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  • Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea

    A History of the Comoros

    by Iain Walker ...
    Many people today have never heard of the Comoros, but these islands were once part of a prosperous regional trading economy that stretched halfway around the world. A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean, the Comoros prospered by exchanging slaves and commodities with Arab and Indian merchants. By the sixteenth century, the archipelago served as an important supply point on the ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Contemporary Issues in Swahili Ethnography

    Edited by Iain Walker ...
    The term ‘Swahili’ describes the Muslim peoples of the East African coast, speakers of Kiswahili or closely related languages, who have historically filled roles as middlemen and merchants, the cosmopolitan products of a trading economy between Africa and the Indian Ocean world.This collection brings together anthropologists working on the greater Swahili world and the issues it confronts, dealing ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Social Science and Sustainability

    Edited by Iain Walker, Heinz Schandl ...
    Sustainability policies shape the ways that society and the economy interact with the environment, natural resources and ecosystems, and address issues such as water, energy and food security, and climate change. These policies are complex and are, at times, obscured by contestation, uncertainty and sometimes ignorance. Ultimately, sustainability problems are social problems and they need to be ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Social Cognition

    An Integrated Introduction

    by Ngaire Donaghue, Iain Walker, Martha Augoustinos ...
    The Third Edition of this much celebrated textbook continues to focus on the four major and influential perspectives in contemporary social psychology - social cognition, social identity, social representations, and discursive psychology. A foundational chapter presenting an account of these perspectives is then followed by topic-based chapters from the point of view of each perspective in turn, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Fluid Networks and Hegemonic Powers in the Western Indian Ocean

    Edited by Iain Walker, Manuel João Ramos, Preben Kaarsholm ...
    Series series ebook'IS
    The present volume sets forth to analyse illustrative aspects of the deep-rooted immersion of the populations of the eastern coasts of Africa in the vast network of commercial, cultural and religious interactions that extend to the Middle-East and the Indian subcontinent, as well as the long-time involvement of various exogenous military, administrative and economic powers (Ottoman, Omani, ... Read more

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  • The Impact of Diasporas

    Markers of identity

    Edited by Joanna Story, Iain Walker ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    Markers of identity define human groups: who belongs and who is excluded. These markers are often overt – language, material culture, patterns of behaviour – and are carefully nurtured between generations; other times they can be invisible, intangible, or unconscious. Such markers of identity also travel, and can be curated, distilled, or reworked in new lands and in new cultural environments. It ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Islands of Heritage

    Conservation and Transformation in Yemen

    by Nathalie Peutz ...
    Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, the island is home not only to birds, reptiles, and plants found nowhere else on earth, but also to a rich cultural history and the endangered Soqotri language. Within the span of a decade, this Indian Ocean archipelago went from being among the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Sahara

    Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Jeremy Keenan ...
    This collection examines the Sahara holistically from the earliest (prehistoric) times through the ‘historical’ period to the present and with political direction into the future. The contributions cover palaeoclimatology, history, archaeology (cultural heritage), social anthropology, sociology, politics and international affairs. Structured chronologically, the volume can almost be read as a ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics

    Edited by Olivia U. Rutazibwa, Robbie Shilliam ...
    Engagements with the postcolonial world by International Relations scholars have grown significantly in recent years. The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics provides a solid reference point for understanding and analyzing global politics from a perspective sensitive to the multiple legacies of colonial and imperial rule.The Handbook introduces and develops cutting-edge analytical ... Read more

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  • Migration by Boat

    Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival

    Edited by Lynda Mannik ...
    Series Book 35 - Forced Migration
    At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe and shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural ... Read more

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  • Wicked Problems in Public Policy

    Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges

    by Brian W. Head ...
    This is an open access book.This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention.There is an increasing ... Read more

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  • A Splendid Exchange

    How Trade Shaped the World

    by William J. Bernstein ...
    A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization.How did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Birth of Plenty, traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric ... Read more

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