Culture & Development

Providing an account of the role of informal institutions in Chinese rural development, this book puts forth a distinctive argument on a very important topic in Chinese economic and social affairs._x000D_ Winner of the 2008 Zhang Peigang Development Economics Award..

Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula examines the recent and rapid development of museums in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. These states are dynamically involved in establishing museums to preserve and represent their distinct national culture and heritage, and Museum Studies..

Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula examines the recent and rapid development of museums in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. These states are dynamically involved in establishing museums to preserve and represent their distinct national culture and heritage, and Museum Studies..

The relationship between museums, heritage and international development has been underexamined from a critical and comparative perspective. This edited volume inaugurates a new, important debate across these and other disciplines, identifying the distinct contribution of museums and heritage to int..

The relationship between museums, heritage and international development has been underexamined from a critical and comparative perspective. This edited volume inaugurates a new, important debate across these and other disciplines, identifying the distinct contribution of museums and heritage to int..

Religion and Development in the Asia-Pacific: Sacred places as development spaces demonstrates the important role that sacred spaces can play in development interventions. It also calls for greater attention to be given to the role of sacred places as sites for development activities, and for a deep..

This collection subjects to scrutiny some of the roles played by religion in development, through its influence on values, beliefs and perceptions, and through the development activities of faith-inspired organisations affiliated with four religious traditions in a variety of countries in Asia and A..

This book provides in-depth social science analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history and an engagement with important global debates, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands. Organised around a central tension between..

The Land is the Source of Law brings an inter-jurisdictional dimension to the field of indigenous jurisprudence: comparing Indigenous legal regimes in New Zealand, the USA and Australia, it offers a ‘dialogical encounter with an Indigenous jurisprudence’ in which individuals are characterised by the..