Forthcoming Area Studies Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Reconfiguring Ethiopia: The Politics of Authoritarian Reform

   Edited by Jon Abbink, Tobias Hagmann

   This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and ethnic federalism in 1991. Decentralization, attempted democratization via ethno-national representation, and partial economic liberalization have...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

   Edited by K. Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake

   India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalisation by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the centre of the world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together...

   To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism

   West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders

   By Hannah Cross

   Series: Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration

   People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain...

   To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Rewriting the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean

   Beyond Disciplinary and National Boundaries

   Edited by Robert Adams Jr.

   This volume considers the African Diaspora through the underexplored Afro-Latino experience in the Caribbean and South America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches such as feminism and Atlantic studies, the authors explore the production of historical and contemporary identities and...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film

   Cinema Year Zero

   By Giuliana Minghelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Russia and the World

   The Internal-External Nexus

   Edited by Natasha Kuhrt

   Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

   This volume brings together analyses of key domestic, foreign and security policy issues during the Putin and Medvedev administrations. Indeed, the chapters demonstrate the extent to which domestic and foreign policy issues are inextricably linked, in particular in the domain of security, whether '...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. Writing Academic Texts Differently

   Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing

   Edited by Nina Lykke

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   This co-authored volume explores multiple links between academic and creative writing practices and writing methodologies from feminist and intersectional perspectives. It discusses what it means for academic writing processes to consciously write in and from intersectional in-between spaces...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Islamic Political and Social Movements

   Edited by Barry Rubin

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   The growing importance of Islam in the world coincides with the growing interest by scholars in understanding Islam as a religion and its political and social influences. The geographic scope of Islam goes far beyond the Middle East, ranging from the Far East to sub-Saharan Africa.There is a vast...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. My New Gender Workbook

   A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity, 2nd Edition

   By Kate Bornstein

   "My Gender Workbook may take a leap of faith to crack open, but the charm, wit, and quiet intelligence of its author will almost undoubtedly keep you along for the whole trip. And it is a trip, let me tell you." —The Toronto Star Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Post-Communist Poland – Contested Pasts and Future Identities

    By Ewa Ochman

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

    This book explores the reinterpretations of Poland’s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting...

    To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge