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  • Kilowatts And Crisis

    Hydroelectric Power And Social Dislocation In Eastern Panama

    by Alaka Wali ...
    This book tells the story of the people of the Bayano region: the pain of resettlement and the courage with which they responded to the threat to their land 1976. The Bayano River, one of three major rivers of the Darien, rushes through the deforested basin which was to be the dam's reservoir. This was an achievement of General Omar TOirijos, th ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Stress and Resilience

    The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem

    by Leith Mullings, Alaka Wali ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Documenting the daily efforts of African Americans to protect their community against highly oppressive conditions, this ground-breaking volume chronicles the unique experiences of black women that place them at higher risk for morbidity and mortality - especially during pregnancy. Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem examines the processes through which ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Applied Anthropology

    Edited by Christina Wasson, Edward B. Liebow, Karine L. Narahara, Hsain Ilahiane, Alaka Wali ...
    Series series Routledge Anthropology Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Applied Anthropology provides a comprehensive overview of applied anthropology, offering a global portrait of key problem sets, methods, and materials that anthropologists use when working in business, government, and nongovernmental organizational settings.Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners from across the globe, this innovative Handbook maps the full ... Read more

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  • Terrestrial Transformations

    A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature

    by Diane E. Austin, Mamadou Baro, Simon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, Anita Carrasco, Lisa L. Gezon, James B. Greenberg, Matthias Kowasch, Edward Liebow, Sarah K. Meltzhoff0, Aminata Niang1, Ravic Nijbroek2, Thomas K. Park3, Victoria Phaneuf5, Angela Storey6, Ylva Uggla7, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez8, Alaka Wali9, Casey Walsh0 ...
    Humanity’s future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Governing the Commons

    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Communication and Social Change

    A Citizen Perspective

    by Thomas Tufte ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change?In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication

    by Guido Rings, Sebastian M. Rasinger ...
    Uniquely interdisciplinary and accessible, The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication is the ideal text for undergraduate introductory courses in Intercultural Communication, International Communication and Cross-cultural Communication. Suitable for students and practitioners alike, it encompasses the breadth of intercultural communication as an academic field and a day-to-day ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State

    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize ... Read more

    $10.41 CAD

  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Global Political Ecology

    Edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts ...
    The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies.This critical volume draws together contributions ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies

    Caring For (Big) Data?

    Edited by Marie Sandberg, Luca Rossi, Vasilis Galis, Martin Bak Jørgensen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but ... Read more

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