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This book brings together a collection of inquiries into the connections between educational leadership, understood as an activity that can be performed by both educators and students, and professional learning, understood as an activity undertaken by educators to improve teaching and learning within educational settings.

This book offers an innovative, encompassing, historical grasp of the politics of water in the Middle East in the context of modern capitalism and world politics. It examines how water, through its modern capitalist production, is transformed into a water apparatus that binds people to power.

This book is a collection of essays on Yvonne Owuor's writings, mainly her most acclaimed novel, Dust as well as Dragonfly Sea and her short story "Weight of Whispers".It was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.

This book addresses Atlantic as a global translation zone, created through a myriad of crossings, physical and conceptual, and historically shaped through the reciprocal influences between different communities situated around and beyond its shores. It was originally published as a special issue of journal, Atlantic Studies.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about significant changes in the world order. It not only reshaped the global geopolitical architecture, but also created newer challenges and opportunities for international trade and businesses. This book deliberates on these new global realities through a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from three key axes - communities, neighbourhoods, and market-places - it lays bare the specificities of urban experience coming from a non-megacity landscape of South Asia.

This volume elaborately studies the challenges posed and impact made by the Covid 19 pandemic. Through detailed case studies, it presents ethical, political, economic, medical, logistical and social impediments faced by contemporary states in the EU.

This book focuses on the Kshatriyaization movement of Rajbansis, the Matua movement of Namasudras, and the colonial policy of 'Protective Discrimination' and its impact. It is essential for those wishing to understand the socio religious movement of the Namasudra and the Rajbansi communities.

This book presents an ethnographic study on gestational surrogacy in India. It frames the ethnography of the surrogacy clinic in conversation with concerns raised in the arenas of law, policy, medical ethics, and global structural inequality about the ethics of transnational Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) practices.

This book offers an in-depth insight into the Indian concept of Swaraj - self-rule - both in theory and practice and posits it within the larger context of development. The book will appeal to scholars and researchers in the fields of Gandhian studies and development studies.

This book engages with evolving definitions of borders and citizenship in the public discourse in the South Asia region.

This book generates new empirical and theoretical insights by bringing together scholarship on Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, providing context-bound intraregional research and long-term perspectives for study of presidential term-limit change. These chapters were originally published as special issue of Democratization.

This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change.

This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and Inner Asia.

This book analyzes the emergence, rise, and decline of insurgency by the Pakistani Taliban in Pakistan's North-Western region, also known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). This book sheds light on recent development in FATA and is a timely addition to the literature on South Asian Politics and Security Studies.

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion around entrepreneurship in Africa and how it can be made more sustainable.It is also a significant new contribution to studying informality in relation to business and entrepreneurship. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of African Business.

This book engages with current debates on 'planetary urbanization' and the nature of urban political theory, but notably, considers the implications of illiberalism on space, territory, and power. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance.

Through the lens of political economy, this book positions housing as a key factor in understanding social inequality. It does so drawing on rich empirical evidence from the case of the Chilean housing market.

This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster capitalism, preservation of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. Focusing on the island of Barbuda, West Indies, it shares critical insights into how climate change is reshaping our world.

This book focuses on Sikh communities in east and northeast India. It studies settlements in Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, and Manipur to understand the Indian Sikhs through the lens of their dispersal to the plains and hills far from Punjab.

This book focuses on ecosocial work within the context of community practice. It aims to provide insights on understanding key issues, concepts and debates surrounding mainstreaming of ecosocial work for sustainable community development. This book was originally published as special issue of Journal of Community Practice.

This book focusses on various options of taking up ventures for starting entrepreneurship in small/large scale in the field of renewable energy technologies.

This book addresses recent changes in Central and Eastern Europe in order to critically consider the impact of illiberal conservatism on constitutionalism.

The Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism examines the multiple and diverse relationships between global tourism and political boundaries. This book offers theoretical frameworks for understanding borders and tourism and empirical examples from borderlands throughout the world.

This book contributes to UN Water Groundwater year (2022), and to the effort of "making the invisible, visible". An insightful resource for researchers and planners in the field of environmental policies, water laws, climate change and groundwater governance, this book comes with a new Introduction.

This book assesses the effects of globalization and neoliberal economic regimes in low and middle-income countries, primarily on industries, investment and trade; finance and credit; and employment, gender and development.

This book introduces readers and students to the entrepreneurial process. It is important as evidence has suggested that the probability of entrepreneurs' success enhances when they thoroughly appreciate the components of the entrepreneurial process as well as how to effectively use them.

Drawing on ethical and sociological theories of food, this book presents a new approach to food education that moves beyond nutrition-centered education.

This book delineates and analyses events and developments from the emergence of the Akali Dal, as a religious movement and its transformation into a religious political party, concerned with safeguarding the political, social and economic interests of the Sikhs as a minority.