"This volume offers insights into ongoing, global socio-economic transformations by directing attention to the significance of labour, work, craft, community, social institutions, social movements and, emergent subjectivities in different parts of the world. This is in contrast to theories that...

"This book analyses tourism and development in Southeast Asia. Critically debating and offering new understandings of the dynamics of tourism on the global and local levels, it seeks to assesses its impact on residents and localities across the region. Offering a myriad of case studies from a...

Development Zones in Asian Borderlands' maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming...

Urban governance and development of informality in China and India / Arthur Acolin, Shahana Chattaraj, and Susan M. Wachter -- Comparative evidence on urban land-use regulation bureaucracy in developing countries / Paavo Monkkonen and Lucas Ronconi -- Urban land titling : lessons from a natural...

This book focuses on the "functionings" and capabilities generated from land by their owners and the challenge in satisfactorily recreating these through the compensation paid in the case of compulsory acquisition of private land. These discussions initiate a new debate on the insufficiency of...