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Adopting a geographic perspective, Space, Place, and Violence provides a critical reading of how violence takes place and also produces place. Specifically, four spatial vignettes¿home, school, streets, and community¿are introduced, designed so that students may think critically how `race¿, sex, gender, and class inform violent geographies and geographies of violence.

This book is the first monograph to systematically explore the relationship between citizenship and collective identity in the European Union, integrating two fields of research ¿ citizenship and collective identity.

This text examines sanctions as a political tool of influence and evaluates the efficacy of sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) against countries from the early 1990s to present day.

This text confronts the reality of moral conflict in the debate on multiculturalism while resisting the simplification which too frequently accompanies daily commentary on both sides of an increasingly polarised debate.

The author examines conflict between states, international law and aspirations for justice by analyzing cases of judicial intervention, including Pinochet and the House of Lords, the Congo vs Belgium, the former Yugoslavian war crimes tribunal and the ICC.

This text explores how the Baltic States have adapted to and been embedded in a wider European environment and how they have become modern European states.

This text explores the multifaceted aspects of India's energy security concerns. It looks at the political calculus of India's energy choices, geopolitical, security and trade issues, India's energy problems in the wider Asian context and consumption and climate related challenges.

This book explores the relation between mainstream & marginal or subaltern religious practice in the Indian subcontinent. Keeping in view the power & reach of genocidal Hinduism, this book is the first to look at how the religion of marginal communities at once affirms and turns away from secularized religion.

This work argues that ethnic politics have the potential to strengthen rather than destabilize democracy. It studies one of Nepal's most significant social movements and examines the role it has played in the process of democratization in Nepal.

Furthering our understanding of the relationship between deconstruction and the ethical in Asian traditions, this book also enriches the contemporary ethical discourse from a global perspective by bridging Asia and the West.

From 1999 until 2000, the conflict in North Maluku, Indonesia, saw the most intense communal violence of Indonesia's period of democratization. This book examines this brutal conflict, illustrating in detail how and why previously peaceful religious communities can descend into violent conflict.

This text presents and analyses the oldest sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, the one between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India.

In this comparative study of organized labor in India and Pakistan, the author analyses the impact and role of organized labor in democratization and development. The study provides a unique comparative history of Indian and Pakistani labor politics.

This investigation into entropy in urban and regional modelling provides an extensive and detailed insight into the entropy maximising method in the development of a whole class of urban and regional models.

Showing how to teach the literature of today's Middle East, this book offers teachers a powerful resource for helping students to think deeply and critically about the politics and culture of the Middle East through literary engagements.

We live in an era of depression, a condition that causes extensive suffering for individuals and families and saps our collective productivity. Yet there remains considerable confusion about how to understand depression. Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities looks at the varied and multiple models through which depression is understood. Highlighting how depression is increasingly seen through models of biomedicine and throug...

This title examines the utility of organisational surveys as a method of research for the social sciences and as a support for employee relations strategies and personnel policies.

The second European edition of Schiffman and Kanuk's classic Consumer Behaviour focuses not only on what consumers buy, but also why they buy, when they buy, where they buy, how they evaluate their purchase, and how they ultimately dispose of it. The text has been thoroughly adapted and revised to reflect European conditions, and to focus attention on critical concepts in consumer behaviour. The authors discuss the effects of family, social cl...

Suitable for hypnotherapists and mental health practitioners who work with hypnosis and mind-body approaches for fertility, this title combines hypnosis and other mind-body approaches to help identify and address the mental, emotional and physical factors which affect fertility and reduce the negative effects of infertility.