Area Studies Products

Edited by M. Amarjeet Singh, Komol Singha

This volume explores the dynamics of urbanisation in Northeast India. It discusses the impact of the process of urbanisation on the environment, infrastructure and socio-economic conditions of the region. The essays in the book: Examine various challenges and opportunities of urbanisation…

Hardback – 2020-04-28 
Routledge India

By Hans Reihling

Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa explores how different masculinities modulate substance use, interpersonal violence, suicidality, and AIDS as well as recovery cross-culturally. With a focus on three male protagonists living in very distinct urban areas of Cape Town, this…

Hardback – 2020-04-24 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology

By Mohamed A.M. Ismail

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the law surrounding PPPs in the Middle East and North African region. The significance of liberalised and integrated Public Private Partnership Contracts as an essential component of the world legal and policy order is well documented. The regulation…

Hardback – 2020-04-22 
Routledge
Routledge Research in International Law

Edited by Berny Sèbe, Matthew G. Stanard

Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas and socio-cultural practices across continents but…

Hardback – 2020-04-22 
Routledge
Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000

By Albert Alhadeff

This book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Géricault’s depiction of black people, his…

Hardback – 2020-04-22 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Art and Race

By Shoma Munshi

This book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television. An anthropological insight into social issues and practices of contemporary India through the television, this volume analyses the production of soaps within India’s cultural fabric. It deconstructs themes and issues…

Hardback – 2020-04-21 
Routledge India

By Radoslaw Kossakowski, Przemyslaw Nosal, Wojciech Wozniak

Football fans and football culture represent a unique prism through which to view contemporary society and politics. Based on in-depth empirical research into football in Poland, this book examines how fans develop political identities and how those identities can influence the wider political…

Hardback – 2020-04-20 
Routledge
Critical Research in Football

Edited by Shamim Samani, Dora Marinova

This book explores the changing role of Muslim women in the economy in the twenty first century. Sociological developments such as secular education, female-focused policies, national and global commitments to gender equality as well as contemporary technological advances have all served to shift…

Hardback – 2020-04-17 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Religion and Development

By Cesar A Cruz

This book follows Henry Klumb’s life in architecture from Cologne, Germany to Puerto Rico. Arriving on the island, Klumb was a one-time German immigrant, a moderately successful designer, and previously a senior draftsman with Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the next forty years Klumb would emerge as…

Hardback – 2020-04-16 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Architecture

Edited by Katrina Lee-Koo, Lesley Pruitt

Through a range of case studies in Asia and the Pacific, this edited collection highlights the extent of the unique ways in which young women lead to create change in their own lives and their communities, as well as in the structures, cultures and institutions in which they live and work. This…

Hardback – 2020-04-16 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics

By Karine Côté-Boucher

How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "police of the border"? This book tells the story of the shift to law enforcement in Canadian border control. From the 1990s onward, it traces the transformation of a customs organization into a border policing agency. Border…

Hardback – 2020-04-15 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship

By Bernice Maxton-Lee

Despite carefully-constructed conservation interventions deforestation in Indonesia is not being stopped. This book identifies why large-scale international forest conservation has failed to reduce deforestation in Indonesia and considers why key stakeholders have not responded as expected to these…

Hardback – 2020-04-15 
Routledge
The Earthscan Forest Library