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Traditional crafts have been an essential part of Indian history, culture and life. This handbook looks at craft as both a cultural artefact that reflects people's worldviews, indigenous practices and traditions, as well as a source of income generation and development that is inclusive.

This book brings together philosophers, sociologist and policy experts to discuss the nature, scope and limitations of expert advice in policy decisions. The chapters collected here address some of the most fundamental questions in the debate on the role of experts.

This volume presents a collection of different views and perspectives, featuring both theoretical and empirical contributions, to provide deep insight into the role of innovation and of non-technological innovations (NTIs) in contemporary business.

The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography, to eugenics and racial regimes. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive view on these issues for Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century.

This book explores the forms, patterns, and trends in political communication in India in the 21st century. It underlies the influence of context in political messaging laying bare its complex, overlapping, and multidimensional structures.

This Handbook offers a cross-cultural examination of labor around the world and presents the breadth of a growing and vital subfield of anthropology. Bringing together the work of an impressive group of international scholars, the book is essential for anthropologists with an interest in labor and political economy.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the functioning and challenges of the legal aid system in India.

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights, gender, and generational power. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of sociology, family/customary law, gender, social policy, and African Studies.

This is a comprehensive resource that integrates the application of innovative remote sensing techniques and geospatial tools in modeling Earth systems for environmental management beyond customary digitization and mapping practices

This book challenges the prevalent assumptions of caste, hierarchy, and social mobility in pre-colonial and colonial Bengal.

This book explores the complex relationship between societies, architecture and urbanism of market halls, traditional souqs, bazaars, and speciality street markets in the Middle East and North Africa. It addresses how these trading environments influence perceptions of place and play an extended social, political and religious role.

This book explores the universe of locative tourism applications.

Discusses the linkage between urbanism and sustainability, and how sustainable urbanism can be implemented to overcome the problems of housing and living conditions in urban areas. Through several case studies and GIS techniques, it analyses planning and design criteria to solve physical, social, and economic problems in developing countries.

Conducting rural criminological research exposes researchers to concerns such as absence or inadequate official data about crime and superficial rural-urban comparisons, rural isolation and distance from the researchers' office to the study site, and lack of services or access to justice.

The book delves into media ownership in Africa. It starts from a much-needed historical perspective then covers contemporary digital developments and the Chinese strategic involvement in the continent. It will be of interest to students and scholars of media and communications in Africa, as well as ethnic and African Studies.

Microplastics have received increased attention in the research world over the last 10 years. A number of significant publications by the World Health Organisation, European Union, SAPEA and GESAMP have highlighted this growing environmental and health emergency.

This book explains the concept of using phytotechnology with biomass production to improve soil quality and produce a valuable product that has economic and social value. It is focused on the application of the second generation biofuel crops to slightly contaminated or marginal post-military and post-mining soils and based on global field studies.

This book is an exploration of how the EU and other regional actors construct, understand and use different forms of power in a political space that is increasingly referred to as "Greater Eurasia".

This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. An authoritative scholarly resource on popular culture in Africa, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of African culture, society and media.

Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational justice models.

This book presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra Valley as a whole.

The book focuses on tourism, memorial sites of the Holocaust and the Pacific War and the management practices for the visitors that they attract.It provides an account of landscapes of violence as millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe, China, Japan and the United States were affected by wars, conflicts and crises.