Interdisciplinary Studies

This book presents a comprehensive study of the role that the Blue Flag beach program has played around the world, considering economic, social and...

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.No country is ...

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (d...

Canadian Literature and Medicine breaks new ground by formulating a series of frameworks with which to read and interpret a national literature der...

This book enriches the evolving concept of soft power, and Chinas approach to soft power, by considering how aspects of Chinese culture, notably th...

This book focuses on the linguistic perspective of classical Chinese poetry and its changes and development in diff erent historical periods. It of...

This book characterises the problematic status of motherhood in present-day Iranian society that is, problem in the Foucauldian sense of an object...

This book examines Russias multidimensional foreign energy policy and the emerging and ongoing conflicts with energy-consuming and transit countrie...

The disastrous effects of floods in urban areas of various Indian cities have been increasing in severity and extent over the past decade. This boo...

This book applies a novel theory of unbalanced responsiveness to the issue of economic inequality in China to better understand the relationship be...

Branding Authoritarian Nations offers a novel approach to the study of nation branding as a strategy for political legitimation in authoritarian re...

Focusing on the 25 January 2011 Egyptian revolution, this book traces its affective and emotional dynamics into the local realties and everyday pol...

Kim and Zoh bring together a team of contributors to analyse the role of heritage studies across Asia, and its impact on Asia and its constituent c...

The proliferation of energy, agricultural, water and food insecurity can be attributed to a multitude of factors, including advancements in technol...

This book examines Africas current food system and future challenges for food security over the next twenty-five years.Africa is on the rise and by...

This book examines Africas current food system and future challenges for food security over the next twenty-five years.Africa is on the rise and by...

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...

This book provides a review of current research in fake news and presents six new empirical research studies examining its impact.Fake news has gar...

This book examines how major powers in the Indo-Pacific region cope with and respond to the potential order transition against the background of th...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

As India switches away from a coal-based to a more sustainable energy use pattern, which pathway will it adopt? What is the nature of challenges th...

This handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a sing...

This volume is a collection of K. Satchidananda Murtys unpublished writings. It presents Murtys views on the theory and praxis of education. Murty ...

This book offers insights into social media practices and challenges in developing nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering different aspects...

This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives ...

This book examines the validity of the notion of the vernacular and the position of the so-called vernaculars in colonial and postcolonial settings...

This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional ...

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the COVID-19 pandemic caused on the social and economic lives of people. The book a...

This book explores SovietNorth Korean relations during the Cold War (19451991). Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and ...

This book tackles the infodemicthe rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramificati...

This book examines Chinas fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.The first...

The book offers an analytical and empirical account of the specificities of political entertainment in post-authoritarian democracies.Centered arou...

This book examines the European Unions everyday statebuilding practices, using the case of Kosovo as an example of how it uses informal practices t...

This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s...

Taking the case of Qazaq Pastoralists in Western Mongolia, this book looks at the universal human requirement to balance individual flexibility and...

Considering Space demonstrates what has changed in the perception of space within the social sciences and how useful indeed indispensable this ca...

This book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community devel...

Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolfs celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, and forty years after the publication of his path...

The Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages offers a useful collection of papers that presents rhetorical analysis...

This volume offers an insider perspective on language policy in the EU, bringing together two key figures well acquainted with its development to r...

This book examines Koreas foreign direct investment policy dynamics and points out the importance of mutual synergy between multinational corporati...

The competitiveness of companies plays an important role in developing their effectiveness. But technology provides a strong competitive advantage ...

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15...

How do people talk about marriage? Who gets to do the talking? When, why, where and how do these things change? From the experiences of women force...

This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israels society, economy, religion, language, c...

As the fourth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the lexical system of Old Chinese and the development of diff...

This book discusses a newly developed concept of adaptability capacity and development as an extension of Charles Darwins work on adaptability. It ...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of a range of concepts, methods, strategies and policies in agriculture and natural resource management...