This book focuses on the status quo and current trends concerning ethnic issues in China, and seeks to promote the equitable and harmonious development of Chinese and other nationalities around the world. Drawing on representative empirical studies and case studies, it describes…
This book assesses the global significance of Chinas decade-long campaign to reduce poverty. After showing how the countrys unique approach to poverty alleviation brought about unparalleled progress toward achieving both the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainabl…
This book explores how the labour and leisure lives of people in contemporary rural China have been structured and transformed, discussing the changing dynamics of power relations both between and within genders, and in local (village and family/household) and remote (the state …
This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the contemporary. Beginning in the 1990s, mental health became an area of global po…
This book addresses timely concerns of rising African nationalism and the 2nd decolonisation in Africa. The wholesale rejection of all things considered 'Western is seen to be a result of 'integrationalism, defined as the specific kind of methodology by which EU foreign policy e…
This book examines the various ways in which some fragile states in the Global South (or states with limited statehood) have adopted, and adapted to, processes of governance in their quests to address the socialized problems affecting their societies. It tells the story of these…
This handbook constitutes a specialist single compendium that analyses African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions. It emphasizes the uniqueness of African political economy within a global capitalist system that is ever changing and complex. C…
At a time when the development community is grappling with the challenge of raising the required investment--estimated in the trillions of dollars--for attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), countries' mobilization of their own fiscal revenues is receiving incre…
This book explores inclusive development in the Indian context, not only within each of the countrys major economic and social sectors, but also across countries in the particular context of globalization. In the emerging scenario of most expanding economies, including India, th…
This book examines Africa-Europe relationships and intra-Africa relationships vis-à-vis migration. It analyses the African integration project that is being used to effectively manage migration within Africa and across its RECs, and harnessing it for development. The book presen…
This book provides in-depth insights into the construction of the first road to reach riparian communities and the main access point to a national park in the Amazonian rain forest. It is based on an ethnographic investigation in Perus Manu Province in the Amazon, which explored…
This book explores tribal land alienation problems in India and tribal agitation against land encroachment and alienation. It discusses Indias tribal land problem and explains how despite legislation to protect tribal lands, the problem has not been resolved since neither the le…
This two-volume book offers a panoramic explanatory narrative of Soqotra Island's rediscovery based on the global significance of its endemic biodiversity. The first volume, A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra: A Mesography of an Indigenous Polity in Yemen initiated the analyt…
"Dr. Serge D. Elie's remarkable tour de force is both a rich multi-layered 'mesographic' narrative about Soqotran and Yemeni communal polities in constant transition and a stunning rebuttal to Eurocentric conventions of knowledge production. By advocating a new 'ethic of recipro…
This edited volume brings together research on symbiotic themes of entrepreneurship, resource planning, and regional development and their impact on global-local business imperatives. Discussions in this volume critically analyze the convergence of entrepreneurship, innovation, …
This book explores the unsettling ties between colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism. Anarchism as prefigurative politics has influenced several generations of activists and has expressed the most profound libertarian desire of Southern Mediterranean societies. The emerge…
This volume is a selection of Chinese political scholar Xianglin Xus published works spanning nearly 20 years of research that explore and discuss the socio-economic transition in China under state political reform. Contextualized within the decades following the 80s, the author…
