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41. State-centric to Contested Social Governance in Korea

    Shifting Power

    By Hyuk-Rae Kim

    Series: Routledge Studies on Modern Korea

    In this interdisciplinary study of governance, Hyuk-Rae Kim traces how civil society and NGOs have evolved over time, how they differ in motivation from their Western counterparts, and the role civil society NGOs have played in consolidating democracy as the governance system in Korea changes from...

    Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
42. Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism

    The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com

    By Betty Kaklamanidou

    Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

    The romantic comedy has long been regarded as an inferior film genre by critics and scholars alike, accused of maintaining a strict narrative formula which is considered superficial and highly predictable. However, the genre has resisted the negative scholarly and critical comments and for the last...

    Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
43. The Transgender Studies Reader 1&2 BUNDLE

    Edited by Susan Stryker, Aren Z. Aizura

    Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a dynamic field of interdisciplinary scholarship. First collected in Routledge's own The Transgender Studies Reader in 2006, the field has moved on, rapidly expanding in many directions. The Transgender Studies Reader 2 gathers these...

    Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
44. Rethinking Law as Process

    Creativity, Novelty, Change

    By James MacLean

    Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from 'process philosophy' in order to rethink the nature of legal decision-making. While there have been significant developments in the application of ‘process’ thought across a number of disciplines, little notice has been taken of Whiteheadian...

    Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
45. Bio-Privacy

    Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics

    By Nancy Liu

    Bio-Privacy: Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics provides an in-depth consideration of the legal issues posed by the use of biometric technology. Focusing particularly on the relationship between the use of this technology and the protection of privacy, this book draws on material...

    Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
46. Rethinking Agency

    Developmentalism, Gender and Rights

    By Sumi Madhok

    This book proposes a new theoretical framework for agency thinking by examining the ethical, discursive and practical engagements of a group of women development workers in north-west India with developmentalism and individual rights. Rethinking Agency asks an underexplored question, tracks the...

    Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
47. Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India

    Edited by Padma Bhate-Deosthali, Sangeeta Rege, Padma Prakash

    Mainstream counselling in domestic violence often fails to address critical issues, such as gender socialisation processes and the abuse of power that allows violence against women, and focuses primarily on the intra-psychic nature of individual women. In contrast, feminist counselling is an...

    Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
48. Spirals of Contention

    Why India was Partitioned in 1947

    By Satish Saberwal

    This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It recognizes the long-term continuities in the idiom of conflict (as well as cooperation), and shows that, by 1900, the conflicts and animosities were gathering a...

    Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
49. Criminology

    2nd Edition

    By Tim Newburn

    Tim Newburn’s bestselling Criminology provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction for students of the subject, providing the basis for all undergraduate degree courses or modules, and for new postgraduates, in Criminology. This second edition includes: a complete update of...

    Published December 23rd 2012 by Routledge
50. The Virtual Transformation of the Public Sphere

    Knowledge, Politics, Identity

    Edited by Gaurav Desai

    Series: Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis

    This book explores how new media technologies such as e-mails, online forums, blogs and social networking sites have helped shape new forms of public spheres. Offering new readings of Jürgen Habermas’s notion of the public sphere, scholars from diverse disciplines interrogate the power and...

    Published December 23rd 2012 by Routledge India