Regional geography

This book investigates the ways in which city regions view themselves as single entities, how they are governed, what is meant by 'governance', why the question of city-regional governance matters, and the extent to which the balance between internal and external factors is important for finding governance solutions.

First published in 1998 this boo responds to the dynamics of Industrializing Asia and the behavioural changes of actors which, in response to changing internal and external forces, have given rise to and are constantly giving rise to alterations in patterns of growth.

This handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration.

Based on extensive research, this comparative study examines the past, present and future of management in the transitional economies of East and Central Europe, Russia, the People's Republic of China, and Vietnam.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities examines how the concept of 'post-politics' has manifested across a range of Asian cities, and the impact this has had on state-society relationships in processes of urban governance.

Within the modern Western lifestyle increasing conflict is becoming apparent between that patchwork of isolated points such as the home or the office, which are linked by a mechanical system of transportation and communication devices, and a growing sense of homelessness and isolation.

The American Geographical Society was the pre-eminent geographical society in the nineteenth-century U.

This book studies inequalities in the quality of life of the Argentine population at the regional level.

The question of why countries give aid and assistance to other countries has long been a topic of debate- is it altruism, or selfishness?

This volume gathers a collection of the most seminal essays written by leading experts in the field, which identify or signal many of the changing directions of regional research in geography during the past fifty years.

This book provides humanitarian practitioners and policy makers with a manual for how to apply foresight and strategy in their work.

An in-depth look at the fish that inhabit the fresh waters of Britain and Ireland.

A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy.

Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War and the War on Terror.

This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York honoring James O.

Advancing the Regional Commons in the New East Asia highlights a number of interests which members of ASEAN and Plus Three countries collectively recognize.

Providing a fresh examination of the nature of Third World development, the author focuses on the characteristics of particular places and regions and their influences on behaviour.

First published in 2007, this book focuses on the security of sea lanes of communication.

This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history.

In recent years, privatisation has fallen out of favour in many countries because the underlying political factors have not been well understood.

This book examines the historical trajectory of the growth of the television news and critically analyzes the role of private television news in framing the nature of public discourse in contemporary India.

This book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation.

In the absence of democratic state institutions, eastern European countries were considered to possess only myths of democracy.

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

Transnational mobility in the EU has become a key factor for supranational integration, equal life chances and socioeconomic prosperity.

This book explores resilience, social capital and relationships of power in an examination of the manner in which capital can be converted from one form to another.

While the Chinese planning system is vitally important to the rapid development which has been taking place over the past three decades, this is the first text to provide a comprehensive examination and critical evaluation of this system.

The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur's Hindu dances in Australia.

Originally published in 1978.

This book presents and discusses methodological approaches and operational tools aimed at increasing the awareness and skills necessary to face the social, economic and environmental challenges usually encountered in spatial planning.

This book points out how pilgrimage studies rely on interdisciplinary academic interests, being always more determined by anthropological, social, cultural and economic factors.

The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to places outside the country raises a number of questions- about the networks that enable their mobility, the aspirations that motivate them, what they give back to their home regions, and how their provincial home worlds engage with and absorb the consequent transnational flows of money, ideas, influence and care.

Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show trials.

This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers wishing to develop a deeper understanding of one of the world's oldest and most multifaceted religious traditions.

This book provides an overview of the state of Russia after the 2012 presidential election.

This book examines the relations between the Albanian communist regime and the Albanian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (AAOC) from 1945, when the communists came to power, to 1967, when Albania became the only atheistic state in the world, and religion of all kinds was completely suppressed.

This text traces the lineage and development of Russian foreign policy with the insight that comes from a historical perspective.

Parched landscapes, biodiversity loss, encroaching deserts and deforestation are some of the environmental crises taking place in tropical savannas and dry forests throughout the world.

This book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989.

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute.

By focusing on the socio-political ideas of the nationalist Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950), the book is an analytical dissection of his ideational vision which is still a relatively under-studied area of nationalist thoughts.

Deneys Schreiner was an academic, a scientist and a man of strong liberal principles, with a good sense of humor and widespread interests in the sciences, arts and public affairs.

This volume offers a profoundly new interpretation of the impact of modern diasporas on democracy, challenging the orthodox understanding that ties these two concepts to a bounded form of territory.

This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa.

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

This book looks at Dalits in the city and examines the nature of Dalit aspirations as well as the making of an urban sensibility through an analysis of hitherto unexamined short stories of some of the first- and second-generation as well as contemporary Dalit writers in Hindi.

In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America's twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history within the changing relationship between industrialization and urbanization, modernization and development.

If civil society is being encouraged to more fully embrace inclusiveness and respect for diversity, then so must the multiplicity of service support organizations with which it interacts.