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This original collection explores critically sporting practices, spaces and affiliations in order to understand issues around identity, (post-) migration, diaspora and transnationalism for global South Asian populations. The chapters provide a critical (re-) examination of the roles that sport plays within and in relation to South

The essays in this book powerfully investigate questions generated by the extraction, circulation, valuation, and technical manipulation of biological substances in South Asia in order to gain new insights into the meanings of humanness, life, value, and relationality in the region.This book was published as a special issue of Contemp

In most countries, whether secular or otherwise, education and religion are closely interlinked and no matter how hard the state tries, it can be very difficult to remove the ties between them. This book investigates the links between education, religion and politics. Education and Religion covers all the major religious traditions - Buddh

While addressing different facets of knowledge production and innovation processes, in sum, the chapters in this book provide an overview of the relevant topics in contemporary research concerned with the global and regional dynamics in knowledge flows and innovation networks.This book was published as a special issue of European Plan

South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Mouments have created, destroyed and resued by competing communities and incoming empires in the making of history, identity and memory. This collection interrogages the legacies and afterlives of the vast diversity of monuments (and conceptions of monuments) in South Asia from the 1850s

This volume explores the relationships between economic development and community development practice and research. It centers on the role that economic development plays in community structures and processes, as well as the influences and impacts it holds. This book is a compilation of articles published in the Journal of the Commun

Cooperatives are an alternative organizational structure for fostering collaborative process and outcomes in communities. Centered on the power of participation by members, coops serve as a "model" means for achieving desired goals and outcomes.This book is a compilation of articles published in the journal Community Development.

This edited collection formalises Critical Border Studies (CBS) as a distinctive approach within the interdisciplinary border studies literature and will be of particular interest to scholars in anthropology, human geography, international relations, and political science. Critical Border Studies was originally published as a special issu

The book is about climate change, transition to low carbon cities and adaptation to climate impact with particular emphasis on the role of urban planning. It covers broad overviews as well as sector-specific analysis at the scales ranging from global to city level.This book was published as a special issue of European Planning Studies

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Urban Planning in North Africa explores the history of urban planning in North Africa and the challenges confronting contemporary urban planning in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia.

After the ceasefire, a group of architects and planners from the American University of Beirut formed the Reconstruction Unit to help in the recovery process and in rebuilding the lives of those affected by the 2006 war in Lebanon .Here, a series of case studies documenting the work of the Unit discusses the lessons to be learned from&nbs

This comprehensive book explores the 'renegotiation' of the legal and constitutional foundations of post-1994 South Africa, raising multifaceted questions regarding law, history and politics. It is the outcome of a South African Journal of Human Rights colloquium and was originally published as a special issue of the journal.

This edition provides the first complete, modern version of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue, a text remarkable for its unique commentary on the agrarian roots of English capitalism. In his extensive introduction, Mark Netzloff discusses the literary production of early modern surveyors and examines the impact of capital formation on agrarian

This book assesses the impact and implementation of national qualifications frameworks in sixteen different countries and presents major lessons for policy makers thinking of introducing a National Qualifications Framework (NQF). This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education and Work.

This book is testimony to the emergent nature of human security as an idea, as a useful construct and as an operational strategy. The aim is to showcase new directions that may enrich the human security agenda in areas such as health and the environment as well as proposing multi-stakeholder approaches and solutions for vulnerable populations.