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In an era dominated by technocratic debates about efficiency, effectiveness and the economy, the fundamental purposes of public policy are too often left unquestioned. This narrow focus risks obscuring the democratic and redistributive aims that give state action its legitimacy.

Drawing on political philosophy and foundational public policy scholarship, this book offers a critical framework for analysing state action beyond the logic of the '3Es'. Through a sustained examination of social and economic policies in Mexico since the 1980s, it traces how neoliberal reforms, extractive institutions and limited forms of participation have shaped exclusionary outcomes. Its analytical toolkit applies to Global South contexts with colonial legacies, weak states and powerful oligarchies.

Written in clear, accessible language, this invaluable book reframes policy evaluation around the questions of what public policies are for and who they are meant to serve, and identifies alternative pathways towards truly inclusive and participatory democracy.

The book offers a systematic and empirical assessment of political stability across seven regional states: Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Tuerkiye, Iran, Russia, and Ukraine. Using a newly constructed analytical tool, the Stability Index of Political Systems, it introduces a composite methodology that combines political, economic, and social indicators to measure and interpret stability levels across different regimes and historical phases. Through individual country analyses and a cross-country comparison, the book reveals the diverse factors influencing state resilience, the impact of external actors, authoritarian tendencies, and post-conflict realities. Special attention is paid to the consequences of the 2020 Artsakh War, Russia's aggression in Ukraine, and regional geopolitical shifts. The book offers an innovative methodological lens and provides a rare comparative perspective, grounded in both theory and quantitative analysis. It fills a critical gap by translating qualitative political trends into measurable insights, making it a valuable resource for academic and policy-related applications.

Spanning seven decades of India's independent history, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of India's Neighbourhood Policy. It examines the ideational and strategic choices of successive Indian Prime Ministers, highlighting how their leadership styles, ideologies, and decisions have shaped India's engagement with its South Asian neighbours.

Anchored in India's colonial legacy, hegemonic aspirations, and strategic autonomy, the book adopts a holistic lens, treating the neighbourhood as a unified strategic construct. It delves into the interplay of geopolitics, realism, and diplomacy that has defined India's regional approach, offering a nuanced understanding of its foreign policy trajectory. It stands out for its dual focus on historical continuity and individual agency, uncovering patterns in India's neighbourhood policy across shifting geopolitical landscapes. Employing rigorous qualitative research and triangulating multiple data sources, it examines the strategic dimensions underpinning India's policy and the pivotal role of Prime Ministers and their leadership styles in shaping its contours.

This book is an essential resource for scholars, researchers, journalists, and students of international relations, South Asian studies, and global politics. Academics will find it invaluable for understanding India's neighbourhood diplomacy and its broader implications for regional and global dynamics.

Research on street-level bureaucracy has largely been shaped by perspectives from the Global North, leaving limited understanding of how frontline workers operate in vulnerable, unequal and politically unstable settings.

Street-Level Bureaucrats in Vulnerable Contexts addresses this gap through a systematic, empirically grounded analysis of frontline state actors across health, education, law enforcement and social work in Brazil. Drawing on over twenty years of research, the book shows how vulnerability reshapes discretion, decision-making and citizen-state interactions.

Combining theoretical innovation with methodological rigor, it offers a globally relevant framework for understanding policy implementation in high-risk, resource-constrained environments across both South and North contexts.

What happens when a long-dominant world order begins to shift and new centres of power arise to take its place?

Another Dawn charts the acceleration towards an increasingly multipolar system, examining how geopolitical realignment, decolonization debates and the growing influence of Global South institutions are reshaping the current political landscape.

Rejecting simplistic narratives of victimhood or romanticized portrayals of solidarity, it showcases resistance and self-affirmation movements across the Global South and highlights the diverse strategies through which it is influencing the future of development, diplomacy and global order. This book offers a compelling vision of the tensions and possibilities of our post-Western era.

Navigating Disability, HIV, Relationships and Abuse for Christian Women in Nigeria contains poignant stories of formidable women who, because of their gender and disabilities, were sexually assaulted and infected with HIV by people known to and loved by them. Focusing on the Christian women of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the book brings together the often under-represented voices of women with disabilities and HIV in an under-researched area of Nigeria.

Fubara-Manuel builds on long-term ethnographic research to bring together the isolated cases of disability, HIV, gender-based violence and Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa. In so doing, she critically examines the perpetuation of rape culture and the role of faith communities and support groups in shaping women's responses. The author's work moves beyond victimhood frameworks to document the agency of women living with both disability and HIV, and their resilience and faith-based solidarities as resources for survival, resistance, and liberation from abuse.

The book advocates a conversation between men and women for the dismantling of patriarchal structures that promote and legitimise the rape culture perpetrated against women by men. By integrating lived theology, gender analysis, and disability studies, this book advances existing literature through relational and narrative-driven accounts that re-centre marginalised voices and rethink the role of Christian faith in contexts of sexual violence.

The collection of essays studies the twentieth century Indian revolutionary, writer and thinker, Manabendra Nath Roy's life and ideological trajectories by using new archival records, novel interpretations of previously used sources and other published materials. The life of M. N. Roy (1887-1954), as he is popularly known, was framed by resistance to the overwhelming presence of European territorial empires and imperialism in Asia. The essays provide a nuanced view of M. N. Roy's changing ideological moorings and the complex dimensions of his long political journey that started with revolutionary visions and ended in Cold War-era radical liberal humanism.

The chapters question the existing perceptions of Roy which are recycled as staples of mainstream academia, and re-examines his relationship with early Indian nationalism, Marxism and Leninism, as well as the Cold War cultural apparatus on the basis of new sources and analytical standpoints, bringing out the multi-layered and contradictory dimensions of his political legacy. Beyond hagiography, the anthology provides fresh perspectives on Roy's mutating political positions as he remained committed to India's freedom from colonial rule, anti-fascism and envisaged alternative routes to decolonisation.

The book will be of interest to historians, scholars, academics, and activists engaged with the history and politics of anti-imperialism and decolonisation, left history, communist history, socialist history, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Communist International, Asian revolutionaries, Colonial Bengal and post-Independence India, Marxist approaches to twentieth century history, connected histories of Class and Caste divisions, Race, Gender and Imperialisms, and the transcontinental diffusion of ideas and movements. It will also serve as a research resource and reference book for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in history and political science.

This book examines how unproven medical treatments became central to political, moral, and social life during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. It develops the concept of therapeutic moral authoritarianism to explain how health practices were mobilized as forms of agency, belonging, and political expression in contexts of crisis and uncertainty.

Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with healthcare professionals, digital influencers, and patients engaged in the Early and Preventive Treatment movement, the book explores how scientific authority, moral values, and political imaginaries became entangled during the pandemic. It shows how individuals did not simply reject science but sought to inhabit and reinterpret it, transforming biomedical knowledge into a language of autonomy and resistance. The analysis situates these dynamics within broader histories of biopolitics, colonial medicine, and neoliberal governance, demonstrating how care and coercion, freedom and responsibility, are deeply intertwined. By tracing the circulation of drugs such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine across digital platforms and everyday practices, the book reveals how personal health decisions became linked to national futures and moral claims about truth, risk, and responsibility.

The book will appeal to scholars and students in anthropology, political geography, science and technology studies, and public health, as well as to readers interested in misinformation, populism, and the social life of medicine in times of crisis.

This important volume empirically explores the lives of migrants experiencing long-term temporariness under temporary labour migration programmes (TLMPs) implemented by a number of governments in the Global South and becoming emerging actors in the social fabric of migrant-receiving countries.

Focusing on the Philippines-United Arab Emirates (UAE) migration corridor over the past 50 years, the book illuminates the dynamic interplay among temporary migration policies, migrants' lived experiences, and rapid urban development. Chapters concentrate on three key areas - macrostructural aspects of the corridor; migrants' agency in navigating temporariness; and emerging trends from below - and incorporate policy-oriented and ethnographic analyses. As well as offering policy implications, the book demonstrates how a proportion of Filipino migrants do not merely adapt to the TLMP, but also undergo significant transformations themselves in tandem with the UAE's economic restructuring and rapid urban development. The Philippines-UAE migration corridor's role as an evolving experiment supports the broader insights into how large-scale temporary migration flows might unfold in other regions in the future.

The volume ultimately offers a new way of thinking about temporary labour migration as a dynamic, socially embedded process in the contemporary Global South, and will therefore be of use to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of international migration, Asian diaspora studies, and Southeast Asian studies more broadly.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Theologies of Remembering reveals how Indonesia's two largest Muslim groups, Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah-self-identifying as respectively traditionalist and modernist-actively engage memory as a framework for theological thought and practice. By reimagining their pasts to respond to new contexts, they articulate what it means to be a traditionalist or a modernist in the present and imagine possibilities for the future. Verena Meyer draws on interviews with group members, Islamic intellectual and narrative traditions, and critical theory to show that processes of remembering facilitate manifestations of the divine that destabilize binaries between the historical and transhistorical as well as linear understandings of temporality. Observing how constructions of the past are called into the service of sometimes conflicting demands, she argues against the pervasive idea that Islamic modernities have lost their tolerance for ambiguity and paradox. Tensions among incommensurable memories are generative for articulating elusive theological insights and complex positionalities among both traditionalists and modernists, prompting us to rethink these familiar distinctions in modern identity politics.

Loot and the Making of British India unveils the intricate and often contentious role of military looting and prize practices in shaping British imperial expansion on the Indian subcontinent. From the eighteenth century onward, the British army developed a unique system that transformed plundered property into "booty" and redefined it as prize money, distributed under royal prerogative. This study explores how these practices incentivized soldiering, constrained unregulated plunder, and fueled tensions between officers, soldiers, and colonial authorities. Through detailed case studies, including the Banda and Kirwee affair, the book examines the legal, political, and social conflicts surrounding prize distribution, revealing how these disputes reflected broader struggles over imperial sovereignty and military discipline. By situating looting and prize within the broader context of empire building, the book offers fresh insights into the dynamics of colonial warfare, the professionalization of the British army, and the transformation of martial customs in India and beyond.

This groundbreaking work is essential for scholars and researchers interested in British imperial history, modern South Asian history, especially the colonial period, and military history.

This book is a pioneering exploration of science and society through insights gathered from social movements in India post-Independence. Based on rigorous empirical investigation of civil society organisations, it unearths the genealogy of science activism in India while raising pertinent questions on science-society coupling.

This interdisciplinary volume spotlights cases and focused content which thoroughly analyses mobilisation, institutionalisation and how science movement organisations have emerged and changed since Independence. Drawing out theoretical perspectives on the people's science movement in India, it identifies new areas of research in science, technology and society studies.

Written in a lucid and engaging style, this book will be useful to the departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Political Science, Education, Social Work, Development Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and South Asian Studies. It would also be useful to social activists, social workers, and professionals in the voluntary sector.

This book examines the exchange of enclaves, or chhitmohols, between India and Bangladesh, challenging the assumption that it was merely a territorial issue. Focusing on the lived experiences of communities inhabiting these enclaves and their surrounding locales, the study engages with how sovereignty, citizenship, and belonging were negotiated amidst conditions of their 'stateless', peripheral existences. Through an exploration of how these spaces generated strategic repositionings to state power, the book uncovers the intricate and multifaceted dynamics of adaptation to argue that even in statelessness, they remained locally embedded.

Grounded in an ethnography of communities from these former enclaves and its surrounding locales, the book offers a situated reading of how they generated contingent forms of adaptation to navigate the reordering of everyday life, brought about through state intercession in these spaces. The book, therefore shifts attention to 'the local' as both a site and lens to understand the complexities of how state power is mediated, resisted, and also, reworked. Through this, it offers a broader reflection on the uneven and ongoing nature of the incorporation of spaces and people into the state at the borderlands.

This volume is an essential resource for students and researchers in Politics and International Relations, Conflict Studies, Borderland Studies, Sociology, and History, offering valuable insights into the complexities of borderland communities and their interactions with state systems.

This volume offers examinations that help better understand how Israel's genocide in Gaza was perpetrated, the role of global and regional orders in enabling the destruction, and ways to challenge erasure. Drawing on a range of perspectives-such as international law, anthropology, politics and international relations, media studies, feminist approaches, indigenous and settler colonial studies-the chapters reflect a collective affirmation of the continued utility and importance of the concept of genocide for making sense of Israel's destruction of Gaza. They provide a pedagogical tool for preventing revisionist and denial narratives seeking to justify Israel's genocide.

One chapter examines how a central way in which Israel has justified genocidal attacks has been through the international legal figure of the 'human shield'. Another chapter draws on ethnographic methods with Palestinian survivors to map some of the direct and indirect mental health implications of the ongoing genocide in Gaza on children. A further chapter elucidates the characteristics of transnational constitution and complicity by examining the ways in which the global arms trade and patterns of military collaboration have enabled the commission of genocide in Gaza.

The diversity of perspectives across social science disciplines will serve as a valuable resource for students and scholars of genocide studies, international law, international relations, Middle East studies, conflict studies, as well as for those seeking to critically engage with the profound, global transformations that the Gaza genocide has precipitated.

This important volume offers a critical examination of how Southeast Asian states utilise digital governance to improve public services, democracy, and service delivery, while maintaining control over their populations through, among other methods, digital surveillance and internet control.

Through a series of case studies, the book explores key themes such as regulatory frameworks, state strategies, and societal responses to digital governance. It examines Malaysia's balancing act between regulation and repression, Singapore's Smart Nation vision, and Indonesia's ambitious yet authoritarian e-democracy initiatives. The book also delves into the challenges faced by countries such as Brunei and Cambodia, where digital governance is used by the respective regimes to manage misinformation and dissent. Employing diverse methodologies, including content analysis, elite interviews, and social network analysis, the chapters provide a nuanced understanding of how digital governance shapes political, social, and economic landscapes in the region. Truly comprehensive in its approach, the book covers contexts and circumstances present in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, and Myanmar.

This book will be essential for scholars and postgraduate students studying the overlap between politics and technology, digital governance, Southeast Asian studies, and authoritarianism more broadly. Public policy students looking to understand the implications of digital governance for democracy and internet freedom will also benefit from the book.

Examining the evolution of South African activists' attitude toward the state of Israel

In recent decades, scholars and activists have increasingly drawn on the language of apartheid to describe the sociopolitical situation in Israel and Palestine. In South Africa today, Israel is notorious for its collaboration with the former white minority regime. This prevailing association, however, belies a more complex relationship between radical South Africans and the state of Israel that existed from the 1940s to the 1960s. During these years, Israel and Zionism divided opinion within South Africa's anti-apartheid movement.

Shifting Solidarities traces the transition among anti-apartheid activists from support for a Jewish state in 1948 to anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian stances by the 1970s, showing how various ideologies-from Trotskyism to Pan-Africanism-shaped changing attitudes over time. Both an intellectual and a diplomatic history, the book illustrates how for several decades many South African radicals thought of Israel as a potential ally and admired its struggle for independence and postindependence achievements, but eventually came to see it as an apartheid-like state perpetuating the same kinds of injustices they had confronted for years.

This edited volume offers an up-to-date overview of the intricate relationship between the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and Latin America.

The central intuition guiding this book is that to adequately confront the multiple crises of the present, Critical Theory must engage with Latin American realities and perspectives. The volume has two closely linked objectives: first, to offer an updated and comprehensive overview of the multifaceted relationship between the Frankfurt School and Latin America; and second, to foster a mutually enlightening dialogue between Latin American and Global Northern perspectives in Critical Theory, with a particular focus on contemporary social and political realities.

A comprehensive and timely work, this edited collection will be of particular interest to researchers working on critical theory, decoloniality, social theory, and feminism.

This book examines the role of language in the modernisation of Xizang, the evolution of Tibetan language studies, and changes to China's ethnic language policies.

Based on fieldwork and policy analysis, it provides a comprehensive and accessible account of the linguistic landscape of Xizang, situated within its social, cultural, and historical context. The author examines daily language use in urban and rural settings, provides a clear overview of Tibetan language education at different levels of schooling, and investigates bilingualism in Lhasa. The research shows that language policies and practices are evolving in tandem with the region's modernisation.

The book will appeal to researchers and students of sociolinguistics, Tibetan studies, and language policy, as well as to general readers who wish to gain an understanding of the intersection between language and everyday life and social development in the region.

Since 2014, China has developed what is now the world's largest public-private partnerships (PPPs) market. This book provides a comprehensive and empirically grounded exploration of China's experience with PPPs.

Based on a detailed project-level dataset collected between 2014 and 2023, the author examines China's PPP governance from multiple perspectives. The analysis covers policy evolution, institutional experimentation, and regional diffusion patterns. It also investigates the fiscal incentives shaping local government behavior and the institutional constraints embedded in existing regulatory arrangements. The empirical chapters assess the extent to which spatial diffusion theory, transaction cost theory, capital structure theory, and cutback management theory explain the dynamics observed in practice, while also offering a timely assessment of recent PPP reforms in China.

This book will be of interest to scholars seeking to understand the evolution of PPP governance, as well as policymakers and practitioners looking for evidence-based insights.

Taeil, Yifan, Naoko, and Fangrong, along with their contributors, examine how China, Korea, and Japan are leveraging digital technologies to address unprecedented demographic shifts in their aging populations.

This book offers a comparative and policy-oriented examination of how digital technologies and artificial intelligence are transforming aging societies in East Asia. Focusing on China, South Korea, and Japan, it brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to analyze how governments are responding to population aging through digital health, long-term care innovation, community-based services, and everyday digital support for older adults. A key feature of the book is its integrated framework, which links technological change with intergenerational relations, welfare institutions, and digital inclusion, rather than treating technology as a purely technical solution. The book combines national policy analysis with local case studies and thematic syntheses, allowing readers to understand both structural differences and shared challenges across countries.

An essential book for academics and researchers of social policy, public administration, gerontology, and digital governance, as well as policymakers and practitioners engaged in aging and welfare reform. Readers will benefit from empirically grounded insights, comparative perspectives, and policy-relevant lessons for designing inclusive, sustainable, and human-centered digital strategies in aging societies.

This interdisciplinary collection draws on the insights of poets, academics, policy makers and practitioners to offer new ways of understanding and responding to the social, psychological and structural challenges facing Caribbean youth today.

Using decolonial and social ecological frameworks, the chapters expose how power, knowledge and practice intersect in the lives of young people and propose transformative pathways for more holistic but contextually specific approaches to safeguarding.

Amplifying young voices - featuring their own words, experiences and scholarly contributions - this volume challenges dominant discourses, reframing global understandings of youth and youth safeguarding from a Caribbean perspective.

A vital step toward decolonising knowledge and reimagining social justice for the next generation.

The remarkable journey of a group of Black emigrants from the American South to Liberia after emancipation

In October 1865, six months after the Civil War ended, more than one hundred of the Black residents of Lynchburg, Virginia, left their homes to cross the ocean and begin their lives anew. Their destination was Liberia. They risked everything for the chance to live as full citizens, educate their children, own land, and make a good living-all of which they felt they stood a better chance to do outside the United States, despite their newfound freedom. Why did they leave so soon after the dream of emancipation had finally been realized? And what happened when they ultimately disembarked in West Africa? Out of Virginia tells their story.

In this deeply researched and powerfully written book, Joe Stinnett explores the complex motivations and circumstances that compelled hundreds of Black Virginians to leave the United States and recounts in vivid detail the world they encountered and how they fared after their arrival in Liberia. It also demonstrates in a way few books have done before the local, grassroots nature of the expatriation movement in nineteenth-century America. Above all, Stinnett underscores the depth of determination asserted by Black individuals and families to decide their future for themselves, regardless of the consequences.

This book explores the complex power dynamics shaping China-Myanmar relations within the framework of asymmetrical geopolitics. By examining disparities in resources, influence, and capacity, it delves into how China leverages its economic and strategic dominance, particularly through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC). It provides a nuanced understanding of Myanmar's geopolitical significance as a site of competition and its delicate balance between dependence on China and autonomy.

The book highlights China's asymmetric foreign policy strategies, the impact of the 2021 military coup on bilateral relations, and the challenges posed by stalled BRI projects amid ethnic conflict and local resistance. It also examines the socio-political and economic implications of China's investments in Myanmar, addressing issues pertaining to migration, ethnic ties, and security. Through rigorous analysis, the book connects these elements to broader South Asian geopolitics, emphasizing Myanmar's pivotal role in China's regional ambitions and its access to the Indian Ocean.

This interdisciplinary volume is an essential resource for scholars, researchers, and students in International Relations, South Asian studies, Area Studies, Global Studies and Geopolitics. Additionally, journalists, policymakers, and academics interested in China's rise, the Belt and Road Initiative, and South Asian geopolitics will find this book insightful.

Ghosts of Bandung makes the major new argument that the fates of the Black and Palestinian revolutions were bound together through the rise and fall of a larger Third World political project. Drawing on English and Arabic archives, Derek A. Ide shows how Afro-Arab solidarities shaped and were shaped by geopolitics and grand strategy. Through biographical vignettes of forgotten figures and underexplored groups, Ghosts of Bandung interweaves the histories of movement dynamics and those of contending states in the global Cold War. This story binds the United States and the Middle East-Detroit and Damascus, Oakland and Algiers-while spanning the globe. From the Sino-Soviet split to the Beijing-Jakarta Axis, this global retelling of Black Power and the Palestinian Revolution engages China, Cuba, Ghana, Indonesia, Jordan, and others. At the heart of this broader project is the hitherto untold story of CONEFO, Indonesian President Sukarno's attempt to construct an alternative United Nations-like organization in Jakarta. Centering on 1965 and the collapse of CONEFO, Ide links the fates of Black Power and the Palestinian Revolution to the fall of Third Worldism and the "Bandung Spirit."

A new "bulldozer politics" has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic. Presentist accounts might explain these evictions as emergent modes of capital accumulation, but Logics of Dispossession challenges that story and situates these acts in a longer historical duree.

Employing a comparative genealogical approach to historical analysis, Liza Weinstein traces the Indian government's power to evict-from its beginnings in the colonial capitals of the British Raj, to developmental state-building projects and the rise of ethnonationalist politics, up to the present neoliberal conjuncture. Drawing on multicity fieldwork, archival research, and a database of more than a thousand eviction cases, Weinstein argues that evictions constitute a historically entrenched tool of city governance, motivated by a shifting set of intersecting, often contradictory logics that have accumulated over time and in locally specific ways across Indian cities aspiring to be world-class.

This volume revisits contemporary cultural and artistic imaginaries of African cities through a focus on their manifold connections with rural hinterlands. Tracing the multidimensional movements and flows between six African cities-Nairobi, Accra, Kampala, Pretoria/Tshwane, Johannesburg, and Lagos-and their respective hinterlands, the book maps similarities between contemporary city-hinterland interactions across the continent.

The book brings together contributions by scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including literary studies, urban sociology, media studies, medical anthropology, cultural studies, visual arts, and ethnomusicology. It conceives of the relationship between the urban and the hinterland as non-dichotomous and makes an argument for the complex entanglements between African rural and urban cultural imaginaries. It also engages the historical specificities and complex afterlives of different colonial contexts that shape contemporary renegotiations of the rural-urban nexus. Here, the hinterland is offered as a concept with diverse uses and appropriations across a range of African cultural forms, from screen media and poetry to music, visual arts, and everyday cultural practices.

This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in African studies, urban sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, literary studies, media studies, and human geography. It offers fresh perspectives on African urbanism and challenges conventional approaches to studying African cities by foregrounding cultural and artistic practices.

The essays in this volume were originally published as a special issue of Social Dynamics.