalk and Siegmar Schmidt. Part III East Asia: 30 years of ASEAN: achievements and challenges, Jörn Dosch and Manfred Mols; 2 funerals and a wedding? The ups and downs of regionalism in East Asia and Asia-Pacific after the Asian crisis, Douglas Webber; ASEAN plus 3: emerging East Asian regionalism?, Richard Stubbs; A 3 bloc world? The new East Asian regionalism, John Ravenhill; The social construction of international institutions: the case of ASEAN+3, Dirk Nabers. Part IV Latin America: On the road to Southern Cone economic integration, Jeffrey Cason; Regionalist governance in the new political economy of development: 'relaunching' the Mercosur, Nicola Phillips; Explaining Latin American economic integration: the case of Mercosur, Karl Kaltenthaler and Frank O. Mora. Part V Middle East and North Africa: Regional economic union in the Maghreb, Ahmed Aghrout and Keith Sutton; Theories of integration in a new context: the Gulf Cooperation Council, Fred H. Lawson. Part VI Central Eurasia: Inter-state cooperation in Central Asia from the CIS to the Shanghai Forum, Gregory Gleason; Regionalism, regional structures and security management in Central Asia, Roy Allison. Part VII Western Europe: Preferences and power in the European Community: a liberal intergovernmentalist approach, Andrew Moravcsik; A constructivist approach to understanding the European Union as a federal polity, Rey Koslowski; The institutional foundations of intergovernmentalism and supranationalism in the European Union, George Tsebelis and Geoffrey Garrett; Name index.

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Book SynopsisIslamic law influences the lives of Muslims today as aspects of the law are applied as part of State law in different forms in many areas of the world. This volume provides a much needed collection of articles that explore the complexities involved in the application of Islamic law within the contemporary legal systems of different countries today, with particular reference to Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan. The articles identify the relevant areas of difficulties and also propose possible ways of realising a more effective and equitable application of Islamic law in the contemporary world. The volume features an introductory overview of the subject as well as a comprehensive bibliography to aid further research.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I Theoretical Perspectives on the Practical Application of Islamic Law: From jurists’ law to statute law or what happens when the Shari’a is codified, Rudolph Peters; The compatibility dialectic: mediating the legitimate coexistence of Islamic law and state law, Abdullahi Ahmed An-NaÊ»im; ShariÊ»a and state in the modern Muslim Middle East, Nathan J. Brown. Part II Empirical Analyses of the Practical Application of Islamic Law: ShariÊ»a in the politics of Saudi Arabia, Frank E. Vogel; Islamic law in contemporary South Asia, Gregory C. Kozlowski; The Islamic legal system in Indonesia, Mark E. Cammack and R. Michael Feener; Expanding a formal role for Islamic law in the Indonesian legal system: the case of Mu’amalat, Alfitri; Islamic law as customary law: the changing perspective in Nigeria, A.A. Oba; Secular law and the emergence of unofficial Turkish Islamic law, Ihsan Yilmaz. Part III Islamic Family and Personal Status Laws in Practice: Family law & reform in Morocco - the Mudawana: modernist Islam and women’s rights in the code of personal status, Laura A. Weingartner; Protecting Muslim women against abuse of polygamy in Malaysia: legal perspective, Zaleha Kamaruddin and Raihanah Abdullah; Islamic law and gender equality - could there be a common ground? A study of divorce and polygamy in Sharia law and contemporary legislation in Tunisia and Egypt, Amira Mashhour; The legal impediments to the application of Islamic family law in the Philippines, Anshari P. Ali. Part IV Islamic Criminal Law in Practice: Judicial practice in Islamic criminal law in Nigeria - a tentative overview, Gunnar J. Weimann; Punishment in Islamic law: a critique of the Hudud Bill of Kelantan, Malaysia, Mohammad Hashim Kamali; Her honor: an Islamic critique of the rape laws of Pakistan from a woman-sensitive perspective, Asifa Quraishi; The 2006 Women Protection Act of Pakistan: an analysis, Niaz A. Shah. Part V Islamic Law of Financial Transactions in Pra

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Book SynopsisThe poor economic performance of some African countries since independence has been a major concern to both African leaders and policy makers. This volume, which draws together contributions from academics based in Africa and its diaspora, situates the continent within its historic and socio-political background: from the 1960s, the decade of independence, through to its development outlook as the new millennium unfolds. It examines a broad range of contemporary issues -- from development and culture to linguistics and is unique in identifying and examining issues that are common both to Africa and the diaspora.Trade Review’This challenging book calls for a fresh perspective on Africa in its interrelations with the African diaspora, combining development studies and political economy with post-colonial theory. It invites us to reconsider the nature of African modernity and the African future. Varied and wide-ranging, the contributions to the book will stimulate debate both in the classroom and outside it.’ Professor Karin Barber, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK ’An extremely stimulating and readable book, sprinkled with claims and explanations old, new, and controversial. A graceful and refreshing contribution to the exploration of African forms of confronting and inhabiting the world at large.’ Achille Mbembe, author of On the PostcolonyTable of ContentsContents: African diaspora - African development concerns: an introduction, Alfred B. Zack-Williams with Ola Uduku; Africa and the project of modernity, Alfred B. Zack-Williams; The black intellectual and the Pan-African agenda in languages, Kole Omotoso and Ferdinand Dennis; The language of 'Francophonie' and the race of the renaissance: a commonwealth perspective, Ali Mazrui; Communications and governance in Africa, Cecil Blake; Africa and the search for political stability in the New Century, E. Ike Udogu; Bennetonâ„¢ vs. Kente: the impact of African culture and design on the world media, Ola Uduku; Reading beyond the post - colonial: a cultural - socio - spatial perspective, Ola Uduku with Alfred B. Zack-Williams; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDue to differences in the legal systems and business environments, it is difficult to compare the process of buying and selling land in different European countries. Illustrated by a range of European case studies, this book identifies and discusses the problems of this and similar comparisons. It then examines how ontological modelling can be applied to real estate transactions and advocates this as a basis for comparing the various processes used across Europe. The book consists of four parts: the economic, legal and ontological aspects of real property transactions; a discussion of the current situation in different countries, thus showing the heterogeneity and complexity of processes that have to be captured; whilst the third and fourth parts describe ontological modelling and its benefits for the purpose of understanding the nature of real property transactions together with examples of modelling techniques applied to cadastre and real property.Trade Review'This book presents the fruits of an ongoing research project that contributes towards a better understanding of property rights systems, an essential ingredient of economic development. To compare real estate transactions across different legal systems, the book presents an innovative method that aims to enhance comparability by examining the common 'ontology' of such transactions, and shows its potential by applying it to a diverse set of European cases.' Dr. Benito Arruñada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, BarcelonaTable of ContentsContents: Cadastre, Law and Economics: Modelling real property transactions, Erik Stubkjœr; Aspects of real property rights and their alteration, Hans Mattsson; Real estate: foundations of the ontology of property, Leo Zaibert and Barry Smith. Requirements and National Perspectives: Purchase of real property in Finland, Kauko Viitanen; Property transactions in the UK: a situation of institutional stability or technical change?, Robert Dixon-Gough and Mark Deakin; Land tenure and real property transaction types in Latvia, Armands Auzins. Ontological Modelling: Modelling real estate transactions: the potential role of ontologies, Ubbo Visser and Christoph Schlieder; A tool-supported methodology for ontology-based knowledge management, York Sure; Building a foundation for ontologies of organizations, Chris Partridge and Milena Stefanova. Systems Engineering: Conceptual modelling of cadastral information system structures, Rados Sumrada; Ontology construction for geographic data set integration, Harry Uitermark; Glossary; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhile there has been much recent research into achieving sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume broadens these discussions by extending the analysis from North American and European cities to include East Asian cities. Many cities in Asia have deep historical roots, have sustained dense populations through time and have grown prosperous in recent decades. They also face significant environmental degradation and other planning challenges. In bringing together and comparing strategies and experiences from three distinct global regions, this book offers unique insights and new perspectives on the challenges of moving towards greater urban sustainability. While questioning which strategies can promote sustainable cities in a global context, the book also illustrates that while formulae generated out of American and European experience cannot be universally applied, some of the analytical approaches and experience of the other developed countries can offer insights for those working in different contexts. It argues that managing urban change for greater urban sustainability in diverse regions requires detailed understanding of local issues and regional strategies as well as strong support from local communities.Trade Review’The volume is unique in using the contemporary discourse on urban sustainability as a bridge to research and policy in three different continents - Asia, Europe and North America. In particular, it places the challenges and recent experience in moving toward sustainable cities in Asia - the most rapidly growing part of our urban world - in a comparative context.’ Larry Bourne, University of Toronto, Canada ’The book provides a welcome addition to the Western focus of the literature on urban sustainability...a useful contribution, particularly for those interested in growth management and the Asian experience.’ Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design ’...provides an enthralling treatise of sustainable development issues.’ Centre for Education in the Built Environment: Projects and InitiativesTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Urban Sustainability Questions: Towards sustainable cities, André Sorensen, Peter J. Marcotullio and Jill Grant; Sustainable urbanism in historical perspective, Jill Grant; Why the Asian urbanization experience should make us think differently about planning approaches, Peter J. Marcotullio. Part II: Planning Strategies for More Sustainable Cities in North America and Europe: An inquiry into the promise and prospects of smart growth, Gerrit-Jan Knaap; Varieties of US growth management: lessons from New York and San Francisco, Rolf Pendall; Cross-border impacts of growth management regime: Portland, Oregon, and Clark County, Washington, Chang-Hee Christine Bae; Developing and employing sustainability indicators as a principal strategy in planning: experiences in the Puget sound urban region of Washington State, Donald Miller; Sustainable Portland? A critique, and the Los Angeles counterpoint, Harry W. Richardson and Peter Gordon; Canada's experience in planning for sustainable development, Jill Grant; Coping with the growing complexity of our physical environment: the search for new planning tools in the Netherlands, Gert de Roo; Central Belgium, a 'Park City'? A policy based on de-concentrated clustering, Jef Van den Broeck. Part III: Planning Strategies for More Sustainable Cities in Japan and Korea: Major issues of land management for sustainable urban regions in Japan, André Sorensen; Empowerment in the Japanese planning context, Hideki Koizumi; Green structure plan for a sustainable urban-rural relationship in Japan, Mikiko Ishikawa; Sustainable community improvement in Japan: infill redevelopment where everyone can continue to live, Shigeru Satoh; Reform of planning controls for an urban-rural continuum in Korea, Sang-Chuel Choe; Inner-city growth management problem in Seoul: residential rebuilding boom and planning response, Kwang-Joong Kim; Urban growth management and housing supply in the capital region of South Korea, Sang-Dae Lee. Part IV: Conclusions: Towards land management policies for more sustainable cities, Jill Grant, Peter J. Marcotullio and André Sorensen.

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Book SynopsisCommunity indicators measuring systems represent a mechanism to improve monitoring and evaluation in planning, incorporating citizen involvement and participation. They reflect the interplay between social, environmental and economic factors affecting a region''s or community''s well-being, and, as such, can be extremely valuable to planners and developers. Yet, little research has been conducted on their efficacy. This book provides a comprehensive review of how community development indicators evolved and examines their interplay with planning and development. It questions how we adequately measure concepts associated with indicators systems and whether these systems are sustainable and can best evolve. In doing so, the book allows a better understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of community indicators measuring systems, as well as how best to design and implement them.Trade Review'...makes a significant contribution to our continuing understanding and appreciation of the value of indicators...A clear strength of the book is the impressive range of issues covered...Community leaders, researchers and graduate students in urban studies, environmental management, land use planning and geography will be sure to find something of deep interest among the chapters.' Urban StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Theory And Basis For Community Indicators: Understanding indicators, Heidi Hoernig and Mark Seasons; Historical background of community indicators, Clifford Cobb and Craig Rixford. Relating Community Indicators To Planning And Development: The sustainable Calgary story: a local response to a global challenge, Noel Keough; Indicators and core area planning: applications in Canada's mid-sized cities, Mark Seasons; Integrating community indicators with economic development planning, Rhonda Phillips and Susan Bridges. Technological Dimensions: Community statistical systems: discussion of development and data issues, Naomi Oliver, Christiana Schumann and Marc T. Smith; Role of multi-scalar GIS-based indicators studies in formulating neighbourhood planning policy, Rina Ghose and William Huxhold; Where do we want to be? Making sustainability indicators integrated, dynamic and participatory, Jeff Carmichael, Sonia Talwar, James Tansey and John Robinson; Subject index.

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Book SynopsisFor the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific âsilosâ. The urban management consequences have been invariably negative, with increasing sprawl, fragmentation and separation resulting in a wide range of environmental, social and economic problems. This book explores the role of movement in a more integrated approach to urban settlement, and how thinking, policies and actions need to change. South Africa is used as a particularly good case study, since patterns of sprawl, fragmentation and separation have been exacerbated by apartheid, while recent legislation has demanded a reversal of these tendencies.Trade Review’This is an interesting case study from South Africa...the book emphasises an integrated approach to urban management incorporating mobility with interesting illustrations, data.’ Built Environment ’This book presents a comprehensive overview of the planning and policy issues in South African settlements...clearly written...The book is to be recommended as an interesting case study. It would be of interest to all professionals, as well as to undergraduate and post-graduate academics, in the field of urban, land-use and transportation planning, ranging from design to policy-making.’ Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsContents: Defining the problem: the objectives of this book; Setting the scene; Approaches to settlement-making: locating the concepts of structure and space; Movement as an element of urban structure and urban space; Movement in urban structure: the case of South Africa; Movement as an element of urban space; Movement in space: the case of South Africa; Conclusion; References; Appendix A: excerpt from the Transport Planning Act; Appendix B: further readings consulted.

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Book SynopsisPhilip Ross Bullock looks at the life and works of Rosa Newmarch (1857-1940), the leading authority on Russian music and culture in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. Although Newmarch''s work and influence are often acknowledged - most particularly by scholars of English poetry, and of the role of women in English music - the full range of her ideas and activities has yet to be studied. As an inveterate traveller, prolific author, and polyglot friend of some of Europe''s leading musicians, such as Elgar, Sibelius and JanÃcek, Newmarch deserves to be better appreciated. On the basis of both published and archival materials, the details of Newmarch''s busy life are traced in an opening chapter, followed by an overview of English interest in Russian culture around the turn of the century, a period which saw a long-standing Russophobia (largely political and military) challenged by a more passionate and well-informed interest in the arts Three chapters then deal with thTrade Review'... [Rosa Newmarch's] literary accomplishments made her the first and foremost authority on Russian music and culture in England (and the only such woman in England or Russia) around the turn of the last century. ... she sought not only to educate the British people about Russian music and culture but also to promote music and the arts in England as a means to a more enlightened society. ... Mrs Newmarch was well overdue for a book of her own; Mr Bullock is to be congratulated for having supplied it.' The Russian Review 'Philip Bullock's considerable achievement is to weave together disparate narratives into a single study of Newmarch that uses her work on Russian music as a lens through which to view late Victorian and Edwardian English musical life, taste, politics, and social convention.' Music and Letters 'Taken as a whole, Philip Bullock's monograph is an admirably researched and well documented volume, introducing a wealth of information concerning the study of Russian music in Great Britain. ... We await his future publications with expectation.' Fontes Artis Musicae 'What is so refreshing about this book [...] is that Bullock tackles head-on the research and interpretive problems associated with Newmarch, her writings, and her readers, using this detailed observations as springboards for argument and speculation. ... Starting from first principles, Bullock offers the most thorough list to date of Newmarch's published output.' Victorian Studies ’Bullock’s account of Newmarch’s life and writings offers a readable and wide-ranging survey of her activities and the social context which informed her attitudes and values.’ Journal of the Society for Musicology in IrelandTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The invention of Rosa Newmarch; The invention of Russia; Nationalism and music; Audiences and intellectuals; Women and society; After Russia; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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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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Book SynopsisFollowing the Second World War, modern systems of urban and regional planning were established in Britain and most other developed countries. In this book, Nigel Taylor describes the changes in planning thought which have taken place since then.He outlines the main theories of planning, from the traditional view of urban planning as an exercise in physical design, to the systems and rational process views of planning of the 1960s; from Marxist accounts of the role of planning in capitalist society in the 1970s, to theories about planning implementation, and more recent views of planning as a form of `communicative action'.Trade Review`The author has created a short and readable overview of the main theories of planning, an achievement which students will surely appreciate′ - Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment `I would use Nigel Taylor′s book as a first point of entry. The text is peppered with very good illustrations of planning theory in practice and Nigel Taylor is very careful to show the implications, impacts, and contradictions of theoretical ideas when applied to a range of planning contexts′ - European Planning Studies Table of ContentsPART ONE: EARLY POST-WAR PLANNING THEORY Town Planning as Physical Planning and Design The Values of Post-War Planning Theory Early Critiques of Post-War Planning Theory PART TWO: PLANNING THEORY IN THE 1960S The Systems and Rational Process Views of Planning Planning as a Political Process PART THREE: PLANNING THEORY FROM THE 1970S TO THE 1990S Theory about the Effects of Planning Rational Planning and Implementation Planning Theory after the New Right PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS Paradigm Shifts, Modernism, and Postmodernism

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Urban Studies provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers. It provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies.Leading authors identify key issues and questions and future trends for further research and present their findings so that, where appropriate, they are relevant to the needs of policymakers. Using the city as a unifying structure, the Handbook provides an holistic appreciation of urban structure and change, and of the theories by which we understand the structure, development and changing character of cities.Table of ContentsStudying Cities - Ronan Paddison PART ONE: IDENTIFYING THE CITY Defining the City - William H Frey and Zachary Zimmer Urban Ecology - Peter Saunders Impartial Maps - Hana Wirth-Nesher Reading and Writing Cities PART TWO: THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT The Physical Form of Cities - J W R Whitehand A Historico-Geographical Approach Housing in the Twentieth Century - Ray Forrest and Peter Williams Transport and the City - Tom Hart Managing Sustainable Urban Environments - Robert Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp PART THREE: THE CITY AS PEOPLE Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and Reurbanization - Tony Champion Social Segregation and Social Polarization - Chris Hamnett Race Relations in the City - Joe T Darden Communities in the City - Ronan Paddison Women, Men, Cities - Linda M McDowell Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe - Paula D McClain A Comparison PART FOUR: THE CITY AS ECONOMY Urban Scale Economies - J Vernon Henderson Cities in the Global Economy - Saskia Sassen The Post-Fordist City - W F Lever The Post-Industrial City - Doug V Shaw The New Urban Economies - Donald McNeill and Aidan While The Growth of Urban Informal Economies - Colin C Williams and Jan Windebank PART FIVE: THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY Urban Governance - Michael Goldsmith Cities and Services - Stephen J Bailey A Post-Welfarist Analysis Social Policy and the City - Susanne MacGregor PART SIX: POWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN CITIES Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism - Louis Albrechts and William Denayer Planning, Power and Conflict - James Simmie Power, Discourse and City Trajectories - Mark Boyle and Robert J Rogerson PART SEVEN: CITIES IN TRANSITION Cities in Pacific Asia - David W Smith Post-Socialist Cities in Flux - Grigoriy Kostinskiy The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa - Richard Stren and Mohamed Halfani From Dependency to Marginality

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Book SynopsisLocal Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan illustrates how local groups in both Japan and the United States are refusing to surrender the earth to a depleted and polluted fate.

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Book SynopsisThe Cape Verde Islands, an Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Senegal, were first settled during the Portuguese Age of Discovery in the fifteenth century. A Crioula population quickly evolved from a small group of Portuguese settlers and large numbers of slaves from the West African coast. In this important, integrated new study, Dr. Richard Lobban sketches Cape Verde''s complex history over five centuries, from its role in the slave trade through its years under Portuguese colonial administration and its protracted armed struggle on the Guinea coast for national independence, there and in Cape Verde. Lobban offers a rich ethnography of the islands, exploring the diverse heritage of Cape Verdeans who have descended from Africans, Europeans, and Luso-Africans. Looking at economics and politics, Lobban reflects on Cape Verde''s efforts to achieve economic growth and development, analyzing the move from colonialism to state socialism, and on to a privatized market economy built around Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Historical Setting -- Society and Culture -- Radicals, Soldiers, and Democrats: Politics in Cape Verde -- Peasants, Socialists, and Capitalists: Economics in Cape Verde -- Conclusion: Cape Verde at the End of the Twentieth Century

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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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Book SynopsisThe geology of Cornwall has been the subject of continuing investigation since the end of the seventeenth century. A literature of great historical interest exists, and this is analysed in this book alongside a wide-ranging review of the current position and assessments of the environmental consequences of rock and mineral exploitation.Trade Review"A useful book for an introduction to Cornish geology." (OUGS Journal, Spring 2001) "Altogether this is a most informative and readable book, and the paperback version is very reasonably priced. It is recommended for anyone who wishes to gain an informed up-to-date introduction to the geology of this geologically complex, yet historically important area." (Mineralogical Magazine October 1999) Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures List of Tables Contributors Abbreviations Preface-Geological Field Work A Code for Geological Field Work Acknowledgements Chapter One: Introduction, C.M. Bristow, E.M. Durrance and E.B. Selwood Chapter Two: The Pre Devonion Tectonic Framework, E.M Durrance Chapter Three: The Lizard Complex, J.R. Andrews Chapter Four: Devonion, K.P. Isaac, E.B. Selwood and R.K. Shail Chapter Five: Carboniferous, K.P. Issac and J.M Thomas Chapter Six: Variscan Structure and Regional Metamorphism, J.R. Andrews, K.P Isaac, E.B. Selwood, R.K Shail and J.M. Thomas Chapter Seven: Granites and Associated Igneous Activiy, D.A.C. Manning Chapter Eight: Mineralization, R.C. Scrivener and T.J Shepherd Chapter Nine: Modelling the Mineralization Framework, F.W.A.A Lucas and J. Willis-Richards Chapter Ten: China-Clay, C.M. Bristow Chapter Eleven: Offshore and Mesozoic Geology, M.B. Hart Chapter Twelve: The Tertiary, K. Atkinson Chapter Thirteen: The Quaternary, R.A. Cullingford Chapter Fourteen: History of Metalliferous Mining, R. Burt Chapter Fifteen: The Contemporary Extractive Industry, C.M. Bristow Chapter Sixteen: Environmental Geology, R.P. Edwards, P. Grainger and M.J Heath References Subject Index Locality Index

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Book SynopsisA full colour book in the travelogue style of the history, culture and diversity of places called Newcastle

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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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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which will be of significance to researchers with an interest in environmental ethics both within Africa and beyond. Drawing on African social and ethical conceptions of existence, the book makes suggestions for how to derive environmental justice from African philosophies such as communitarian ethics, relational ethics, unhu/ubuntu ethics, ecofeminist ethics and intergenerational ethics. Specifically, the book emphasises the ways in which African philosophies of existence seek to involve everyone in environmental policy and planning and to equitably distribute both environmental benefits (such as natural resources) and environmental burdens (such as pollution and the location of mining, industrial or dumping sites). This extends to fair distribution between global South and global North, rich and poor, urban and rural populations, men and women and adults and children. TTrade Review"In this book Chemhuru ably articulates the bearing of African philosophies on environmental justice. His book will be essential reading for Africans concerned about how their traditions can motivate and underpin environmental equity, and worldwide for all who seek to discover what can be learned about relations between genders, classes, cultures and generations from the continent where humanity first evolved."Robin Attfield, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Cardiff University, Wales, UK."Here comes a resourceful publication on environmental justice with convincing arguments and illustrations on why and how everyone is a stakeholder in the project and must be involved in achieving environmental justice for mankind. It deserves global attention."Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi, Professor of Philosophy, University of Abuja, Nigeria.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Environmental Ethics in African Philosophy 2. Environmental (in)Justice in Africa: The North – South Challenge 3. Environmental Justice from an African Land Ethic 4. African Relational Environmental Justice 5. African Ecofeminist Environmental Justice 6. Intergenerational Environmental Justice in African Philosophy

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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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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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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of African Law provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the contemporary legal terrain in Africa. The international team of expert contributors adopt an analytical and comparative approach so that readers can see the nexus between different jurisdictions and different legal traditions across the continent.The volume is divided into five parts covering: Legal Pluralism and African Legal Systems The State, Institutions, Constitutionalism, and Democratic Governance Economic Development, Technology, Trade, and Investment Human Rights, Gender-Based Violence, and Access to Justice International Law, Institutions, and International Criminal Law Providing important insights into both the specific contexts of African legal systems and the ways in which these legal traditions intersect with the wider world, this handbook will be an essential reTable of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE: LEGAL PLURALISM AND AFRICAN LEGAL SYSTEMS Chapter 1: Legal Pluralism in Africa: Three Levels and Seven Types of Law, Raymond A. Atuguba Chapter 2: Customary Marriages and the South African Constitution: The Recent Developments, Sipho Nkosi Chapter 3: Gods at War: Religion and Law-Making, Roseline K. Njogu Chapter 4: Pluralism and the Tenor of Bankruptcy Legislation in West African Societies, Samuel Boadi Adarkwah Chapter 5: Common Law in Kenya, Duncan M. Okubasu Chapter 6: The Evolution of Property Rights to Land in Postcolonial Buganda, Olive Sabiiti PART TWO: THE STATE, INSTITUTIONS, CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE Chapter 7: One Nation, Multiple Identities: Ethnicity, Inclusivity, and Constitution- Making, Muna Ndulo Chapter 8: Democratic Transitions in Africa: The Issue of Civil Resistance and Unconstitutional Change of Government, Lydia A. Nkansah Chapter 9: Freedom of Expression in Zambia Revisited, Sangwani Patrick Ng’ambi Chapter 10: Mapping the Legal Contours of Presidential Electoral Law in Kenya: A Case Review of Raila Odinga v. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Presidential Election 1 of 2017 , Luis Franceschi and Emmah Wabuke Chapter 11: The Unconstitutional Change of Government Normative Framework in Africa: Do Elections Matter?, O’Brien Kaaba Chapter 12: Commissions of Inquiry and the Quest for a Greater Accountability in Health Care Delivery in Africa: A Ghanaian Perspective, Ernest Owusu-Dapaa Chapter 13: The Effectiveness and Predictability of Social Security Law: Constitutional Perspectives from the Republic of South Africa, Letlhokwa George Mpedi Chapter 14: Rule of Law with African Characteristics, Salvatore Mancuso PART THREE: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGY, TRADE, AND INVESTMENT Chapter 15: Law and the Regulation of New Technologies in Africa, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa and Ayodeji O. Fakolade Chapter 16: The East African Community’s Used Clothing Policy and International Trade Law, Chantal Thomas Chapter 17: Technology, Legal Information, and Access to Justice in Africa, Femi Cadmus Chapter 18: Show Me the Money: Evaluating the Significance of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions in the Context of Foreign Direct Investment Outflows, Anthony C. K. Kakooza Chapter 19: Labor Law, Labor Market Regulation, and Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Emerging Trends in Comparative Perspective, Chanda Chungu and Evance Kalula Chapter 20: The Pan-African Investment Code and Its Impact on Investments and Resource Extraction in Africa, Dunia P. Zongwe PART FOUR: HUMAN RIGHTS, GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE, AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE Chapter 21: The ECOWAS Citizen in a Dilemma: The Role of the ECOWAS Court of Justice in the Promotion of Human Rights in West Africa, George Asare-Afriyie Chapter 22: When Criminal Law is Not Enough: Toward a Holistic Approach to Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response in Zambia and Beyond, Elizabeth Brundige and Tinenenji Banda Chapter 23: African Law and the Rights of Sexual Minorities: Western Universalism and African Resistance, Nicholas Kahn-Fogel Chapter 24: Developing Effective Money-Laundering Laws in Africa: Dealing with Corrupt, Politically Exposed Persons, John Hatchard Chapter 25: Citizenship, Rights, and Political Subjectivity in Eritrea, Kibron Teweldebirhan and Luwam Dirar PART FIVE: INTERNATIONAL LAW, INSTITUTIONS, AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW Chapter 26: Addressing Serious Crimes of Global Concern in Africa: Dribbling Around the Problem, Chris Maina Peter Chapter 27: South Africa’s Contribution to the International Criminal Justice, Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango Chapter 28: Stateless and Rightless? An Appraisal of Standards and Practices on Prevention of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons in Africa, Juliana Masabo Chapter 29: Abducted, Inducted, and Indicted: The Case of Dominic Ongwen in the International Criminal Court, Simeon P. Sungi and George R. Kakoti Chapter 30: From Brussels to Addis Ababa: A Contextual and Comparative Analysis of Access to Justice Under African Private International Law in Africa, Pontian Okoli Chapter 31: An Assessment of the Right of Individuals to Access the Southern African Development Community Tribunal, Onkemetse Tshosa Chapter 32: Beyond Formalism and uti possidetis: The International Court of Justice and Boundary Disputes in Africa, Cosmas Emeziem

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Book SynopsisThis book explores recent developments in South African Pentecostalism, focusing on new prophetic churches. The chapters engage with a number of paradigm shifts in Christology, identified as complementing Christ, competing with Christ, removing Christ and replacing Christ. What are the implications of these shifts? Does it mean that believers no longer believe in Christ but in their leaders? Does it shift believers' faith towards materiality than the person of Christ? This volume will be valuable for scholars of African Christianity and in particular those interested in the neo-prophetic movement and Christology in a South African context.Table of ContentsIntroduction-Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Marius Nel and Collium Banda; 1 The paradigmatic shift of some New Prophetic Churches from the ipsissima verba of Scripture to a non-existent Christology-Paul Themba Mngadi; 2 "Who has bewitched you?": The Christological shift from faith to works in Galatians 3:1-9 applied to South African Pentecostalism-Elise B. Kisungu; 3 Towards a deepened Christology on the Cape Flats: The "Spirit of Christ" metaphor in the neo-Pentecostal church-Eugene Baron; 4 Wo/Men’s God-given power: Male headship versus female agency in Pentecostal sermons-Tumi Mampane; 5 Examining the position of prophets in relation to Christology within contemporary South African Pentecostal missions-Themba Shingange; 6 African neo-Pentecostalism's emphasis on prosperity and its implications for its Christology: An African Pentecostal hermeneutical consideration-Marius Nel; 7 Insufficient to ransom Africans?: The neo-Pentecostal fear of generational curses in Africa and Christ’s vicarious atonement-Collium Banda; 8 Christ and the neo-Pentecostal preacher on the platform: Catechists or celebrities?-Kelebogile T. Resane; 9 From replacing Christ to crisis: Rethinking Christology in some new religious ministries in South Africa-Bekithemba Dube; Epilogue-Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Marius Nel and Collium Banda

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to research in the academic sub-field of humanitarian communication. It is broadly focused on communication that presents human vulnerability as a cause for public concern and encompasses communication with respect to humanitarian aid and development as well as human rights and humanitarian wars.Recent years have seen the expansion of critical scholarship on humanitarian communication across a range of academic fields, sharing recognition of the centrality of media and communications to our understanding of humanitarianism as an agent of transnational power, global governance and cosmopolitan solidarity. The Handbook brings into dialogue these diverse fields, their theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches as well as the public debates that lie at the heart of the contemporary politics of humanitarianism. It consolidates existing knowledge and maps out this eTable of ContentsIntroduction: Humanitarian Communication in the 21st Century PART I: DOMAINS 1. Disaster Aid as a Domain of Media and Humanitarian Politics 2. Development and its Narratives 3. Human Rights, Culture and Media 4. Media and Compassion in Digital War PART II: METHODS 5. The Audience of Humanitarian Communication 6. Text-analytical Approaches to Humanitarian Communication 7. Production-centered Approaches to Humanitarian Communication 8. Ethnography in Humanitarian Communication: Descending into the Lifeworlds of Witnessing and Wounded Subjects PART III: ISSUES Politics 9. The Logic of Projects in Humanitarian Relief 10. Micro-mapping: Digital Humanitarianism and the Politics of Material Participation in Disaster Relief 11. Technocolonialism: Digital Innovation and Data Practices in the Humanitarian Response to Refugee Crises 12. The Politics of Humanitarian Journalism 13. Conflicted Witnesses: Journalists and the Humanitarian Imaginary 14. Human Rights Protests and Mediated Violence Economy 15. Celebrity Advocacy 16. Brand Aid: Humanitarianism in Corporate Communication 17. Humanitarianism in the African Luxury Designer Market 18. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Humanitarian Civic Imaginary 19. Volunteer Tourism as Humanitarian Communication 20. Humanitarianism and Microfinance Histories and Futures 21. Humanitarian Imagery: Historical registers in the representation of atrocity 22. Photography and Humanitarian Intervention: The Early Years, 1850s–1914 23. MSF: Silence heals. From the Cold War to the War on Terror 24. How Do We Arm the Other Eleven? Humanitarianism, Commodities and Jobs 25. Post-humanitarianism: Solidarity beyond the Politics of Pity 26. Data Witnessing: Attending to Injustice with Data in Amnesty International’s Decoders Project

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Book SynopsisThe Russian Revolution of 1917 has been one of the most important events of modern history. It changed the course of the events not only in Russia but, on a wider scale, across the world while it influenced the flow of history throughout the twentieth century until the fall of the Soviet Union and, to some extent, well beyond this time. Radical change in Russia triggered social revolutions and reformations across Europe, while authoritarian systems shaped their societies according to the Russian model. This book analyses these forces, particularly at the European periphery which has been underexplored until this volume.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Abbreviations; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction (Katarzyna Stokłosa and Gerhard Besier); 2. 7 November in post-Soviet politics of history (Stefan Troebst); 3. In search of a ‘red’: East Central Europe’s responses to the Russian Revolutions (Maciej Górny); 4. "Drown it in Lenin’s and his Jewish creatures’ blood": Danish reactions to the 1917 Russian Revolution (Thomas Wegener Friis and Jesper Jørgensen); 5. The intervention of the German Empire in the Finnish Civil War 1917/18: from revolutionary state to kingdom (Gerhard Besier); 6. Perceptions of the 1917 Revolution in Latvia and Estonia (Benjamin Conrad); 7. The meaning of Kruty: remembering the 1917–1921 revolution and the struggle for Ukrainian statehood (Lina Klymenko); 8. The reverberations of the October 1917 Revolution and the state of siege in interwar Romania (Corneliu Pintilescu); 9. 1917, a turning point in neutral countries: Great War and Russian Revolution in Spain (and Argentina) (Maximiliano Fuentes Codera); Index

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Book SynopsisDebates on African development continue to downplay the achievement of the continent: economic achievements are diminished and the perception of a conflict prone continent continues. Many of the policy prescriptions externally imposed on African countries have done little to transform the continent largely because they have been conceived and applied without context.Using literature from diverse origins, this book expands our knowledge about Africa and makes practical suggestions as to how successful development in a complex, yet dynamic continent can be achieved. Widening the policy dialogue and providing alternative thinking on the key elements and full extent of opportunities and challenges towards achieving the socio-economic transformation of Africa, the book moves the debate from the rhetoric to reality. As a considered reflection on the âAfricaâs transformationâ narrative, it outlines the practical pathways necessary for Africaâs sustainable develoTrade Review"This is the book so many of us have waited for and will welcome as an informed and rigorously empirical contribution to the challenges of our times – loss of biodiversity, fragile and fading social cohesion and the emergence of new forms of authoritarianism. It’s narrative of possibility, based on empirical evidence and informed by pluralist scholarship, constitutes a new departure in the economics of development. It is a work that is invaluable, not only to the continent of the young and the future that is Africa, but for all scholars and policy-makers concerned at the insufficiency of current economic models in delivering a sustainable global world. We are indebted to Lopes and Kararach." - Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland "Capturing the diversity and richness of African narratives about development - past, present and future - remains a complex challenge. In their endeavour to bring context and perspective to Africa’s contemporary discourse about the future, Lopes and Kararach offer an eclectic yet compelling review of ‘narratives about Africa’ to demonstrate that perceptions often are not reality when it comes to reporting, research or rhetoric about Africa. Geography, demography and economy take centre stage in their search for greater African agency in articulating choices and pathways that will shape Africa’s future development and transformation. A rich and thought-provoking book that conveys opportunity and excitement about Africa’s diverse and fast changing prospects." - Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme"This timely book presents one of the critical issues of development economics in the twenty-first century, namely Africa’s structural change. It combines both theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence to examine the challenges and misconceptions surrounding Africa’s structural transformation, and the central importance of industrialization. It will undoubtedly generate optimism about Africa. A must read to policymakers, researchers, and students!" - Arkebe Oqubay, Ethiopian Minister and author of "Made in Africa" (OUP, 2015)"Western based depictions of Africa massively underestimated its size and just about everything else about the continent. New tropes, such as ‘Africa Rising’ are equally misleading. The continent urgently needs a new narrative to support a transformative agenda underpinned by African agency. This is exactly what Lopes and Kararach provide in their superb new book which is essential reading for everyone with any interest in the future of Africa." - Kevin Marsh, Professor of Tropical Medicine and Director of Oxford Africa Initiative, Oxford University"This book is different! So, a must read. It presents a rich and refreshing perspective on Africa’s need for structural transformation with analysis based on diverse intellectual and philosophical approaches. Ultimately, it is Africans who must act to change mindsets by building a continent whose reality awakens and inspires." - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigerian Senior Minister, former World Bank Managing Director and Chair of GAVI and Africa Risk Capacity"This will be the first book I place in the hands of the emerging African leaders who study at the Mandela School. Not ignoring political economy challenges, Lopes and Kararach have written an articulate and persuasive exhortation to African agency in development, also describing the immense imminent potential of African economic development. It is comprehensively researched and eloquently copy edited." - Alan Hirsch, Professor and Director of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town"A forward-looking assessment of Africa’s prospects and the pathways for achieving structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is a must read for policymakers and students of African economies." - Fantu Cheru, Emeritus Professor, American University, Washington, DC"This book debunks the dominant analysis of Africa economic and social condition, examine methodically the politics, policy prescriptions and knowledge production that have reworked and accounted for the gains (often neglected) and regressions (always highlighted) of the continent's development trajectory. It paints a rich and multifaceted future of an awakening continent. An essential reading for everyone interested in the future of Africa." -Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and History, Columbia University"This is a thought proving and timely book on the prospects of and barriers to Africa's economic transformation. Its arguments challenge a number of liberal ideas about the best paths to economic prosperity making it all the more interesting." - Jonathan Rosenthal, Africa Editor, The EconomistTable of ContentsOverview Chapter 1: Defining structural transformation Chapter 2: Seeking transformation? Africa is not alone Chapter 3: Transformation through industrialization Chapter 4: Understanding other key enablers of Africa's structural transformation Chapter 5: Innovative development financing sources Chapter 6: Selected experiences: drilling into the country dimension Chapter 7: African circumstances and efforts into the future

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Book SynopsisDecolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries Malaysia and Singapore. Blackburn and Wu's book analyzes the transition of the subject of history from colonial education to postcolonial education, from the history syllabus upholding the colonial order to the period after independence when the history syllabus became a tool for nation-building. Malaysia and Singapore are excellent case studies of this process because they once shared a common imperial curriculum in the English language schools that was gradually decolonized' to form the basis of the early history syllabuses of the new nation-states (they were briefly one nation-state in the early to mid-1960s). The colonial English language history syllabus was decolonized' into a national curriculum that was translated for the ChTable of ContentsIntroduction1. History in the Imperial Curriculum of Malaya and Singapore (1899-1930s)2. Teaching History and Imperial Citizenship in the 1930s3. The Beginnings of the ‘Decolonization’ of Colonial Education (1942-1952)4. Creating an ‘Asia-Centric’ History Syllabus for a Malayan Nation (1952-1959)5. Tensions over a Common National History in the Early Postcolonial State (1959-1965)6. The Formation of a ‘Malaysian-Centric’ History Syllabus7. Separation and a ‘Singapore-Centric’ History SyllabusConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical, and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists' religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the discussion has to go beyond binary models of conflict' and complementarity'. By complicating the understanding of science and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at these categories.Trade Review"In this careful and shrewd study of the lives of science and of religion in an Indian setting, Renny Thomas offers startling new approaches to familiar problems of spiritual practice and rational analysis in institutions of laboratory sciences. The book combines superbly documented case-studies of rigorous fieldwork with accessible and ambitious analyses of the very notions of a fundamental conflict, or a highly idealised complementarity, between scientific and religious forms of existence and conduct. In these studies, Thomas illuminates the variable senses of cultural behaviour and of doctrinal commitment that are evidenced by his many informants and interlocutors. He demonstrates the dangers of an exclusively Eurocentric approach to the alleged relations between the scientific world-view and religious faith, while exploring in fascinating detail crucial issues such as practices of devotion, of celebration, of prayer, and of debate and education. In closely related explorations of the fraught issue of caste adherence among Indian scientists, of attempts to trace the achievements of modern science within religious traditions, and of practices of distinction and of reconciliation in the everyday conduct of scientific workers, this study will set quite new standards for the central debates around faith and reason in modern societies." - Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge, UK"Renny Thomas's ethnographic look at religious practices and beliefs among Indian scientists is a vital contribution to our understanding of religion, science, and social structures. It helps us wrestle with the inflections of modernity and the construction of scientific life across the world. Thomas's work surpasses typical studies by showing that religion--not just science--happens in labs and explores the politics of science and culture as that happens. This book engages both explicit and implicit religious practices and beliefs, including Indian forms of non-belief and atheism, and provides new ways of thinking about religion and science everywhere. Thanks to its wide-ranging contributions, this book is of profound significance." - Robert M. Geraci, Manhattan College, USA"It has been increasingly recognised that many of the general conclusions drawn about the relations between science and religion are limited by a narrow focus on specific features of late Western modernity. This excellent new ethnographic study of science and religion in India helps remedy this deficiency. It prompts us to fresh questions about the applicability of the categories ‘science’ and ‘religion’ and about standard ways of relating them in terms of conflict or complementarity. This book also models a novel anthropological approach to science and religion that is reminiscent of the work of Latour and Woolgar. All up, this is a most welcome contribution to the science-religion field and is highly recommended." - Peter Harrison, University of Queensland, Australia "In this remarkable book, Renny Thomas urges us to move beyond the political rhetoric of science and religion. In a pandemic weary world filled with tense engagements between religion and science, Thomas offers a rich, layered, and candid ethnographic study of postcolonial science in India - its labs and scientists- revealing a nuanced, complex, and tantalizing view of Indian science and scientists. He offers an important and urgent call - science cannot save us from religion, or religion from science - both are deeply implicated in claims of truth. We need to engage with them both. This is a book for our times." - Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA "Renny Thomas's interesting work fills in many silences in earlier ethnographies on scientific laboratories.. Having drawn substantially in his review of literature on these sources, he proceeds to look at the essential way in which the question of compartmentalisation is posed in new ways. The question is really about co-existence and cultural relativism and the manner in which scientists are able to explain the presence of ritual, caste histories and cultural parameters in their life. Thomas is an engaging writer, using conversations with laboratory scientists to negotiate with paradoxes and puzzles in the manifest world of objectivity and patronage. Questions of equality and informative yet suppressed histories of conflict are key to the book. It is hard to upset the apple cart on experiential modes of Social Life, Ideologies and Reality, but he has succeeded in drawing attention to the vitality of focussed enquiry in social science, using personal biographies as his index for symbolic representation of every day practises." - Susan Visvanathan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India"This remarkable book is a major leap forward in the study of science and religion – it uncovers and dismantles West-centric modes of thinking about both categories. Thomas’ insightful combination of ethnography and history examines closely the complicated and varied contexts of scientific identity and religious practice among Indian scientists. With skillful analysis of everyday practices in a major science institution – from publication schedules to cafeteria arrangements – Thomas demonstrates the persistence of religion, spirituality, and caste among both believers and non-believers. He has pioneered novel and essential ways to think about science and religion outside the West." - Matthew Stanley, New York University, USA"How do forms of the religious life shape scientific life? Drawing on finely tuned laboratory ethnography and on conversations with scientists in India, Renny Thomas takes readers beyond dichotomies — mostly emergent from Western contexts — that would have science and religion as either in sharp conflict or as easily complementary. This rigorous and empathetic book teaches us that essentialist definitions of science and religion are, in addition to being politically dangerous, a distraction from the much more interesting story, captivatingly recorded here, of science, religion, and belief lived." - Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA"By means of a rich ethnographic study of contemporary Indian scientists, Renny Thomas provides a fascinating window into the construction of scientific praxis, the lived relationship between ‘science and religion’, and the entanglement of caste and professional culture in South Asia. It is heartily recommended for scholars of religion as well as science and technology studies." - Jason Josephson Storm, Williams College, USA"For decades, scholars have laboured under the assumption that the myth of conflict between science and religion is best countered by the proposition of alternative relationships. It hardly occurred to anyone to examine the everyday practices and reflections of working scientists, to see if this assumption held water. Until now. The new ethonologists of science and religion - among whom Thomas is sure to be a leading light - are rapidly overturning the old ideas, demonstrating the subtleties and complexities that arise in ordinary people's lives in science and religion. This book should prove to be a vital point of reference for science and religion in India - and worldwide - for years to come." - Mark Harris, University of Edinburgh, UK"The book is a valuable contribution to the anthropological understanding of science and religion in India, as it brings out some pertinent contextual questions." - Tiatemsu Longkumer, IIAS Reviews"This is an illuminating study that throws light on an area that has remained largely unexplored. It shows up the notion of an intractable opposition between religion and science/rationality as false dogma. The author does an excellent job of marshalling past and present discourses to contextualise his findings and make them more meaningful." - N. Kalyan Raman, The Wire"[A] seminal contribution, which distinguishes Thomas as a sharp critic and a glowing ethnographer." - Sayantan Datta, Doing Sociology"Science and Religion in India is unique for its hands-on ethnographic approach that follows scientists into their laboratories to study their religious lives, or lack of one." – Religion Watch"As Thomas convincingly argues, the interface of science and religion in India is too complex to be summarized as either conflicting or complementary. Thomas provides a compelling argument for how Indian scientists navigate the boundary between science, religion, culture, caste, and modernity… [This] is an excellent book. It will attract researchers specializing in science, religion, and spirituality, as well as general readers with an interest in the Indian context." – Di Di, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion"This is a remarkably well-researched book, a landmark ethnographic study in the sociology of science in India. […] I think this is a book that should be widely read for the many important messages it contains." – R. Ramaswamy, IIC Quarterly"Science and Religion in India has a bold claim: to rethink conventional narratives of the relationship between science and religion. Thomas’s novel contribution is to study how religion is practiced in the laboratory. [...] Science and Religion in India joins a growing set of recent books that explore the modernity of both science and religion in contemporary India. [...] They help us see the surprising ways people in the world wrestle with the imperfect categories—such as science and religion, tradition and modernity, East and West—that are humanity’s collective inheritance." – Eric Moses Gurevitch in Physics Today"Thomas wisely allows his subjects to speak at length concerning the relation between their cultural belief systems and their own ideas about their role as scientists. The book is rich in detail and stimulates questions. […] Science and Religion in India can also be re-read as an account of how one does ethnography among people who know something esoteric which the anthropologist or sociologist does not. Thomas is remarkably transparent in the book about his methods and admits his approach and methodology were uncommon in India. From that reflexive angle too, this is a conscientious work in its transparency and thus an important contribution in the sociology and anthropology of science and scientists. It could be used as a teaching text with people not particularly interested in the Indian angle of this kind of research." - Robert S. Anderson in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society"This is a welcome ethnographic study to the discussion of science and religion that is heavily based on historical and theoretical debates. It will be stimulating reading for both undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as for researchers interested in questions of belief, rationality and knowledge practices in the Indian context and beyond." - Victor Secco in Society and Culture in South Asia"Science and Religion in India is an important contribution to the sociology/anthropology of religion and science, and science and technology studies in particular. The ethnographic study re-examines the apparently settled opposition between faith and reason of European Enlightenment." - Subhadeepta Ray in Contributions to Indian Sociology"This ethnographic study of the religious lives of laboratory scientists is a very welcome addition to the literature on science and religion in India. [….] a rare and detailed account of contemporary Indian scientists’ attitudes toward religion. It is fraught with implications for understanding religious and cultural nationalism in India. Because Thomas provides a substantive critique of European conceptions of modernity, it will be a fruitful read for anyone who is interested in arriving at a less Eurocentric understanding of this subject area. It is written in clear, direct language and describes historical contexts and theoretical concepts in a way that will make it accessible for non-experts, including undergraduates." - Daniel Heifetz in Nova Religio"Science and Religion in India will leave the reader’s head spinning with different intertwined, and at times contradictory, interpretations of the relationship between religion and science posited by Thomas’ respondents and in (auto)biographies of India’s eminent scientists. In this multivocality, we see different ways in which scientists working in India today examine the possibility of accommodating both Western and ancient Indic science, science and religion, religious praxis and rationality, cultural belonging and non-belief. By offering a glimpse of the multiplicity and intricacy of these individual examinations, Science and Religion in India succeeds in its aim to problematize binary understandings of religion and science, and convincingly argues that it makes sense to study the ways in which people connect and perform religion and science in a case-study-based, contextualized and historicized way." - Tine Vekemans in Religion“Thomas allows his subjects to speak at length, astutely embeds their ideas and practices within broader historical, sociological, and anthropological debates on science and religion, and is transparent about his own positionality and methodological challenges of ‘studying up.’ This makes this brilliant ethnography not only a valuable contribution for a broad readership in science studies but also an excellent teaching text.” - Claudia Lang in Technology and Culture“Outside of academic scholarship, an important takeaway of the book relates to efforts at diversity and decolonization in the South Asian context. A healthy awareness of the social and cultural dominance of a few privileged-caste communities in Indian science and academia, and the Indian diaspora in general, is essential for any meaningful action on those fronts, and Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment makes a timely contribution to that awareness.” - Kiran Kumbhar in Isis: A Journal of the History of Science SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1 Science, Rationality, and Scientific Temper in Postcolonial India; 2 Beyond Disenchantment: Scientists, Laboratories, and Religion; 3 The Making of Scientist-Believers; 4 Being Atheistic, Being Scientific: Scientists as Atheists; 5 Caste, Religion, and the Laboratory Life; Conclusion; Bibliography

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