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This transdisciplinary book explores how climate extremes - specifically extreme heat and urban flooding - are experienced, governed, and resisted within African informal settlements.

Focusing on the nexus of environmental stress, public health inequities, infrastructural fragility, and adaptation politics, the authors unpack how these converging crises disproportionately affect marginalised urban populations and expose the limitations of dominant climate governance models. The book takes Cape Town as its principal empirical site, particularly the informal settlements of Khayelitsha, Philippi, and Masiphumelele. These settlements serve as "urban laboratories" through which the book investigates the everyday, embodied, and gendered impacts of climate change. While deeply grounded in the Cape Town context, the book also draws comparative insights from similarly climate-vulnerable and socially complex informal settlements in Lagos (Makoko), Nairobi (Kibera and Mukuru), Accra (Agbogbloshie), and Dhaka (Korail), situating African experiences within a broader Global South urban adaptation discourse. The book is structured around eight thematic chapters, each advancing a layered understanding of climate risk and resilience through different empirical, theoretical, and methodological lenses. Through this multi-layered exploration, Climate Change, Health, and Adaptation in African Informal Settlements positions informal settlements not as passive recipients of adaptation, but as generative sites of innovation, knowledge, and political agency. It offers a compelling and much-needed intervention into both academic and policy debates, arguing that reimagining climate adaptation from the margins is not only possible-it is essential.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban development, climate justice, health equity, and environmental governance.

The Routledge Handbook on Digital India Case Studies: e-Governance Management Cases presents an accessible exploration of 19 groundbreaking digital initiatives reshaping public service delivery for over a billion people. From the Aadhaar biometric identity platform to the eNAM agricultural marketplace and Ayushman Bharat health scheme, this handbook brings to life the stories behind India's most ambitious digital projects.

The handbook unpacks the vision, technology, and real-world impact of these initiatives, revealing how they make government services more transparent, efficient, and inclusive. It examines implementation challenges, innovative solutions, and lessons learned along the way. What distinguishes this work is its practical approach: every case includes teaching notes, making it invaluable for educators, students, policymakers, and practitioners. Written in clear, accessible language, it bridges theory and practice, demonstrating how digital innovation drives social and economic progress.

Whether you are curious about how digital payments work in farm produce procurement in rural India, how SMEs access public procurement opportunities across the nation online, or how technology is used to deliver healthcare and welfare, this book provides a comprehensive, real-world perspective on the Digital India journey. It will be useful to students, researchers, policymakers, government officials, practitioners, consultants, international development agencies, and tech industry professionals working in or teaching management, public policy, information technology, governance, and development.

Muslims, Jews, Christians and Pagans: Studies on Pre- and Early Islamic History brings together eleven studies published between 2009 and 2024, arranged in three sections: Pre-Islamic idols, Mu?ammad at Medina, and Jews and Christians in early Islam.

Based on a wide range of primary sources that are now more accessible than ever, the volume offers a rigorously critical and finely textured exploration of early Islamic history. Rather than relying on grand narratives, Lecker illuminates the subject through background details, genealogies, geographical information, and other fragmentary evidence, assembling a mosaic that at times draws us closer to the turbulent formative centuries of Islam.

This volume will appeal to readers interested in the history of Jews, Christians, and pagans in late antiquity and early Islam, the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of Islam and in its earliest period, and the political, social, and economic history of the early Islamic world.

This book explores the rise and the fall of Aragalaya, a spontaneous protest movement demanding system change that erupted in Sri Lanka in the wake of the unprecedented economic crisis of 2022. With articles from Sri Lankan social scientists and activists with varied positionalities relating to peoples' struggles, the volume captures their diverse views and interpretations of this largely non-violent democratic uprising. The 14 chapters deal with the social history, composition and the key drivers of Aragalaya; its politics and cultural dynamics; and the implications for democratisation, governance, and accountability. They elaborate the contrasting roles of mass media and social media in depicting and shaping the uprising and the particular role of artists, performers and social media influencers in moulding public opinion and mobilising the public to agitate against corruption and state repression. The book also highlights the possible way forward in terms of democratisation, development, stabilisation, peace and social harmony.

Additionally, this book touches on the overall implications of the wave of democracy protests triggered by the Arab Spring of 2011, configuring Aragalaya as an important landmark in the global line-up of popular uprisings. The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of politics, development, popular culture, South Asian studies, and social sciences in general.

Mobility and Materiality in Byzantine-Islamic Relations, 7th-12th Centuries offers a fresh perspective on the medieval Eastern Mediterranean by exploring the movement of people, objects and ideas across boundaries, challenging established views of frontiers, commerce, ideology and identity in Byzantine-Islamic relations. Ranging from foodstuffs, ceramics and mosaics to clergy, artisans and the movement of words across languages, the volume follows the flows of exchange that linked a vast region extending from Constantinople, the Aegean and Anatolia to the Near East and the Mediterranean islands.

Against the background of anthropological theories of exchange, the fourteen contributors examine trade, diplomacy, migration, warfare, and religious and artistic exchange as interconnected processes that often overlapped and reinforced one another. At the same time, they explore mobility as a transformative force that reshaped societies, identities and cultural practices, while also altering the very people, objects and ideas in motion. Equally important is the volume's engagement with recent approaches to materiality, which treat objects, infrastructures, landscapes and technologies as active participants in processes of interaction and change. Combining theoretical reflection with textual, archaeological, numismatic, sigillographic and art historical evidence, the volume challenges conventional views of Byzantine-Islamic relations as interactions between isolated societies. Instead, it reveals a medieval Mediterranean shaped by exchange, mobility and materiality, which in turn were transformed by cultural frameworks and institutions such as states.

The volume will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Byzantine Studies, Islamic Near Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Studies, mobility and materiality studies as well as frontier studies

In response to the 2020-21 youth-led protests throughout Thailand, which were largely fueled by discourse on digital platforms, the government launched a sweeping program of technological suppression. Smear campaigns were orchestrated to discredit young activists, laws were weaponized to criminalize their activities, and surveillance technologies were deployed to keep tabs on them.

In A Thousand Cuts, Janjira Sombatpoonsiri traces the historical development of repression in Thailand, detailing how "traditional" methods of repression have been merged with digital tools to maintain the status quo since 2005, when mass mobilization started to move online. By examining the adverse effects of digital repression on individual activists-their mental health, private lives, and socioeconomic resources-Sombatpoonsiri also offers one of the first systematic analyses of the "reception" side of repression, shedding light on its detrimental consequences for activists and mass movements as a whole.