This authoritative but concise guide describes the most significant cultural theories of the 20th and 21st centuries theories and their originators, as well as the links between them and their mutual influences. Exploring ideas around what culture is, why cultures change over time, and whether…
Paperback – 2019-07-18
Routledge
The Cultural Turn in International Aid is one of the first volumes to analyse a wide and comprehensive range of issues related to culture and international aid in a critical and constructive manner. Assessing why international aid is provided for cultural projects, rather than for other causes…
Hardback – 2019-06-15
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Culture and Development
Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities. Drawing on the findings of an ambitious five-year, 15-project research programme supported by Canada’s…
Hardback – 2019-06-11
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Cities and Development
Heritage and Sustainable Urban Transformations introduces the concept of ‘deep cities’, a novel approach to the understanding and management of sustainable historic cities that will advance knowledge about how the long-term, temporal and transformative character of urban heritage can be better…
Hardback – 2019-05-31
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Heritage
Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role of public housing; the problem of homelessness; the ways that housing accentuates…
Paperback – 2019-05-31
Routledge
Explorations in Housing Studies
Corruption, crime, economic inequality, religious fundamentalism, financial crises, environmental degradation, population ageing, gender inequality, large-scale migration… This book tackles many of the most pressing problems facing societies today. The authors demonstrate that similar social…
Paperback – 2019-05-27
Routledge
This comprehensive workbook is designed to facilitate students' understanding and application of major concepts and principles of culture and psychology. This fully updated new edition features over 100 case studies, self-administered scales, mini-experiments, and library research projects,…
Paperback – 2019-05-23
Routledge
This book frames the major debates and contemporary issues in women’s and gender studies in India. It locates them in the context of key theories, their interlinkages, and significant crossings and overlaps within the field while juxtaposing feminist and queer perspectives. The essays in the…
Paperback – 2019-05-23
Routledge India
Underwater Cultural Heritage investigates cases of underwater cultural heritage, exploring ethical issues that have never been studied before. A vast cultural heritage lies beneath the sea, including the archaeological remains of more than three million vessels, as well as historic monuments and…
Hardback – 2019-05-07
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Routledge Studies in Heritage
This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial, and contemporary South Asia. Bringing together contributions by eminent artists, architects, curators, and scholars who explore the connections between the environmental and…
Hardback – 2019-04-30
Routledge India
Visual and Media Histories
This volume is a cross-cultural study of the evolution of civilisation. Drawing its material and inspiration from literature and culture, it looks at the achievements of humankind as a single imaginative experience. The book examines how traditions of poetry and literature have shaped cultures,…
Hardback – 2019-04-30
Routledge India
Teenage pregnancy is seen as a problem by researchers and policy makers alike all over the world, but particularly so in the context of developing countries. Here, it is seen as an obstacle to personal and national development, exacerbating the gender gap in education, and placing an additional…
Hardback – 2019-04-30
Routledge
Routledge ISS Gender, Sexuality and Development Studies