French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting 'national' music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music's role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks.
Bringing together theoretical, empirical and comparative perspectives on the European Social Model (ESM) and transitional labour market policy, this volume contains theoretical accounts of the ESM and a discussion of policy implications for European social and employment policies that derive from research on transitional labour markets.
This book brings together multidisciplinary perspectives to explore how political values and acts of resistance impact the delivery of social justice in post-colonial states.
This edited volume explores the contours of Global International Relations (IR) in terms of teaching and research in Southeast Asia and China with the purpose of revealing existing and "e;hidden"e; pre- theories, conceptual frameworks, and theoretical contributions to Global IR rooted in local histories, contemporary experiences, and indigenous thought.
This book examines the major armed conflicts in South Asia - in India (with special reference to the Northeast, Jammu & Kashmir and the Naxalites), Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
This book analyses diasporic literatures written in Indian languages written by authors living outside their homeland and contextualize the understanding of migration and migrant identities.
This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery.
Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development and students are the citizens and the high-skilled working class of tomorrow.
The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.
Faith-based organisations (FBOs) have long been recognised as having an advantage in delivering programs and interventions amongst communities of the same faith.
This collection presents a holistic picture of the sociolinguistic landscape in Bangladesh, offering a critical understanding of language ideologies and social inequalities in the country, as they connect more widely to dynamics in the Global South.
There is a need of strengthening the global and local response to cope with the threat of climate change and adverse effects of rising anthropogenic activities in the mountain ecosystem.
The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography to eugenics and racial regimes.
This book studies the relationship between China and Africa by reviewing this history and current state of interactions, offering a valuable addition to the often heated and contentious debate surrounding China's engagement in Africa from a Chinese angle.
The central problem to which this book, first published in 1984, is addressed is the transformation of agrarian structure as it historically evolved in India.
For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'.
La presente publicación recoge los aspectos más interesantes del patrimonio hidráulico relacionado con el regadío histórico de la cuenca del Río Amadorio situada en la comarca de la Marina Baixa.
Aquesta publicació es fonamenta en l'anàlisi dels components i activitats del sistema territorial de la província de Valencia, susceptibles de consolidar-la i impulsar-la socioeconòmicament, garantint la qualitat de vida deis seus habitants.
Japan - faszinierend in seinen Widersprüchen, mit einzigartigen Traditionen und zugleich ungebrochenem Glauben an den technischen Fortschritt, mit tiefer Liebe zur Natur trotz schier uferloser Metropolen zwischen Gebirge und Meer.
Esta publicación se fundamenta en el análisis de los componentes y actividades del sistema territorial de la provincia de Valencia, susceptibles de consolidarla e impulsarla socioeconómicamente, garantizando la calidad de vida de sus habitantes.
KulturSchock Tansania beschreibt die Denk- und Verhaltensweisen der Tansanier, erklärt die geschichtlichen, religiösen und sozialen Hintergründe, die zu diesen Lebensweisen führen und bietet somit eine Orientierung im Dschungel des fremden Alltags.
Japan - faszinierend in seinen Widersprüchen, mit einzigartigen Traditionen und zugleich ungebrochenem Glauben an den technischen Fortschritt, mit tiefer Liebe zur Natur trotz schier uferloser Metropolen zwischen Gebirge und Meer.
