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Political Cinema in Kazakhstan is the first book-length study of the films of Adilkhan Yerzhanov, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary world cinema. Across dark comedy, absurdism and satire, Yerzhanov exposes the contradictions of power, corruption and everyday life in authoritarian Kazakhstan, while creating films that resonate far beyond their national setting.

This book tells the story of the epic Ramayan through photographs of Ramlila, a Hindu theatre festival, in which community groups and professional troupes enact the story of the god Ram all across North India every fall. It also includes narrative that explains the story and its staging.

This book investigates how pre-nationalist ties between Mediterranean cultures have been inherited, repurposed and rejected by nationalist movements from 1815 until the present day. The book uses five case studies of regional nation-states to explore this theme of ‘transnational nationalism’: Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon and Libya.

Tourpreneurship Triumphs explores innovative, sustainable, and inclusive entrepreneurial practices in tourism, highlighting digital transformations, and strategic insights for building resilient and future-ready tourism ventures.

Several real estate-supported public policies destroyed swaths of NYC housing. The housing famine allowed immense increases in rent and housing code violations, both of which crippled public health.

The Possibility of Sociology offers a foundation for sociology in today’s global world – integrating approaches that see society primarily in terms of intersectional conflict, intrasectional differences and heterosectional complementarity.

Norway’s Democracy offers a structure- and institution-based inquiry into a surprisingly impactful political system that holds valuable lessons for debates over democracy’s future.

Aiming to contribute to the literature of what works to make peace, this volume examines the roles of land, water and mineral resources in conflict and peacemaking. The analysis focuses on six cases of prolonged, ethno-national, asymmetric conflict and six cases of special interest.

Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic processes, nuclear fictions and specific historical and cultural moments.