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"Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay's population grew twenty-fold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the Dalits. Even as Indians engaged with various aspects of modern life, including the Marxist discourse of class, caste distinctions played a pivotal role in determining who was excluded from the city's economic transformations. Labor historian Juned Shaikh documents the symbiosis between industrial capitalism and the caste system, mapping the transformation of the city, as urban planners marked Dalit neighborhoods as slums that needed to be demolished in order to build a modern Bombay. Drawing from rare sources written by the urban poor and Dalits in the Marathi language-including novels, poems, and manifestos-Outcaste Bombay examines how language and literature became a battleground for cultural politics. Through its careful scrutiny of one city's complex social fabric, this study provides an illuminating look at issues that remain vital for labor activists and urban planners around the world"--

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Note on author -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Pen portraits of the Boys in this book -- And the other Boys? -- Milltown -- Part I -- 1 Marty's funeral -- 2 Getting started (again) -- A lifetime with the Boys -- Lockdown Britain and my chance to write the book -- Facebook links but writing doubts -- The norm of reciprocity -- But had such a study been done before? -- A slice of history -- (Twenty)-Five Years -- An oral history? -- Trusting their stories? -- A stranger's eye -- 3 Methodology -- Three varieties of qualitative inquiry over the years -- Tentative steps -- Getting the Boys' consent and the interviews done -- Part II -- 4 Origins and destinations -- 5 Employment -- 6 Family and relationships -- 7 Crime -- 8 Health -- 9 Housing -- 10 Beliefs -- 11 Leisure -- 12 Closer than family -- 13 Identity and self-image -- Part III -- 14 Looking back -- 15 Some final thoughts -- Feral or free? -- New times, old ways? -- Trajectories or navigations? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Tourism Safety and Security for the Caribbean examines the security risks posed to the region and the wider economic impacts on the success of this vital industry. Spencer and Tarlow identify a range of challenges effecting this area and trace the social and economic fallout for contemporary tourism business practices, while also reflecting on how the Caribbean can work to overcome these issues. The authors establish a contextual framework through a history of tourism security and discussion of the theories of in this area from Marxism to Capitalism and Functionalism to Symbolic interaction. Chapters examine a wide range of other issues, including the renaissance of tourism security, Jamaica's national tourism security audit, and the role of the resilience center in worldwide tourism, as well the development of tourism police and the rise of cyber security for tourism. The study presents an illuminating new perspective for Tourism and Security Studies scholars interested in the Caribbean context and beyond.

"The economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billiard balls, combs, and other items made of ivory imported from East Africa. Yet while towns like Ivoryton and Deep River, Connecticut, thrived, the African ivory trade left in its wake massive human exploitation and ecological devastation. At the same time, dynamic East African engagement with capitalism and imperialism took place within these trade histories. Drawing from extensive archival and field research in New England, Great Britain, and Tanzania, Alexandra Kelly investigates the complex global legacies of the historical ivory trade. She not only explains the complexities of this trade but also analyzes Anglo-American narratives about Africa, questioning why elephants and ivory feature so centrally in those representations. From elephant conservation efforts to the cultural heritage industries in New England and East Africa, her study reveals the ongoing global repercussions of the ivory craze and will be of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, and conservationists"--

Prospects of tourism for peace : is tourism part of the problem or the solution? / Maximiliano Korstanje -- The role of visiting professionals in peacebuilding / Katerina Antoniou -- Catalytic effect of tourism in peace building : sustainability through peace tourism / Sweety Jamgade -- Can events facilitate intercultural undersanding : a critical investigation at Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod / Karen Davies -- Genetic tourism : key to multicultural understanding and peacebuilding? / Carla Villagra Álvarez, Neus Crous-Costa -- Post-war tourism in the reconciliation process of New Zealand Vietnam War veterans / Maria Dorsey -- ERASMUS students' travel motivations : an influential instrument for cultural diplomacy / Anabela Monteiro, Sofia Lopes, Fabio Carbone -- Hostels in hostile territory : the role of hostels as spaces of transformative dialogue / Jack Shepherd, Daniel Laven -- Overcoming urban frontiers : a network study at tourist favela Santa Marta / Eugenia Altamirano -- Tourism and peacebuilding from an holistic approach : the case of Trails for Peace / Silvia Aulet, Edgar Tarrés, Jimmy Pons -- Tourism and the social reintegration of Colombian ex-combatants / Mónica Guasca, Dominique Vanneste, Anne Marie Van Broeck.

Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? This book provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of critical new directions to thinking and acting around the challenge of development alternatives. The book's originality comes from the wide-range of new case-study material it presents, the conceptual approaches it offers for thinking about development alternatives, and the practical suggestions for NGOs. At the heart of this book is the argument that NGOs can and must re-engage with the project of seeking alternative development futures for the world's poorest and more marginal. This will require clearer analysis of the contemporary problems of uneven development, and a clear understanding of the types of alliances NGOs need to construct with other actors in civil society if they are to mount a credible challenge to disempowering processes of economic, social and political development

"Scholars have paid relatively little attention to the highbrow, middlebrow, and popular periodicals that African Americans read and discussed regularly during the Jim Crow era-publications such as the Chicago Defender, the Crisis, Ebony, and the Half-Century Magazine. Jim Crow Networks considers how these magazines and newspapers, and their authors, readers, advertisers, and editors worked as part of larger networks of activists and thinkers to advance racial uplift and resist racism during the first half of the twentieth century. As Eurie Dahn demonstrates, authors like James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Jean Toomer wrote in the context of interracial and black periodical networks, which shaped the literature they produced and their concerns about racial violence. This original study also explores the overlooked intersections between the black press and modernist and Harlem Renaissance texts, and highlights key sites where readers and writers worked toward bottom-up sociopolitical changes during a period of legalized segregation"--

"The extreme microbiomes are those microorganisms thriving under extreme conditions where no other living being will have any chance to survive. The extreme habitats are those presenting high temperatures (thermophiles), low temperature (psychrophiles), hypersaline environments (halophiles), low and high pH (Acidophiles/alkaliphiles), high pressure (Piezophiles) distributes worldwide. The extreme habitats have proved to offer a unique reservoir of genetic diversity and biological source of extremophiles. The extremophilic microbial diversity and their biotechnological potential use in agricultural and industrial applications will be a milestone for future needs. The extremophilic microbes and bioactive compounds produced by extremophilic microbes will be serving as potentials products for sustainable agriculture and environments. The enzymes for extremophilic microbes could be applicable for different industrial processes. The study of extremophiles also helps to understands diversity and microbial ecology, microbe-environment interactions, adaptation and evolution, element cycling under the extreme ecosystems. Besides, the extreme nature of those interactions and the physiological capabilities developed in the extremophiles are attracting the attention of agriculture and industrial applications"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction -- PART I: Resolving and managing border disputes -- 2. Recognition, reproduction, transformation: The use and abuse of international justice in the Cyprus conflict -- 3. Conceptions of justice underpinning Europe's policies towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- 4. Between border dispute and ethnic conflict: The EU as a just mediator in the Serbia-Kosovo stalemate -- 5. Russia's approach to conflict resolution through the prism of international justice -- PART II: Resolving and managing regime changes and power vacuums -- 6. Libya and the EU -- 7. The (in)justices of peacekeeping: EUFOR Tchad/RCA -- 8. Peacekeeping and security through the African Union -- 9. India on global justice issues of United Nations peacekeeping and peace building: A case study of the Democratic Republic of Congo -- 10. A Brazilian way of peacekeeping? A normative and empirical analysis of Brazil's contributions, challenges, and contradictions -- 11. Conclusion -- Index.

Geo-intelligence role in sustainable city missions of the global south: a review -- Cloud-based geospatial mapping and analysis of prayagraj kumbh mela of india: the unesco intangible cultural heritage -- Geo-intelligence-based approach for sustainable development of peri-urban areas: a case study of kozhikode city, kerala (india) -- Smart city: artificial intelligence in the city of the future -- Geo-intelligence for ecosystem services in poverty alleviation and food security -- Geo-intelligence for pandemic prevention and control -- Geo- intelligence in public health: a panoptical to covid -19 pandemic -- Use of remote sensing data to identify air pollution signatures in india -- Urban growth impact on cauvery river: a geospatial perspective -- Artificial neural network (ann) based predictions of bulk permittivity of co2-water-porous media system -- Long-term satellite data time series analysis for land degradation mapping to support sustainable land management in ukraine -- Modeling of the mass balance of glaciers with debris cover -- A geo-intelligence based approach to investigate temporal changes in the length and surface area and ice velocity of sakchum glacier. .

Introduction. Grassroots values : issues, questions and perspectives on local heritage / Harriet Evans & Michael Rowlands -- What and whose is local heritage? perspectives from everyday lives in an "old Beijing neighborhood" / Harriet Evans -- Encountering Virginia Woolf in Dashalar : heritage quests and local efficacies / Beverley Butler -- Rediscovering "Huangshan" in a heritage context : spatial strategy and invisible locality / Luo Pan -- 'Slave(s)' to the great museum : heritage, labor and ethics in the Jianchuan Museum Complex / Zhang Lisheng -- Between state and local residents : heritage perspectives and their combination in Quanzhou, Southern Fujian / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Naming the living heritage in Quanzhou / Michael Rowlands -- Commitments to the past : cultural transmission in a Naxi village / Peter Guangpei Ran -- Threads of time in a small Naxi village; women, weaving and gendered dimensions of local cultural heritage / Harriet Evans -- Destruction, devastation and reinvented tradition in heritage construction in Dukezong, Shangri-La / Wu Yinling -- From "cultural relics" to "sacred objects" : a case study of local heritage protection in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery / He Beili -- Afterword / Wang Mingming/

"Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudinal study of policy development. The book develops a multi-field explanatory approach, capturing inter-relationships between actors often analyzed in isolation. It provides empirically rich and systematically conducted comparative case studies on the political dynamics of the ongoing energy transition in six European countries. While France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom opted for 'technology-specific' renewables support mixes, Norway and Sweden embarked on 'technology-neutral' support mixes. Differences between the two groups result from variations in domestic political and organizational fields, but developments over time in the European environment also spurred variation. These findings challenge more simplistic and static accounts of Europeanization. This volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of energy transitions, comparative climate politics, policy theory, Europeanization, European integration and comparative European politics more broadly, as well practitioners with an interest in renewable energy and climate transition"--

Tunisian Women Transform the Public Sphere : Cultural Identity and the State / Laura Rice and Karim Hamdy -- 'Keid El-Nisai (Women's Cunning) : Feminist Deployment of a Patriarchal Trope / Angelica DeAngelis -- The Construction of North Africa : The Role of Berber Women / Fatima Sadiqi -- Women's Resistance and Gender Relations in Post Arab Spring North Africa / Moha Ennaji -- Forbidden Histories : Gender, Memory, and Reconciliation in Leila Kilani's Nos Lieux Interdits / Patricia Goldsworthy -- Female Tricksters in Mihăileanu's La Source des Femmes and Kassari's L'Enfant endormi / Christa Jones -- Grieving Mothers and Vengeful Gods : Djamila Sahraoui's Yema and the Rebuilding of Modern Algeria / Rima Abunasser -- Look Who's Laughing Now : A Comparative Study of Maghrebi Women Cartoonists / Diya Abdo and Maria Bobroff -- Denouncing State Complicity in Prostitution : Activism and Resistance in Nabil Ayouch's Film Much Loved (2015) and Laila Lalamis Novel Secret Son (2009) / Roxana Cazan -- Algerian Women Filmmakers and their Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism Seven Landmark Films on the Struggle of women in the 1990s / Ahmed Bedjaoui

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction: A Mediterranean Perspective to (Evolving) City-Regions -- Urban Growth and Sustainable Development of 'City-Regions' -- The Multifaceted 'City-Region': An Interpretative Path -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- 'Post-Financial' Metropolises? Rise and Decline of a (Sprawling) City-Region -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Transitioning toward 'City-Regions': Urbanization Pressure and the Mediterranean 'Specificity' -- Consolidating City-Regions and Sprawl in Mediterranean Europe -- Post-Industrial Athens and the Intrinsic Development of a Mediterranean 'City-Region' -- Evolving 'City-Regions', between Sprawl and Infrastructural Development: The Athens' Experience -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 -- 'Sub-Optimal' by Chance: Insights from a Long-Term Analysis of Municipal Area and Population Size -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Study Area -- Indicators -- Data Analysis -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Toward a New Planning Identity? Sustainable Development, Crisis Landscapes and Urban Sprawl -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Toward the Decline of Current Urban Models ? -- Urban Sustainability and 'Crisis' Landscapes -- Calling for Metropolitan Sustainability: The Latent 'Crisis' of Fringe Landscapes -- Conclusion -- References -- About the Editors -- Index -- Blank Page.

Contrary to dominant narratives which portray East European politics as a pendulum swing between democracy and authoritarianism, conventionally defined in terms of an ahistorical cultural geography of East vs. West, this book analyzes post-socialist transformation as part of the long downturn of the post-WWII global capitalist cycle. Based on an empirical comparison of two countries with significantly different political regimes throughout the period, Hungary and Romania, this study shows how different constellations of successive late socialist and post-socialist regimes have managed internal and external class relations throughout the same global crisis process, from very similar positions of semi-peripheral, post-socialist systemic integration. Within this context, the book follows the role of social movements since the 1970s, paying attention both to the level of differences between local integration regimes and to the level of structural similarities of global integration. The analysis maintains a special focus on movements' class composition and inter-class relationships and the specific position of middle-class politics in movements.