Society & culture: general books

Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this monograph explores the drivers of urban development. Through...  Read More >>

The book explores the complex, multi-directional connections of the ""mobility/security nexus"" in the re-ordering...  Read More >>

This book examines how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined and explored by social researchers...  Read More >>

This volume examines the use of Black popular culture to engage, reflect, and parse social justice, arguing that...  Read More >>

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This book studies the impact of public expenditure allocations in achieving income equality goals in Malaysia and...  Read More >>

This book analyses Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings’ plans for radical democratisation in Ghana, involving ordinary...  Read More >>

This book analyses marginalisation and human rights in Southeast Asia and offers diverse approaches in understanding...  Read More >>

This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Indian economy taking into account historical changes and...  Read More >>

Through the lens of political economy, this book positions housing as a key factor in understanding social inequality....  Read More >>

This book examines the independent media movements by Inmediahk and Coolloud – long-established, autonomous media...  Read More >>

This book examines the nature of ethnopolitics evolving in the Darjeeling hills, located in the Eastern Himalayas....  Read More >>

Temporal Experiments uses literature, music, and visual art to think through the subtle workings of time in our...  Read More >>

This book examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, considering the circular flows of waste...  Read More >>

This book studies a historical interaction between the city and the natural environment from the colonial to the...  Read More >>

This book analyses the phenomenally profitable ‘Red Tourism’ industry in China, in which visitors make pilgrimages...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the academic journeys of Dalit students and their lived experiences...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first large-scale reference work of its kind, critically...  Read More >>

This book examines the initial impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global sport and the varying consequences of...  Read More >>

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the Vietnamese way of education development, figuring out the pitfalls,...  Read More >>

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Examining a 15 million-word corpus of articles by nine UK national newspapers over 15 years, Balfour draws on techniques...  Read More >>

This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting magical and shamanic...  Read More >>

This book focuses on genealogies of religious authority in South Asia, examining the figure of the guru in narrative...  Read More >>

This book reviews a wide-range of genetically modified (GM) crops, to understand how they are produced, the impacts...  Read More >>