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Indian Foreign Policy

by Priya Chacko

The rise of India as a major power has generated new interest in understanding the drivers of its foreign policy. This book argues that analysing India's foreign and security policies as representational practices...


Writing the Modern City

by Sarah Edwards & Jonathan Charley

Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative...


The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

by Alexander Betts, Gil Loescher & James Milner

This revised and expanded second edition of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continues to offer a concise and comprehensive introduction to both the world of refugees and the organizations...


Cluster Munitions and International Law

by Alexander Breitegger

This book offers a comprehensive argument for why pre-existing international law on cluster munitions was inadequate to deal with the full scope of humanitarian consequences associated with their use. The book...


China and Orientalism

by Daniel Vukovich

This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has shifted from a logic of 'essential difference' to one of 'sameness' or general equivalence. "China" is now in...


State Structure, Policy Formation and Economic Development in Southeast Asia

by Antoinette R. Raquiza

Why do some small, developing countries industrialize and others don't? What factors account for different economic performance among states that are vulnerable to external shocks, crony capitalism, and political...


Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads

by Kim Marie Vaz & Gary L. Lemons

Women's studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations, for some...


Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions

by Geoff Wilson

This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts. It investigates the notion of 'resilience' and the challenges faced by local communities around the world to...


Misunderstanding the Internet

by James Curran, Natalie Fenton & Des Freedman

The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more 1.5 billion internet users across the globe, about one quarter of the world's population. This is certainly a new phenomenon that is of enormous...


Rising China in the Changing World Economy

by Liming Wang

China's rapid and sustained growth over last thirty years has propelled it to become the world's second largest economy today and potentially the largest in the foreseeable future. As one of the first major...


Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures

by Jenny Sundén & Malin Sveningsson

How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore "straight" versus "queer" contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time, as...


Family Problems

by Natalia Sarkisian & Naomi Gerstel

Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the nuclear family - with its exclusion of the extended family - is narrow, even deleterious, and misses much of family life. This...


Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy

by Rosa Balfour

This book investigates the disparity between rhetoric and performance in the European Union response to abuses of human rights and transgression of democracy. With the Arab spring putting the spotlight on the...


Rethinking Democracy and the European Union

by Erik Oddvar Eriksen & John Erik Fossum

While the Lisbon treaty was meant to clarify the European Union's role and political identity, it remains a challenge for politicians and decision-makers to define. Rethinking Democracy and the European Union...


Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement

by Premilla Nadasen

The welfare rights movement was an interracial protest movement of poor women on AFDC who demanded reform of welfare policy, greater respect and dignity, and financial support to properly raise and care for...


Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling

by Wayne Martino & Goli Rezai-Rashti

This book provides an illuminating account of teachers' own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns...


Staging the New Berlin

by Claire Colomb

This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of 'urban reinvention' in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban...


A Normative Theory of the Information Society

by Alistair S. Duff

There is a clear need for a systematic, integrative, and rigorous normative theory of the information society. In this book, Duff offers a prescriptive theory to help to guide the academic and policy communities...


Ferry Tales

by Phillip Vannini

The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility, sense of place and time on the British Columbia coast. On the basis of almost 400 interviews with ferry passengers and...


Sticky Reputations

by Gary Alan Fine

Sticky Reputations focuses on reputational entrepreneurs and support groups shaping how we think of important figures, within a crucial period in American history - from the 1930s through the 1950s. Why are...