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This book explores the roles of civil society organisations engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community development and change. A key resource for researchers, policy makers, donors and NGO practitioners in international development, peacebuilding, civil society, politics, and international relations.

Based on the spatial perspective, this book takes the urban area of Xi'an, China, as the main research region and studies the balance of resource allocation, focusing on educational resources and school layout.

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.

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Japan, China, Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Northeast Asia. They contested and adopted many of the physical and rhetorical features of Old-World imperialism, mitigated by domestic political forces and deeply ingrained cultural and historical values.

This book presents a new childhood studies research program; namely Childhood Prism Research and offers unique childhood research contributions to the wider scholarly field. It will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students.

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 nexus, migration governance, diasporas, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, among others.

This volume focuses on the connection between ecological thought and the technological arts in Mexico to challenge assumptions that ecological thought is a domain exclusive to the arts of the Global North and reconceive it as an inventive nexus of materialist speculations into a global posthuman world.

This book turns to the intellectual discourses that have emerged from India and Latin America, two outposts of the Global South, on the themes of imperialism, sovereignty, development, and socio-economic, racial and caste inequalities.

This book explores Africa-EU relations within the African Continental Free Trade Area, both at regional levels and as a series of processes of socioeconomic and political interactions between various actors. The book will interest academics who specialise in International Relations, African Studies, Political Economy and Sociology.

The globally-important nature of wetland ecosystems has led to their increased protection and restoration as well as their use in engineered systems.

This book explores the complex relationship between urban space and displacement in Turkey. It evaluates how the displacement of people and cultures has affected the spatiotemporal landscapes of the nation at different periods of contemporary Turkey.

As the world falls apart around them, piece by piece, Abigail Fuller spends humanity's final days looking after her husband David.But that's not true, not really. Abigail isn't David's wife. She's not even human. She's a replacement, built in the image of the real Abigail, who died sixteen years ago.And in three weeks, when the law changes, Abigail will no longer have to do anything David says. She'll be free to go where she likes, do whatever she wants to do. But having never lived for herself, Abigail now faces profound questions about what she is, how she wants to live, and who she wants to love.Perhaps she should start with herself.Tender, powerful and thought-provoking, Some Body Like Me explores the boundaries of sexuality and the indefinable human capacity for love at the end of the world. Perfect for fans of Emily St John Mandel, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kaliane Bradley.

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing.

This book looks at the first longitudinal analysis of the Qazaqs in Mongolia and is a contribution to anthropological theories of economic & social inequalities & institutional change, useful for Cent. Asian Studies, Anthropology, Human Geography & Dev. Studies.

Taking the absence of discussion on transnationalism in South Asia as a crucial juncture as well as a point of intervention, this book intends to push the boundaries further by organizing a dialogue between the nation-state and many nationalisms and the emergent method of transnationalism.

Against Catastrophism explores catastrophism from multiple vantage points and considers the impact of ongoing crisis on individuals. By assessing the value of a constant barrage of information about catastrophes, the chapters explore how we can avoid endorsing a closed-off vision of the future and instead unlock possibilities.