Sciences

Having unilaterally opened its borders to international competition and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico has become one of the world”s leading proponents of economic liberalization. Never …

This book is unique in applying a consumption approach to the study of ethnicity and nationalism, thereby challenging the usual ”top down” approach to nation-formation. Contributors from a variety …

As Cold War battle lines are seemingly re-drawn, Russia”s various ”frozen” war zones (ongoing separatist conflicts) are often cited as particularly volatile and assumed by some Western commentator …

The volume comprises of papers presented at the first CADEC-2019 conference held at Vellore Institute of Technology-Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati, India. The book contains computer simulated results in v …

This book grows out of the authors” conviction that as public policy issues become suffused with scientific and technical content, they become difficult for the democratic citizens to understand. It …

This book connects a rhetorical examination of medical and public health policy documents with a humanistic investigation of cultural texts to uncover the link between gendered representations of hea …

This book brings together a wide range of case studies to explore the experiences and significance of women warriors in Southeast Asian history from ancient to contemporary times. Using a number of s …

Contesting conventional assumptions of the modern nation-state, this book challenges us to rethink the segmentation of the political realm and its underlying economic and social processes. Cognizant …

The increasing volume of remittances and public transfers in rural areas of the developing world has raised hopes that these cash inflows may serve as an effective mechanism for reducing poverty in t …

Image-Making-India explores the evolving meaning of images in a digital landscape from the vantage point of contemporary India. Building upon long-term ethnographic research among image-makers in Del …