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Women in 'New Nepal': Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries

Women in 'New Nepal': Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic,...

Author: Seika Sato (Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan)
ISBN: 9781032330587
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book brings rarely voiced lives and experiences of women in Nepal to light and combines rich ethnography with...  Read More >>

Narratives of Dislocation in the Arab World: Rewriting Ghurba

Narratives of Dislocation in the Arab World: Rewriting...

Author: Nadeen Dakkak
ISBN: 9781032294797
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This monograph explores and investigates narratives of physical, psychological, and emotional dislocation that take...  Read More >>

Protest in Late Modern Societies: Dynamics, Forms, Futures

Protest in Late Modern Societies: Dynamics, Forms, Futures...

Author: Monika Banaś (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland) ,  Ruslan Saduov (Innopolis University, Russia)
ISBN: 9781032218014
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book discusses a broadly understood phenomenon of protest from several perspectives, including historical,...  Read More >>

Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal: The Making of a Moral Community

Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal: The Making...

Author: Ananya Dasgupta (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032364131
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural processes that led to the rise of the ideology...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of Underdevelopment and Poverty in Nepal

The Political Economy of Underdevelopment and Poverty...

Author: Sri Ram Poudyal
ISBN: 9781032418001
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The book presents a critical and radical analysis of factors that have kept Nepal in a state of underdevelopment...  Read More >>

Disrupting Chinese Journalism: Changing Politics, Economics, and Journalistic Practices of the Legacy Newspaper Press

Disrupting Chinese Journalism: Changing Politics, Economics,...

Author: Haiyan Wang
ISBN: 9781032158426
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Disrupting Chinese Journalism provides a rich insight into the disruptive effects of digital technologies – especially...  Read More >>

Peripheral Actors in Journalism: Deviating from the Norm?

Peripheral Actors in Journalism: Deviating from the...

Author: Aljosha Karim Schapals (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367701192
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book addresses the transformative role that so-called ‘peripheral actors’ in journalism – emerging outlets...  Read More >>

Remembering India’s Villages

Remembering India’s Villages

Author: Santosh K. Singh
ISBN: 9781032524634
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In the time of agrarian crisis and movement, Remembering India’s Villages centralises the rural India—examining...  Read More >>

American Masculinities in Contemporary Documentary Film: Up Close Behind the Mask

American Masculinities in Contemporary Documentary Film:...

Author: Sara Martín (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
ISBN: 9781032422343
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Most documentaries deal with men, but what do they actually say about masculinity? In this groundbreaking volume...  Read More >>

Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives

Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical...

Author: Ylva Rodny-Gumede ,  Colin Chasi
ISBN: 9781032493992
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume responds to the great need to rethink journalism from various perspectives including journalism training,...  Read More >>

Displacement, Asylum and the City: Understanding Migration Processes through Urban Studies Approaches

Displacement, Asylum and the City: Understanding Migration...

Author: René Kreichauf (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) ,  Birgit Glorius (TU Chemnitz, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032463544
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This edited volume draws attention to the interlinked yet understudied relationship between the role of cities in...  Read More >>

Mahasweta Devi: Writer, Activist, Visionary

Mahasweta Devi: Writer, Activist, Visionary

Author: Radha Chakravarty (Ambedkar University, Delhi, India)
ISBN: 9780367702748
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Mahasweta Devi occupies a singular position in the history of modern Indian literature and world literature. This...  Read More >>

The Humanities Reloaded: Addressing Crisis

The Humanities Reloaded: Addressing Crisis

Author: Keyan G. Tomaselli (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) ,  Pier Paolo Frassinelli (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781032418292
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume examines the crisis of humanities narratives in the context of neoliberal capitalism and of the emergence...  Read More >>

Human Rights, Tribal Movements and Violence: Tribal Tenacity in the Twenty-first Century in Central Eastern India

Human Rights, Tribal Movements and Violence: Tribal...

Author: Debasree De
ISBN: 9781032523071
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book sheds light on the issues of structural violence perpetrated against the tribes and analyzes the infringement...  Read More >>

Property Rights in Wartime: Sequestration, Confiscation and Restitution in Twentieth-Century Europe

Property Rights in Wartime: Sequestration, Confiscation...

Author: Daniela Luigia Caglioti (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy) ,  Catherine Brice (Université Paris-Est Créteil, France)
ISBN: 9781032453965
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the violation of property rights in the two World Wars and in the interwar period centering on...  Read More >>

New Approaches to the Comparative Abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

New Approaches to the Comparative Abolition in the Atlantic...

Author: Jesús Sanjurjo (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds, UK)
ISBN: 9781032457956
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Taking the theme of 'abolition' as its point of departure, this book builds on the significant growth in scholarship...  Read More >>

'Sisters in the Struggle': Women of Indian Origin in South Africa's Liberation Struggle 1900–1994 (VOLUME 1: 1900–1940s)

'Sisters in the Struggle': Women of Indian Origin in...

Author: Kalpana Hiralal
ISBN: 9781032434520
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the participation of Indian women against apartheid and colonialism in South Africa within gendered...  Read More >>

Women in State Politics in India: Missing in the Corridors of Power

Women in State Politics in India: Missing in the Corridors...

Author: Pam Rajput ,  Usha Thakkar
ISBN: 9781032449968
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The dynamics of Indian politics is reflected in the flexible and fluctuating relations between the centre and the...  Read More >>

(Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities: Challenges of “Temporariness” among Migrants and Asylum Seekers

(Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities: Challenges of “Temporariness”...

Author: Elizabeth Chacko (George Washington University, USA) ,  Marie Price (George Washington University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032433820
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights, lived experiences and trajectories...  Read More >>

Voice, Agency and Resistance: Emancipatory Discourses in Action

Voice, Agency and Resistance: Emancipatory Discourses...

Author: Mark Nartey (University of the West of England, UK)
ISBN: 9781032447414
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Drawing on data from Africa, Latin America, North America, and Arab Levant, this book demonstrates how members of...  Read More >>

Women in the Digital World

Women in the Digital World

Author: Anya Schiffrin (Columbia University, USA) ,  Karolina Koc-Michalska (Audencia Business School, Nantes, France)
ISBN: 9781032452142
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Women in the Digital World brings together the latest academic research on women online and includes chapters on...  Read More >>

Social Media Critical Discourse Studies

Social Media Critical Discourse Studies

Author: Majid KhosraviNik (Newcastle University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032443034
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Critical Discourse Studies aims to enhance our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social...  Read More >>

Spiritual Path, Spiritual Reality: Selected Writings of Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar

Spiritual Path, Spiritual Reality: Selected Writings...

Author: Yousuf Dadoo ,  Auwais Rafudeen
ISBN: 9781032433936
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Offering a rich translation of Shaykh Yusuf’s Arabic writings, Spiritual Path, Spiritual Reality fills an important...  Read More >>

Cross-Border Marriages: State Categories, Research Agendas and Family Practices

Cross-Border Marriages: State Categories, Research Agendas...

Author: Apostolos Andrikopoulos (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) ,  Joëlle Moret (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781032444888
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book analyses what is at stake in the regulation of cross-border marriages and how European states use particular...  Read More >>

Rethinking Caste and Resistance in India

Rethinking Caste and Resistance in India

Author: Murzban Jal
ISBN: 9781032524726
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is a collection of essays by prominent thinkers on the historist and humanist transcendence of the caste...  Read More >>

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