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The Routledge Handbook of EU¿Russia Relations offers a comprehensive overview of the changing dynamics in relations between the EU and Russia provided by leading experts in the field.

Authoritative, multi-displinery and international, this handbook defines the new theoretical and empirical traditions of Critical Gang Studies, taking into account the gang as a socio-cultural formation, its various forms and stages of development, the role of race and political economy, and the contradictory impact of repressive policies.

This handbook is the first volume to address the dynamic issues related to sexuality from a social work perspective by providing a comprehensive, current and international overview of issues related to sexuality.

This book brings together the work of public sociologists from across the globe to illuminate possibilities for the practice of public sociology and the potential for collaboration and international exchange, highlighting core themes including the importance of knowledge production and exchange, policy impact and the role of students.

Panoramic and provocative in its scope, this handbook is the definitive guide to contemporary issues associated with male sex work and a must read for those who study masculinities, male sexuality, sexual health and sexual cultures.

This handbook provides a synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems (SES) research. The book is primarily targeted at graduate students, lecturers and researchers working on SES, and has been written in an accessible style for readers entering the field from a variety of backgrounds.

This multidisciplinary reference book brings together cutting-edge health and illness topics from around the globe. It offers a range of theoretical and critical perspectives to provide contemporary insights into complex health issues that can offer ways to address inequitable patterns of illness and ill-health.

This handbook explores prejudice primarily as phenomena embedded in the social organization of societies and connected to structural factors and larger societal systems. It offers a unique critical, and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of contemporary manifestations of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.

A compendium of relevant empirical research and clinical best practices for assessment and treatment, this handbook charts the course that clinical sport psychology has taken since its inception as a distinct clinical specialty and highlights future directions for this rapidly growing practice domain.

This comprehensive handbook examines relationships between religion, politics and ideology, with a focus on several world religions ¿ Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism ¿ in a variety of contexts, regions and countries.

With a focus on Egypt, Iran, Turkey and the Indian Subcontinent, this volume explores the development of Muslim socio-political thought, shedding light on the swing between right and left, the influence of socialism, nationalism and liberalism, the rise of Islamism and the conflict between military regimes and proponents of pan-Islamism.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history.

This handbook presents a timely, broad-ranging and provocative overview of the essential nature of ecotourism. The chapters will both advance the existing central themes of ecotourism and provide challenging and divergent observations that will thrust ecotourism into new areas of research, policy and practice.

This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and `the urban¿ as its pivotal axis. It covers theories and concepts for scholars and researchers to understand, observe, and analyze the world of urban mobilities.

Featuring a stellar international cast-list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, this book presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective.

This handbook brings international scholarship on transnational human rights obligations into a comprehensive and wide-ranging volume.

Leading experts from across the globe explore cutting-edge research on the role of emotion in selecting and processing media contents, the emotional consequences of media use, emotions in political communication and persuasion, as well as emotions in digital, interactive, and virtual encounters.

By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of mad studies and advances its theory and practice.

The handbook seeks to illuminate the key concepts in the study of development-environment by showcasing some of the Majoritarian (formerly "Developing") world¿s scholars in order to explore theoretical connections through critical/radical theory, ¿small¿ theory, various conceptual frameworks, and non-western and subaltern viewpoints.

Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on contemporary futures studies.

The Routledge Handbook on American Prisons is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of U.S. prisons and synthesizes the research on the many facets of the prison system.

The handbook discusses smart technologies, covering a broad range of technological trends such as artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and cyber-physical systems to shed light on the associated potentials and challenges for the economy and society from the perspective of social, economic, natural and political sciences.

This handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of contemporary research related to the Horn of Africa. Accessibly written, it is an essential read for scholars, students and policy professionals interested in the contemporary politics in the Horn of Africa.

This handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the dynamic and complex relationship between democracy and sustainability in contemporary theory, discourse, and practice. Scholars look at the present state of this relationship, asking how it has evolved and where it is likely to go in the future.