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  • Traders Versus The State

    Anthropological Approaches To Unofficial Economies

    by Gracia Clark ...
    This book addresses the multifaceted issue of the state vis-a-vis those perceived as actors in the informal or simple commodity production economy. It discusses both state and traders' strategies to display recurrent themes, emphasized and combined differently in specific contexts. ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • African Market Women

    Seven Life Stories from Ghana

    by Gracia C. Clark ...
    "A wonderfully evocative compilation of seven life histories from Kumasi, Ghana, of women Gracia Clark encountered in the course of a lifetime of fieldwork." — African Studies ReviewIn these lively life stories, women market traders from Ghana comment on changing social and economic times and on reasons for their prosperity or decline in fortunes. Gracia Clark shows that market women are ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Female Voices from the Worksite

    The Impact of Hidden Bias against Working Women across the Globe

    by Marquita R. Walker, Asli Sahankaya Adar, Per Bauhn, Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy, Armand Chevalier, Gracia Clark, Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira, Saniye Dedeoglu, Lynn Duggan, Anil Duman0, Lygia Sabbag Fares1, Elizabeth Hoffmann2, Anu Mariam Philipose3, Chris Sahley4, Fatma Fulya Tepe5, Nisha Viswanathan6 ...
    This collection analyzes women’s narratives on the workplace. These narratives speak to the daily struggles women face in the workforce, such as inflexible and long work hours, masculine workplace cultures, employers’ stereotypical attitudes, and the absence of work-life balance initiatives. Viewed from a sociological perspective, the authors emphasize the reoccurring themes of devaluation, ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Economic Development

    An Anthropological Approach

    by Jeffrey Cohen, Nils Gilman, Patricia Lyons Johnson, Nitish Jha, Mike Woost, Gracia Clark, Elizabeth T. Kennedy, Michael Chibnik, Lee Cronk & Shannon Steadman, Cynthia Ann Werner, Ty Matejowsky, Rhoda H. Halperin, Monica Lindh de Montoya, Miguel Montoya ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development. Chapters cover the key topics of market systems, agricultural knowledge, modernization, population growth, participatory development, conservation strategies, culturally sustainable ... Read more

    $56.89 CAD

  • Cooperation in Economy and Society

    by James Acheson, Matthew Bird, Gracia Clark, Bruce Dahlin, Malcolm Dow, E Anthon Eff, Katrina T. Greene, Julie Hogeland, Carolyn Lesorogol, Daniel Mazeau, Kathleen Millar, Rahul Oka, Benjamin Porter, Ronald Rich, Agustín Fuentes, Scott R. Hutson ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives. Not all of these analyses show stable and long-term results of successful cooperation. The ... Read more

    $168.49 CAD

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    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • African Friends and Money Matters, Second Edition

    Observations from Africa

    by David E Maranz ...
    Series Book 43 - Publications in Ethnography
    African Friends and Money Matters grew out of frustrations that Westerners experience when they travel and work in Africa. Africans have just as many frustrations relating to Westerners in their midst. Each manages money, time, and relationships in very different ways, often creating friction and misunderstanding. This book deals with everyday life in Africa, showing the underlying logic of ... Read more

    $17.39 CAD

  • The Growth Delusion

    The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations

    by David Pilling ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019'A near miracle' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About CapitalismAccording to the economy, we have never been wealthier or happier. So why doesn't it feel that way? The Growth Delusion explores how we prioritise growth maximisation without stopping to think about the costs. So much of what is important to our well ... Read more

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  • Environmental Governance

    Institutions, Policies and Actions

    by Arild Vatn ...
    Environmental governance encompasses our relations to nature, spanning institutions and policies in fields such as biodiversity loss, climate change, land use and pollution. This book offers tools for the study of environmental conflicts, analyzes the current status of environmental policies and discusses why we are so far from resolving many of the issues we face. It also offers alternative ... Read more

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  • Famine, Affluence, and Morality

    by Peter Singer ...
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  • Environment, Scarcity, and Violence

    by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon ...
    The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water, and forests. Thomas Homer-Dixon argues in this sobering book that these environmental scarcities will have ... Read more

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