E-books: Geography

By Patrick M. Boyle

First published in 1999, this study of the politics of education in Cameroon, the Congo and Kenya presents arresting empirical evidence that urban elites exiting public sector educational systems they have dominated in favour of private school networks of their own creation. Seeking to enhance…

eBook – 2018-10-26
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

Edited by Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva

Published in 1998, this volume presents legal, religious and demographic aspects of the transfer of European family organisations to new environments in the overseas colonies, and illustrates the impacts of contact with other ethnic groups. In Africa the focus is on the Cape, the principal area of…

eBook – 2018-10-26
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Andrew E. Collins

First published in 1998, this book contributes to our understanding of emergent and resurgent infectious diseases and health ecology in developing areas through detailed spatial and temporal analysis of recent cholera and bacillary dysentery epidemics in Mozambique. The book examines the influence…

eBook – 2018-10-26
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Robin Barlow, Joseph W. Brown

First published in 1998, this book covers a variety of health issues in the contemporary Middle east. Its thirteen chapters, contributed by a total of 23 authors and co-authors, reflect several different disciplines relevant for health studies, including epidemiology, economics and anthropology. In…

eBook – 2018-10-26
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Robert Coles

Originally published in 1999 Black Writers Abroad puts forward the theory that African American literature was born, partially within the context of a people and its writers who lived, for the most part, in slavery and bondage prior to the Civil War. It is an in-depth study of black American…

eBook – 2018-10-26
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: African American Literature

By Lynda Johnston

Transgender, gender variant and intersex people are in every sector of all societies, yet little is known about their relationship to place. Using a trans, feminist and queer geographical framework, this book invites readers to consider the complex relationship between transgender people, spaces…

eBook – 2018-10-25
Routledge
Gender, Space and Society

By Anoma Pieris

Analyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983–2009) overwhelmingly represent it as an ethnonationalist contest, prolonging postcolonial arguments on the creation and dissolution of the incipient nation-state since independence in 1948. While colonial divide-and-rule policies, the rise of…

eBook – 2018-10-25
Routledge
Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series

Edited by Greg Halseth, Sean Markey, Laura Ryser

Access to quality services and community infrastructure are vital parts of supporting sustainable and resilient rural and small town places. Renewing outdated infrastructure and supporting the delivery of services in rural communities present significant challenges from the constrained fiscal and…

eBook – 2018-10-25
Routledge
Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning

Edited by Joyce D'Silva, Carol McKenna

Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiversity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction. This powerful book examines the massive global impact caused by intensive livestock production and then explores solutions, ranging from moving to agroecological farming…

eBook – 2018-10-25
Routledge
Earthscan Food and Agriculture

Edited by Andrew Linzey, Clair Linzey

The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most significant movements of our age. In terms of our relations with animals, it is difficult to think of a more urgent moral problem than the fate of billions of animals killed every year for human consumption. This book…

eBook – 2018-10-25
Routledge

Edited by Ole B. Jensen, Sven Kesselring, Mimi Sheller

The new ‘mobilities turn’ has become a powerful perspective in social theory. John Urry’s oeuvre has been very influential in the emergence of this new field and has had lasting impacts on many scholars. This collection presents originally commissioned essays from leading scholars in the field who…

eBook – 2018-10-25
Routledge

Edited by Anssi Paasi, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Jarkko Saarinen, Kaj Zimmerbauer

The optimism heralded by the end of the Cold War and the idea of an emerging borderless world was soon shadowed by conflicts, wars, terrorism, and new border walls. Migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees have simultaneously become key political figures. Border and mobility studies are now two sides…

eBook – 2018-10-25
Routledge
Border Regions Series