Interdisciplinary Studies

Womens Empowerment and Microcredit Programs in India examines the value of microcredit-based self-help groups (SHGs) for women in India and provide...

Xi Wu examines how national and transnational forces and discursive logic mediate international secondary school students educational routes and li...

Corruption, commonly defined as the misuse of public office for private gains, is multifaceted, multidimensional and ubiquitous. This edited collec...

This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central...

This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how ...

This edited book explores the development and reconfiguration of Middle Eastern diasporic communities in the West in the context of increased polit...

Northern Irelands power- sharing Assembly is understudied in the legislative studies literature. Having been suspended (or de facto suspended) for ...

This volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response...

Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison: Just Sentences opens up a new exploration of literary journalism immersive, long-form journalism so beauti...

This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of cons...

Focused on Amad Ibn Ajba an eighteenth-century Moroccan Sufi scholar renowned for his contribution to Sufi Qurnic exegesis this book engages crit...

Sharia-compliance is the raison detre of Islamic banks. All of their instruments and activities should be based on sharia principles, which unfortu...

This book explores the complex relationship between urban space and displacement in Turkey. It evaluates how the displacement of people and culture...

Insurgency in Indias Northeast provides a systematic analysis of every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within a unified and o...

Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study foc...

This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a...

Although a number of selected African countries have made efforts to implement various financial sector reforms, many countries have not fully impl...

This highly original volume investigates and documents the complex interactions between small family farms and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba. ...

This book examines European countries engagement in promoting regional integration in the East African Community (EAC). In addition to their usage ...

This book develops organizing eating as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how communication and power combine to...

The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past presents a critical and comparative analysi...

This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on...

The role and meaning of sustainable development have been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. However, there has recently been a d...

This book explores the relationship between climate changeinduced migration and conflict in Bangladesh one of the most ecologically fragile countr...

This book explores the roles played by creative and conventional metaphor in expressing positive and negative evaluation within a particular workpl...

In a world that is increasingly wary of artificial intelligence (AI), this book explores the pressing need for strategic communicators to move away...

This book critically analyses different dimensions in the sustainable transitions outlined by the European Green Deal, focusing on both internal ac...

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an...

This book counters the common understanding of study abroad in Latin America as a White and middle-class colonizer practice and re-imagines it to f...

This book explores the various issues that characterise the African mining sector, drawing examples from different African countries and regional o...

This book explores and explains how traditional and alternative media have framed the issues of gun trafficking into Mexico, drug-related violence,...

This book investigates the politicisation and framing of immigration in the media and political arena in Central Europe, examining two countries - ...

Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations, mainly persuasive communication and lobbying, as deployed...

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in As...

Providing a window on educational leadership from an Asian cultural perspective, Liu and Thiens edited collection describes how educational leaders...

This book aims to provide theoretical and empirical interpretations of certain phenomena in the development of China's cultural industry. Using the...

Economists measure the effects of immigration through the yardstick of income. This book offers a broad survey of the conventional approach but in ...

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula focuses on the United Nations (UN) and its frameworks to examine the power politics on the tw...

This collection explores the communicative dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, redressing the absence of perspectives from Africa and the...

The book explores the politics of immigration in Australia through an in-depth study of the new generation of young Korean migrants in Melbourne.St...

This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Centr...

This book presents Urbal, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territorie...

This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly vi...

This manual presents procedures for performing advanced laboratory tests on fine-grained soils. It covers characterization tests, which determine s...

This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change ac...

This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of peace and development to reflect, at the mid-way po...

This book analyses the main events and turning points in the building of pre- and post-independent South Sudan. It covers the historical perspectiv...

Through discourse analysis and a historical comparison of Pernicious-Vestiges narratives in the news text of Peoples Daily, this book is devoted to...