The third edition of The Routledge Handbook of the Belt and Road documents the developments and achievements of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from 2020 to 2022, capturing the latest evolution of this important international cooperation framework.
This book explores gender, sexualities, labour, migration and coloniality in Africa and India in an attempt towards transnational understanding and ways of rethinking gender.
Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam: The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity Marker offers a groundbreaking study of how the qibla-Islam's ritual direction of prayer-served not only as a sacred practice but also as a powerful marker of communal identity in Islam's formative centuries.
The New International Economic Order (NIEO) was an attempt, underpinned by the agency of the Global South, to articulate global economic and social rights consequent upon political rights gained through processes of decolonisation.
The New International Economic Order (NIEO) was an attempt, underpinned by the agency of the Global South, to articulate global economic and social rights consequent upon political rights gained through processes of decolonisation.
This book explores the social history of the radical religious community of Old Believer-Wanderers during the period of rapid Late Imperial, Early Soviet, and Stalinist modernization.
At the cutting edge of the growing field of the history of childhood, this book shows how placing children at the centre of historical analysis enables the past to be viewed in new ways.
Shakespeare in Pakistan offers a comprehensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan, with a focus on how these works engage with creative, indigenous, cultural, culinary, and religious expressions of identity.
This book investigates the complex factors that drive migration, barriers to regular channel migration and regularization, and difficulties in accessing healthcare services in Southeast Asia.
This critical text proposes new ways of conceptualizing Black womanhood by challenging plantation patriarchal culture and its binary constructions, and methods of Black heterosexual coupling.
Detroit: A City Imagined in Film is a survey of prominent feature films depicting or referring to Detroit, and how they have captured and fed popular perceptions about the Motor City.
Focusing on how the history of past conflicts is mediated in the present and recent past in six European countries, this book explores media processes as they intersect with power dynamics and hegemonic narratives of history and historical memory.
Detailing the contemporary obstacles and battles that marginalized groups must fight, this handbook provides a comprehensive account that enables readers to understand the harmful nature of these issues and how they serve to place and keep marginalized groups at a disadvantage.
Freedom With Religions offers a new interpretation of Rawls' political liberalism, aiming to reconcile this framework with the profound forms of religious pluralism that characterise contemporary democracies.
In India, traditional social collectivities like caste, tribe, gender, and religion continue to form the base of social exclusion, marginalisation and inequality to a large extent, despite operation of the mighty forces of modernisation and globalisation.
With this book, Bernd Reiter reflects on over three decades of research on race, exclusion, inequality, white supremacy, and the defense of privilege in Brazil to explore how social hierarchies, honor, and dignity perpetuate systemic disparities in Latin America.
This book explores the economic and political effects of Chinese outward foreign direct investment (COFDI) through in-depth and comparative analyses of COFDI in economically and politically diverse Southeast Asia countries.
This book explores the economic and political effects of Chinese outward foreign direct investment (COFDI) through in-depth and comparative analyses of COFDI in economically and politically diverse Southeast Asia countries.
This book explores the complex relationship between Indian nationalism and Hindi cinema, examining how film serves as a crucial medium due to its visual narrative power and connections to traditional cultural forms including Parsi theatre, folk traditions, and mythological storytelling.
Balkan Vampires examines how vampire motifs from Balkan folklore have permeated modern sociocultural and political realms, exploring their role in rural traditions and transformation under global influences.
Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs: Kayan Mata and Intimate Relationships in Nigeria explores how Nigerian women use traditional aphrodisiacs, known as kayan mata, to navigate intimacy, power, and survival in a rapidly evolving society.
Persian Language Pedagogy: New Trends and Innovations presents a transformative collection of research and methodologies that revolutionizes how Persian is taught and learned in modern educational settings.
Balkan Vampires examines how vampire motifs from Balkan folklore have permeated modern sociocultural and political realms, exploring their role in rural traditions and transformation under global influences.
This volume is the first extended investigation of the classicism of Jose Rizal (1861-1896), the de facto national hero of the Philippines, and explores how Greco-Roman antiquity was harnessed by Rizal and other Philippine artists and thinkers at the end of the Spanish colonial period.
Persian Language Pedagogy: New Trends and Innovations presents a transformative collection of research and methodologies that revolutionizes how Persian is taught and learned in modern educational settings.
This book uses the case of football fandom in Hong Kong to shine new light on the globalization of sport and culture, and on the intersection of culture and society in a postcolonial territory.
Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs: Kayan Mata and Intimate Relationships in Nigeria explores how Nigerian women use traditional aphrodisiacs, known as kayan mata, to navigate intimacy, power, and survival in a rapidly evolving society.
Cutting across the disciplines of trans gender studies and psychology, this book examines the psychological decision-making process behind twenty-three Malaysian trans men's journeys navigating masculinity from childhood through adulthood.
This book endeavors to provide a balanced analytical treatment of ethnic nationalists, state leaders, and foreign intervenors in China's frontier politics, explaining systematically the circumstances of their entanglements, and traces in detail the underlying and lasting causes and effects of their association-from the closing years of the last Chinese imperial dynasty in the late nineteenth century to the present day.
This book endeavors to provide a balanced analytical treatment of ethnic nationalists, state leaders, and foreign intervenors in China's frontier politics, explaining systematically the circumstances of their entanglements, and traces in detail the underlying and lasting causes and effects of their association-from the closing years of the last Chinese imperial dynasty in the late nineteenth century to the present day.
In India, traditional social collectivities like caste, tribe, gender, and religion continue to form the base of social exclusion, marginalisation and inequality to a large extent, despite operation of the mighty forces of modernisation and globalisation.
