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This book looks back over the last forty years of change and development in Ecuador, showing how macro level changes have impacted families and workplaces on the local level.
Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan, sheds new light on the adoption of concepts which motivated political theatres of resistance for nearly a century and even now underpin the collective understanding of the Japanese nation.
This book offers a new approach to environmental problems. Bringing the tools of Bourdieu’s field sociology to bear on a moment of... Læs mere
This book conducts analysis on China’s advantageous surplus capacity of various industries and measures for optimizing... Læs mere
This handbook provides a cutting edge and comprehensive overview of the contemporary Persian Gulf. It includes sections on history, economic development, domestic and regional politics, security, society and culture and international relations.
Drawing on Iran’s history and its relations with great powers and regional neighbours, this book addresses the question of how much continuity and/or change there is in Iranian international relations since the Iranian revolution.
This book takes the reader a tour of the cruise industry, particularly in the Caribbean, exploring its history and growth. It explores the relative costs and benefits of cruise tourism and the fundamental economic, political, and environmental dilemmas for the industry.
This book examines the politics and economics of infrastructure development in Nigeria from Independence in 1960 to 2015 and the role of good governance in promoting the socioeconomic well-being of citizens.
This book presents interdisciplinary scholarship on art and visual culture that explores disability in terms of lived experience. It will expand critical disability studies scholarship on representation and embodiment, which is theoretically rich, but lacking in attention to art.
This book deals with the representation of the Partition of India — the experience of trauma and violence — through fiction, literary motifs and narratives, and shows that in examining the nature of such testimony through history, cultural memory has a significant role to play.
This book gauges the competitive edge of French banks, their struggle with British domination and their resistance against competitors. Essential reading for those interested in banking history and the contemporary history of China and Hong Kong.
This book explores the character of the new Turkey, assessing its foreign policy options and interpreting the significance of those choices for the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe, and the United States.