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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.

The Nigerian government has increasingly relied on the military for maintaining law and order and countering the proliferation of armed groups, many of which pose multidimensional threats to state authority, life, and property of the citizens, as well as national stability and prosperity. This book investigates the Nigerian military's evolution, justifications, considerations, capabilities, engagements, contributions, challenges, and possible ways forward.

The book considers the contexts, rationales, and merits of military deployment for internal security and law enforcement operations, as well as the tactical, strategic and policy dynamics, contributions, challenges, and recommendations. In addition to the Biafra, Niger Delta and Boko Haram wars, the book considers less publicised cases of military campaigns against armed bandits, neo-Biafra and Yoruba secessionists, ethno-religious and communal militias, illegal or informal miners and refiners, and smugglers. It also reflects on military partnerships with intelligence agencies and transcends army-ground-forces reductionism in providing airpower perspectives on Nigerian military operations.

This book will be an interesting read for policymakers, practitioners and researchers across the fields of political science, sociology, African studies, and military and security studies, as well as members of the public with an interest in Nigerian/African peace, conflict, and development.

This book examines how Pan-African digital peacebuilding methodologies, exemplified through the innovative Maskani home platform, address ethno-political polarization in Kenya's electoral landscape while demonstrating the critical role of social media in conflict mitigation and peacebuilding across Africa.

Rather than merely exploring conceptual approaches, this work presents a rare case study of practical digital peacebuilding implementation strategies grounded in Pan-African philosophical approaches to knowledge complexities in the digital age (digital ubuntu), filling a gap in the existing literature on technology and peace in African contexts. Through its exploration of Maskani, the book reveals how youth micro-influencers employ both online strategies and offline cultural approaches to counter polarization. The work is uniquely grounded in Pan-African digital peacebuilding epistemic approaches rather than conventional Global North frameworks, examining how technology is innovated and adapted to local contexts despite digital divides and data poverty challenges. By documenting how Maskani functions as a local infrastructure for digital peacebuilding, the book provides transferable insights for addressing similar challenges in diverse cultural settings.

This book will appeal to scholars and practitioners in security studies, peace and conflict studies, international relations and diplomacy, media studies, political science, digital humanities, philosophy and sociology of technology, technology studies and African studies, as well as policymakers, industry players, civil society organizations, and technology professionals engaged in peacebuilding initiatives.

This edited volume examines how states, NGOs, international and local actors in Africa compete for influence on the continent by engaging in what is known as grey zone, conflicts using methods and tactics that fall short of open war.

Drawing on examples of grey zone conflicts from across the continent, the book shows how tactics such as disinformation, cognitive warfare, cyber operations, the strategic use of private military companies, sanctions, food and infrastructure deals, and election interference are used to generate political, strategic and economic outcomes without resorting to the open use of military force. It explains these examples in clear language, linking them to Africa's history of colonialism, liberation struggles, often fragile governance and its nature as a place of contestation for foreign powers, and to today's wider struggle over global order and power competition. Organised in six thematic parts, the volume moves from core concepts and historical roots to detailed case studies of Russian and Chinese engagement, Western policies, regional alliances, and the battle for hearts and minds. Covering cases from the Sahel to Central Africa and beyond, this collection not only advances the global conversation on grey zone conflict but also reinforces Africa's role in shaping the future of strategic competition and contestation.

This volume will be of much interest to students of hybrid warfare, military and strategic studies, African politics, and Security Studies.

This book investigates the challenges faced by early career researchers from the Global South who are working on social science or international development research. Delving deeply into the experiences of a wide range of researchers, the book critically examines and complicates the notions of insider and outsider, inviting the reader to consider who produces knowledge, and how it is produced.

As discussions of epistemic justice and decoloniality within social science and international development research grow in prominence, this book argues that Global South researchers can play a significant role in reversing the gaze and shaping intellectual discussions about how, by whom, and for whose benefit knowledge is created. Combining theoretical discussions with case studies and essays from fieldwork, this book demonstrates the multi-layered and complex positionality which Global South researchers navigate while conducting research. The book considers how Global South researchers bring specific experiences of race, gender, religion, values, and politics to their work, which are often concealed or censored for fear of affecting academic analytical production. This experience of fieldwork can challenge static and linear assumptions of the positionality and ethics of a researcher working in the field.

This innovative book will be an important read for early career researchers working within social science and international development research, as well as for lecturers and practitioners supporting researchers from the Global South in conducting their research and their fieldwork.

This groundbreaking study offers the first comprehensive analysis of misogyny within the Eastern context, and uniquely, within Hong Kong's digital landscape during the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests. Centred on the Golden Forum, Hong Kong's only right-leaning online community with a distinct subculture, Misogyny Beyond the West explores how misogyny manifests and circulates online in times of sociopolitical upheaval.

By conceptualising misogyny as a distortion of the public sphere, Chris Tsui positions the Golden Forum as one of the last remaining digital spaces for public discourse in Hong Kong's post-National Security Law era. Through a two-phase research design including qualitative content analysis of forum posts and interviews with forum members and managers-this work uncovers both overt and subtle expressions of misogyny, revealing how contempt for women permeates online interactions and potentially influences offline relationships and societal norms. Challenging Western-centric definitions, Tsui proposes a spectrum-based understanding of misogyny, highlighting the dangers of its normalisation and the invisibility of its more subtle but equally harmful manifestations.

Insightful reading for scholars of digital media, gender and Asian studies, Misogyny Beyond the West offers a timely intervention into the study of misogyny and the public sphere in a region where democracy and dissent are increasingly under threat.

Encounters: The Indian Ocean in 50 Objects offers a pioneering study of the Indian Ocean's history through fifty carefully selected objects, spanning cultures from the Red Sea to Vietnam and covering a period from the fifth century BCE to the sixteenth century CE. This book highlights the dynamic and interconnected nature of the Indian Ocean, transcending national histories and political boundaries. It introduces a unique methodology, using artifacts as bridges to uncover the vibrant cultural exchanges, religious practices, and economic networks that shaped this vast maritime region.

Divided into five thematic chapters, the book delves into the treasures of the ocean, the mobility and communication across its waters, the script cultures of graffiti and inscriptions, the entangled histories of coins and seals, and the spread of religious ideas across islands and shared coastal spaces. Readers will gain insights into the complex themes related to the expression of cultural identity through writing; the spread of religious practices, images, and coastal shrines; the connected histories of money; and the continued use of the dhow vignette on banknotes in the post-colonial period.

This textbook is an essential resource for undergraduate courses on the early history of the Indian Ocean and South Asian material culture. It is designed for students, researchers, and informed readers curious about the material culture that connected distant coasts and communities across the ocean. The book's interdisciplinary approach makes it a valuable tool for understanding the complexities of maritime networks and their enduring legacies.

This volume brings together emerging scholars in Settler Colonial Studies to chart new directions for the field in a time of global crisis.

Through rich case studies and innovative theoretical perspectives, the contributors examine the historical mechanisms and ensuring impacts of settler colonialism. They explore its ideological and economic foundations to its deep entanglement with ecological transformations, violence, dispossession, and how it ruptures everyday lives. Moving beyond familiar contexts such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa, the collection expands the geographical lens to include the Philippines, Kashmir, Paraguay, Argentina, and Sakha (Yakutia). Essays probe how societies-past and present-confront, remember, and contest settler colonial realities.

Organised thematically around ecology and environment, overlooked geographies and actors, and memory and representation, this book amplifies fresh voices and approaches. The essays in this volume were originally published in Settler Colonial Studies.

This book presents a critical intervention into the evolving field of Taiwan Studies. It offers a kaleidoscopic view of how Taiwan can be engaged across a variety of global research agendas-from coloniality and migration to digital sovereignty, memory politics, and queer futurity.

Exemplifying the field's growing methodological and thematic richness and drawing from disciplines such as anthropology, political science, gender studies, and history, this book frames Taiwan not as a static geopolitical object but as a generative site of epistemic, cultural, and political possibility. The book demonstrates how Taiwan's complexity speaks directly to global debates on democracy, indigeneity, ecological crisis, and the politics of knowledge.

Combining theoretical sophistication with empirical depth, this book serves as both a scholarly milestone and a pedagogical toolkit for rethinking the field's boundaries. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and practitioners engaged in Taiwan Studies, East Asian Studies, postcolonial theory, global studies, and comparative area studies.

This book examines contemporary Korea's housing crisis through Dongja-dong, a Seoul district, exploring how the most vulnerable urban poor navigate precarious housing circumstances and presenting an unconventional yet potentially effective solution to this pressing issue.

Readers gain unique insights into the complex conflict between multiple stakeholders: residents of jjokbang (tiny single-room housing units prevalent in major Korean cities) who have no alternative but to accept substandard living conditions; developers eager to repurpose the land; and jjokbang landowners who oppose redevelopment because government proposals for public housing conflict with their desire to maximize property profits. Through detailed examination of this housing struggle, the book reveals the remarkably organized nature of Korean housing activism and demonstrates the community-centric approaches through which jjokbang residents collectively mitigate their challenging living conditions.

This book is essential for academics and researchers in Asian Studies, Korean studies, and Public Policy, as well as policymakers interested in addressing urban housing inequities through innovative community-based solutions.

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

This volume re-examines the formation and persistence of 'caste' as a category of analysis. It argues that the caste system, as conventionally understood, emerged not as an indigenous social structure but through British colonial classification, law, and education in India. The study traces the continuation of these colonial constructions into the post-independence period and their uptake in contemporary discourse. Through analyses of colonial education and legal institutions, modern theories of multiculturalism, caste studies, and scholar-activist advocacy for anti-caste discrimination legislation, the volume demonstrates how colonial-Orientalism remains operative. It further examines how these frameworks are mobilized in current legal and policy debates on caste in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Australia. By advancing an alternative framework for understanding Indian sociality, the book carries significant implications for dominant conceptions of caste and for the epistemic foundations of contemporary law-making in Anglo-Western jurisdictions. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in postcolonial studies, India and South Asian studies, legal anthropology, comparative religion, colonial history, and the sociology of knowledge production, as well as to researchers working on caste, exclusion, and discrimination law.

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.

Ai Xiaoming: A Chinese Woman Intellectual examines the construction and transformation of intellectual identity in modern China through the life and work of Ai Xiaoming, foregrounding how women intellectuals negotiate public engagement under pervasive political, institutional, technological, and gendered constraints.

Tracing shifts and overlaps among public intellectuals, academics, citizen intelligentsia, activist-intellectuals, and forbidden intellectuals, it shows how intellectual identity evolves in response to changing political ideologies and degrees of state control. Particular attention is paid to digital technologies as sites of both empowerment and surveillance, and to women's strategic use of bodies, emotions, and domestic spaces for social action. Ai Xiaoming's filmic, historical, and activist practices illuminate truth-seeking identities grounded in legal rhetoric, historical writing, and ethical self-making amid repression.

This book is ideal for scholars and students of China studies, gender and feminist studies, intellectual history, media and cultural studies, and social activism.

For decades, South Africa's handling of asylum seekers has been a focal point in discussions about refugee rights and the systemic challenges individuals face in the immigration process. Once celebrated for its progressive post-apartheid policies, the nation now grapples with criticism due to recurring xenophobic violence and the failures of its asylum system. These issues highlight the urgent need to address how bureaucratic processes can either protect or jeopardize the rights and dignity of those seeking refuge.

Navigating Asylum delves into these pressing issues by examining the nuanced narratives shared by asylum seekers, interpreters, and refugee status determination officers (RSDOs). This timely volume goes beyond existing literature by focusing on the intricate interactions during asylum interviews, arguing that these moments are critical in shaping the outcomes of asylum applications. By exploring the intersections of linguistic nuances, bureaucratic authority, and individual vulnerability, this work sheds light on the structural violence embedded in the asylum process. Angu offers a unique lens by investigating how language ideologies and rights impact the legitimacy of asylum claims and how these factors intertwine with the precarious lives of asylum seekers in South Africa.

Providing indispensable insights for scholars, policymakers, and advocates, Navigating Asylum is essential reading for anyone dedicated to understanding and reforming refugee systems. Through its critical analysis, the work aims to foster greater empathy and accountability, ultimately striving toward a more equitable system for those in desperate need of protection.