The aim of this book is to highlight the role that gender research can play in understanding natural resource management and rural development issues in the Middle East and North Africa region and how hands-on training and mentoring can be used as a capacity enhancement approach…
Paperback – 2019-01-08
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For whom and why are borders drawn? What are the symbolic projections of these physical realities? And what are the symbolic projections of these physical realities? Constituted by experience and memory, borders shape a "border image" in the minds and social memory of people beyond the lines of the…
Paperback – 2018-12-12
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Border Regions Series
Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route. Yet, even if various studies have informed us about present-day realities of travel companionships, we know little about the influence of gender both on these…
Hardback – 2018-12-06
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Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
The sites, spaces and subjects of reproduction are distinctly geographical. Reproductive geographies span different scales - bodily, home, local, national, global - and movements across space. This book expands our understanding of the socio-cultural and spatial aspects of fertility, pregnancy and…
Hardback – 2018-11-13
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Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
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…
Paperback – 2018-10-30
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Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change. This book addresses this absence by investigating the structure of women’s livelihoods and coping capacity in a disaster vulnerable coastal area of Bangladesh. The research findings suggest…
Hardback – 2018-10-22
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Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism examines the strange confluence between academic feminism, and feminism’s other life as a concrete, global political movement. Over 50 original essays address the sociopolitical and the interdisciplinary academic dimensions of contemporary feminism,…
Hardback – 2018-08-30
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Routledge International Handbooks
This compelling book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls’ and women’s education in the global South. To unravel the critical issues and processes behind educational advancement and to identify the factors that support the construction of educational well-being and agency from gender…
Paperback – 2018-06-14
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Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
The places of our daily life affect our health, well-being, and receipt of health care in complex ways. The connection between health and place has been acknowledged for centuries, and the contemporary discipline of health geography sets as its core mission to uncover and explicate all facets of…
Hardback – 2018-06-11
Routledge
This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the ‘roving colonialism’ of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies in postcolonial and settler colonial contexts—the Olympics in Vancouver, London and Sochi and soccer fans in the Egyptian revolution—the book…
Paperback – 2018-06-08
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Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems. The scope of the book is both local and…
Paperback – 2018-04-10
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Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily life from a gendered perspective, this book considers how changes in these practices in a particular border region, between Belarus and Lithuania, have…
Paperback – 2018-02-12
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Border Regions Series