Regional studies books

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Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video: Postnational and Feminist Aesthetics

Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film...

Author: Kristin Lené Hole (Portland State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032755397
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book focuses on an underexamined group of female Palestinian filmmakers, highlighting their relevance for thinking...  Read More >>

Power and the Elite in North Korea: Paektu and Kanbu

Power and the Elite in North Korea: Paektu and Kanbu...

Author: Jae-Cheon Lim (Korea University, South Korea)
ISBN: 9781032731841
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores how political power has shaped the elite and their development in North Korea by examining the...  Read More >>

Knowledge, Power and Ignorance: The Indian Context

Knowledge, Power and Ignorance: The Indian Context

Author: Bidhan Kanti Das ,  Gorky Chakraborty (Associate Professor, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, India)
ISBN: 9781032787084
Format: Paperback
$75.99

The volume critically looks at various aspects: Epistemological Issues; Understanding Community Perspectives and...  Read More >>

Indigenous Architecture in India: Exploring Plural Lifeworlds

Indigenous Architecture in India: Exploring Plural Lifeworlds...

Author: Gauri Bharat
ISBN: 9781032374840
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume focuses on socio-spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation...  Read More >>

Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience: Governance, Governmentality, and the Global Pandemic

Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience: Governance, Governmentality,...

Author: Ming-Cheng M. Lo ,  Yu-Yueh Tsai
ISBN: 9781032572208
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores and develops the ongoing conversation about how Taiwan navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic....  Read More >>

Darcy Ribeiro, Civilisation and Nation: Social Theory from Latin America

Darcy Ribeiro, Civilisation and Nation: Social Theory...

Author: Adelia Miglievich-Ribeiro (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil)
ISBN: 9781032517643
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book introduces the life and work of Darcy Ribeiro (1922–1997), one of the foremost exponents of Brazilian/Latin...  Read More >>

China's Economic Development: Decoding and Reframing its Rise

China's Economic Development: Decoding and Reframing...

Author: Lee Pei May (International Islamic University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
ISBN: 9781032382524
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Lee addresses China's catch up by using four development theories to uncover its complexity and multifaceted development....  Read More >>

Technology-mediated Learning During the Pandemic: Challenges vs Outcomes

Technology-mediated Learning During the Pandemic: Challenges...

Author: Jitendra Singh ,  Vikas Kumar (Chaudhary Bansi Lal University, India)
ISBN: 9781032204390
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume discusses the emergence of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based teaching and learning...  Read More >>

Beyond Liberalism and Communism: Socialist Theory and the Chinese Case

Beyond Liberalism and Communism: Socialist Theory and...

Author: Michael Brie (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032554167
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Beyond Liberalism and Communism: Socialist Theory and the Chinese Case presents a new conceptual framework of socialism...  Read More >>

South Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of the Permissible and the Obscene

South Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of...

Author: Darshana Sreedhar Mini (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) ,  Anirban K. Baishya (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
ISBN: 9781032417875
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is the first consolidated volume that explores the relationships between pornography, obscenity, law and...  Read More >>

Knowledge, Power and Ignorance: The Indian Context

Knowledge, Power and Ignorance: The Indian Context

Author: Bidhan Kanti Das ,  Gorky Chakraborty (Associate Professor, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, India)
ISBN: 9781032495590
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The volume critically looks at various aspects: Epistemological Issues; Understanding Community Perspectives and...  Read More >>

Asianization of Asia

Asianization of Asia

Author: Chang Kyung-Sup (Seoul National University, South Korea) ,  Kim Taekyoon
ISBN: 9781032227801
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores the Asianization of contemporary Asia, a trend which through neoliberal economic globalism has...  Read More >>

China, Pakistan and the Belt and Road Initiative: The Experience of an Early Adopter State

China, Pakistan and the Belt and Road Initiative: The...

Author: Pascal Abb ,  Filippo Boni
ISBN: 9781032640174
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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The Order of Destruction: Monoculture in Colonial Caribbean Literature, c. 1640-1800

The Order of Destruction: Monoculture in Colonial Caribbean...

Author: Heinrich Wilke
ISBN: 9781032781280
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas

The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas

Author: Zhen Zhang (New York University, USA) ,  Sangjoon Lee (City University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781032199405
Format: Hardback
$431.00

Balancing leading scholars with emerging trendsetters, this Companion offers fresh perspectives on Asian cinemas...  Read More >>

Collective Empowerment in Latin America: Indigenous Peasant Movements and Political Transformation

Collective Empowerment in Latin America: Indigenous...

Author: Gerardo Otero ,  Efe Can Gürcan (İstinye University, Turkey)
ISBN: 9781032738413
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society,...  Read More >>

Exploring Social Movements: Theories, Experiences, and Trends

Exploring Social Movements: Theories, Experiences, and...

Author: Biswajit Ghosh (The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India)
ISBN: 9781032666457
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book introduces the readers to the dynamics of various kinds of social movements. It examines how social movements...  Read More >>

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide...

Author: Shakirah E. Hudani
ISBN: 9780226832739
Format: Hardback
$163.95

"An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda. Master Plans and Minor...  Read More >>

Wunderbar Country: Germans Look at Australia, 1850–1914

Wunderbar Country: Germans Look at Australia, 1850–1914...

Author: Jürgen Tampke
ISBN: 9781032403946
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Wunderbar Country (1982) examines the experiences of Australia’s second largest migrant community, the Germans....  Read More >>

World Order in History: Russia and the West

World Order in History: Russia and the West

Author: Paul Dukes
ISBN: 9781032377384
Format: Paperback
$60.99

World Order in History (1996) argues that historians’ ideas about world order have been influential in transforming...  Read More >>

India in Global Nuclear Governance

India in Global Nuclear Governance

Author: Reshmi Kazi ,  Åshild Kolås
ISBN: 9781032654416
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The volume is a revisit of the Indian nuclear discourse. It envisages a comprehensive and predictable nuclear governance...  Read More >>

The Absorption of Immigrants: A Comparative Study Based Mainly on the Jewish Community in Palestine and the State of Israel

The Absorption of Immigrants: A Comparative Study Based...

Author: S.N. Eisenstadt
ISBN: 9781032364018
Format: Paperback
$60.99

The Absorption of Immigrants (1954) examines the assimilation of immigrants in the Yishuv (the Jewish Community...  Read More >>

Indian Gold Jewellery Industry: Culture and Consumption

Indian Gold Jewellery Industry: Culture and Consumption...

Author: Sylvia Raha
ISBN: 9781032717937
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book explores the roles of sunars/ swarnakars (goldsmith or jewellery makers), consumers, trade and the policies...  Read More >>

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