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  • Negotiating Mistrust

    Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Health Sectors of Niger

    by Scott Youngstedt, Alma Gottlieb ...
    Series series Contemporary Ethnography
    Unravels the complexity of pervasive mistrust across the primary medical sectors of NigerNegotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. It offers a holistic study of the medical landscape in Niamey by focusing on the intersections between three medical sectors: traditional, Islamic, and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Water, Life, and Profit

    Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger

    by Scott M. Youngstedt, Sara Beth Keough ...
    Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Paying particular attention to two key groups of people who provide water to most of Niamey’s residents - door-to-door water vendors, and those who sell ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Surviving with Dignity

    Hausa Communities of Niamey, Niger

    by Scott M. Youngstedt ...
    Surviving with Dignity explores three key interconnected themes—structural violence, suffering, and surviving with dignity—through examining the lived experiences of first and second-generation migrant Hausa men in Niamey over the past two decadesin the current neoliberal moment. Colonialism, state mismanagement, structural adjustment, and global neoliberalism have inflicted structural violence on ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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  • India Divided

    Diversity and Democracy Under Attack

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war of fundamentalisms in the age of terror. From the IT ... Read more

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  • Public Power in the Age of Empire

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today. Bringing the same care to her prose that she brought to her Booker Prize-winning ... Read more

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  • The Unfinished Revolution

    Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights

    Edited by Minky Worden ...
    “It’s a time of change in the world, with dictators toppling and new opportunities rising, but any revolution that doesn’t create equality for women will be incomplete. The time has come to realize the full potential of half the world’s population.” —Christiane Amanpour, from the forewordThe Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the global struggle to secure basic rights for women and girls, ... Read more

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  • Negotiating the Pandemic

    Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19

    Edited by Inayat Ali, Robbie Davis-Floyd ...
    Series Book 19 - Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
    This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The chapters include auto-ethnographic accounts and ethnographic explorations that reflect upon experiences ... Read more

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  • Dimensions of Culture: Cross-Cultural Communications for Healthcare Professionals

    by Marcia Carteret ...
    In cross-cultural health care interactions, there are many situations where communication is challenging because patients and their families exhibit different values, beliefs, and behaviors from those of their American physicians. Physicians educated in western medicine, who work in the health care system in the United States, operate within a highly specific medical culture though they may not ... Read more

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  • LIFE BEYOND BULLETS

    MEMOIR OF LIFE IN RURAL AFGHANISTAN AND WEST AFRICA

    by ANKUR MAHAJAN ...
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  • No-Nonsense Guide to Women’s Rights, 2nd edition

    by Nikki van der Gaag ...
    Series Book 27 - No-Nonsense Guides
    Has the battle for women’s rights been won? As Niki van der Gaag points out, “it is easy to forget just how recently so many women’s rights have been won; and how many women still face violations of their rights on a daily basis.”In this No-Nonsense Guide, van der Gaag offers a status report on the women of the world by examining issues like health, poverty, politics, law, education, the ... Read more

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  • Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa

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    Edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, Stacey A. Langwick ...
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