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This work considers animal welfare from a broad and especially humanitarian perspective, with a particular focus on the world’s major animal producer - China.

Leading Chinese academics provide information regarding both all the major animal species used for livestock production, pigs, poultry, cattle and sheep, as well as less well understood types of farmed animals, rabbits, goats and aquaculture species. As such, the present book provides a novel perspective on the welfare of farmed animal species across the country. In addition, there are chapters on the future developments in animal welfare and the current state of laws that include animal welfare considerations.

There is growing interest in farm animal welfare in China, mainly under the guise of improved animal husbandry. This unique collection is topical and has been carefully compiled. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with the welfare of animals, including students and veterinarians, as well as animal scientists and professionals in the international and Chinese meat and livestock industry. This volume opens a window onto a vast and complex animal production network in the world’s largest producer of farmed animals.?

This second edition of the book examines the various phases of globalization and communication technology and their impact on cultural change in Thailand. Updated with new information and expanded analysis, this edition also includes additional chapters that further explore contemporary developments in Thai society, media, and Buddhism.

The book explores Theravada Buddhism, which underpins the core values of Thai society, through the lenses of ontology, epistemology, and practical application?particularly how Buddhists cope with suffering and maintain inner calm in an increasingly chaotic world. It also explains how Theravada Buddhism has been adapted, influenced, and hybridized into the distinctive form commonly recognized as Thai Buddhism.

In addition, the book investigates issues of social justice, ethics, changing values, sustainability, self-reliance, and modes of communication within the context of Thai Buddhist culture, together with other contributing factors to social development. Drawing on both first-hand fieldwork and documentary research, and employing quantitative as well as qualitative data, the study provides a broad overview of how Thai people engage with social and mass media. It then moves on to examine digital communication in greater depth, highlighting its effects on society and individuals within Thailand’s socio-political, economic, and religious contexts.

This book advances our understanding of small powers’ collective and individual agency in the international system. Drawing on realist, constructivist and relational perspectives, it explores such agency in conceptual terms and analyses instances of it in Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Islands region. A further focus is on New Zealand, a small power at the global level but a regional power in the Pacific.

The book?brings together contributions by IR scholars, area specialists, and (former) practitioners. They zoom in on the experience of small powers in several world regions pertaining to the Indo-Pacific in strategic terms but exhibiting quite different dynamics. Offering fresh analytical perspectives and rich empirical insights, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in small powers and agency in the international system.

How and why do archaeologists start a project? Where do they begin? What do they do?

This book presents a case study from the ongoing Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project (SCRAP) in Belize, Central America. The authors explore their long-term archaeology research project involving foreign researchers working together with local Maya villagers.

Archaeologists Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown, Shawn G. Morton, and Jillian M. Jordan deviate from popular narratives surrounding the civilization by studying a small, relatively short-lived (ca. 700?900 AD) Ancestral Maya town along the eastern frontier, focusing on the educational processes involved in archaeological thought and practice. They examine the culture of archaeology in Belize and the Maya Peoples involved in engaging and transforming this culture and the resulting research. They liken the building of their research project to the construction of a traditional Mopan Maya house or nah. Each chapter is linked to a stage of house construction and correlated elements of the project's development and ends with the creation of a home or otoch.

Through this framing of SCRAP’s story within a central aspect of a present-day Mopan Maya community, this book attempts to turn archaeology from the study of the past to a conversation with the present.

Undocumented immigrants are generally assumed to exhibit clear signs of their so-called outsider status. In the absence of such signs, however, how is the “illegal immigrant” made legible or policed? How might migrants negotiate their statuses as objects of state surveillance by exploiting their similarities or affinities with those who seek them out? Spectres of Affinity explores these issues in the east Malaysian state of Sabah, a scene of some of the largest clandestine cross-border flows in the world, and a place where migrants are widely assumed to look, talk, and otherwise behave like locals.

In Sabah, the ability of outsiders to pass as insiders has long animated public anxieties about the boundaries of citizenship, ethnicity, race, religion, labour, and language. Against this backdrop of social indeterminacy and political uncertainty, migrants and Malaysians are now jointly evaluating and adjudicating the ways they are sama, tapi berbeza ? “the same, but different” ? to sometimes devastating effect. In exploring the social life of comparison in the shadow of a notoriously porous Southeast Asian border, Spectres of Affinity calls for renewed attention to comparison not merely as a rarefied social scientific method or mode of inquiry, but as part of people’s everyday equipment for living in increasingly uncertain and unsettling times.

Why do formal peace settlements contain large-scale state?insurgent conflict yet leave violence embedded in everyday politics? This book revisits liberal peacebuilding through a historically grounded study of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Moving beyond a simple success-or-failure view of peacebuilding, it examines how the Bangsamoro peace process transformed a protracted state?insurgent conflict into negotiated autonomy while reconfiguring the political order in which localized violence persists. Tracing the long history of colonial incorporation, national integration, Moro insurgency, clan politics, and autonomy, the book shows how vertical conflict between the Philippine state and Moro revolutionary movements has intersected with horizontal forms of coercion, including clan feuding, electoral violence, and struggles over land, office, resources, and protection. It develops the concept of the state?clan?insurgent nexus to explain how state institutions, rebel organizations, political clans, and local brokers have cooperated, competed, and bargained over authority and legitimacy. The book argues that institutionalized peace in Mindanao has produced a form of bounded stabilization: renewed large-scale state?insurgent war has become less likely and governance more routinized, yet authority remains plural, legitimacy uneven, and violence increasingly localized. By analyzing peacebuilding as political order-making rather than simply post-conflict reconstruction, this book offers a context-sensitive framework for understanding protracted conflict, territorial autonomy, hybrid governance, and the unfinished politics of peace in conflict-affected societies.

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Miyoko Taniguchi is Professor of International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies at Miyazaki Municipal University, Japan.

This book provides a comprehensive picture of sustainable development in Northeast India, focusing on historical context, traditional knowledge systems, and contemporary challenges. As a region characterized by unique environmental and geographical peculiarities, Northeast India presents both opportunities and constraints in achieving sustainable growth. This book presents a multidimensional exploration of sustainable development in Northeast India, bridging indigenous traditions with contemporary challenges. It begins with the foundations of sustainability, highlighting theoretical perspectives, traditional agricultural practices, sacred groves, and community philosophies that shape resilience across the region.

The second section delves into environmental, economic, and social dimensions, examining climate change impacts, ecosystem services, livelihood diversification, skill development, vocational education, and women’s empowerment. Case studies on tea plantation workers, MGNREGA, and cross-border trade illustrate how sustainability intersects with equity, employment, and regional policy.

The final section expands to education, health, and inclusive development, addressing disparities in healthcare, educational vulnerability during the pandemic, poverty among the self-employed, and pathways through financial inclusion and access to credit. Together, these chapters provide a holistic view of the region’s progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. By engaging with sustainability through a regional lens, this book fosters transparency and public awareness, promotes innovation and adaptation, ensures inclusivity and equity, and contributes valuable insights to global knowledge frameworks.

This collection provides a holistic understanding of sustainable development in Northeast India, addressing key challenges and proposing practical solutions. Beyond merely describing sustainability challenges, this book offers policy-driven solutions that can inform decision-making at the regional and national levels. Designed to be an invaluable resource for policymakers, researchers, academics, and students, it aims to shape discourse on sustainable development, environmental conservation, and socio-economic advancement in the region.

Community-Based Waste Management: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa reframes how waste is understood and governed in contexts of uneven infrastructure, limited state capacity, and deep socio-economic inequality. Bringing together contributions from across the region, the book argues that community-based waste management (CBWM) is not simply a participatory add-on to formal systems, but a structurally necessary mode of service provision that emerges where municipal services are partial, exclusionary, or absent. Rather than presenting community engagement as inherently positive, the volume critically examines the diverse forms CBWM takes in practice, from household-level coping strategies and informal service provision to organized collective action and hybrid governance arrangements. It foregrounds the everyday labor through which waste is managed, with particular attention to informal workers, community organizations, and residents who sustain waste systems under constrained conditions. The book makes a conceptual contribution by positioning CBWM as a site of theory-building, drawing on insights from discard studies to interrogate how waste, value, and responsibility are produced and distributed. Across the chapters, contributors explore how CBWM can both reproduce and challenge existing inequalities, raising important questions about recognition, resourcing, and the role of the state. Bridging empirical depth with theoretical innovation, this volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working on waste governance, urban and rural service delivery, and environmental justice, particularly in African and other Global South contexts.

The first English-language anthology of Latin American communication theory

Latin American communication scholarship has shaped global debates on mediation, dependency, and mediatization, yet most foundational texts remain unavailable in English. Latin American Communication Theories: From the Origins to Contemporary Approaches, assembled by a team of communication scholars based at leading universities in Spain and Argentina, translates and contextualizes key writings from six decades of regional research for an international readership.

The volume maps intellectual trajectories from development and dependency theories through mediation, cultural industries, popular cultures, and mediatization. Introductory and section-level editorial texts guide readers through the historical, institutional, and theoretical evolution of the field. Classic contributions appear alongside emerging voices, creating a structured overview that connects Latin American debates with contemporary global discussions in media and communication studies.

Readers will also find:

• A curated selection of foundational Latin American texts published in English for the first time, spanning six decades of scholarship
• Editorial framing that contextualizes each section within the broader historical and institutional development of the communication field
• Critical engagement with hegemonic paradigms from the Global North, highlighting the originality of Latin American theoretical perspectives
• Coverage of key concepts including dependency theory, mediation, mediatization, cultural industries, and popular cultures across the region
• A structured intellectual map suitable for graduate coursework in global communication theory, media studies, and Latin American studies

Designed for graduate students, doctoral researchers, and faculty in communication theory, media studies, cultural studies, and Latin American studies, this anthology provides direct access to a scholarly tradition that has remained largely outside the English-language canon while offering structured pathways through its core debates and concepts.

This book provides the first full-scale comparative historical analysis of the evolution of soybean farming in five South American countries; these nations now dominate the world market for soybeans, the most valuable agricultural product in the world. However, these countries only began producing soybeans on a large scale in the second half of the 20th century, replacing the United States as the leading exporters by the first decade of the new century. This book also examines soybean farming’s association with the introduction of modern commercial agricultural production in several of these countries, many of which had previously exported few agricultural products competitively.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book reveals how communities protect themselves when external support is absent.

Drawing on participatory research from Cameroon's conflict zones, the authors document the remarkable agency and creativity of conflict-affected civilians employing non-violent methods to protect one another from violence. With international and national NGOs under strict government controls in the Anglophone regions, local communities have developed their own innovative self-protection strategies that offer sustainable pathways through conflict.

This important study shifts unarmed civilian protection discourse away from externally-led interventions towards genuinely civilian-centred approaches, offering crucial insights for practitioners, policy makers and scholars working in conflict-affected contexts worldwide.

Global circuits and local pathways are shaped by the needs of our bodies ? both as individuals and as societies ? and reflect our access to resources, networks, ideas, and knowledge. Toward Dissent highlights the paths forged through resistance and defiance. It examines how differences travel across regions through small editions, sound bites, news clippings, and translations; how research on revolution transforms our methodologies, encouraging participatory and subjective approaches; and how access to resources, communities, and ideas shapes the ways we understand, write about, and document sociopolitical struggles across the Americas.

In this book, Matthew J. Edwards combines traditional essays with shorter, more experimental texts such as manifestos, personal vignettes, interviews, and chronicles. Together, these pieces explore the circulation of ideas, objects, and cultural artifacts across the Americas, showing that while movement is essential for resisting oppression and enacting political change, our access to archives, information, and social networks determines how we engage with communities, and experiences, and how we document and understand political struggles.

This volume situates critical inquiry alongside ideological affinity and activism, arguing that political movements not only initiate social change but impact and influence the observations and critical processes that work to communicate their outcomes.

This book?offers a?comprehensive?and meticulous?collation?of the?early archaeological discoveries of Sanxingdui, archaeological diaries, documentary archives, and image materials collected by the Sichuan University Museum, and it restores the “origin” of Sanxingdui's scientific archaeological discoveries by “cultural relics and documentary emersion” dual evidence. Through the “cultural relics and documentary emersion” dual evidence to restore the scientific archaeology of Sanxingdui's “origin,” the “full-color archaeological drawings and test analysis description” of the Sanxingdui early archaeological discoveries that carries out a complete presentation for today's research on Sanxingdui and ancient Shu civilization to explore the source to provide valuable first-hand information. This book could also serve as a useful reference to archaeologists and cultural relics researchers, historians and researchers of ancient Shu civilization, as well as postgraduate students and professional readers who are interested in Sanxingdui culture.

This book covers the research carried out by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Sindh and Las Bela (Balochistan), Pakistan, during the last 35 years. The volume is divided into chapters covering the various periods during which archaeological work was carried out with different local institutions involved in the surveys and excavations.

It begins with the research conducted in the 1990s, during which surveys and excavations were carried out in the Rohri Hills and the first Mesolithic sites were discovered in the Thar Desert (Upper Sindh, Pakistan). Chapters include the team’s work done in the prehistory Karachi region, surveys at Ongar, Jhimpir, Ranikot and the problem of chert mining during the Copper and Bronze Ages of Sindh, as well as archaeology of Lake Siranda, Cape Gadani and Daun in Las Bela and a complete set of 162 dates so far obtained from this region that is currently the best radiocarbon dated coastal area of the entire Arabian Sea. A final chapter presents all the radiocarbon dates obtained from the prehistoric sites of Sindh and Las Bela during the last 35 years, to try to define a reliable radiocarbon chronology of this part of the Indus Valley, and Arabian Sea prehistory. This book appeals to readers of prehistory and archaeology of South East Asia.

Nuanced narratives of the complex Israel-Palestine conflict

Now in its Third Edition, The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories examines why this conflict has resisted resolution for over 145 years. Rather than validating one side's narrative over the other, the book lays out Palestinian and Israeli perspectives through chronological milestones, drawing on the protagonists' own words to let readers evaluate competing claims and form independent judgments.

Through measured and balanced analysis, The Israel-Palestine Conflict 3rd edition considers the overarching reasons that this conflict has been resistant to resolution. The book identifies recurring conceptual patterns? core arguments and repeated cycles of violence and calm?that have shaped the conflict's trajectory. It foregrounds the role of narrative and historiography in framing contested episodes, sensitizing readers to bias in scholarship and public debate. Detailed notes and citations support deeper inquiry throughout.

Readers will also find:

• A thematic rather than name-and-date approach that prepares readers to interpret current and future developments in the conflict
• Sober juxtaposition of each side's arguments enabling readers who hold strong opinions to critically reassess their own assumptions
• Discussion of the difficulties inherent in defining, categorizing, and talking about this deeply polarizing and evolving conflict
• Analysis of obstacles to resolution, including structural patterns that have repeatedly undermined negotiation efforts over more than a century
• A concise, logically structured format designed for accessibility without sacrificing scholarly rigor or depth of historical coverage

Written for undergraduate students, community groups, book clubs, and concerned observers of global affairs, this book provides a measured framework for nuanced reflection on one of the world's most enduring conflicts?particularly valuable amid periods of overheated rhetoric and clashing binary certainties.

This book argues that Getulio Vargas cultivated a sophisticated and often clandestine network of informants that, by operating outside or in parallel to formal diplomatic channels, profoundly shaped the country's international relations. This approach fundamentally challenges prevailing historical narratives that suggest Vargas's disinterest in foreign policy or the autonomy of his chancellors, shedding new light on Vargas's approach to foreign affairs. Through the identification of 50 informants, 10 of whom were consistently active for 15 years, this book underscores the strategic importance of this clandestine network.

Vargas's informants provided him personally with critical information for government management, especially in foreign policy, often through secret missions that transcended their official hierarchical roles and with opportunities to contribute to the formulation of foreign policy, even if their primary roles were linked to domestic interests. Informants frequently communicated directly with Vargas via secret channels and “secure carriers,” circumventing the official mail system, thereby establishing a parallel diplomatic structure that was also deployed for internal surveillance and political control. Furthermore, Vargas's “presidential diplomacy” was not solely about optimizing external relations, but also included the use of foreign posts to defang and monitor political rivals. The book contributes a more complex and nuanced understanding of Vargas's foreign policy, emphasizing his profound personal agency, the strategic utility of his clandestine network, and a pattern of distrust of bureaucratic structures.

The book characterizes Vargas's approach to international relations as profoundly pragmatic, driven by a consistent effort to leverage global power rivalries to Brazil's advantage. This challenges simplistic labels like "Americanophile" or "Germanophile," suggesting that Vargas's actions were strategic rather than ideologically rigid.

This book offers a thoughtful, original critique of how contemporary development practices govern life under global capitalism.

Drawing on Heideggerian historical ontology and decolonial thought, it rethinks the foundations of biopolitical critique and explores how development discourse operates in both international policy and resistance movements. It is essential reading for scholars and students of international relations, critical development studies and European political thought seeking new ways to understand, and challenge, the politics of life in the global order.