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  • Decentring Development

    Understanding Change in Agrarian Societies

    by T. Jakimow ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The ways we understand processes of agrarian change are pressing issues for policy makers and development practitioners. Interpreting changes in two agrarian societies in India and Indonesia, the author reveals how transformations to self are critical factors shaping change, as well as under-recognized consequences of development initiatives. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Affect, Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice

    Edited by Tanya Jakimow ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    This book advances new research directions that explore the emotional and affective dimensions of development. Going beyond merely placing emotion and/or affect as the objects of study, it examines ‘development’ in fresh ways through analysis of its affective dimensions.Affect and emotions are complicit in the structural conditions that sustain material and social inequalities and deprivations, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Theorizing Chinese Citizenship

    by Zhonghua Guo, Taihui Guo, Thomas Janoski, Kerry Kennedy, Hui Li, Samantha A. Vortherms, Canglong Wang, Ying Xia, Bin Xiao0, Yihan Xiong1, Yi Lin2, Zhenzhou Zhao3, Malgorzata Jakimów4, Bing Guan5 ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined by means of translation and education at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Chinese ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Susceptibility in Development

    Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia

    by Tanya Jakimow ...
    Series series Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
    Susceptibility in Development offers a novel approach to understanding power in development through theories of affect and emotion. Development agents - people tasked with designing or delivering development - are susceptible to being affected in ways that may derail or threaten their 'sense of self'. This susceptibility is in direct relation to the capacity of others to engender feelings in ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • China's citizenship challenge

    Labour NGOs and the struggle for migrant workers' rights

    by Malgorzata Jakimów ...
    China's citizenship challenge tells a story of how labour NGOs contest migrant workers' citizenship marginalisation in China. The book argues that in order to effectively address problems faced by migrant workers, these NGOs must undertake 'citizenship challenge': the transformation of migrant workers' social and political participation in public life, the broadening of their access to labour and ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

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  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Asian Politics in Development

    Essays in Honour of Gordon White

    Edited by Robert Benewick, Marc Blecher, Sarah Cook ...
    This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, civil society, welfare and globalization. ... Read more

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  • Filipinos in Canada

    Disturbing Invisibility

    by Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, John Paul Catungal, Roland Sintos Coloma, Lisa M. Davidson ...
    The Philippines became Canada’s largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures as the victimized nanny, the selfless nurse, and the gangster youth. On one hand, these narratives concentrate ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    by Agnieszka Weinar, Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access short reader discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on highly-skilled migration. Highly-skilled migrations are arguably the only non-controversial migrant category in political and public discourse. The common perception is that highly-skilled migrants are high ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Governing Global-City Singapore

    Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew

    by Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This book provides a detailed analysis of how governance in Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is today, and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew future. Firstly, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in Singapore’s one-party dominant system and the system’s durability. Secondly, it tracks developments ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Rural Migrants in Urban China

    Enclaves and Transient Urbanism

    Edited by Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’s economic vision. Unlike most developing countries, however, these are not squatter settlements but ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD