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This book analyses regional expressions of the queer experience in texts available in the Indian vernacular languages. It studies queer autobiographies and literary and cinematic texts written on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues.

This book is an unconventional articulation of the political thinking in India in a refreshingly creative manner, in more than one way. Empirically, the book becomes innovative by providing an analytically more grasping contextual interpretation of...

This book continues the two scholars' endeavours for opening up more spaces for alternative perspectives, analyses and praxis in interculturality.

This book explores the emergence of "lifestyle" in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure of everyday life, and later as a pervasive form of media that encompasses a variety of domestic and...

As the first critical work on emergent Pakistani anglophone speculative fiction it explores the ways in which contemporary Pakistani authors seek a democratization of the speculative genre by incorporating djinn mythology, Quranic eschatology, "Desi"...

The second of two volumes, this book about the criminology of Carlo Morselli includes a diversity of contributions that study the social inter-dependence of criminal phenomena. It presents various studies on the importance and impact of social ties on...

This book is the first systematic study on the historiography of the family planning communication process in India. It traces the history of the development of a highly technical health communication process.

Representing an often overlooked population, this book explores the experiences of LGBTQ youth in Asian countries. Contributors focus on LGBTQ youth's school life experiences, including bullying and violence, a pervasive and serious problem.

This book engages with the concept "queer battle fatigue," which is the everyday exhaustion that LGBTQIA+ people and communities often experience from anti-queer norms and values. Contributors express how this concept is often experienced across spaces...

This book examines China's fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.

This Handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a single source on issues such as migration history, trends, migrant profiles, narratives, migration-development...

With the methodology of eye-tracking experiments, in-depth interviews and large-scale questionnaires across cities, this book provides a panoramic vision of digital reading and social interaction among the new generations in China.

This volume studies the intersection of capital and ecology primarily in one of the most sensitive geographies of the world, the Eastern Himalayan region.

The book focuses on international cultural relations dealing with cultural heritage in terms of heritage diplomacy. The contributors discuss the potentials and limitations of heritage diplomacy and how it could be approached in theory, policy, and praxis.

This book explores how China, and especially China's Belt and Road Initiative, is viewed in European media and by European think tanks, thereby indicating what European elites' views of China are.

This book analyses the main events and turning points in the building of pre- and post-independent South Sudan. It covers the historical perspectives of the country, its political, mediation and negotiation issues, peace and security, socio-economic...

Through discourse analysis and historical comparison of "Pernicious Vestiges" (Yí Dú/遗毒) narrative in the news text of People's Daily, this book is devoted to revealing its primary metaphors and political functions in China.

This book addresses important issues of ageing and spirituality and reflects on the impact of culture on both constructs. It includes excerpts of cultural impact on spirituality from New Zealand, Singapore, India, United Kingdom, Australia and the United...

This book explores flood disasters, their impact in the world and the Indian context, assessing vulnerability and risks involved, and systematic use of GIS-enabled platforms to map mitigation measures sustainably, with special reference to the...

As the first volume of a two-volume set on new media users in China, this book approaches the subject from a macro level by regarding users as constructive nodes within networks, thereby giving insights into the interaction between users and new media...

This interdisciplinary book represents the attempt at unpacking the legacy of modern ideas of race initiated and established during the conquest of the Americas and its contemporary implications for literary criticism of ethnic writing, also known as...

This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien's legacy in Central Europe. The chapters move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation, and...

This book is a collection of essays by prominent thinkers on the historist and humanist transcendence of the caste system such that an authentic democracy can bloom in India. It locates caste as not only a social problem, but a moral evil and...

This volume investigates mediated lives and media narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on Asia. It shows how the pandemic has created an unprecedented situation in this globalized world marked by many disruptions in the social, economic,...

Is There Such a Thing as Populism? calls into question our understanding of populism, and addresses key theoretical, methodological, and comparative questions within populism. Five subject experts react to Arditi's theses in conversations on studying...

Radical Mindfulness examines the root causes of injustice, asking why inequalities along the lines of race, class, gender, and species continue to exist. Specifically, James K. Rowe examines fear of death as a root cause of systemic inequalities and...

This book sheds light on the issues of structural violence perpetrated against the tribes and analyzes the infringement of human rights of the tribes in the neo-liberal hegemonic context - induced displacement and dispossession of livelihood.

Positing the washroom as an onto-epistemological site which exemplifies the way in which school spaces govern how gender is experienced, normalized, and understood by youth, this text illustrates how current school policies and practices around bathrooms...

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil,...

This book is one of the rare collections where black magic, occult practices and witchcraft are recorded and academically analyzed.

This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India. It looks at the interactive spaces where the religious practices of tribes and other communities have changed and adapted through the years in contemporary India.

Tribal societies in India observe a diverse set of religious practices which are a quintessential part of their community life. This handbook explores rituals, beliefs, liturgy, knowledge and traditions that tribal people practice today and traces the...

This book explores contemporary debates on decolonisation and indigenisation of social work in Africa and provides readers with alternative models, values, and epistemologies for reimagining social work practice and education that can be applicable to a...

This book is an attempt to present the inside story of the Telangana movement that developed due to historical reasons.

In the time of agrarian crisis and movement, Remembering India's Villages centralises the rural India-examining its stubborn past and dynamic present.

This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative knowledge systems and epistemes. This book will of interest to those researchers and scholars interested in...

This book is the first empirical study of police discretion in India. Going beyond anecdotal accounts, it addresses the issues and concerns of arrest discretion behaviour of police with analysis of available literature internationally, testing the...

This book characterises the problematic status of motherhood in present-day Iranian society - that is, problem in the Foucauldian sense of an object of thought and a source of tension, not as a pathological issue - and explains the historical processes...

This book traces the contribution of Punjabis born before the Partition of India in 1947 to Indian cinema. It examines the story of their contributions at three centres of Hindustani-language films: Bombay, Calcutta and Lahore.

This book chronicles the discernible strains on the questions of indegeneity, citizenship, identity, and border making in the Northeast India.

This book not only aims at highlighting existing inequalities between men and women, but also their efforts to overcome these challenges, especially so in women belonging to marginalized communities.

In Disaster Memorials and Monuments: History, Context and Practice from around the World, disaster management expert Kjell Brataas presents an exploration on memorials and monuments built in the aftermath of accidents, natural disasters and acts of...

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and the challenges of achieving lasting change.

Pornography's impact on transnational models of media aesthetics and governance have been well documented from a Euro-American perspective. This book contributes to the field of pornography studies by rethinking the cultural impact of pornography as...

Bringing new research from true crime writers, scholars, and media practitioners around the world, this book offers fresh perspectives on how women read, write, and are portrayed in true crime stories across different platforms, including documentaries,...

This volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities. It focuses on the role of globalization, transitioning economic patterns, National Urban policies in changing their urban landscape.

Analysing the representation of youth crime and justice-involved children in popular fictional films, this book explores how what we see on screen contributes to the perceptions of youth justice in society, policy and practice.

This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin.