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  • Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures

    Mobilising Collective Power to Deal with the 21st Century Polycrisis

    Edited by Patrick Huntjens, Najma Mohamed, Katja Hujo, Manisha Desai ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Winner of the 2026 Nautilus Gold Award in World Cultures: Transformational Growth & Development and the 2026 Nautilus Special Honors Award: Transformative Systems Vision. Winner of an International Impact Book Award (April 2026) and a Living Now Book Award ( August 2026).This groundbreaking open access volume introduces eco-social contracts as a bold and actionable vision for addressing the major, ... Read more

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  • Subaltern Movements in India

    Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development

    by Manisha Desai ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies.Based on extensive field research, this book examines the reasons for the three social movements succeess. It ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Unpacking Globalization

    Markets, Gender, and Work

    by Linda E. Lucas, Fatoumata Badini-Kinda, Angela Beigaruraho Bazaare, Marta Chiappe, Patricia Daniel, Manisha Desai, Elsje Dijkgraaff, Signe Ekenberg, Aurelia Kamuzora, Faustin Kamuzora, Ronit Kark, Margaret Kigozi, Julius Kikooma, Harriet Muwanika Kiwemba, Meg Luxton, Emma Zapata Martelo, Mahua Mukerjee, Juliet Nazziwa Musoke, Ngila Mwase, Vannie Naidoo, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Esperanza Tunon Pablos, Noor Rahamah, Claudia Roth, Saskia Sassen, Lena Sawyer, Margaret Snyder, R C. Swarankar, Catherine Komugisha Tindiwensi, Kristen Timothy, Akello Zerupa ...
    Unpacking Globalization examines the experiences of people living with the forces that are transforming economic systems, culture, gender relationships and governance. The book offers interdisciplinary analysis of the well-being of women and men as they cope with the changes of globalization. Through theory, case studies, and data, several themes emerge indicating that from the household to the ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Women's Activism and Globalization

    Linking Local Struggles and Global Politics

    Edited by Nancy A. Naples, Manisha Desai ...
    Women's Activism and Globalization is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the new world order in their communities. The first person accounts and regional case studies provide a truly global view of women working in their communities for change. The essays examine women in urban, rural, and suburban locations around ... Read more

    $109.92 CAD

  • Neglected Social Theorists of Color

    Deconstructing the Margins

    by Tirth Bhatta, Moushumi Biswas, Marcus Brooks, Robert J. Durán, Simon Gottschalk, Julien Grayer, Heather A. O’Connell, Moushumi Roy, Rianka Roy, Maya Singhal, Sonia Valencia, Daniel R. Wildcat, Amanda Hernandez, Manisha Desai ...
    Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins provides a novel contribution to the ongoing debates concerning the canon in contemporary sociological theory. In particular, the editors argue that many scholars whose work may hold significant potential for contributions to contemporary debates in social theory go unrecognized. Still others, while not completely ignored, have fallen ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

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    Origins, Issues and Strategies

    by Peggy Antrobus ...
    Series series Global Issues
    The spread and consolidation of the women's movement in North and South over the past thirty years looks set to shape the course of social progress over the next generation. Peggy Antrobus draws on her long experience of feminist activism to set women's movements in their changing national and global context. ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • Reclaiming economics for future generations

    by Lucy Ambler, Joe Earle, Nicola Scott, Julie Froud ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    Today’s economies fail to recognise that we are in a rapidly worsening crisis, reproducing and often worsening vast and harmful inequalities between people and countries. The current models are unsustainable, and at a time when global temperatures are rising and divides are deepening, humanity is left in a rapidly worsening situation of its own making, the destruction of the living world, which ... Read more

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  • Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have. It also moves the discussion beyond the theories, principles, and laws that have been so often debated to the actual empirical consequences of affirmative action in the United States and in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • Engaging with Empowerment

    An Intellectual and Experiential Journey

    by Srilatha Batliwala ...
    In this fascinating collection of writings, Srilatha Batliwala, feminist thinker and practitioner, explores the many dimensions of what empowerment means for, and to, women. Looking back on a life lived through commitment to a cause—rather than to an organisation or to a sector—and working for it at many levels and locations, she traces the evolution of the concept from the late 1980s till now, ... Read more

    $5.35 CAD

  • India Today

    Economy, Politics and Society

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Politics Today
    Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Understanding Development

    by Paul Hopper ...
    Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

    $86.39 CAD