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  • Enduring Polygamy

    Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis

    by Bruce Whitehouse ...
    Series series Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
    Why hasn’t polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Africa’s fastest-growing cities: Bamako, the capital of Mali, where one in four wives is in a polygamous marriage. Using polygamy as a lens through which to survey sweeping changes in urban life, it offers ethnographic and demographic insights into the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Polygamy: The Basics

    by Bruce Whitehouse, William Jankowiak ...
    Series series The Basics
    Polygamy: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the kinship structure known as plural marriage or polygamy. Tailored for general readers and non-specialists, this book distils research findings from evolutionary anthropology, history, economics, political science, and cultural anthropology to survey polygamy’s place in human cultural, economic, and demographic developments from ... Read more

    $39.84 CAD

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  • Migrants and Strangers in an African City

    Exile, Dignity, Belonging

    by Bruce Whitehouse ...
    In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Gender Equality

    Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship

    Edited by Linda C. McClain, Joanna L. Grossman ...
    Citizenship is the common language for expressing aspirations to democratic and egalitarian ideals of inclusion, participation and civic membership. However, there continues to be a significant gap between formal commitments to gender equality and equal citizenship - in the laws and constitutions of many countries, as well as in international human rights documents - and the reality of women's ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Reinventing the Republic

    Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France

    by Catherine Raissiguier ...
    Early one morning in 1996, the sanctuary of a Parisian church was suddenly disrupted by a police raid. A group of undocumented immigrant families had taken refuge in the church under threat of deportation due to the French state's increasingly restrictive immigration policies. Rather than disperse and hide, these sans-papiers—people literally without papers— came together to bring to light the ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Whose Freedom?

    The Battle over America's Most Important Idea

    by George Lakoff ...
    A thought-provoking exploration of the conservative political tactics that have claimed ownership over the United States's most defining value."A very persuasive argument that Democrats have allowed Republicans to hijack words such as 'freedom' and 'liberty' in fundamental ways that have undercut Democrats' credibility." ― Chicago TribuneIn the wake of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Condemned to Repeat?

    The Paradox of Humanitarian Action

    by Fiona Terry ...
    Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Justice by Means of Democracy

    by Danielle Allen ...
    A bold and urgent articulation of a new political philosophy: power-sharing liberalism."An important critique of much of twentieth-century liberalism, which emphasized the distinction between liberty and democracy…. An important and provocative work of political theory. Essential."— ChoiceAt a time of great social and political turmoil, when many residents of the leading democracies question the ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Sense of the Central African Republic

    by Roland Marchal, Ned Dalby, Faouzi Kilembe, Ledio Cakaj, Nathaniel Olin, Enrica Picco, Stephen W. Smith, Laurence D. Wohlers ...
    Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • The Suffering of the Immigrant

    by Abdelmalek Sayad, Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by David Macey ...
    This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader’s understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad’s book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration and identity in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, politics and geography.an outstanding and original work on the experience of immigration ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives

    Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota

    by Jon D. Holtzman ...
    This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study – the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology.It provides an opportunity to examine issues of current importance within anthropology, such as social change, transnationalism, displacement, and diaspora in an ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • On Education

    by Harry Brighouse ...
    What is education for? Should it produce workers or educate future citizens? Is there a place for faith schools - and should patriotism be taught?In this compelling and controversial book, Harry Brighouse takes on all these urgent questions and more. He argues that children share four fundamental interests: the ability to make their own judgements about what values to adopt; acquiring the skills ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD