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  • Pushing Boundaries in Social Work Around the World, Vol. 2

    Policy and Global Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Henrickson, Darla Spence Coffey ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This book provides examples of how social workers have pushed back against neoliberalism, attempts to co-opt or silence social workers, and reproduce philosophical and ethical assumptions that divide humans from each other and from the natural world.This is the second book of a two-volume set that focuses on how authors have pushed boundaries in a particular field of practice, research or policy ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Degrowth

    A Vocabulary for a New Era

    Edited by Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis ...
    Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

    Free

  • Practising Feminist Political Ecologies

    Moving Beyond the 'Green Economy'

    Edited by Wendy Harcourt, Ingrid L. Nelson ...
    Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the 'green economy', it features the latest analyses of the post-Rio+20 debates alongside a nuanced reading of the impact of ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Challenging Global Development

    Towards Decoloniality and Justice

    Edited by Henning Melber, Uma Kothari, Laura Camfield, Kees Biekart ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can be challenged through teaching, research, and engagement in policy and practice, and the sorts of ... Read more

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  • Anti-colonial research praxis

    Methods for knowledge justice

    Edited by Caroline Lenette ...
    How can anti-colonial research methodologies be transformative and achieve knowledge justice? This book brings together leading scholars from around the world to share methodological knowledge grounded in First Nations and majority-world expertise and wisdom. The authors challenge western-centric and colonial approaches to knowledge production, redefining the possibilities of what we can achieve ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Innovation in Environmental Leadership

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Benjamin W. Redekop, Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Rian Satterwhite ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Leadership Research
    Innovation in Environmental Leadership offers innovative approaches to leadership from a post-industrial and ecological vantage point. Chapters in this collection are written by leading scholars and practitioners of environmental leadership from around the globe, and are informed by a variety of critical perspectives, including post-heroic approaches, systems thinking, and the emerging insights of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Feminist Futures

    Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

    by Amy Lind, Rachel Simon-Kumar, Ifi Amadiume, Raka Ray, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Dana Collins, Peter Chua, David McKie, Banu Subramaniam, Arturo Escobar, Wendy Harcourt, Ming-yan Lai, Minoo Moallem, Anjali Prabhu, Linda Klouzal, Julia D Shayne ...
    Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South.Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Reimagining Development

    Bold Directions Towards a Thriving World

    by Peter Sutoris, Uma Pradhan ...
    Imagining a better future is at the heart of development. But mainstream development models are driven by a very narrow, Western-centric set of ideas about what it means to be human. What could be possible if we let ourselves imagine differently? As our world continues to evolve at breakneck speed and faces unprecedented crises--from the decaying environment to cascading inequality--the need for ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics

    Edited by Jay Drydyk, Lori Keleher ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics provides readers with insight into the central questions of development ethics, the main approaches to answering them, and areas for future research. Over the past seventy years, it has been argued and increasingly accepted that worthwhile development cannot be reduced to economic growth. Rather, a number of other goals must be realised:Enhancement of ... Read more

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  • The Ecosocial Transition of Societies

    The contribution of social work and social policy

    Edited by Aila-Leena Matthies, Kati Närhi ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. In order to achieve this, the book strengthens the environmental paradigm in social work and social policy by undertaking further research on theoretical and conceptual clarification as well as distinct reflections on its practical directions.Divided into five parts: ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Global Citizenship Education

    Everyday Transcendence

    by William Gaudelli ...
    Global Citizenship Education addresses the intersection of globalization, education and programmatic efforts to prepare young people to live in a more interdependent, complex and fragile world. The book explores topics such as sustainability education, cultural diversity, and human rights education, offering critical insights into how these facets of GCE are interpreted around the world. The book ... Read more

    $80.99 USD