Regional geography

This insightful book analyzes the development of cross-border and cross-sector partnerships in a number of European cities and regions.

While urban settlements are the drivers of the global economy and centres of learning, culture, and innovation and nations rely on competitive dynamic regions for their economic, social, and environmental objectives, urban centres and regions face a myriad of challenges that impact the ways in which people live and work, create wealth, and interact and connect with places.

Deepak Sarma explores the degree to which outsiders can understand and interpret the doctrine of the Madhva school of Vedanta.

This bestselling book is a unique introduction to the practice of university teaching and its underlying theory.

The UK has now joined a Europe-wide trend towards more devolved forms of government (e.

This volume investigates the historic and ethnographic accounts of the ongoing religious contestations over the status of the Mahabodhi Temple complex in Bodhgaya (a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002) and its surrounding landscape to critically analyse the working and construction of sacredness.

This book analyses the effectiveness of district administration from critical management perspective.

As globalization has brought about new concerns and responsibilities for business, particularly in the realm of human rights, many multinational corporations (MNC) operating in Asia have argued that such rights are the responsibility of government.

Development-caused forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR) is a critical problem on the international development agenda.

The first in-depth study of the Indian creative industries, this book provides a comprehensive mapping of the Indian creative industries and its policy landscape, developing and defining key concepts and terms and offering detailed case studies of specific sectors, geographic regions and governance structures.

This book shows how the change of water paradigm has become urgent, and provides evidence for new policies that expand water balance to green and virtual water.

Biopolitics refers to a form of politics concerned with administering and regulating the conditions of life at an aggregated level of populations.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM.

The twenty-first century will be the age of global interaction and organized patterns of networks.

Being Janana focuses on same-sex desiring male-bodied subjects in Lucknow, India, and explores how they make meaning in the marginalization of their desire through language performativity.

Originally published in 1938, this book explores the problem of the adjustment of the population in the early 20th century to the agricultural-economic environment in a geographical and economic setting.

This book studies negotiations of gender politics in the process of nation formation in the aftermath of the Partition.

This book explores the changing evolution of memory debates on places intimately linked to the lives and deaths of different fascist, para-fascist and communist dictators in a truly transnational and comparative way.

This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the experience of neo-liberal economic reform.

Offering theoretical insights on region building, this book explores the attempts to formulate a political and institutional vision for the Black Sea region in the post-9/11 era and in the context of the enlargements of the EU and NATO.

This volume provides the first detailed overview of the growing phenomenon of the international migration of skilled health workers.

This timely Routledge Handbook creates a much-needed space to explore what makes social work uniquely African, as well as shaping, informing, and influencing a new culturally relevant era of social work.

This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary Russia, framed by changes to the healthcare system and the roles of its participants after socialism.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of how the developmental goals of Asian states are reflected in large-scale projects and how various actors both realize and challenge these goals.

This book explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe in the wake of unprecedented pressures on land and natural resources.

This book aims to formulate recommendations for achieving a healthy neighborhood living environment for the middle-income people in China's suburbs.

Sweden, as many other prosperous nations, is presently reassessing its national goals, political culture and collective identity.

This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Slovenia in English.

This book interrogates the ideology and practices of liberal constitutionalism in the Zambian postcolony.

Soldiers in a Storm: The Armed Forces in South Africa's Democratic Transition is a study of the role of the military in the creation and development of South Africa's new post-apartheid system.

Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from Kenya - one of the most popular country destinations in Africa for sex tourism - this book gathers much-needed statistics and data, and then critically examines the features of tourism and the sex trade, contextualizing this in relation to tourism development.

This book examines the ways in which Russia and Belarus use disinformation, "e;weaponised"e; historical narratives, and the politics of memory for domestic and foreign policy purposes, utilising these factors to justify aggressive foreign policy in defensive terms and, domestically, for legitimating local ruling elites, consolidating the states' propaganda machines, and mobilising both societies around national power centres.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, this book addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism.

This book presents a sociological interpretation of the emergence of modernity in India via the colonial encounter, and its ramifications for Indian society, economy, and polity.

This book traces the evolution of organisational activism among Muslim women in India.

Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalises and democratises ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the 'periphery'.

This book puts forward an institutional explanation of the recent dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China.

This book focuses on the ECOWAS Commission, both as an autonomous actor, as well as a policy-making nexus for its member states and external actors.

Originally published in 1977.

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity.

This is the first book which provides an engaging and insightful narrative on the life of a geographer in India.

This book meets the needs of teachers and students of agriculture and rural development project and programme planning, planners employed by governments in developing countries and by external financing agencies.

Published in 1999.

Originally published in 1952.

Originally published in 1994, this book examines the importance of family agricultural systems in both the developed and the developing worlds.

This book interrogates the relationship of theatre and the dialectics of centre and the margins.

This book uniquely applies the security reform agenda to Southeast Asia.