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In this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The book attempts to understand, identify and analyse some of the perennial problems and challenges encountered by tourism researchers. The debates include topics such as the concept of the 'tourist', the long-term sustainability of tourism development, the growth of volunteer...

This text explores a variety of challenging situations in youth work practice. Presenting a framework for dilemma resolution, narratives from youth workers reflect on dilemmas they have faced and the knowledge and experiences they brought to bear on them, contributing to a practice-based theoretical foundation for youth work.

In a context in which security sector reform has become a pervasive development strategy, Justice and Security Reform considers the necessity and difficulty of engaging with informal (as well as formal) actors in this context, whilst assessing the impact of this engagement on the effectiveness of development programming. The book argues that in not engaging with the primary locus of security provision , informal actors such as chiefs and secre...

The book explores the way in which the state has become commercialised as party and government officials have gone into business and considers the impact that this has had on politics within Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.

This book analyses the portrayal of Japan in the societies of East and Southeast Asia, and asks how and why this has changed in recent decades, and what these changing images of Japan reveal about the ways in which these societies construct their own identities. It examines the role played by Japan, as an Other, in the construction of national selves across the East Asian region, and examines the views fostered through a broad range of media r...

The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia of imperial rule and established the Republic of China, but dissatisfaction with the early republic fuelled further revolutionary movements, each intended to be more thoroughgoing than the last. This book examines the internal dynamics of political and socio-economic change in China, and reveals how reforms in education, army organization, and constitutional rule created new social forces and political m...

This book provides a holistic and critical review on the establishment and development of museums in mainland China from 1840 to the present day, and shows how museums in China have been used by a wide range of social, political, and state actors for a number of economic, religious, political and ideological purposes. More broadly, this book provides important comparative insights on museology and heritage management, and questions who the key...

This book provides a detailed analysis of the state of democracy in countries across East Asia, and shows how each is different and distinctive, whilst simultaneously drawing out important similarities. Further, it provides up to date analysis of political changes in the region relating to the processes of democratization, and, in some cases, to the ongoing quest for democracy. Critically examining the current state of political development in...

Offering a comparative case study of transitional justice processes in Afghanistan and Nepal, this book critically evaluates the way the "local" is consulted in post-conflict efforts toward peace and reconciliation. It argues that there is a tendency in transitional justice efforts to contain the discussion of the "local" within religious and cultural parameters, thus engaging only with a "static local, " as interpreted by certain local stakeh...

Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a variety of perspectives, and includes both studies of these practices in Asian and Western contexts.

In order to understand the Pakistani state and government¿s treatment of non-dominant ethnic groups after the failure of the military operations in East Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh, this book looks at the ethnic movements that were subject to a military operation after 1971: the Baloch in the 1970s, the Sindhis in the 1980s and Mohajirs in the 1990s.

The importance of the Himalayan state of Nepal has been obscured by the international campaign to free Tibet and the vicissitudes of the Sino-Indian rivalry. This book presents the history of Nepal¿s domestic politics and foreign relations from ancient to modern times.

This book systematically explores the complex dynamics that shape contemporary Japanese-Chinese relations, and in particular, analyses the so-called `revival¿ of nationalism in post-Cold War Japan and its impact on the atmosphere of the bilateral relationship. Further, by adopting a neoclassical realist model of state behaviour and preferences, Lai Yew Meng examines two highly visible bilateral case studies to explore whether nationalism reall...

Navigating between criminological concerns about control and governance and social theories about culture and identity, this book explores what is meant by crime, community and morality and puts this meaning to the test. Discussion of a new theory of rule-breaking, combined with an analysis of how our justice system is becoming maladapted, makes this essential reading for criminologists around the globe, as well as those general readers intere...

Islam and China's Hong Kong is a fresh and timely study examining how Muslims as a minority and their Islamic faith interweave with an East Asian global city as well as a city-state under the sovereignty of the People's Republic China, post-1997 Hong Kong. In the age of the 'war on terror', the wake of the transnational media networks, the global financial meltdown and the growing ethnic tension in China, this is the first book to investigate ...

The field of Bollywood studies has remained predominantly critical, theoretical and historical in focus. This book brings together qualitative and quantitative approaches to tackle empirical questions focusing on the relationship between soft power, hybridity, cinematic texts, and audiences.

This book is a unique study of the politics of water supply infrastructures in three metropolitan cities in contemporary India ¿ Bangalore, Chennai and Kochi. It examines the process of change in water supply infrastructure initiated by notable Public Private Partnership¿s efforts in these three cities to reveal the complexity of state-society relations in India at multiple levels ¿ at the state, city and neighbourhood levels.

Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and early colonial period.

The Routledge Graded Japanese Reader is designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese and contains over 40 extracts taken from a broad range of media and literary sources.

Providing Czertok¿s own, highly personal account of his trajectory in the global scene of theatre-making over the past half-century, this is a book about the theatre of exile ¿ a theatre of streets, prisons, hospitals, open to direct and unexpected encounters with audiences and their life-experiences.