Interdisciplinary studies

This book discusses how hierarchical and collectivist cultures contribute to the challenges and opportunities in communication in health care.

This book investigates multi-disciplinary approaches to addressing the health of disadvantaged communities through equitable community development systems (CDSs).

This comprehensive volume provides a conceptual and theoretical understanding of e-governance and public administration in India.

This monograph offers the most comprehensive and regionally grounded analysis to date of how Islamist movements across the Middle East responded to - and were transformed by - the 2010-2011 Arab uprisings.

This book addresses the limitations of dominant ways of thinking about and doing politics in Northern Ireland.

As a toolkit for the issues and challenges of diversity and inclusion in defence and security organizations, this state-of-the-art book allows leaders, managers, practitioners, and personnel to examine international perspectives on the current research, best practices, lessons learned, and strategies for promoting greater teamwork, collaboration, trust, cohesion, and organizational performance.

This book focuses on online petitioning and crowdfunding platforms to demonstrate the everyday impact that digital communications have had on contemporary citizen participation.

Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare-an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly.

For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial harmony.

In Development, Security, and Aid Jamey Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.

This book contributes to a better understanding of street children and youth within Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book discusses the urbanization of China and identifies four major features of ethnic minority mobility partners over the last twenty years: the three-stage peripheral-to-core transition pattern; the escalating decline of the urban minority population in the central region of China, particularly since 2000; the city agglomerations located in the eastern region of China, which have begun playing a leading role in minority urbanization, especially in the Yangtze and Pearl River Delta; and lastly, the continuous beneficiaries of supportive policies that have led metropolises, such as provincial capitals, to be shaped into important regional minority population concentrations in both China's western region and its autonomous areas.

This book  explains Chester Barnard's management theory clearly, faithfully, and systematically.

This book explores the role of the Central Security Council (CSTO) in ensuring regional security, analyzing the evolution of cooperation between post-Soviet states since the Soviet Union's demise.

This book offers a pioneering approach to collaborative co-authorship, integrating storytelling, participatory action research, and innovative uses of technology like Zoom to bridge geographical and cultural divides.

The book contributes to the sparse academic literature on African and minority language media research.

This book brings together diverse ideas on selected facets of globalisation and transitions in globalisation.

This book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural politics as a determining factor.

This book analyses the trade relationship between Bangladesh and Japan, including foreign investments and foreign aid by Japan to Bangladesh.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the struggles of youth in India, Myanmar, and Thailand towards the creation of a freer, more inclusive, plural, and equal society.

This book is a pioneering multi-disciplinary analytical study of Caribbean political corruption grounded in Caribbean epistemology, challenging universalist perceptions generated outside the region which take no account of historical and cultural elativity.

In China, heritage projects are sprouting across the countryside carrying the promise of Xi Jinping's "e;Chinese dream"e; as a call for the great revival and rejuvenation of the nation.

The Islamic positioning of Islamophobia is presented in this book.

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In the decade since the 2014 Ferguson Uprising, re-intensified conversations about racial progress continue to be at the forefront of American culture.

The book explores the uneven spatial distribution of territory resources and its implication for the sustainable development of regions and cities.

The book explores the uneven spatial distribution of territory resources and its implication for the sustainable development of regions and cities.

Aid organizations usually embrace the idea of digitalization, both in terms of using diverse technologies and processing data digitally for improving their services, making their operations more efficient and even mitigating various risks.

This edited book offers insight into the linguistic construction of prejudice and discrimination in social media.

Transportation is an essential part of human activity and a service that makes an enormous contribution to the economic, social, and general well-being of countries and their citizens.

This volume approaches the relationship between European public sphere and political communication in the framework of establishing populism and social media.

Although the origins of public relations can be firmly traced back to an approach integrating psychology, sociology, politics, and journalism, the psychological component has not been well developed in current PR theorising and education.

This book explores the philosophical foundations of communication studies, suggesting that communication phenomena extend beyond the scope of traditional scientific methods.

Although the origins of public relations can be firmly traced back to an approach integrating psychology, sociology, politics, and journalism, the psychological component has not been well developed in current PR theorising and education.

This edited international collection explores the nature and extent of wrongful convictions, as well as examines the systems in place that attempt to exonerate the wrongly convicted.

The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and the subsequent military campaigns entail several classical aspects of armed conflict.

This book is a compass for resource rich-developing countries, taking Mongolia as a case study.

This book tells the story of the landmark event in modern logic whereby Alfred Tarski became "e;the man who defined truth"e;.

Developing an original approach, this book examines how both nationalism and climate change threaten humankind with future catastrophes, arguing that humanity is on a fast track to a dystopian future unless significant changes are implemented.

This book examines the aftermath of eSwatini's fiftieth anniversary of independence and the COVID-19 pandemic, when many citizens of this last absolute monarchy in Africa took to their communities in unprecedented protests for democratic reform.

This book offers an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of the Vietnamese economy which is the fast-growing economy in Southeast Asia.

This book provides legal analysis of the multilateral liberalisation of the air transport industry in Africa within the framework of the African Union Agenda 2063 initiative, the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM).

This book uses the case of Chinese development in Laos to ask what development is and why it happens as it does.

This volume examines the often-overlooked crisis of sexual misconduct within Korean Protestant churches, exploring how militarized culture, hierarchical power, and institutional silence contribute to the abuse of congregants—especially those in vulnerable situations.

This book critically engages with the development-security nexus in contemporary Africa, coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the African Union (AU).