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  • The Global Women's Movement

    Origins, Issues and Strategies

    par Peggy Antrobus ...
    Collections 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. ... En savoir plus

    $51.49 CAD

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  • Ecological Imperialism

    The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900

    par Alfred W. Crosby ...
    Collections series Studies in Environment and History
    People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Desire for Development

    Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative

    par Barbara Heron ...
    In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in the post-development recollections of white Canadian women who have worked in Africa. Following the narrative arc of the ... En savoir plus

    $47.19 CAD

  • Capitalism's Last Stand?

    Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity

    par Walden Bello ...
    'Walden Bello is the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary.' - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock DoctrineIn this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises. Trenchant but constructive, Bello's analysis of the collapse of the global real economy, covering such issues as the Wall Street meltdown, the disintegration ... En savoir plus

    $26.29 CAD

  • Culture, Health and Development in South Asia

    Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh

    par M. Islam ...
    Collections series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Recently, mass arsenic poisoning of groundwater has emerged as a disastrous public health concern in Bangladesh. Apart from hundreds of deaths that have already been reported, 85 million people are estimated to be at high risk of developing deadly arsenicosis symptoms. The severity and extent of arsenicosis have obliged the government of Bangladesh to declare it the "worst national disaster" the ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • State of Rebellion

    Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

    par Louisa Lombard ...
    Collections series African Arguments
    Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins.In this first comprehensive account of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far – ... En savoir plus

    $29.49 CAD

  • The Politics of the Governed

    Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

    par Partha Chatterjee ...
    Collections series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the ... En savoir plus

    $30.39 CAD

  • Governing African Gold Mining

    Private Governance and the Resource Curse

    par Ainsley Elbra ...
    Collections series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa’s resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship’s state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives to demonstrate that firms are actively controlling the regulation of the gold mining sector. It shows how large mining firms with ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD

  • Still Standing? eBook

    Looking back at reconstruction and disaster risk reduction in housing

    Modifié par Theo Schilderman, Eleanor Parker ...
    Huge levels of aid are spent on reconstructing housing after disasters. Have these houses withstood the test of time and hazard? Just as important from the point of view of their owners, has the reconstruction process played a part in restoring their livelihoods and social networks? Unfortunately, aid agencies rarely go back to assess the impact of reconstruction in the longer term. The research ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Political Economy of Microfinance

    Financializing Poverty

    par Philip Mader ...
    Collections series Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
    According to the author, rather than alleviating poverty, microfinance financialises poverty. By indebting poor people in the Global South, it drives financial expansion and opens new lands of opportunity for the crisis-ridden global capital markets. This book raises fundamental concerns about this widely-celebrated tool for social development. ... En savoir plus

    $153.69 CAD

  • Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa

    Modifié par Ute Röschenthaler, Dorothea Schulz ...
    Collections series Routledge African Studies
    This book seeks to widen perspectives on entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the diverse and partly new forms of entrepreneurial practice in Africa since the 1990s. Contrary to widespread assertions, figures of success have been regularly observed in Africa since pre-colonial times. The contributions account for these historical continuities in entrepreneurship, and identify the specifically ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • Arab Human Development in the Twenty-first Century

    The Primacy of Empowerment

    Modifié par Bahgat Korany ...
    With its emphasis on the primacy of change, this study arrives at a particularly auspicious moment, as the Middle East continues to be convulsed by the greatest upheavals in generations, which have come to be known as the Arab Spring. Originally prepared as the tenth-anniversary volume of the UNDP's Arab Human Development Report, Arab Human Development in the Twenty-first Century places ... En savoir plus

    $67.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus