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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “thomas ponniah”
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  • Another World Is Possible

    World Social Forum Proposals for an Alternative Globalization

    Edited by William Fisher, Thomas Ponniah ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    In 2001 the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The meeting was viewed by many at the time as a new manifestation of the global Left, a people's opposition to the World Economic Forum that stood as the first real front to global capitalism since the collapse of the Soviet Union. While many activists and intellectuals on the left have since become deeply critical of the Forum ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. From the bestselling authors of Tightrope,two of our most fiercely moral voicesWith Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the ... Read more

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  • Basic Income

    A Transformative Policy for India

    by Mr Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, Prof. Guy Standing, Soumya Kapoor Mehta ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional ... Read more

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  • Occupy

    Three Inquiries in Disobedience

    by W.J.T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, Michael Taussig ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy ... Read more

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  • Innovating for the Global South

    Towards an Inclusive Innovation Agenda

    by Janice Gross Stein, Joseph Wong, Dilip Soman ...
    Series series Munk Series on Global Affairs
    Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today’s world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than $2 per day and lack basic human necessities such as nutritious food, shelter, clean water, primary health care, and education.Innovating for the Global South offers fresh solutions for ... Read more

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  • Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development

    Is Business the Solution?

    by Michael Hopkins ...
    The business of business is business. So why should corporations be involved in development? This groundbreaking new book makes the case that governments and their international agencies, grouped under the umbrella of the United Nations, have failed in their attempts to rid the planet of underdevelopment and poverty. If development is the objective then it seems that the solution and the ... Read more

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  • Grassroots Postmodernism

    Remaking the Soil of Cultures

    by Gustavo Esteva, Madhu Suri Prakash ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    With the publication of this remarkable book in 1998, Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash instigated a complete epistemological rupture.Grassroots Post-modernism attacks the three sacred cows of modernity: global thinking, the universality of human rights and the self-sufficient individual. Rejecting the constructs of development in all its forms, Esteva and Prakash argue that even alternative ... Read more

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  • Saving Gary McKinnon

    A Mother's Story

    by Janis Sharp ...
    The ordinary lives of Gary McKinnon and his mother Janis changed dramatically one morning in 2002 when police interviewed Gary about hacking into US government computers. Three years later, on 7 June 2005, he was arrested. Extradition seemed certain and so, fearing that Gary would take his own life rather than be taken away, Janis began her extraordinary battle. Facing up to sixty years' ... Read more

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  • The Climate Majority

    by Leo Barasi ...
    The Climate Majority is the first book to investigate climate apathy, to describe how it prevents action to stop climate change and to show how it can be beaten with an approach developed for political campaigns.Leo Barasi argues that dangerous climate change will only be prevented if the majority of people—including those who aren’t environmentalists—are persuaded of the need to limit emissions. ... Read more

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  • Media Movements

    Civil Society and Media Policy Reform in Latin America

    by María Soledad Segura, Silvio Waisbord ...
    *Winner of the AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize 2017*Social movements throughout contemporary Latin America are successfully influencing and shaping media policy. In this highly original, detailed, and in-depth study, Silvio Waisbord and María Soledad Segura scrutinize the goals, tactics, and impact of civic media movements across the region, demonstrating the full extent of media activism on ... Read more

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  • Reclaiming the Land

    The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Edited by Sam Moyo, Paris Yeros ...
    Rural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis of dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers, have used land occupations and other tactics to confront the neoliberal state. This ... Read more

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  • Men and Development

    Politicizing Masculinities

    by Chris Dolan, Chimaraoke Izugbara, Margrethe Silberschmidt, Doctor Robert Morrell, Penny Morrell, Radhika Chopra, Marcos Nascimento, Christine Ricardo, Marianna Olinger, Marcio Segundo, Fang Gang, He Xiaopei, Susie Jolly, Patrick Welsh, Cheryl Overs, Raewyn Connell, Jeff Hearn, Gary Barker, Cath Sluggett, Jerry Okal, Andrea Cornwall, Jerker Edström, Alan Greig, akshay khanna ...
    A wide-ranging volume featuring contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development.Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on both ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD