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By Kalyan Bhandari

There has been increased interest in the role and impact of tourism in the making of a ‘nation’ and the way it interacts with various social institutions and processes. This book explores the role of tourism in the expression of nationalism in Nepal. It considers how various touristic sites, icons,…

Hardback – 2018-12-15 
Routledge

Edited by Laura Grindstaff, John R. Hall, Ming-cheng Lo

The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the　Handbook of Cultural Sociology　provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the world, the…

Hardback – 2018-11-07 
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks

By Jeff Garmany, Anthony W. Pereira

Brazil has famously been dubbed a country of contradictions, or even of bipolarity. To people on the outside looking in, it can be puzzling that a country can champion freedom so fiercely in an environment of political repression and mass incarceration, emphasise national unity despite massive…

Paperback – 2018-10-31 
Routledge

Edited by Cornelius Holtorf, Andreas Pantazatos, Geoffrey Scarre

Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the contemporary world of mass migration, where people encounter new cultural heritage and relocate their own. It focuses particularly on…

Paperback – 2018-10-17 
Routledge

By Sundhya Pahuja

This book contests current approaches to law and development insofar as these depend upon two premises: first, that development is the means by which global human well-being is to be achieved; and, second that law – both domestic and international – may be used to affect that development. Asking…

Paperback – 2018-10-01 
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Critical Approaches to Law

By Arnold Groh

What is culture? Why do cultures change over time? Are there any discernible rules or principles behind culture-related phenomena and processes and, if so, what are they? Familiarity with the most significant cultural theories of the 20th and 21st centuries is vital for anyone studying or…

Paperback – 2018-10-01 
Routledge

Edited by Marilee Reimer

The unifying theme of this book is women’s employment success with the objective of profiling supportive public policy for women in global contexts from Atlantic Canada to Western Europe, Australia and China. It studies the example of first generation women’s careers in the Atlantic Canada region,…

Hardback – 2018-10-01 
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Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations

By Alf H. Walle

Indigenous, ethnic and rural peoples throughout the world struggle to effectively deal with the challenges triggered by outside economic and social intervention. This book presents business methods in a manner that reflects the needs, desires and priorities of indigenous peoples and provides the…

Hardback – 2018-10-01 
Routledge

By Muhammad Amjad Saqib, Aneeqa Malik

There are many misconceptions and concerns regarding Islamic Societies and how Muslim countries have failed to come up with their own localized solutions to socio-economic problems in dealing with poverty alleviation and societal development. This book explores why there is so much disconnect…

Hardback – 2018-09-28 
Routledge
Transformation and Innovation

Edited by Nicole Gombay, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha

Indigenous peoples are striving to reframe the worlds they inhabit in ways that more closely resemble their own aspirations. Such a process requires settler-colonial policies to recognize not only Indigenous peoples’ contestations of existing power relations, but also the inadequacy of their…

Hardback – 2018-09-24 
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Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics

By Sarah Forti

Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance provides a critical analysis of how frameworks of gender equality play out in the field of international development assistance, at theoretical, international legislative and policy levels, donor and national policy levels and…

Hardback – 2018-09-24 
Routledge
Routledge ISS Gender, Sexuality and Development Studies

By Jennifer Hendry, Melissa L Tatum

This book employs critical theory to investigate the different worldviews involved in an engagement with indigenous normativities, and to suggest practical solutions for overcoming the systemic inequalities between Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures. Drawing upon recent conceptualisations of ‘…

Hardback – 2018-09-01 
Routledge
Space, Materiality and the Normative