Regional Geography

There is much speculation about whether democracy is still advancing around the world and the influence that leading authoritarian or semi-authorit...

This book addresses political instability and the role of the military in unstable politics, as well as to class formation, class conflict, and pro...

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been an obscure concept, and it remains difficult to distinguish what BRI is and isnt, making it difficult for m...

Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and...

This timely book fills an important gap in the literature on the influence of the Internet and new media in Portuguese speaking African countries. ...

This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of the spatial assumptions underpinning transboundary protected areas in Europe...

If civil society is being encouraged to more fully embrace inclusiveness and respect for diversity, then so must the multiplicity of service suppor...

This path-breaking book explains the processes through which the heterogeneous population of Roma in Europe constitutes itself into a transnational...

PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Negotiating nations2. Claiming Pakistan3. Resisting Hindutva4. Redoing South Asia5. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers Doris Les...

This book juxtaposes anthropological and historical perspectives on the political economy of African pastoralists, emphasizing dynamic factors in t...

Unsafe abortion remains one of the most neglected sexual and reproductive health problems according to the World Health Organisation. In recent yea...

Originally published in 1980, Language in Tanzania presents a comprehensive overview of the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern...

Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea offers a critical assessment of architecture and urbanism constructed in Eritrea dur...

This title was first published in 2002: The Commodity Protocols of the EU have become a major focus of conflict with the USA. This illuminating vol...

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet...

This book examines Chad's internal weakness and the degree and nature of its foreign involvements. It focuses on Chad's continuing dilemma that the...

The fifth Millennium Development target of reducing infant mortality by two thirds by the year 2015 can only be achieved if mortality due to malari...

This book looks at the contested relationship between Adivasis or the indigenous peoples, migrants and the state in India. It delves into the natur...

This book overviews the issue of population ageing in five countries in South Asia and projects the emerging scenarios. With a new field survey, it...

Maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia was first recognised as a global concern in 2008 after the hijackings of World Food Programme vessels. It ...

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that fo...

A small number of countries, regions, cities, and localities are powerful gatekeepers and generate the bulk of creative and innovative ideas, while...

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...

This title was first published in 2001. Of the many far reaching issues facing post-communist states in the wake of the collapse of communist rule,...

Although it still has a low urban population when compared with the rest of the world, Ethiopia nevertheless has been experiencing one of the most ...

Providing an in-depth analysis of the economic well-being of the elderly across five European countries - UK, Austria, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia...

This title was first published in 2001: Despite the fact that environmental directives are one of the strongest areas of policy decreed by the EU, ...

The phenomenal growth and liberalisation of the Indian economy has been the subject of extensive scholarly documentation and competing interpretati...

First published in 1999, The Nenets Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Norther...

First published in 1999, this book explores the ethnic dimension of democratic peace agenda in new democracies. The democratic peace proposition co...

First published in 1998, this volume focuses on the special category of countries popularly referred to as transition economies through an analysis...

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs). It views the governa...

This was first published in 2000: Economic development has become one of the popular public policies in many developing and economic-transforming c...

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs). It views the governa...

This book examines the extent to which popular demands for democracy are both subverting and enriching the postcolonial order in Africa. It explore...