Regional studies books

Gulf stability is coming to play a larger role in the foreign policy calculus of many states, but the evolving role...  Read More >>

The title is a collection of essays centering on the topic of intercultural communication between Chinese and Western...  Read More >>

This handbook is the first systematic overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth...  Read More >>

This book presents a study of politico-ideological mobilisation and violence by focusing on the life stories, trajectories...  Read More >>

This book investigates the ways in which young people engage with and contribute to civil society, community development...  Read More >>

This book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which...  Read More >>

Building on archival work undertaken in France and fieldwork undertaken in Southeast Asia, Museum-Making in Vietnam,...  Read More >>

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human...  Read More >>

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the ‘caribbeanization’ of archives in the region, considering what those...  Read More >>

The volume is organized in terms of texts, groups, practices, places, and others. An attempt has been made to discuss...  Read More >>

This timely new handbook surveys and analyses peacebuilding as it operates in this specifically African context....  Read More >>

William A. Graham is an influential and pioneering scholar of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. This volume...  Read More >>

This book critically examines the active role played by youth-led social movements in pushing for change and promoting...  Read More >>

This book identifies the differences in growth and development, and the various factors lying behind them, across...  Read More >>

This book considers the question of spatial justice after apartheid, from several disciplinary perspectives – jurisprudence,...  Read More >>

This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern...  Read More >>

This book inaugurates the field of Mad Studies in the Indian subcontinent investigating the barriers to recovery...  Read More >>

Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced...  Read More >>

As the first volume of a two-volume set, this book systematically examines the process of rural reconstruction in...  Read More >>

Through a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book...  Read More >>

Are new ideas needed to disentangle the uses and abuses of the idea of civil society both in South Asia and beyond?...  Read More >>

This two-volume set examines the process of rural integration in modern China. In short, this is how the state penetrates...  Read More >>

This book investigates the role of social groups in mobilizing resources for protests in repressive contexts. In...  Read More >>

This book links the concepts of place, home, and tradition into an overarching argument: the meaning of home rests...  Read More >>

Spirited Histories combines ethnography with critical theory to provide a sophisticated exploration of the intersection...  Read More >>