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Series: China Policy Series
In China, social development has fallen far behind economic development. This book looks at why this is the case, and poses the question of whether the conditions, structures and institutions that have locked China into unbalanced development are changing to pave the way for the next stage of...
To Be Published June 11th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies
German–Turkish relations, which have a long history and generally unrecognized depth, have rarely been examined as mutually formative processes. Isolated instances of influence have been examined in detail, but the historical and still ongoing processes of mutual interaction have rarely been...
To Be Published June 17th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
Policing Cities brings together international scholars from numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these practices raise. Chapters cover many of the world’s major cities, including New York, Beijing, Paris, London,...
To Be Published June 17th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
In-depth field research with a stateless population in Bangladesh has revealed that, despite liberal theory’s reductive vision, the boundaries between statelessness and citizenship are fluid and contingent. The Urdu-speaking population in Bangladesh exemplify some of the key problems facing...
To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge
Today’s ‘surveillance society’ emerged from a complex of military and corporate priorities that were nourished through the active and ‘cold’ wars that marked the twentieth century. Two massive configurations of power – state and corporate – have become the dominant players. Mass targeted...
To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies
Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations. However efforts since the 1990s to politically support European integration by using identity mechanisms borrowed from nationalism have had very limited success....
To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals
This book, first published in 1973, explores the manner in which conceptions of deviancy arise and shows how the attitudes of non-deviants, of society and of authority, are as instrumental in forming these conceptions as the actions of the deviants themselves. Chapters include discussions on the...
To Be Published June 23rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several different aspects of global migration. It examines how many different societies have defined their national identities, cultural values and terms of political membership through (and in opposition to) constructions of migrants and...
To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Regions and Cities
In this volume, we examine the challenges and opportunities created by global migration at the start of the 21st century. Our focus extends beyond economic impact to questions of international law, human rights, and social and political incorporation. We examine immigrant outcomes and policy...
To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
