Area Studies Products

By Emily Byrne Curtis

Chinese-Islamic studies have concentrated thus far on the arts of earlier periods with less attention paid to works from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). This book focuses on works of Chinese-Islamic art from the late seventeenth century to the present day and bring to the reader’s attention several…

Hardback – 2019-12-17 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Art History

Edited by Ina Kubbe, Aiysha Varraich

This book investigates the pervasive problem of corruption across the Middle East and North Africa. Drawing on the specifics of the local context, the book explores how corruption in the region is actuated through informal practices that coexist and work in parallel to formal institutions. When…

Hardback – 2019-12-17 
Routledge
Routledge Corruption and Anti-Corruption Studies

Edited by Richard A. Sikora, Eugene R. Terry, Paul L.G. Vlek, Joyce Chitja

This book provides a synthesis of the key issues and challenges facing agriculture and food production in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is facing numerous challenges from diverse issues such as agricultural transformations, growing populations, urbanization and climate change. These challenges…

Hardback – 2019-12-18 
Routledge
Earthscan Food and Agriculture

Edited by Jing Men, Simon Schunz, Duncan Freeman

This book closely scrutinizes the individual and collective roles played by China, the EU and the USA in contemporary world politics. Examining the three actors’ respective strategic and policy positions on and behaviour towards the flux of the contemporary global order, the analysis focuses on…

Hardback – 2019-12-18 
Routledge
Routledge Studies on Comparative Asian Politics

By Leonor de Oliveira

This book centres on four Portuguese artists’ journeys between Portugal and Britain and aims at rethinking the cultural and artistic interactions in the post-war Europe, the shaping of new identities within a context of creative experimentalism and transnational dynamics and the artistic responses…

Hardback – 2019-12-18 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Art History

Edited by Knut Dørum

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role Nordic countries have played as exporters and importers of gender equality policies, and of how Europeanisation has framed the development and harmonisation of legislation and politics between the countries, with global consequences. The…

Hardback – 2019-12-18 
Routledge
Global Gender

By Pablo Holwitt

This book interrogates contemporary processes of neoliberal urban renewal in the Global South by studying the model of chawl-redevelopment in Mumbai, India. The model of chawl-redevelopment is used to address questions surrounding contemporary urban renewal. Focusing on attempts to redevelop Mumbai…

Hardback – 2019-12-19 
Routledge

By Anna Lavizzari

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Italy among political activists of the LGBTIQ movement and the traditionalist movement during the “anti-gender” campaign, this book provides a dynamic picture of their sustained interactions. Through an analysis of the contentious strategies, discourses, and…

Hardback – 2019-12-19 
Routledge
The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture

By Charles C.L. Kwong

The remarkable transformation of the Chinese economy in terms of its structure and growth has drawn unprecedented attention from academics, policy makers and businessmen alike. In the past four decades, China swiftly transformed from a centrally-planned to a market-oriented economy, with an…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary China Series

Edited by John Dixon, Dennis P. Garrity, Jean-Marc Boffa, Timothy O. Williams, Tilahun Amede, Christopher Auricht, Rosemary Lott, George Mburathi

Knowledge of Africa’s complex farming systems, set in their socio-economic and environmental context, is an essential ingredient to developing effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security. This book systematically and comprehensively describes the characteristics, trends, drivers…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge
Earthscan Food and Agriculture

By Sarah Buschfeld

Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology, this book investigates children’s acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual Singapore, one of the traditional Kachruvian Outer Circle or ESL countries. The book investigates language choice, use, and…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in World Englishes

By Aragorn Quinn

Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan sheds new light on the adoption of concepts that motivated political theatres of resistance for nearly a century and even now underpin the collective understanding of the Japanese nation. Grounded in the aftermath of the Meiji Restoration…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia