Interdisciplinary studies

The widespread uptake of digital platforms from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways.

Presenting the collaborative work of 13 international specialists of contemporary Chinese culture and society, this book explores the spaces of creation, production, and diffusion of "e;youth cultures"e; in China among generations born since the 1980s.

This book takes a people-centred approach to the ever-fluid and rapidly-transforming professional world of public relations (PR) in the age of digital platforms.

The debate on the competitiveness of local and regional clusters in the current globalized markets is a priority as globalization puts pressure on such production systems and forces them to find new ways of competition and sustainability.

The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding.

Since the 1960s virtually every part of the world has seen the arrival and establishment of Japanese new religious movements, a process that has followed quickly on the heels of the most active period of Japanese economic expansion overseas.

This book focuses on the Soviet aces who scored all, or most of their victories in the Yak, drawing information from official unit histories and memoirs of the Soviet pilots themselves.

This book contributes to our understanding of a neglected and poorly-understood concept within the development field: 'capacity development' in the context of human and organisational sustainable development.

This book seeks to promote better understanding of China through improved knowledge of its geography.

This edited book analyses the lessons which can be drawn from Northern Ireland's experiences of combating terrorism.

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This book reassesses Putin's attempt to reverse the decentralization of power that characterised centre-regional relations in the 1990s, focusing on regional responses to Putin's federal reforms.

This book critically examines how US foreign policy has produced a regional regime of instability and insecurity in South Asia and the Middle East.

This book addresses translingual identities through an innovative multimodal analysis of the language learning histories of a class of advanced learners of English in Japan who grew up between two or more languages.

This book looks at two-stage industrial cluster theory and new innovation models in view of IT-ization and servitization of products.

A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history.

Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 and 2, are handbooks not only for students studying residential surveying but also for those involved in the appraisal of residential property.

First published in 1946, this atmospheric memoir of the Battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of war at sea aboard a corvette, escorting convoys in both the North and South Atlantic.

Spatial Microeconometrics introduces the reader to the basic concepts of spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and the spatial behavior of economic agents at the microeconomic level.

In his third back-to-basics look at the Bible, popular theology professor and bestselling Catholic author and speaker John Bergsma highlights the presence of Jesus in the psalms and helps us understand their meaning in light of the story of salvation.

First published in 2000, this is volume includes the three books of original text as created by Romesh Dutt, a lecturer in Indian History, and late Commissioner of Obissa and member of the Bengal Legislative Council from 1906.

Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilizations and policy debates about environmental issues in the region.

This book explores the notion of affective space in relation to architecture.

This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class.

We've outsourced too much of our thinking.

This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of scholarly areas.

This book examines the structure and ideology of all the main leftist groups in Iran.

This Element argues that media and democracy requires a framework that analyzes political life and communication.

In an effort to explain why housing remains among the United States' most enduring social problems, Housing America explores five of the U.

Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade.

This book presents essential information on modern location science - in a word, all you need to know about location.

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This handbook is a unique and major resource on modern educators of Asia and their contribution to Asian educational development through the 19th and 20th centuries when modernization started in Asia.

A supplemental text for courses on Interest Groups, American Political Parties, Campaigns and Elections, and Women and Politics, and other Women's Studies courses.

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the "e;Caribbeanization"e; of archives in the region, considering what those archives could include in the future and exploring the potential for new records in new formats.

This book explores how the financial system should be regulated and structured to achieve the twin goals of inclusive growth and financial stability, with a focus on African low-income countries (LICs).

For the first time in English, a concise but fact-packed account of the organization, equipment, and all operations of Japan's small but elite wartime parachute forces.

It has often been argued that Arab states are arbitrary political creations, lacking historical or present legitimacy.

Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency explores the use of communication to transform global, national, and local structures of power that create and sustain oppressive conditions.

A reconstruction of the proceedings of the "e;Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the problems of European Jewry and Palestine, 1945 to 1946"e;.

An authoritative, up-to-date survey of the state of the art in artificial intelligence, written for non-specialists.

Shortly after the Allied landings in France the Germans unleashed the first of their so-called 'revenge weapons', the V1 flying bomb.

Do political leaders determine whether a polity will receive a democratic future or not?

Between 1917 and 1919 women enlisted in the Women's Land Army, a national organisation with the task of increasing domestic food production.

This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, with attention to theory, peacebuilder roles, making sense of the past and shaping the future, as well as case studies and approaches.

The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world.