This book sheds light on how Hizbullah has transformed religious rituals and supernatural narratives in order to mobilize the Shi a community.... Lees meer.

This book foregrounds one of the earliest cases 1846 of occupational and physical cruelty against East Indian indentured laborers in Trinidad within this very early period of experimentation. The early years of the East Indian Indentureship system in the Caribbean... Lees meer.

The early years of the East Indian Indentureship system in the Caribbean saw experiments on coolie laborers under the British Empire. Colonial Trinidad was one of the main sites for this experiment. This book foregrounds one of the earliest cases 1846 of occupation... Lees meer.

A multidisciplinary array of experts explore the issues related to globalisation and democracy. They focus on federalism multi-cultural societies the European Union and potential agents for the democratisation of global institutions. Contemporary globalisation both... Lees meer.

In recent decades the rise of world markets and the technological revolutions in transportation and communication have brought what was once distant and inaccessible within easy reach of the individual. The territorial and social closure that characterized nation-state... Lees meer.

Before the immense changes of the 2011 Arab Spring it was Sunni-Shia sectarian rivalry that preoccupied most political analyses of the Middle East. This book presents wide-ranging and up-to-date research that sheds light on the political sociological and ideological... Lees meer.

This book seeks to develop our understanding of the contemporary geopolitical reconfigurations of two regions of the world system with high cultural affinity and traditional close relations. Latin America and Europe. Relations between Latin America and Europe have been... Lees meer.

In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture transnationalism and globalization and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry. It examines how emotions can be theorized and... Lees meer.

Contemporary globalisation both challenges conventional forms of democracy and is opening up new needs and possibilities for democratisation beyond the territoriality of national states. These issues are explored by an international and multidisciplinary array of expert... Lees meer.

This book provides a history of anarchism in Korea and challenges conventional views of Korean anarchism as merely part of nationalist ideology situating the study within a wider East Asian regional context. Dongyoun Hwang demonstrates that although the anarchist movem... Lees meer.

For the Anishinaabeg the indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes literary writing has long been an important means of asserting their continued existence as a nation with its own culture history and sovereignty. At the same time literature has also offered American wr... Lees meer.

For Palestine s diaspora and exiled communities the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. The author looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Pal... Lees meer.

Examines the Indian diaspora in Mauritius South Africa Malaysia Sri Lanka the Middle East Trinidad Australia the US Canada and the UK and the core issues of demography economy culture and future development. The Indian diaspora is one of the largest and mo... Lees meer.

In Oxford Street Accra Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana s capital city through a focus on Oxford Street part of Accra s most vibrant and globalized commercial district and a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and... Lees meer.

This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective emphasizing the flows of people ideas and institution across cultures and nations and examining the factors that contributed to turn psychoanalysis into one of the sys... Lees meer.