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This book brings together studies from a range of disciplines to examine what it means to be Indigenous Khoe and San in contemporary southern Africa.

How did a random batch of chimpanzees come to populate a small island in Tanzania where apes had never lived before? Combining information gathered from fieldwork, laboratory and archival research, this book tells the unique story of chimpanzee babies shipped to Lake Victoria and set free on Rubondo Island.

Are new ideas needed to disentangle the uses and abuses of the idea of civil society both in South Asia and beyond? This book seeks to explore this question by reviewing the debate on civil society mainly in India but also in Pakistan.

The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently found archive of a railway contractor's private and business papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and Scandinavian modern history, and ties south Sweden into the British Empire.

The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes are explored in which plans, projects, and policies have dealt with shrinkage since the 1990s.

Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, underline common aspirations. The potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of human rights are at the heart of this book.

This two-volume set examines the process of rural integration in modern China. In short, this is how the state penetrates the countryside and transforms the rural population, thus consolidating the foundation of modern state governance.

This book attempts to thematise Architecture festival's relationship with the city and interrogate its potential as a forum for global debate about the emergencies of the urban condition.

This book explores the ambiguous legal status of traditional - adat - communities in Indonesia and their informal, traditional rights to communal - ulayat - land.

This book reveals how intersecting social dimensions of climate change-people, processes, and institutions-give rise to different experiences of loss, adaptation, and resilience among those living in rural and resource contexts of the Global North.

This is the first book to critically assess how "supersession thesis," developed by legal and political philosopher Jeremy Waldron, might be reconstructed, challenged, or applied to empirical cases, with an eye toward larger questions surrounding the temporal orientation of justice. This book concludes with a reply by Jeremy Waldron.

Archaic Bamboo Instruments explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-) adopted bamboo musical instruments to forge meaningful bridges between their past and present-between traditional and modern values.

This book contends that the discourses of jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus, and their offshoots in other parts of the Russian Federation, are not just reflections of jihadi ideologies that came from abroad, rather that post-Soviet jihadism is a phenomenon best understood when placed in the broader cultural environment in which it emerged.

This book considers the question of spatial justice after apartheid, from several disciplinary perspectives - jurisprudence, law, literature, architecture, photography and psychoanalysis are just some of the disciplines engaged here.

This book advocates for an analytical turn in the study of Islam in Europe by using space as a central conceptual lens. It argues that the critical potential of a spatialized analysis in the field of Islam in Europe remains largely unexplored.

This book examines how increasing Africa-China relations in the fields of trade, development finance and investment have impacted productive capacities and structural economic transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book links the concepts of place, home, and tradition into an overarching argument: the meaning of home rests on the ideas of tradition, including identity, consanguinity, collectivity, social relations, land ownership, and rural lifestyle.

This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder, ambiguous, and in-between spaces that co-exist with traditional borders.

This book investigates the history of Arabian S¿qs from their Pre-Islamic beginnings until present.

This book examines the social and legal regulation of domestic violence within Kesarwani business community following the enactment of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005.

This book is an anthology of key essays that foregrounds coasts, islands, and shorelines as central to the scholarship on the oceanic environment and climate across South Asia.

This book explores the nexus between fiscal, political, and legal arrangements for subnational governments as they design national trajectories for social and economic development in the Asia and Pacific region. It will be of interest to policy-makers, practitioners and academics in public policy, decentralization, and sustainable development.