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  • Socio-Environmental Movements Against Extractivism

    Legal Mobilisation and Resistance in Chile

    by Sebastian Smart ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers an unprecedented exploration into the heart of socio-environmental conflicts and mobilisations sparked by extractive projects in Latin America, with a keen focus on Chile’s unique position. It provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the intricate power dynamics between communities, corporations, and the state over environmental and territorial disputes. Delving into ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Business, Human Rights, Technology, and Transitional Justice in Latin America

    Tracing Connections

    Edited by Sebastian Smart ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers theoretical arguments and empirical studies that demonstrate why focusing on the interrelations of technology and transitional justice from a business and human rights approach is crucial to achieve basic objectives in terms of truth, justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures in post-conflict settings. This book elaborates a theoretical framework to analyze these ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System

    Edited by Karinna Fernández, Cristian Peña, Sebastian Smart ...
    This book reflects on the relationship between Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System, focusing on an interdisciplinary and detailed examination of the consequences of recent cases decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against the Chilean state. These cases illustrate central challenges in the areas of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex rights, as well as ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Pinochet's Economic Accomplices

    An Unequal Country by Force

    by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Karinna Fernández, Sebastián Smart, José Miguel Ahumada, Rodrigo Araya Gómez, José Aylwin, Laura Bernal-Bermúdez, Francisco Bustos0, Silvio Cuneo1, Elvira Domínguez-Redondo2, Magdalena Garcés Fuentes3, Marcos González Hernando4, Nancy Guzmán5, Daniela Marzi Muñoz6, Juan E. Mendez7, Carla Moscoso8, Cristian Olmos9, Leigh A. Payne0, Gabriel Pereira1, Julio Pinto Vallejos2, Naomi Roht-Arriaza3, Javier E. Rodríguez Weber4, Mariana Rulli5, Pietro Sferrazza Taibi6, Magdalena Sepúlveda7, Andrés Solimano8, Tomás Undurraga9, Ángela Vergara0, Francisco Vergara Perucich1, Peter Winn2 ...
    With a focus on Chile, Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country byForce uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing onthe behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectivesin terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. Thisbook makes visible a number of cases of economic complicity with the ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Cyberactivism

    Online Activism in Theory and Practice

    Edited by MARTHA MCCAUGHEY, Michael Ayers ...
    Cyberactivism is a timely collection of essays examining the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning of activism, what community means, and how they conceive of collective identity and democratic change. Topics addressed range from the Zapatista ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Popular Democracy

    The Paradox of Participation

    by Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Ernesto Ganuza ...
    Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community participation worldwide. But even as these opportunities have become more popular, many contend that they have also become less connected ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Cooperatives at Work

    by George Cheney, Matt Noyes, Emi Do, Marcelo Vieta, Joseba Azkarraga, Charlie Michel ...
    Series series The Future of Work
    For too long, cooperatives have been considered marginal players in the global economy, and as unrealistic venues for the aspirations of new and experienced members of the labour force. This marginalization shows in business, municipal and legal discussions, and curricula, where cooperative structures are rarely mentioned, let alone presented as viable options.Cooperatives at Work presents a range ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Ecosystem of an Open Democracy

    by Mara Balestrini, Matías Bianchi, Pablo Collada, Sabrina Díaz Rato, Tomas Diez, Ricard Espelt, Mònica Garriga, Bernardo Gutiérrez, Cristian León, Eduard Martín Borregón, Antonella Perini, Thamy Pogrebinschi, Valeria Righi, Edgar Rovira, Francesc Badia Dalmases, Antoni Gutiérez Rubí ...
    Within the framework of “political experimentation”, a perspective from which to observe the vibrant development of political innovation in Latin America – and also in Spain -, we have published the serie of The ecosystem of an open democracy article. This is a Democracia Abierta initiative in collaboration with apps4citizens, a Barcelona-based platform that promotes the development of technology ... Read more

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  • Democratizing Global Climate Governance

    by Hayley Stevenson, John S. Dryzek ...
    Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable set of problems that are unprecedented in their scope and severity. Given that climate governance is generated and experienced internationally, effective global governance is imperative; yet current modes of governance have failed to deliver. Hayley Stevenson and John Dryzek argue that effective collective action depends crucially ... Read more

    $34.99 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

  • Policing Cities

    Urban Securitization and Regulation in a 21st Century World

    Edited by Kevin Walby, Randy Lippert ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    Policing Cities brings together international scholars from numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these practices raise. Chapters cover many of the world’s major cities, including New York, Beijing, Paris, London, Berlin, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Melbourne, and Toronto, as well as other ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD