Development studies

In this book, practitioners and students discover perspectives on landscape, place, heritage, memory, emotions and geopolitics intertwined in evolving citizenship and democratization debates.

This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African 'land rush', providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted.

This book presents an accessible overview of the seven key concepts of city diplomacy (development cooperation, peacekeeping, economy, innovation, environment, culture, and migration).

This book introduces Ali Mazrui's delightfully stimulating scholarship about intercultural relations, calling it Postcolonial Constructivism, and shares elements of his intellectual vitality in an original way.

This book examines the global campaign to end hunger and malnutrition.

Applying a trans-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive, research-based guide to understanding, implementing, and strengthening sustainable community health in diverse international settings.

Research on evaluation shows that low-use and non-use of evaluation is common, yet evaluation is hailed as beneficial and worthwhile.

This book explores Jamaica's contemporary relationship with the International Monetary Fund since 2010.

This book explores the variations in the transformation of the Asian developmental state in South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

This book conceptualises the ongoing hydropower expansion in Southwest China as a socio-political and transnational project transcending the construction of dams.

This book emphasizes the significance of affects, feelings and emotions in how we think about politics, gender and sexuality in Latin America.

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries.

This textbook provides an overview of economic perspectives on sustainability.

This volume asks how we, as International Relations scholars, support our students, and indeed each other, to create classroom spaces that foster the critical curiosity and engagement required to understand and live in a world that feels dangerously disrupted?

This book explores rurality and education in sub-Saharan Africa through a lens of social justice.

This book explores rurality and education in sub-Saharan Africa through a lens of social justice.

In volume 1 of Gandhi and the Psychology of Nonviolence the authors advanced a scientific psychology of nonviolence, derived from principles enunciated by Gandhi and supported by current state-of-the-art research in psychology.

This book examines the evolution of the state of exception in which the Turkish Cypriot community has developed and how its relationship with Turkey has been transformed.

This book is a political ethnography of norm diffusion and storytelling through international institutions in China.

This book discusses the geopolitics of development from the point of view of the Global South.

This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues.

This book identifies second stage challenges and opportunities for expanding renewable energy into a mainstay of electricity generation that can replace fossil fuels and nuclear power, comparing Japan with several countries in East Asia and Northern Europe.

This edited volume breaks new ground and opens up new perspectives by capturing the role played by claims to authenticity in populist discourses in Brazil, India and Ukraine.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of emerging challenges facing different social groups, policy-makers and the international community related to economic growth, social development and environmental change, social inclusion and regional development.

This book covers initiatives related to higher education's public mission such as university-community engagement, knowledge transfer, economic development, and social responsibility, using empirical and conceptual cases in the US, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

This books examines the increased prominence of children's rights in education to ask whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift within the education system.

This book evaluates UN performance in ensuring good governance in Cambodia and Timor-Leste from a human-centred standpoint.

This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today's Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation - especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances.

This book is a critical-cultural evaluation of educational technology adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa, including projects such as the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child).

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of climate change problems and discusses the proliferation of renewable energy worldwide-in conjunction with such important questions as social justice and economic growth, providing an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable development.

This textbook introduces advanced students of International Relations (and beyond) to the ways in which the advent of, and reflections on, the Anthropocene impact on the study of global politics and the disciplinary foundations of IR.

 This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South.

Today, it has become strikingly obvious that companies no longer operate in an environment where only risk return and volatility describe the business environment.

This book analyses the role of emerging powers as a development assistance providers and the nature of their development cooperation, their behaviour, motives and markedly their changing identities in international relations.

This collection brings together a range of case studies by both established and early career scholars to consider the nexus between business and development in post-colonial Africa.

This book addresses, for the first time, the question of how development NGOs attempt to 'listen' to communities in linguistically diverse environments.

This textbook considers understanding social processes to be the main task of sociology.

This handbook provides the latest research related to quality of life and sustainability, taking into account social, economic, environmental, and political/governance aspects as well as specific socio-spatial contexts.

This volume engages in an in-depth discussion of Nigerian politics.

This book examines Turkey's success within international development cooperation and how this could create a framework for a new international aid architecture.

This book explores the potential responsibilities to respect, protect and fulfill international human rights law (IHRL) of a particular class of non-state actors: non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

This textbook offers valuable insights into the nexus between geography, geopolitics, and humanitarian action.

This book brings together conceptual debates on the impact of youth-hood and  gender on state building in Africa.

This book examines Australian colonial and foreign aid policy towards Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia in the age of international development (1945-1975).

This book studies recent attempts to restructure maritime security sectors through capacity building.

European colonization played a major role in the acquisition, formation, and destruction of different ways of knowing.

This book explores the interconnections between world politics and non-human nature to overcome the anthropocentric boundaries that characterize the field of international relations.

Is safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all an unaffordable pipedream?

This edited book analyses the changing links between governance, security and development in Africa as they relate to the narrative that contemporary Africa has made remarkable progress in recent years, a phenomenon popularly known as "e;Africa rising.

This book analyzes the concept "e;true federalism"e; to examine whether there are definable dimensions of power-sharing that make 'true federalism.