Politics and government

This book explores the evolution and transformative potential of digital governance amid the ongoing technological revolution in the public sector.

This book is a retelling of the history of Liberia’s formation through the lens of settler colonial theory to understand the antagonisms that continue to shape contemporary citizenship debates.

This edited volume investigates the complexities of child refugees and migrants from a global perspective.

This edited book provides a comprehensive study of punitive practices in modern-day Lithuania, highlighting its significance as a democratic European state navigating the continuing consequences of its Soviet-era criminal justice system.

This book is a compelling and urgent exploration of one of the most pressing human rights issues of our time.

This book investigates the groundbreaking diplomatic breakthrough between Saudi Arabia and Iran, mediated by China in March 2023—a striking departure from the traditional Western-dominated diplomatic processes that have long shaped the Middle East.

This book addresses the long understudied topic of wage issues in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

As urbanization intensifies, the phenomenon of urban heat islands poses significant challenges to public health, energy consumption, and overall urban livability.

This book is a retelling of the history of Liberia’s formation through the lens of settler colonial theory to understand the antagonisms that continue to shape contemporary citizenship debates.

Why are citizens increasingly dissatisfied with democracy, and what does this mean for the future of democratic governance?

This book examines fair citizen participation as a key element of effective policy support.

Land Cinema in an Age of Extractionconsiders nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advancesan understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility.

The global refugee regime has shifted under our feet.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

This book analyses how security concerns dominated international engagement in higher education reforms in post-Soviet Uzbekistan.

Land Cinema in an Age of Extractionconsiders nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advancesan understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility.

This book offers a comprehensive review of concepts from general Structuralist Semiotics, and their application to the study of fashion systems and the objects they originate.

11-13 August 1940 saw the first large raids on the UK in the Battle of Britain.

The story of the Centro Iberico, a legendary music venue of the UK's postpunk era, has been fragmentary and disjointed, its tangled twelve-year history never properly documented before now.

The first full-length English translation of the 1909 book from the revolutionary Russian Marxist feminist Alexandra Kollontai on the state of the contemporary bourgeois women's movement and the role of working-class women in the struggle for women's equality.

Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias takes us through the outsized and unexpected remnants of the influence of anarchist ideas and practice on modern-day Argentina - from the names of popular pastries to the foundation of numerous soccer clubs - until we arrive at the explosive intersection of anarchism, football, and the crisis of neoliberalism.

This book provides an ambitious, timely, and comprehensive treatment of Israel-Taiwan relations, presenting a valuable historical and political exploration of a niche but increasingly relevant bilateral relationship in contemporary international affairs.

This book examines the ideas about rights and their evolution in modern political thought.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transcended its origins as a computational discipline to become a transformative force across nearly every domain of human endeavour.

This book examines the ideas about rights and their evolution in modern political thought.

Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging through the Experiences of Migrant Day Laborers: Labor, Limites, y Libertad explores how migrant day laborers navigate precarious work and forge meaningful forms of community and belonging.

In the Twin Transition era, digital technologies and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) paradigms are changing the dynamics of the financial industry in terms of the operators involved and the service models addressed to customers.

Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging through the Experiences of Migrant Day Laborers: Labor, Limites, y Libertad explores how migrant day laborers navigate precarious work and forge meaningful forms of community and belonging.

In the late 2010s, the Portuguese immunity to the far right came to a sudden end at the 2019 general elections, after the election of Chega's leader - Andre Ventura - to the Assembly of the Republic.

This book deals with the transnational activities and political agitation of a Nordic social movement that was created to fight the junta, which seized power in a military coup in Greece in 1967.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transcended its origins as a computational discipline to become a transformative force across nearly every domain of human endeavour.

Evangelical Violence examines the long history of western states and actors attempting to export and impose Christianity on non-western peoples and the use of state-administered violence to achieve these "e;Evangelical"e; goals.

This book deals with the transnational activities and political agitation of a Nordic social movement that was created to fight the junta, which seized power in a military coup in Greece in 1967.

This book examines how multinational agribusiness companies shape the regulation of agricultural value chains in Latin America.

Inclusive Entrepreneurship in Africa offers a timely and essential examination of how diversity, equity, and inclusion are reshaping the continent's entrepreneurial landscape.

In the Twin Transition era, digital technologies and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) paradigms are changing the dynamics of the financial industry in terms of the operators involved and the service models addressed to customers.

This book analyzes and compares the history of decolonization throughout Asian countries.

This volume deals with the determinants of both good and bad health, at individual as well as community levels, or in a broader sense, all of which are determined by multiple, critically interlinked actors that are surprisingly concentrated within the built environment.

This book seeks to identify the manifold ways in which the multiple European crises, debt, financial, sociopolitical, refugee (re)construct political polarizations in Greece on the basis of the country’s divided past.

Remaking Urban Life in Chongqing’s Public Rental Housing follows migrant families through an ordinary day—out the door for work and school, back after dark through night markets and shared courtyards—to show how a large state-led public rental housing (PRH) program becomes a lived urban form.

This book offers a groundbreaking examination of how Vietnam’s legal system is evolving to protect and empower children.

This book defines media subimperialism through three key characteristics: resistance and collaboration with imperial media, regional dominance despite partial domination by imperial systems, and reliance on imperial media for technology and content.

This contributed volume examines the intersection of social work, environmental justice, and disaster risk reduction (DRR).

This book examines Japan's defense technology, unresolved territorial disputes with neighboring countries, and its trade policy.

This book is a historical study of the rice policies of the government in the Kingdom of Thailand between the years from 1932 to 1960 in the context of the rice shortage and global economic crises of the Great Depression and World War II.

This book looks at how the caste system has withstood resistance from below and survived the challenge of colonial modernity.

In today's fiercely innovative and complex biopharmaceutical industry, successfully managing a pharmaceutical or biotech company from concept to patients requires exceptional strategic, leadership, and managerial abilities.

This book examines Japan's defense technology, unresolved territorial disputes with neighboring countries, and its trade policy.

This book looks at how the caste system has withstood resistance from below and survived the challenge of colonial modernity.