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  • From Transition to Power Alternation

    Democracy in South Korea, 1987-1997

    by Carl Saxer ...
    Series series East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
    In 1987 South Korea began a democratic transition after almost three decades of significant economic development under authoritarian rule. Increased civil unrest caused by dissatisfaction resulted in the regime agreeing to constitutional changes in the summer of 1987. By 1992 the first president without a military background was elected and during his tenure a further deepening of democracy took ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment

    by Cristóbal Kay ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    Upon its publication in 1989, this was the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Latin American School of Development and an invaluable guide to the major Third World contribution to development theory. The four major strands in the work of Latin American Theorists are: structuralism, internal colonialism, marginality and dependency. Exploring all four in detail, and the ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Development Fieldwork

    A Practical Guide

    Edited by Regina Scheyvens ...
    This book provides an invaluable guide to undertaking development fieldwork in both the developing world and in western contexts. It takes you through all the key stages in development research and covers:Research design and the roles of quantitative and qualitative methods.Research using archival, textual and virtual data, along with using the internet ethically.Practical as well as personal ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

  • Sharecropping and Sharecroppers

    by T. J. Byres ...
    First Published in 1983. Of all the social relationships that exist in the countryside in contemporary poor countries, and which have existed in the past in ‘developed’ countries, that of share tenancy is among the most significant and the most fascinating. It is, and has been, geographically widespread, varied in its manifestations, and historically tenacious. Sharecropping has been singled out ... Read more

    $242.99 CAD

  • Transgenics and the Poor

    Biotechnology in Development Studies

    Edited by Ronald J. Herring ...
    Genetic engineering is changing the terrain of development studies. Technologies with unprecedented potential - the capacity to move genes across species - have created widely politicized phenomena: ‘Frankenfoods’, ‘GMOs’, and ‘The Terminator’. En masse, the public has reacted with equanimity or appreciation to genetically engineered pharmaceuticals, beginning with insulin, but transgenics in food ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Roads to Reconciliation

    by Howard Adelman, Tone Bringa, Craig Etcheson, Alcinda Honwana, Vasuki Nesiah, Mohamed Othman, Filip Reyntjens, William Schabas, Daphna Shraga, Dionisio Babo Soares, Stef Vandeginste, Rubén I. Zamora ...
    Series series Press for Change (lex)
    The past two decades have witnessed the end of several civil wars and authoritarian regimes. In a period shaped by the ideal of democratization, in which more countries are emerging from deep-rooted conflicts, international attention is turning to the question of how societies with a grievous past face issues of accountability and reconciliation. How do societies deal with a past characterized by ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

    Resources, Consumption, and Sustainable Solutions

    Edited by David E. Lorey ...
    Series series The World Beat Series
    The most serious environmental problems of the twenty-first century have the potential to alter the course of life on this planet. Global warming, toxic waste, water and air pollution, acid rain, and shrinking energy supplies are frightening challenges that may threaten our future if we do not face up to them. Global Environmental Challenges provides important information and gives us hope about ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Asia-Africa Development Divergence

    A Question of Intent

    by David Henley ...
    Why have South-East Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam been so successful in reducing levels of absolute poverty, while in African countries like Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania, despite recent economic growth, most people are still almost as poor as they were half a century ago?This book presents a simple, radical explanation for the great divergence in development performance ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Childhood with Bourdieu

    Edited by L. Alanen, E. Brooker, B. Mayall ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection is an engaging exploration of how Bourdieu's key concepts - field, habitus and capital - help us re-think the status of childhood. The authors are committed to improving the social status and well-being of childhood in social, economic and political worlds that too often fail to accord children respect for their human rights. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Automobility

    Car Culture in West Africa

    by Lindsey B. Green-Simms ...
    For more than a century cars have symbolized autonomous, unfettered mobility and an increasingly global experience. And yet, they are often used differently outside the centers of global capitalism. This pioneering book considers how, through the lens of the automobile, we can assess the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in West Africa. Through new and provocative readings of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • People, Aid and Institutions in Socio-economic Recovery

    Facing Fragilities

    Edited by Dorothea Hilhorst, Bart Weijs, Gemma van der Haar ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    An estimated 2 billion people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence. Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in these areas, and governments and international agencies seek avenues to enable socio-economic recovery and to support people as they try to rebuild their lives and livelihoods.People, Aid and Institutions in Socio-economic Recovery: Facing Fragilities ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD