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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 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations

By Conal McCarthy

Indigenous Museology examines the emergence of indigenising museologies in New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Canada. As the first international comparative study of museums and indigenous people, the book produces new knowledge about indigenous ways of knowing, doing and being that are…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Museums in Focus

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

Edited by Nancy Duxbury, W.F. Garrett-Petts, Alys Longley

Making space for imagination can shift research and community planning from a reflective stance to a "future forming" orientation and practice. Cultural mapping is an emerging discourse of collaborative, community-based inquiry and advocacy. This book looks at artistic approaches to cultural…

Hardback – 2018-08-31 
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Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity

Edited by Milford Bateman, Stephanie Blankenburg, Richard Kozul-Wright

In the mid-1980s the international development community helped launch what was to quickly become one of the most popular poverty reduction and local economic development policies of all time. Microcredit, the system of disbursing tiny micro-loans to the poor to help them to establish their own…

Paperback – 2018-08-28 
Routledge
Routledge Critical Development Studies

By Mady Schutzman

Radical Doubt investigates ethical play across a spectrum of performances, on and off the stage. In witty, recursive, personal, and propulsive prose, Mady Schutzman elaborates on the Joker System, conceived by Augusto Boal, best known for Theatre of the Oppressed. The Joker System is a…

Paperback – 2018-08-16 
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Edited by Sophia Labadi

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 – 2018-08-15 
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Routledge Studies in Culture and Development

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

Hardback – 2018-07-31 
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks

By Michael McDermott

Traditional valuation approaches are increasingly recognised as being insufficient to address the wicked valuation problems of the diverse peoples and groups that inhabit the globe from North, South, East to West. This book demonstrates the limitations of science and, in particular economics, as…

Hardback – 2018-07-16 
Routledge
Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series

By Tiina Kontinen

Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and empirical evidence to explore how development organisations learn or fail to learn from experience. Despite the overwhelming discourses of NGOs as learning organisations, little is known about the phenomenon…

Hardback – 2018-06-26 
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Routledge Explorations in Development Studies