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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “alejandra mancilla”
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  • From Sovereignty to Guardianship

    Governing Antarctica, Governing the World

    by Alejandra Mancilla ...
    Series series New Topics in Applied Philosophy
    An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, driest, and highest continent in the world, so it is no wonder that it has been painted as exceptional in geographic and climatic terms. But not only that: Antarctica is also seen as exceptional politically. Since the Antarctic Treaty came into force in 1961, it has been ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

  • The Right of Necessity

    Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty

    by Alejandra Mancilla ...
    Series series Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society
    Does recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other people’s property to get out of their plight? Should we respect the exercise of this right of necessity in a variety of scenarios – from street pickpocketing and petty theft to illegal squatting and encamping?In this concise and accessible book, Alejandra Mancilla addresses ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Theories of Justice

    by Alejandra Mancilla ...
    Series series The Library of Essays on Justice
    Forty years ago, in his landmark work A Theory of Justice, the American philosopher John Rawls depicted a just society as a fair system of cooperation between citizens, regarded as free and equal persons. Justice, Rawls famously claimed, is 'the first virtue of social institutions'. Ever since then, moral and political philosophers have expanded, expounded and criticized Rawls's main tenets, from ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

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  • The Will to Improve

    Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics

    by Tania Murray Li ...
    The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is targeted for reform. Deftly integrating theory, ethnography, and history, she illuminates the work ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Antarctic

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Prof Klaus Dodds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Antarctic is one the most hostile natural environments in the world. It is an extraordinary physical space, which changes significantly in shape and size with the passing of the seasons. Politically, it is unique as it contains one of the few areas of continental space not claimed by any nation-state. Scientifically, the continental ice sheet has provided us with vital evidence about the Earth ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Haida Gwaii Lesson

    A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty

    by Mark Dowie ...
    In The Haida Gwaii Lesson, former University of California journalism professor and Mother Jones editor Mark Dowie shares the story of the Haida people, relating their struggle for sovereignty and title over their ancient homeland as a strategic playbook for other indigenous peoples.For over 10,000 years, the Haida people thrived on a rugged and fecund archipelago south of Alaska, which they ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Dispossession and the Environment

    Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

    by Paige West ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Morning Star Rising

    The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua

    by Camellia Webb-Gannon, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, April K. Henderson ...
    Series series Indigenous Pacifics
    That Indonesia’s ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long night of Indonesian colonization. However, united in their pursuit of merdeka (freedom) in its many forms, what holds West Papuans together is greater ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Blue New Deal

    Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean

    by Chris Armstrong ...
    An urgent account of the state of our oceans today—and what we must do to protect themThe ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures, and, as we exhaust the resources to be found on land, it is becoming central to the global market. But today we are facing two urgent challenges at sea: massive environmental destruction, and spiraling inequality in the ocean ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Ethno-erotic Economies

    Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya

    by George Paul Meiu ...
    Ethno-erotic Economies explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars and on beaches, young men deliberately cultivate their images as sexually potent African men to attract women, sometimes for a night, in other cases ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Seeds We Planted

    Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School

    by Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. The Seeds We Planted tells the story of Hālau Kū Māna against the backdrop of the Hawaiian struggle for self-determination and the U.S. charter school movement, revealing a critical ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    Co-Winner of the Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological SocietyWhat the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD