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Silk Road to the contact zone: protestant movement in the Eastern Himalaya
Why Kalimpong was considered a ‘contact zone’ to the missionaries during pre- and post-independence? How successful was the Protestant movement in...
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Divulvæva: A Village in the Dry Zone
Chapter 2 sets the stage by introducing Divulvæva village and providing the historical and contextual background necessary for understanding the... -
Conclusion: Out of Their Comfort Zone
The shift in Americans’ understanding of religious identity from ascribed to chosen has proven especially challenging for the American Jewish... -
Impacts of the ‘3-layered Quarantine Zone’ on Compartmented Urban Spaces
The Coronavirus pandemic primarily affected urban populations due to its high transmissibility, constant mutations, and the unavailability of... -
Water Stresses and Responses in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone
The Central Dry Zone (CDZ) of Myanmar is the heartland of the Burmese culture, and in many ways, it is socially and culturally coherent with the... -
Human-elephant conflict in the Sri Lankan dry zone: investigating social and geographical drivers through field-based methods
Human-elephant conflict (HEC) in Sri Lanka has escalated over the recent years, with, on average, 300 elephant deaths annually and human casualties...
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Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being in Late Adulthood: Lessons From Sardinia’s Blue Zone
This study was conducted to investigate whether socio-cultural context (i.e., urban versus rural), perceived physical health, marital status, and...
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Special economic zones location decision and quality of life in Ethiopia: the case of Bole Lemi-1 and Eastern Industry Zone
Ethiopia’s special economic zone (SEZ) development program features fuzzy knowledge about location decision-making and its effect on host urban...
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Cycling Through the Buffer Zone: Working-Class Cyclists on Rudolf Greyling Street, Bloemfontein
This paper presents an ethnographic exploration of working-class commuter cyclists on Rudolf Greyling (RG) Street in Bloemfontein, Free State, South...
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GIS-based AHP analysis to recognize the COVID-19 concern zone in India
This study was planned to identifying the Corona concerns zone during COVID-19 transmission in India. The death rate was very high due COVID-19...
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The Gulf as a Global Contact Zone: Chronotopic Identities and (Linguistic) Landscapes
The Gulf distinguishes both as a regional system in international relations and a global contact zone for the occurrence of many social issues.... -
Dengue risk zone mapping of Thiruvananthapuram district, India: a comparison of the AHP and F-AHP methods
Dengue fever, which is spread by Aedes mosquitoes, has claimed many lives in Kerala, with the Thiruvananthapuram district bearing the brunt of the...
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Art in Contact Zone in the UAE and Qatar: Trans-Regional Cultural Policy and Rise of New Artistic Movements
Dubai and Doha are attempting to be known as transcultural places. These cities are trying to be in a status that Mary Louise Pratt has named... -
Coping strategies of rural households to drought in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Northwestern Nigeria
The impact of drought may vary from community to community and people over time. However, this depends on the effectiveness and sustainability of the...
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The “Social License to Operate” in the OHADA Zone
The African continent is going through a profound period of change. For much of its recent history, its natural resources have been exploited with... -
The Zone of Cheap Labor
This chapter empirically turns from cheap scrap metal resources and industrial recycling to labor resources to examine the heterogeneous groups of... -
Exploration and Innovation of Zhoushan Marine Tourism Industry in the Context of Free Trade Zone
Zhoushan is one of the most important node city on the maritime Silk Road. Zhoushan Islands have distinct geographical advantages and abundant... -
Mapping of sacred groves in Ghana: the case of Talensi district in the guinea ecological zone
Sacred groves are a means of conservation or sustainability of natural resources through cultural beliefs or spiritism; hence, their essence and...
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Broken Worlds: Towards an Archaeology of the Shatter Zone
In recent years, archaeological studies of long-term change and transformation in the human past have often been dominated by the discussion of...
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The Imagined Latent Zone: How the Myth of Cultural Authenticity Survived the Covid-19 Lockdowns
Computer-mediated interactions dramatically increased in volume, frequency, variety and duration globally, amid the ‘lockdowns’ of the Covid-19...