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Over the last two decades, Eastern European countries have experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Based on ethnographic cases, this anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect everyday life in contemporary Eastern Europe.

‘Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values’ offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia, which continue to inform and dominate its public culture and institutions. Through an analysis of three significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate how the public sphere continues to derive its values from the British Enlightenment.

In this timely collection of essays, Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton show that the impact of inaction on climate change will be far worse than the cost of ambitious climate policies.

Drawing lessons from the eFez Project in Morocco, this volume offers practical supporting material to decision makers in developing countries on information and communication technologies for development, specifically e-government implementation.

Ali Kadri examines how over the last three decades the Arab world has undergone a process of developmental descent, or de-development, under the combined barrage of wars and neoliberal policies.

This book explores Britain’s involvement in Bulgaria between 1943 and 1949, and by integrating little-known Communist Party documents with British diplomatic records, offers a new understanding of the origins of the Cold War in Bulgaria and the Balkans. 

This book explores the life-story narratives of southern Poles, and asks what it means to be Polish as its population ‘becomes European’ following Poland’s entry into the European Union.

This volume offers the first English translation of one of India’s most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance. It is also the first edition of the play to provide an extensive historical-critical commentary and to draw on a comprehensive range of colonial archival documents.

This path-breaking work traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan, drawing on revealing new sources and connecting its discussion to larger issues of Islam in postcolonial Muslim nation-states. Winner of the Karachi Literary Festival Peace Prize 2015.

This is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich’s popular roman à clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.

This book explores the memory of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, which proved crucial for communist Hungarian political culture throughout the twentieth century. Apor takes an innovative approach to understudied aspects of European memory cultures, focusing particularly on how a dictatorship remembers and the concept of authenticity.

This book analyzes the effects of European Union membership conditionality on institutional reforms in Eastern European countries hoping to join the EU, specifically Albania and Macedonia.