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  • Women and Work

    The Age of Post-Feminism?

    by Liz Sperling, Mairead Owen ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: The 1990s have been heralded as the 'age of women' based on the facts that, globally, more women are benefiting from formal education and are in paid employment in greater numbers than ever. As such, the possibility that an age of post-feminism has been reached, in which battles for women’s basic rights have largely been won, is implied. This book, based on ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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  • Participation

    From Tyranny to Transformation: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development

    Edited by Samuel Hickey, Giles Mohan ...
    Participation has established itself as a significant approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in developing and developed countries alike. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by agencies and social change agents intent simply on pursuing their own agendas under cover of community ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Adventures in Aidland

    The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development

    Edited by David Mosse ...
    Series Book 6 - Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology
    Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Anthropologists have drawn critical attention to the interfaces and social effects of development’s ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Can NGOs Make a Difference?

    The Challenge of Development Alternatives

    Edited by Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey, Diana C. Mitlin ...
    Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Remapping Gender in the New Global Order

    Edited by Marjorie Griffin-Cohen, Janine Brodie ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    This book analyses changes in gender relations, as a result of globalization, in countries on the semi-periphery of power. Semi-periphery refers to those nations which are not drivers of change globally, but have enough economic and political security to have some power in determining their own responses to global forces. Individual countries obviously face challenges that are to some extent ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Toward Engaged Anthropology

    Edited by Sam Beck, Carl A. Maida ...
    By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism. However, this engagement also moves anthropologists away from traditional roles of observation ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Struggle for Development

    by Benjamin Selwyn ...
    The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist development? What can be done to overcome this destructive dynamic?In this hard-hitting analysis Benjamin Selwyn shows how capitalism generates widespread poverty, gender discrimination and environmental ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Water on Tap

    Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services

    by Bronwen Morgan ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    In the 1990s and mid-2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

    Volume 4

    Edited by Thomas L. Harper, Michael Hibbard, Heloisa Costa, Anthony Gar-On Yeh ...
    Series series Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
    Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning.The topics they address include planning and governance in Zimbabwe, rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Student Politics and Protest

    International perspectives

    Edited by Rachel Brooks ...
    Series series Research into Higher Education
    Despite allegations of political disengagement and apathy on the part of the young, the last ten years have witnessed a considerable degree of political activity by young people – much of it led by students or directed at changes to the higher education system. Such activity has been evident across the globe. Nevertheless, to date, no book has brought together contributions from a wide variety of ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Local and Regional Development

    Edited by Andy Pike, Andres Rodriguez-Pose, John Tomaney ...
    The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this Handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and regional development, encouraging dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between notions of ‘local and ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Social Justice in Times of Crisis and Hope

    Young People, Well-being and the Politics of Education

    Edited by Shane Duggan, Emily Gray, Peter James Kelly, Kirsty Finn, Jessica Gagnon ...
    Series Book 34 - Global Studies in Education
    The first two decades of the 21st century have been characterised by conflict, displacement, growing economic insecurity and austerity. Increasing social polarisation has meant that contemporary societies are becoming more unequal with smaller segments of the population having access to the most wealth. Ongoing conflicts around the world and the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe has only ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD