New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism
This collection presents new research on the history of anarchist movements and revolutionary syndicalism in Europe. It revisits national histories through transnational perspectives, exploring cross-border interactions and the fascinating itineraries of individual activists.
Language and Politics in Africa
This collection offers critical perspectives on the interface of Language and Politics in post-colonial African countries. Exploring both the politics of language and the language of politics, this volume is a must-read for interested scholars and students.
Irish Studies in Britain
These essays explore how religious and political identity shaped Irish experiences from the 17th to 20th centuries. The collection examines key historical events and literary responses, addressing themes of national identity, culture, and literary influence.
Religion raises hard questions. This volume challenges the easy answers about the separation of church and state, the science-versus-religion dichotomy, and attacks on God, inviting us to review our presuppositions as we reflect on the future of religion.
Divine Sounds from the Heart—Singing Unfettered in their Own Voices
In a world dominated by male voices, medieval women saints embraced bhakti (devotion) as a form of resistance. They questioned society, family, and relationships, rejecting patriarchal control and finding their own voices by reimagining God as a lover, a husband, and a friend.
Mother-Texts
Patriarchy has worked to silence women’s dialogue, creating unrepresentative maternal narratives. This book’s valuable research gives recognition to mothers as they speak up, developing a literature in their own language and claiming maternal knowledge and power.
Decentralised Governance in Tribal India
This book studies tribal participation in Panchayat Raj since the PESA Act. Through field study, it explores the link between Democracy, Decentralisation, and Development, questioning whether real power has been devolved from Lok Sabha to Gram Sabha.
A unique comparative study of US & UK politics, blending personal accounts with sharp analysis. It tackles the era’s defining issues, from the Clinton-Obama healthcare debate to the economic crisis, Climategate, and the 2010 UK election.
Concerning Peace
Is utopian peace a failed ideal, or an omnipresent reality? This collection of essays investigates these questions through concrete examples from metaphysics, politics, history, and culture. For anyone who refuses to accept the world as it is.
Blood on the Page
In fourteen unprecedented interviews, the first authors to publish fiction on HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe discuss their ground-breaking work. They give voice to silence and humanize an epidemic otherwise unimaginable statistically.
Ranked Set Sampling has numerous advantages over classical sampling techniques. This volume of reviewed essays is a reference book for postgraduate students in economics, social, medical, biological sciences, and statistics. The subject is a hot topic for dissertations.
Modernising Agrifood Chains in China
China faces major challenges in agricultural development. While it seeks to fast-track high-value agrifood chains, this book’s case study finds a more viable and inclusive strategy is to incrementally develop mid-value chains through facilitative policies.
French Orientalism
This volume challenges the canonic approach to French Orientalism. Broadening the scope of enquiry from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, it uses new theoretical perspectives to question, subvert, and resituate canonic theories and their global consequences.
Femininity, Feminism and Gendered Discourse
International experts present cutting edge research on language and gender. This collection explores femininity, feminism, and gendered discourse, analyzing how we perform and negotiate our identities in diverse cultural and linguistic contexts.
Business Process Reengineering
Master Business Process Reengineering. This practical guide provides expert strategies and the unique Sturdy BPR Matrix to implement real-world change and achieve your business objectives.
Why study Pound and Eliot as Imagists when one left the movement and the other never belonged? To explore their shared premium on precision for opposite ends. Pound plied accuracy to carve distinctions, while Eliot used it to intuit a divine amalgamation.
Cuisine and Symbolic Capital
This collection of essays examines food in international film and literature, exploring how making, eating, and thinking about food reveals culture, mediates social relationships, and shapes cultural identity.
Le mensonge
This collection of essays considers the political, social, and artistic impact of the dichotomy of truth and lies in French culture. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines, this work is of great relevance to students and researchers alike.
Classrooms and Playgrounds
Mapping primary education in Kerala, South-West India, this book offers fresh insights. It argues schooling is a set of cultural practices that cannot be reduced to teaching prescribed texts, but is a practice that shapes our everyday lives.
Tracking the Mobility of Crime
This study introduces a new approach to examining sub-county geographies of crime. Using Census data and spatial statistics, it identifies significant processes in the spatial mobility and spread of criminal activity, extending methods of analysis.
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