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This book examines the identity and belonging of the nupi maanbi community, an indigenous transgender group in Manipur, India. It explores how Manipuri society, particularly the Meitei community, maintains cultural practices that transgress binary gender norms, tracing the historical emergence of nupi maanbi identity through power dynamics, gender inequality, and resistance. It also:

• Examines the identity and belonging of the indigenous nupi maanbi community within Manipuri society in Northeast India, particularly among the Meitei people.

• Explores cultural practices that challenge binary gender classifications and demonstrates how different cultures maintain their own traditions of gender plurality.

• Traces the historical emergence of nupi maanbi identity through the lens of power dynamics, gender inequality, and resistance movements in India.

• Analyzes questions of acceptance, recognition, and tolerance of nupi maanbi within contemporary Manipuri society and their implications for broader transgender belonging in India.

• Investigates the boundaries and politics of belonging as they relate to indigenous transgender identities in Northeast India.

This title has been co-published with Knowledge World Publishers. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri lanka.

This interdisciplinary volume examines the multifaceted dynamics of the Punjabi diaspora, moving beyond conventional frameworks to explore the diverse cultural, linguistic, religious, and regional identities of Punjabis across the globe. The book addresses contemporary issues affecting Punjab and its diaspora, including migration patterns, identity formation, gender dynamics, economic contributions, political participation, and cultural representation from colonial migration to present-day transnationalism.
Drawing on primary research, interviews, and case studies across four thematic sections, the collection features contributions from scholars in Canada, the UK, France, and Europe, offering comparative perspectives on varied Punjabi diasporic experiences in different geopolitical contexts. The volume explores how diaspora communities maintain homeland connections while examining economic impact through remittances, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy. Some of the key themes explored include preservation and transformation of cultural practices, hybrid identities, media representations, political transnational networks, and issues of diversity, marginality, and inclusion within diasporic communities.
This volume serves as essential reading for researchers and students in migration studies, diaspora studies, South Asian studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, and interdisciplinary studies.

This book offers a compelling rethinking of de/post-growth as a holistic concept, a critical discourse, and a transformative practice. Bringing together interdisciplinary and global perspectives, the volume is situated at the intersection of debates on modernity, decolonization, ecological economics and sustainability. It challenges the dominant social imaginary of limitless growth, bringing forward instead diverse visions and creative experiments that seek to reimagine what it means to live well in more equitable, convivial, and ecologically sustainable ways within a pluriversal world.

The volume brings into conversation scholars from the Global South and the Global North, fostering a productive, polyvocal dialogue on alternative futures beyond growth. It will be indispensable to students and researchers of social sciences, international politics, sustainability and development, development economics, environmental economics, and business studies. It will also be of interest to NGOs, activists, policymakers, and anyone interested in creating a sustainable future.

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.

China and Mental Health offers the first comprehensive, decolonial analysis of mental health and psychotherapy in the Chinese context. Bridging China's indigenous philosophies with the rise of Western psychology, the book shows why culturally grounded approaches are essential for meaningful healing. Written in clear, accessible language, it provides rare insight into how Western theories collide and converge with Chinese lived realities.

Ideal for multicultural counseling courses in the US, this volume is an invaluable instructional resource, complete with case studies and discussion questions that enrich classroom learning. For counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, educators, and anyone working with Chinese clients or trainees, it fills a longstanding gap by offering culturally attuned guidance found nowhere else.

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.

Spatial Governance and Planning Policy Transfer in the Global South examines how spatial governance and planning concepts and ideas circulate within and beyond the Global South, highlighting the actors, power relations and institutional contexts that shape how these ideas are adopted, adapted, or resisted.

As regions and cities are being faced with an increasing number of challenges - from climate change to housing shortage, social inequality to energy security, they increasingly look for ready-made solutions, often with the support of international organisations and city networks. Yet policies do not simply move from one place to another. They are reshaped, adapted - and sometimes distorted - by local political interests and institutional traditions. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, the book explores how concepts and practices travel across the globe, and what happens when they land. The collected contributions bridge an important research gap by examining how spatial policies circulate within and beyond the Global South, challenging the long-held assumption that planning knowledge flows mainly North-South. Through case studies from Ecuador, Brazil, the Andean region, Chile, South Africa and Taiwan, the authors show how planning ideas are translated on the ground, how international agendas interact with local priorities and how "quick-fix" solutions can prevent deeper structural challenges.

Offering a fresh perspective on how cities and regions learn from one another in a rapidly changing world, this collection represents an essential reading for urban and regional planning scholars, policymakers and practitioners seeking to understand not only how spatial policies travel, but how they transform - and are transformed by - the places they touch.

The chapters in this book were first published as a special issue of Planning Practice & Research, and are accompanied by a new Introduction and Conclusion.

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 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.

Kurdish Politics After the Rojava Revolution: Transnational Engagement and the Gendered Nation explores how the Rojava Revolution has transformed Kurdish political activism, identity, and engagement across the global Kurdish diaspora.

Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and extensive field research in Kurdish communities across Western Europe and North America, the book examines how developments in the Middle East have reshaped Kurdish politics beyond the region itself. Central to its analysis is the growing influence of women's leadership and feminist ideas, demonstrating how the prominent role of Kurdish women in Rojava has redefined collective identity and inspired new forms of resistance, solidarity, and political mobilisation. The study explores key developments including challenges to the PKK's terrorist designation in Europe, the transnational spread of the slogan Jin, Jiyan, Azadi ("Women, Life, Freedom"), and the renewed significance of Kurdish actors in struggles for democracy. It also assesses the consequences of Rojava's limited international recognition and the retreat of Western support, situating these developments within wider debates on democratic decline and the future of liberal international norms.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of Kurdish studies, Middle East politics, gender studies, and transnational social movements, as well as readers interested in feminism, radical democracy, and alternative political futures beyond the nation-state.

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.

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 explores China's spatial future through 2060, a future which will be dramatically different from both the Opening Up period starting in 1979, when the rules of landscape building were rewritten, and the Factory of the World era following China's 2001 WTO accession. Drawing on decades of participation in China's spatial transformation, the authors explore the country's future landscape by analyzing the intersecting forces of demographic, societal, economic, policy, and technological change. They examine a rapidly changing context shaped by population decline, the pursuit of global technological leadership, and changing lifestyles and consumption patterns.

The book addresses pressing questions: How will China's hollowing out rural landscapes be transformed as new economic nodes emerge based on alternative energy production, digitally enabled agriculture, ecological restoration and amenity development? As urbanization peaks at 85% and China's urban population declines by at least 125 million between 2030 and 2060, how will the national urban system be reshaped? Which urban clusters will emerge as new "Silicon Valleys"? Which will be caught in negative rust belt cycles? And as urban outward expansion and physical development slows dramatically, how will technological change, shifting social expectations, and new mobility and production systems reshape China's built landscape? This will be a useful resource for designers, investors, developers and all those interested in better understanding China's emerging new geography and landscape, as well as students and academics across a range of disciplines, including Urban and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, Geography and Asian Studies.

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.

This book investigates how "rotten girls"-female fans of male-male romance-navigate the affective terrain of queer fandom in post-socialist China. Focusing on the everyday experiences of these fans, it traces their engagements with queer representations of masculinity across state-sanctioned, commercial, and fan-produced media.

Through the lens of affect, the book highlights how these women negotiate identity, desire, and agency within an environment marked by censorship, market forces, and patriarchal norms. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and close analysis of danmu (real-time comment) fan videos and online discussions, the study introduces the concept of a "post-socialist structure of feeling" to capture the intuitive, often ambivalent ways fans inhabit Chinese queer fandom. It explores how this cultural space serves as an affective heterotopia-a contradictory, emotionally charged zone where fans consume, produce, and contest representations of soft masculinity. The book also examines how these women emerge as "killjoys": feminists-in-the-making who challenge, endure, and reimagine the limits of China's heteronormative social order.

Offering original insights into Chinese queer fandom, this book is a valuable resource for scholars and students in media and cultural studies, gender studies, queer theory, and Asian studies. It contributes to growing conversations in transcultural fan studies by foregrounding affect as both a methodological and conceptual tool for understanding how digital fandom mediates identity, emotion, and power in contemporary China.

The Legacy of China's Emperor for Life examines the political, economic, and ideological legacy of Xi Jinping's leadership and its profound impact on China's domestic governance and global ambitions.

Through a critical analysis of Xi's governance philosophy, economic strategy, foreign policy, and consolidation of power, the book explores how China has evolved under a leader often described as the country's most powerful figure since Mao Zedong. It assesses the consequences of Xi's emphasis on party control, state-led development, and ideological discipline, while examining key issues such as economic restructuring, technological competition with the West, China's expanding global influence, and the tightening of political control in Hong Kong. The book argues that Xi's vision of national rejuvenation has strengthened the Chinese Communist Party's authority, but has generated significant political, economic, and social challenges, raising important questions about the sustainability of China's current trajectory.

This book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese politics, international relations, and Asian studies, as well as policymakers, journalists, and general readers seeking to understand the enduring legacy of Xi Jinping's rule and its implications for China and the wider world.

Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Ethiopia, this ethnography examines the circumstances that lead children to enter orphanages and the difficult decisions that result in family separation. Based on research conducted in an Ethiopian orphanage and surrounding communities, it challenges common assumptions about orphanhood by showing that many children living in institutional care had living parents or extended family members and were not, in the conventional sense, orphans. Through the perspectives of birth mothers, fathers, social workers, and caregivers, the chapters further an understanding of how poverty, food insecurity, gender inequality, illness, social stigma, and shifting child welfare policies influence decisions about relinquishment, abandonment, and care. It also explores children's everyday experiences within institutional settings and traces the profound changes that accompanied the rapid expansion and eventual closure of intercountry adoption in Ethiopia. Combining ethnographic observation, interviews, and longitudinal research spanning more than a decade, the analysis reveals the complex realities behind child separation, institutional care, and adoption. Challenging simple narratives of abandonment and rescue, the book demonstrates that parental concern, attachment, and hopes for children's futures often persist long after separation. It will be relevant to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, psychology, childhood studies, African studies, and international development.

This book unites the experiences of Buddhist monks, Daoist masters, Confucian officiants, shamans, and mediums who navigated the tumultuous landscape of twentieth-century China during the religious prohibition that took place during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), examining how their lives and legacies have helped shape the religious and social landscape of modern China.

The book explores how these individuals preserved, adapted, and transmitted religious traditions in the face of adversity and societal change, often forced into secular professions. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and first-hand testimonies collected three decades after their return, this book traces the trajectories of these "old masters" and explores how they have preserved ancient knowledge while adapting to contemporary society. Through careful attention to their gestures, daily practices, social interactions, and ritual performances, the authors reveal the complex ways in which traditional religious expertise has been maintained, transformed, and transmitted across generations. By examining a diverse range of religious specialists across multiple regions and time periods-including their disciples and attendants-the case studies illuminate the heterogeneity and fluidity of religious mastery in modern China. By examining the firsthand experiences of those who lived through this adversity, the book supports an understanding of the transformation of religious life in China, its enduring complexity, and the personal and collective significance of its renewal. Ultimately, the book offers a nuanced portrait of religious continuity and change in one of the world's most dynamic societies.

Demonstrating how resilience, adaptation, and transmission have shaped contemporary Chinese religiosity, the book will be of direct relevance to postgraduates and scholars of Chinese religions, anthropology, modern Chinese history, Asian studies, and religious studies. Those familiar with, and interested in, Chinese history and religion more broadly may also benefit.

This book asks what it means to be queer in Southern Africa today, bringing together bold and original scholarship to examine the messy, creative, and often precarious realities of queer life across the region. Moving beyond narrow framings of visibility and legal recognition, the volume centres queer embodiment, lived experience, and the everyday negotiations of space, time, intimacy, and belonging in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

The volume foregrounds the diverse ways queer subjects navigate shifting political, cultural, spiritual, and economic landscapes in Southern Africa. Drawing on queer theory, decolonial thought, feminist critique, and indigenous knowledge systems, the book uncovers the complex relationships between queerness, temporality, kinship, spirituality, labour, mobility, and survival. It explores issues as varied as ancestral callings, queer kinship structures, spiritual practices, digital intimacies, the politics of public sex, economic precarity, migration, and communal care, demonstrating how queer communities across the region continue to remake social worlds despite ongoing structural violence, exclusion, and moral regulation. Rather than treating Southern Africa as a homogeneous space, the volume remains attentive to the uneven histories, languages, and political conditions that shape queer experiences across the region. In doing so, it offers an important intervention into African queer studies by foregrounding relationality, affect, embodiment, and world-making as central to understanding contemporary queer life.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students in gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, African studies, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and political science.

Employing the historical comparative method, this book explores the origins, evolution, and transformation of the Chinese state and its governance through the lens of human social relations. It reveals how continuously extending social relations shape state formation and governance systems throughout Chinese civilization.

The book shows that, rather than breaking and rebuilding, successive social relations in Chinese history continue, extend, and superimpose on each other over time. This process produces overlapping institutional changes and recurring political phenomena while generating new relational schemas through improvements to governance systems. The central argument posits that relations construct the state, which then reconstructs relations. Consequently, this work provides a comprehensive, unique understanding of the endogenous evolution and gradual improvement of Chinese state governance, forming the historical foundation and pathway for state modernization.

It is essential reading for scholars and students of political science, comparative politics, Chinese studies, historical sociology, and governance studies who are interested in state formation, institutional development, and the relational foundations of political systems.

A new portrait of the Catholic church during apartheid, told through the life of Cardinal Owen McCann.

Drawing on newly opened Vatican archives and Owen McCann's personal archives in Cape Town, Alexandra Maclennan offers the first full biography of Cardinal Owen McCann (1907-1994), a pivotal yet often overlooked figure in twentieth-century South African history. Born in a mixed-ethnicity, working-class neighborhood of Cape Town and educated by Irish religious orders, McCann rose to become South Africa's first cardinal and a key moral voice during the long years of apartheid.

Maclennan traces how McCann's formation in Catholic Social Teaching shaped his quiet but persistent engagement with South Africa's racial crisis. As bishop, he lobbied government officials against apartheid laws, used the official Catholic newspaper The Southern Cross to challenge segregation, and defended non-European communities affected by discriminatory legislation. At the same time, newly revealed Vatican diplomatic correspondence shows how the Holy See responded to apartheid and what instructions they gave to the Apostolic Delegate, complicating assumptions about Catholic silence or complicity.

Spanning McCann's life from the interwar years through Vatican II and the collapse of apartheid, Cardinal Owen McCann illuminates the Catholic Church's evolving self-understanding amid decolonization, political authoritarianism, and moral crisis-and restores a forgotten cardinal to his place in history.