Regional / International studies

This book presents interdisciplinary research on bamboo in Vietnam, drawing on the anthropology of gesture, ethnobotany and the history of technology.

This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine "e;Iranian-ness"e; in the context of Iran's local, regional, and global position.

Focusing on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d.

In this landmark project, Professor Zhang and Professor Moratto piece together the history of how conference interpreting developed as a profession in China after the reform and opening up of the late 1970s.

Focusing on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d.

This book explores how Chinese border provinces have become actors in international relations.

As unemployment soared in Zimbabwe in the early twenty-first century, betting on football/soccer emerged as a popular, if unsustainable, livelihood option, and the number of betting halls mushroomed.

Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a "e;special operation"e; was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation's understanding of its history and identity.

This book explores the complex relationship between urban space and displacement in Turkey.

Shyamal Kumar Pramanik is one of the most powerful writers of the Bangla Dalit literary movement.

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is the most influential, organized, social, and political movement in Kuwait.

This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine "e;Iranian-ness"e; in the context of Iran's local, regional, and global position.

This book studies public policy and administration in Bangladesh.

This book is an enquiry into the meaning and nature of collective responsibility.

This book examines how the young in Northeast Asia engage with the political, especially in terms of the production, reformulation, or contestation of their national identities.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.

This edited volume is dedicated to national-socialist archaeology as a Europe-wide phenomenon.

This book examines how the young in Northeast Asia engage with the political, especially in terms of the production, reformulation, or contestation of their national identities.

Shyamal Kumar Pramanik is one of the most powerful writers of the Bangla Dalit literary movement.

Oman is an important country for the West, both as an oil exporter and as a key ally strategically placed at the entrance to the Gulf.

Contributing to our understanding of the impact of the 2015 migrant "e;crisis"e; on the future of EU integration, this book views the "e;crisis"e; as an accelerant to existing problems, namely Brexit, the growing popularity of anti-immigrant far right parties and the rise of xenophobic and antiliberal governments from the Baltics to the Balkans.

This book explores African domestic and regional responses and approaches to environmental protection and sustainability.

This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission, in conjunction with an embodied research approach.

This book examines Norway's affiliation to the EU and systematically assesses the potential suitability of this arrangement for the UK as a viable EU affiliation post-Brexit.

This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to illuminate the voices of people with disabilities from Sub-Saharan Africa.

The people of Africa have contrasting perspectives on gender, feminism, and the family from their Western counterparts.

This book provides a comprehensive approach to the perspectives, lived experiences, and socio-cultural beliefs of Indigenous scholars regarding disabilities through a distinctions-based approach.

This book provides an empirical examination of the meso-level policy enactment of transnational higher education in the context of China.

Religion, and specifically Christianity, has often been blatantly invoked to support or oppose war and violence of all kinds.

This book explores the phenomenon of familyhood across borders, examining the experience of translocal familyhood and the manner in which lifelines in and between countries are formed when individual family members spend long periods away from home.

Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh comprehensively analyses the syncretistic form of Bengali Islam and its relationship with secularism in Bangladesh from pre-British to contemporary times.

This book reflects on South African literature from the perspective of 2020.

This book bridges the gap between Islamic and conventional (micro)economics by demonstrating how modern tools and theories of microeconomics can be applied to Islamic assumptions regarding economics and finance.

The Word in the World is a collection of essays and lectures by H S Shivaprakash, a well-known poet, playwright, and translator.

Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Slovenia: A Case of Resistance provides a detailed and in-depth analysis of the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Slovenia.

This book analyses the victory of Gabriel Boric in Chile during the presidential elections of December 2021.

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African women and girls in situations of political conflict.

This lost classic, a crystal clear eyewitness account of the Holocaust, has been translated into English for the first time, 70 years after it was first published.

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The bitter fighting in the so-called Falaise-Argentan Pocket in August 1944, during which the Allies encircled and destroyed a substantial part of Hitler’s forces in northern France following the D-Day landings, marked the last major battle of the Normandy campaign.

This edited volume is dedicated to national-socialist archaeology as a Europe-wide phenomenon.

This book examines the state of China's grand strategy in the 21st century, including political, military and economic factors.

El trabajo dirigido por las docentes e investigadoras Mónica Cortellezzi y Nesrin Karake contó con la valiosa colaboración del cartógrafo Martín Rizzo y los geógrafos profesionales Yésica Jacqueline Tapiz y Daniel Aricoma Mérida, quienes realizaron diferentes tareas para la concreción de este atlas.

Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri Sembilan in a rapidly modernising Malaysia.

This book analyses strategic discourse on the Himalayas from the perspective of India's interests.

Indigenous societies, steeped in patriarchy, have various channels through which they deal with abusive characteristics of relations in some of these communities.

In this landmark project, Professor Zhang and Professor Moratto piece together the history of how conference interpreting developed as a profession in China after the reform and opening up of the late 1970s.