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41. China and Globalization

    The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society, 3rd Edition

    By Doug Guthrie

    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the...

    Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
42. Liminal Landscapes

    Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between

    Edited by Hazel Andrews, Les Roberts

    Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

    Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these...

    Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
43. Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts

    The Governance of the Global Value Chain

    Edited by Fiorenza Belussi, Alessia Sammarra

    Series: Regions and Cities

    During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. The analysis of clusters and IDs has often been limited,...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
44. Water Policy Processes in India

    Discourses of Power and Resistance

    By Vandana Asthana

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
45. Learning from the Japanese City

    Looking East in Urban Design, 2nd Edition

    By Barrie Shelton

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so. Like its cities, Japan’s written language is recognized as one of...

    Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge
46. Travel Connections

    Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World

    By Jennie Germann Molz

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Living in a world that is increasingly ‘on the move’ means that many of us now rely on mobile devices, social media, and networking technologies to coordinate togetherness with our social networks even when we are apart. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in the emerging practices of ‘...

    Published March 26th 2012 by Routledge
47. Population Geography: Progress & Prospect (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Michael Pacione

    First published in 1986, this book presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of knowledge in the field of population geography. It discusses the contemporary state of the art and surveys new research developments and new thinking in the major branches of the subject. It thereby...

    Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
48. Cities in Globalization

    Practices, Policies and Theories

    Edited by Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox

    Series: Questioning Cities

    Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
49. Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region

    The Donbas in Transition

    Edited by Adam Swain

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions. It shows how local interest groups have successfully frustrated the central government's and the World Bank's proposed...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
50. Universities, Innovation and the Economy

    By Helen Lawton-Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

    Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of experts, and knowledge innovation. While there is nothing new in universities’ links with industry, what is...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge