Regional Geography

India and the South-East Asia are typical case studies of interest for students of development economics. These countries have served as role model...

The interest in minority protection emerged during the period of democratic transition, particularly of ethnically segmented postcommunist societie...

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global...

This title was first published in 2000. Recent years have seen tremendous economic and political changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors to...

This book examines how identities are formed and expressed in political, social and cultural contexts across South Asia. It is a comprehensive inte...

This book presents a nuanced analysis of governance in South Asia. It examines a range of themes including civil service reforms, women and develop...

Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experi...

Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experi...

There is a broad and long-standing debate on possible solutions to the regional vulnerabilities of globalisation. In 2014, the European Commission ...

Based on empirical research in India, this book presents a post-colonial feminist analysis of subjectivities available to Muslim girls and the ways...

First published in 1997, this study sees the small enterprise as performing specific tasks within the larger societal system of production and dist...

This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking whether local African communities are sufficiently re...

The great power rivalry surging across Africa today is a heritage of those European statesmen who a century ago in Berlin ruled straight lines on s...

Chinas unprecedented urbanization is underpinned by not only massive rural-urban migration but also a household registration system embedded in a t...

Myanmars recovery from half a century of military rule has been fraught. As in other religiously, culturally and linguistically heterogeneous count...

A sequel to Bauer and Dawuni's pioneering study on gender and the judiciary in Africa (Routledge, 2016), International Courts and the African Woman...

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reprod...

This book examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans Ma...

This book is concerned with evaluating the antiquity of the domestication changes in northern Africa, considering the nature of the environments in...

This book describes the historical setting of Zaire and focuses on economic and political developments during the Mobutu era. It examines the corru...

This book provides unique and detailed perspectives on different aspects of dissent, protest and disputes and how these have, in turn, continued to...

Indian Ocean studies, which once lagged behind studies of the Atlantic and the Pacific, is an important emerging academic field which has come into...

Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights in their visio...

Wholly surrounded by the Republic of South Africa, the ethnically homogenous state of Lesotho was created in the 1830s by the genius of Moshoeshoe ...

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,...

The European Union has increasingly taken on a role as international security provider that extends beyond the geographical scope of its membership...

Following drastic shifts in the spatial organization of goods production, increasingly fierce competition now forces firms also to look critically ...

Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advanc...

The four worlds as we know them today, the North, West, South and East, are out of balance. The West and the North generally dominate on a global s...

This book is the first comprehensive study on history, culture, and business of football in Asia. Football has been a symbol of the modern inventio...

Drawing on oral interviews as well as written primary sources, the authors of this book focus on the changing and complex Mozambican reality. They ...

As a celebration of Anne Thurstons pioneering work on records and archives management as an essential basis for demonstrating integrity in governme...

This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrializationspecifically, the decline of the textile industry in ...

At first, it seemed as if the international financial crisis that broke out in 2008 would have little effect in Russia and the other post-Soviet st...

First published in 1989, this book provides a macro-micro approach to economic development taking account of multi-level linkages, both inter and ...

Russia is the worlds largest country, and its politics affect the entire international community. Formally, who exercises the power of government i...

The book examines the contours of relationship between India and the Middle East, before the political frontiers of the both the regions were fashi...

South African slavery differs from slavery practiced in other frontier zones of European settlement in that the settlers enslaved indigenes as a su...

 Originally published in 1990. A look at the vast, historically and socially complex nature of the Nigeria This book is intended to share what he h...

Vivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and ...

This title was first published in 2003:The advent of the Labour government in 1997 provoked major change in the political landscape of the UK. Prio...

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with ...

The poetry emanating from the bhakti tradition of devotional love in India has been both a religious expression and a form of resistance to hierarc...

Urban centres are at the heart of the dynamics of war and peace, of stability and violence: as safe havens for those seeking protection, as concent...

The expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have...

This title was first published in 2000: An original and thought-provoking analysis of modern initiatives in the tropical rain forest. While issues ...

Title first published in 2003. This timely and original book is the most comprehensive and authoritative analysis of Russia's risk society to date....

This comprehensive, critical examination of Africa's future raises questions and challenges concerning the development and unity of the African con...