Asian Studies Catalog 2012

New Titles and Key Backlist

Routledge is proud to publish the biggest and broadest range of Asian Studies titles in the academic market. Our comprehensive list consists of high quality research monographs, key textbooks, supplementary reading and reference works across all disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences, and spanning the entire Asian region.

Contacts

Editorial Inquiries

  1. Stephanie Rogers
    Publisher, East Asia

  2. Dorothea Schaefter
    Senior Editor, Central, South and Southeast Asia

  3. Leanne Hinves
    Editor, Textbooks

  4. Peter Sowden
    Editor, Russia & East Europe

Other Inquiries

Central Asia

  1. Understanding Central Asia

    Politics and Contested Transformations

    By Sally N. Cummings

    Since Soviet collapse, the independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have faced tremendous political, economic, and security challenges. Focusing on these five republics, this textbook analyzes the contending understandings of the politics of the past,...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge

  2. The Routledge Atlas of Central Eurasian Affairs

    By Stanley D. Brunn, Stanley W. Toops, Richard Gilbreath

    Providing concisely written entries on the most important current issues in Central Asia and Eurasia, this atlas offers relevant background information on the region’s place in the contemporary political and economic world. Features include: Profiles of the constituent countries of Central Asia,...

    Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge

  3. The Political Economy of Central Asia

    By Gul Berna Ozcan

    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Central Asian republics are still coming to terms with their post-communist economies, their role in the region and the wider world, and their needs for identity, governance and growth. The Political Economy of Central Asia is an original study addressing...

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. Institutional Reform in Central Asia

    Politico-Economic Challenges

    Edited by Joachim Ahrens, Herman W. Hoen

    Series: Central Asian Studies

    The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the...

    Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge

  5. City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran

    Shiraz, History and Poetry

    By Setrag Manoukian

    Series: Iranian Studies

    This book presents a cultural history of modern Iran from the point of view of Shiraz, a city famous for its poetry and its traditions of scholarship. Exploring the relationship among history, poetry and politics, the book analyses how Shiraz came to be defined as the country’s cultural capital,...

    Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge

  6. Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam

    Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism and the Literary Origins of the Babi Religion

    By Todd Lawson

    Series: Iranian Studies

    Of the several works on the rise and development of the Babi movement, especially those dealing with the life and work of its founder, Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi, few deal directly with the compelling and complex web of mysticism, theology and philosophy found in his earliest compositions. This...

    Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge

  7. Domestic Violence in Iran

    Women, Marriage and Islam

    By Zahra Tizro

    Series: Iranian Studies

    This book offers a new methodological and theoretical approach to the highly sensitive and complicated issue of violence against women in contemporary Iran. Challenging the widespread notion that secularisation and modernisation are the keys to emancipating women, the author instead posits that...

    Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge

  8. Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment

    From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond

    By Gay Breyley, Sasan Fatemi

    Series: Iranian Studies

    This book provides broad coverage of popular music in Iran in the twentieth century right up to the present day. It includes an examination of the role of popular music in Iranian society and culture as well as its ongoing development and genres....

    To Be Published May 31st 2014 by Routledge

  9. Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran

    Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

    By Pamela Karimi

    Series: Iranian Studies

    Examining Iran’s recent history through the double lens of domesticity and consumer culture, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran demonstrates that a significant component of the modernization process in Iran advanced beyond political and public spheres. On the cusp of Iran’s entry into...

    Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Recasting Iranian Modernity

    International Relations and Social Change

    By Kamran Matin

    Series: Iranian Studies

    Critically deploying the idea of uneven and combined development this book provides a novel non-Eurocentric account of Iran’s experience of modernity and revolution. Recasting Iranian Modernity presents the argument that Eurocentrism can be decisively overcome through a social theory that has...

    To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge

  11. Social Movements in Iran

    Environmentalism and Civil Society

    By Simin Fadaee

    Series: Iranian Studies

    Despite the growing significance of social movements worldwide, scholarship on the subject remains largely Western in nature, with studies written primarily by Western scholars and based on the experiences of Western cultures and societies. This book makes an important contribution to the study of...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge

  12. The Politics of Iranian Cinema

    Film and Society in the Islamic Republic

    By Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

    Series: Iranian Studies

    Iran has undergone considerable social upheaval since the revolution and this has been reflected in its cinema. Drawing on first-hand interviews and detailed ethnographic research, this book explores how cinema is engaged in the dynamics of social change in contemporary Iran. The ...

    Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge

  13. Shi'i Theology in Iran

    The Challenge of Religious Experience

    By Ori Goldberg

    Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

    Taking a theologically oriented method for engaging with historical and cultural phenomena, this book explores the challenge, offered by revolutionary Shi’i theology in Iran, to Western conventions on theology, revolution and religion’s role in the creation of identity. Offering a stringent...

    Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge

  14. Asiatic Russia

    Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts

    Edited by Tomohiko Uyama

    Series: New Horizons in Islamic Studies

    Although the Russian Empire has traditionally been viewed as a European borderland, most of its territory was actually situated in Asia. Imperial power was huge but often suffered from a lack of enough information and resources to rule its culturally diverse subjects, and asymmetric relations...

    Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge

  15. Afghanistan: to 2015 and Beyond

    Edited by Toby Dodge, Nicholas Redman

    Series: Adelphi series

    As the international security forces prepare to depart from Afghanistan, this Adelphi turns attention to the ability of a ravaged country to tackle its myriad security problems, overcome crippling poverty and corruption and somehow revive its devastated economy. The government faces daunting...

    Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge

  16. The Afghan Papers

    Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005–06

    By Michael Clarke

    Series: Whitehall Papers

    In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency against a resurgent Taliban. But how was the decision taken to commit...

    Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge

  17. The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-1982

    Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VIII

    Edited by Richard Smith, Patrick Salmon, Stephen Twigge

    Series: Whitehall Histories

    This volume examines British policy towards the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. The documents in this volume, many released into the public realm for the first time, describe the development of British policy towards the Soviet Union during the...

    Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge

  18. The Transformation of Tajikistan

    The Sources of Statehood

    Edited by John Heathershaw, Edmund Herzig

    Series: ThirdWorlds

    Tajikistan is one of the lesser-known and least-researched former Soviet Central Asian republics. The birth of the new state in 1991 was followed closely by a civil war which killed more than 50,000 people and displaced many tens of thousands more. While a peace agreement was signed in 1997,...

    Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge

  19. Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond

    Contested Trajectories

    Edited by Madeleine Reeves

    Series: ThirdWorlds

    Central Asia is a region singularly marked by attempts to transform social life by transforming place. Drawing together established scholars and a new generation of historians, geographers and anthropologists, this volume brings empirical specificity and theoretical depth to debates about the...

    Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge