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1. Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond

   Contested Trajectories

   Edited by Madeleine Reeves

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   Central Asia is a region singularly marked by attempts to transform social life by transforming place. Drawing together established scholars and a new generation of historians, geographers and anthropologists, this volume brings empirical specificity and theoretical depth to debates about the...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
2. War and Revolution in the Caucasus

   Georgia Ablaze

   Edited by Stephen F. Jones

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   The South Caucasus has traditionally been a playground of contesting empires. This region, on the edge of Europe, is associated in Western minds with ethnic conflict and geopolitical struggles in August 2008. Yet, another war broke out in this distant European periphery as Russia and Georgia...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Political Civility in the Middle East

   Edited by Frederic Volpi

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   Contemporary debates about civility are shaped by the dominant liberal and secular narratives of a peaceful world of sovereign nation-states. For contemporary scholars and policy makers, the challenge is to insert meaningfully the political evolution of the Middle East in the dominant...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
4. Youth in the Former Soviet South

   Everyday Lives between Experimentation and Regulation

   Edited by Stefan Kirmse

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus. It brings together a range of academic perspectives, including media studies, Islamic studies, the sociology of youth, and social anthropology. While most discussions of youth...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. Market-Led Agrarian Reform

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay, Edward Lahiff

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   Three-fourths of the world’s poor are rural poor. Most of the rural poor remain dependent on land-based livelihoods for their incomes and reproduction despite significant livelihood diversification in recent years. Land issue remains critical to any development discourse today. Market-led agrarian...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. Renewing International Labour Studies

   Edited by Marcus Taylor

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands. Through a combination of...

   Published October 11th 2010 by Routledge
7. War, Peace and Progress in the 21st Century

   Development, Violence and Insecurity

   Edited by Mark Berger, Heloise Weber

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   The history of development is one marked by insecurities, violence, and persistent conflict. It is not surprising, therefore, that development is now thought of as one of the central challenges of world politics. However, its complexities are often overlooked in scholarly analysis and among policy...

   Published October 7th 2010 by Routledge
8. Globalisation and Migration

   New Issues, New Politics

   Edited by Ronaldo Munck

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective. It examines the current shifts in the global political economy and the effects it has, for example, in relation to rural displacement. When and how...

   Published August 14th 2010 by Routledge
9. Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Tulip Revolution’

   Motives, Mobilization and Meanings

   Edited by Sally Cummings

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   In early 2005 regional protests in Kyrgyzstan soon became national ones as protesters seized control of the country’s capital, Bishkek. The country’s president for fifteen years, Askar Akaev, fled the country and after a night of extensive looting, a new president, Kurmanbek Bakiev, came to power....

   Published October 22nd 2009 by Routledge
10. Connecting Cultures

    Edited by Emma Bainbridge

    Series: ThirdWorlds

    This lively and incisive collection of essays from an international group of scholars explores the interactions between cultures originating in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Europe. Those interactions have been both destructive and richly productive, and the consequences continue to 'trouble...

    Published March 17th 2009 by Routledge