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  • Steel Town Adivasis

    Industry and Inequality in Eastern India

    Steel Town Adivasis: Industry and Inequality in Eastern India presents an analysis of class formation in the industrial town, Rourkela in the eastern Indian state Odisha, and the ways this process relates to regional ethnicity and caste.This study is based on long-term ethnographic research conducted in the 2000s and oral histories covering the period from the inception of the steel plant, and it ... Read more

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  • The God in Us

    How African Spirituality Ignited World Religion and Global Civilisation

    by Hlumelo Biko ...
    This book traces the unitary source of all of the world’s major religions. The book underscores the fact that there are many ways in which humanity has sought revelation of God, yet there is a common inspiration behind humanity’s God concept.The author’s analysis of world religions or faiths adopts a multi-interdisciplinary approach taking the reader through historical, anthropological, ... Read more

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  • Computational Social Science

    Application in China Studies

    This edited collection provides an overview of the recent developments in computational social science related to China studies and presents interdisciplinary empirical work from diverse scholars on culture, public opinion, and education using advanced computational methods and big data.The topics covered in this book include the surge of anti-China sentiment amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the ... Read more

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  • Telling Stories of Pain and Hope

    Museums in South Africa and Ireland

    The histories of South Africa and Ireland have been tumultuous and traumatic. Both countries have experienced political repression, sectarian violence and oppression that still impact the spiritual well-being of people today. Their parallel histories are of colonialism, displacement and division, and a fight for land and sovereignty. Both countries have embarked on a process of healing and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Geospatial Approaches to Sustainable Cities

    Edited by Qihao Weng ...
    Series series Imaging Science
    This comprehensive handbook presents the current state of knowledge on geospatial technologies, techniques, and methods that are imperative for providing solutions to sustainable cities. It addresses the role of geospatial big data and AI techniques and how they are applied when analyzing the sustainability of urban development, land use, urban planning, and resource management, as well as ... Read more

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  • Anxious Geographies

    Worlds of Social Anxiety

    Anxious Geographies offers a unique perspective on social anxiety, framing it as both a social and spatial phenomenon. Through a meticulous exploration using online questionnaires and interviews, the book provides a crucial examination of the intricacies of anxious lives.This book presents a critical intervention in the experience of mental health in 21st-century society and provides a compelling ... Read more

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  • Civil Society Organisations and State-Owned Enterprises in South Africa

    Promoting Accountability and Corporate Governance

    by Julieth Gudo ...
    This book examines the important role which civil society organisations in South Africa play in challenging poor corporate governance in state-owned enterprises and demanding better government accountability, transparency and citizen participation.The book provides a powerful examination of the shortcomings in corporate governance in South Africa’s state-owned enterprises, highlighting how civil ... Read more

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  • Fertility and Childcare in East Asia

    Gender Dynamics and Intergenerational Support

    This textbook explores recent research on the topics of gender inequalities, intergenerational support, and family in select East Asian societies, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan.East Asian societies have been undergoing rapid economic development over the last three decades, whether gender (couple) relations and families in East Asian societies have also been undergoing ... Read more

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  • Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen

    Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen offers an example of an eastern European queen as a corrective to the western European focus of medieval queenship studies.Through a chronological approach, this book looks beyond the popular biographies of royal women such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Berengaria of Castile and gathers material from sources throughout Europe. It engages with modern queenship ... Read more

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  • The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa

    Czechoslovakia, UNESCO and Development Aid from the 1960s and Beyond

    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds during the three “development decades.”Starting in the early 1960s, Czechoslovakia sent abroad hundreds of experts hoping to stimulate the development of ... Read more

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  • Inequalities, Youth and the Labour Market

    NEETS in Southern Europe

    Series series The Dynamics of Economic Space
    This book thoroughly examines the socio-economic and labor market paths of young NEETs, particularly migrants and women, in the disadvantaged regions of Mediterranean Southern Europe—specifically, the island, coastal, and peripheral areas of Greece, Cyprus, Italy, and Spain.It embraces a holistic approach, delving into multiple dimensions of the phenomenon. Rooted in multi-methodological research, ... Read more

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  • Kneeling Before Corn

    Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa

    Series series biodiversity in small spaces
    The cultivation of the three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) on subsistence farms in El Salvador is a multispecies, world-making, and ongoing process. Milpa describes a small subsistence corn farm. It is derived from the word milli (‘field’, or a piece of land under active cultivation) in Nahuatl. The milpa is a farming practice that uses perennial, intercropping, and swidden (fire and fallow) ... Read more

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  • Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Oil Palm Industry

    Oil palm cultivation is a significant contributor to the global agricultural industry, providing valuable resources for various products. While it has faced challenges, including concerns about deforestation and environmental degradation, it is crucial to understand the geographical distribution of oil palms to ensure responsible and sustainable management.This book introduces the application of ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Socialism

    Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty

    by Rowan Lubbock ...
    Series Book 62 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.
    Launched in 2004, the Latin American regional institution of ALBA (Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América: Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) sought to overcome the historical legacies of neocolonial domination by consecrating the values of cooperation, inclusive development, and popular power.As part of a region-wide effort among states and social movements to ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Industries of India

    The Cultural Industries of India is the first book length study dedicated to the Indian cultural and creative industries. By covering specific aspects of the cultural and creative sectors in India– from film festivals to music and performing arts, from cinema to tourism, including a policy review on innovation in the creative industries – the various chapters offer a comprehensive overview of the ... Read more

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  • American Farming Culture and the History of Technology

    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as a part of their identity and culture.Histories of agriculture often fail to give agency to farmers in bringing about change and ignore how people embed technology with social meaning. This book, however, shows ... Read more

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  • A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage and his Interactions with Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean

    by Al M. Rocca ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Historical Geography
    This book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world history. It provides a detailed day-by-day account of the explorer’s travels and activities, richly illustrated with thematic maps.This work expands our understanding of Columbus’s first voyage by mapping his sea and land experiences, offering both a historical and geographical ... Read more

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  • Neptune's Domain

    A Political Geography of the Sea

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1990, Neptune’s Domain is organized around one unifying theme: the geographic aspects of the new Law of the Sea as expressed primarily in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The first two chapters provide essential background information. Chapters 3 through 9 explain relevant provisions of the Convention. The next two chapters cover topics excluded from the ... Read more

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  • Industrialization in West Africa

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, Industrialization in West Africa is an authoritative text on the industrial development efforts, spatial characteristics and related problems of countries comprising the West African region. The book commences with a detailed description of the political and economic background against which the slow and unsteady pace of industrialization in each country can be appreciated ... Read more

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  • The Logic of Poverty

    The Case of the Brazilian Northeast

    Edited by Simon Mitchell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1981, The Logic of Poverty consists of eight essays that share at least one assumption: that Northeast Brazil provides a startling example of inhumane economic development. The contributors have all worked in the area, and know it at first hand. They look at rural structure and the role of the unemployed ‘reserve army’, the state of the sugar industry, the ineffectiveness of the ... Read more

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  • The Business of Affordable Housing

    Case Studies of the Commercial Supply of Affordable Homes

    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    Despite the conventional wisdom that affordable housing, either in the form of homeownership or through access to rental units, has beneficial effects for households, society, and the economy more broadly, there is a noteworthy lack of empirical studies of housing development and construction companies or building societies that actively work to supply this asset class in the economy. There are ... Read more

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  • Sickle Cell Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Biomedical Perspectives

    This important collection provides an epidemiological perspective on the continuing scope of sickle cell disease (SCD) in sub-Saharan Africa, alongside the clinical attempts to provide comprehensive care in a resource-limited setting.The book moves from a clinical profile of SCD to screening for the disease and ongoing patient care. There are chapters on pain management, organ failure, infections ... Read more

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  • Worldwide Destinations

    The Geography of Travel and Tourism

    Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism is a unique text that explores tourism demand, supply, organisation, and resources for every country worldwide in a logically structured and accessible format.The ninth edition is fully updated to include the following features:Greater exploration of current issues such as climate change, the impact of COVID-19 on destinations and ... Read more

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  • China in India's Neighbourhood

    Shifting Regional Narratives

    Edited by Anita Sengupta, Priya Singh ...
    This book explores the scope and extent of the growing Chinese influence in India’s neighbourhood and its impact on India as well as on Asian power politics.Through theoretical narratives and detailed case studies, it examines Chinese bilateral relationships in the Indian neighbourhood and looks at the extent and significance of Chinese influence through the lens of strategic, economic and ... Read more

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