Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Authored by emerging African scholars, this book challenges Western notions of ‘progress’ and the view of Africa as a basket case. It rethinks predominant ideas on development, examining the challenges and possibilities of Africa’s sustainable future.
The papers in this collection deal with the quest for real and virtual realities of vision and other senses, and realities that are either constructed or imagined. They investigate semiotics, a discipline dealing with signs, focusing on the question of whether it actually exists.
This publication brings together original scientific studies on current economic and developmental issues in the Balkan region, analysing the area from a variety of perspectives, including tourism, regional trade, European integration policies, and import-export policies.
Food Security and Food Production
India’s food security depends on its ecological foundation, which is threatened by competition for water and land. This book addresses the critical institutional challenges and offers insights into the changes needed to ensure food security for the nation.
Growing Democracy in Africa
This edited collection critically examines the record on democratization in Africa thus far, questioning the state of governance in sub-Saharan Africa, and seeks a new, integrated, focused approach to the study of governance.
Containing chapters from both Turkish- and Greek-Cypriots, as well as outside scholars, this volume explores the difficulty of producing viable constitutional and civic arrangements in an ethnically-divided polity.
The field of peace and conflict studies is rich in tradition and ripe with innovation. This volume captures both, demonstrating how scholars and activists use the knowledge of their forebears to address new issues and create a more just and humane world.
The Trajectory of India’s Middle Class
This volume examines the role of India’s middle class not merely as an economic phenomenon, but as a key player in social and political change. It investigates the class’s complex relationship with the state, the market, and marginalized groups.
Resilient Territories
As recent crises challenge territories, what makes them resilient? This book advances the scientific agenda on regional resilience, innovation, and creativity, informing policy-makers about new modes of development for adapting to external shocks.
Civilian Conflict Management
This book explores scenario building as a tool to prevent electoral violence. By tackling the structural roots of conflict, it offers a coherent strategy for achieving sustainable peace, appealing to practitioners in peacebuilding, governance, and elections.
Scale, Governance and Change in Zambezi Teak Forests
This monograph provides an in-depth examination of the Zambezi Teak forests of western Zambia which have been exploited for their timber for over 80 years, providing unique insights into problems around land use and governance in south-central Africa.
New narratives are produced from what was once overlooked as mundane. Decades ago, historian Fernand Braudel called for more research into everyday life. This volume is a response to that call for more synthesis, analysis, discussion, and extension.
The contributions here inform continuing debates concerning the role of ICT in developing communities on the wrong side of all technical and social divides in human societies.
This collection of essays offers a multidisciplinary exploration of the intertwined relationships between addiction, culture, and performance, moving beyond single-discipline approaches to generate a more complex, politicised understanding of addiction.
The End of Meaning
Our long romance with catastrophe is a search for elusive truth. From classical Greece to contemporary America, The End of Meaning demonstrates that catastrophe has always been generic. This book asks: what if meaning itself is a catastrophe?
This edited volume explores cross-curricular learning and teaching, promoting the integration of knowledge and skills from various subject areas. Themes include Intercultural Education, CLIL, and ICT. For scholars and educators wishing to improve their practices.
Geography of Crime in China since the Economic Reform of 1978
China’s economic upsurge presents a two-edged sword: more challenging crime problems. This book analyzes Chinese criminal issues from a geographic perspective, testing Western theories in Shenzhen city to provide a systematic overview of the nation’s crime.
Readings in Oriental Literature
This collection of essays is a fresh, lucid, and scholarly exploration of Oriental literature. It connects topics from the Arabian Nights to Coleridge and Tagore, while avoiding jargon to remain accessible for specialists and non-specialist readers alike.
Sustainable Alternatives for Poverty Reduction and Eco-Justice
This book presents papers on sustainable alternatives for poverty reduction and ecological justice. Covering themes of climate change, green economy, and human rights, it offers a new perspective on the diversity of approaches to sustainable development.
Bridges between Cultures
Centred on the metaphor of bridges and knots, the essays here discuss the dialogic and dialectical relationships between distant and socially dissimilar cultures. They address possible juxtapositions and intersections of spatial and temporal dimensions between lands and cultures.