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  • Why Vulnerability Still Matters

    The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation

    Edición de Greg Bankoff, Dorothea Hilhorst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
    We think vulnerability still matters when considering how people are put at risk from hazards and this book shows why in a series of thematic chapters and case studies written by eminent disaster studies scholars that deal with the politics of disaster risk creation: precarity, conflict, and climate change.The chapters highlight different aspects of vulnerability and disaster risk creation, ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Post-Colonial National Identity in the Philippines

    Celebrating the Centennial of Independence

    de Greg Bankoff, Kathleen Weekley ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002.Presenting a fresh understanding of the construction of Post-Colonial national identity in the new context of globalization, this text looks at the dilemmas of the requirement to compete in the global economy and the political demands of human rights and cultural differences. The authors are concerned with the ways in which a modern state attempts to mould ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World

    Bordering on Danger

    Edición de Greg Bankoff, Joseph Christensen ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the dangers and the patterns of adaptation that emerge through exposure to risk on a daily basis. By addressing the influence of environmental factors in Indian Ocean World history, the collection reaches across the boundaries of the natural and social sciences, presenting case-studies that deal with a diverse range of natural hazards – fire in Madagascar, drought in India, ... Leer más

    $116.09 USD

  • Cultures and Disasters

    Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edición de Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, E. Lisa F. Schipper ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
    Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines? Making sense of such questions and observations is only possible by understanding how the decision ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Cultures of Disaster

    Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines

    de Greg Bankoff ...
    In this fascinating and comprehensive study, Greg Bankoff traces the history of natural hazards in the Philippines from the records kept by the Spanish colonisers to the 'Calamitous Nineties', and assesses the effectiveness of the relief mechanisms that have evolved to cope with these occurrences. He also examines the correlation between this history of natural disasters and the social hierarchy ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Mapping Vulnerability

    Disasters, Development and People

    de Greg Bankoff, Dorothea Hilhorst, George Frerks ...
    Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure. So what can be done? The key to understanding the causes of disasters and mitigating their impacts is the concept of 'vulnerability'.Mapping Vulnerability analyses ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • Populism

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Cas Mudde, Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse phenomena. What is populism really? Who are the populist leaders? And what is the relationship between populism and democracy? This book answers these ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • Activists beyond Borders

    Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    de Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...
    Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Canada and the Third World

    Overlapping Histories

    Edición de Karen Dubinsky, Sean Mills, Scott Rutherford ...
    Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies.Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • State and Society in the Philippines

    de Donna J. Amoroso, Patricio N. Abinales ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    This clear and nuanced introduction explores the Philippines’ ongoing and deeply charged dilemma of state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaboration between government leaders and social forces. Patricio N. Abinales and Donna J. Amoroso examine the long history of institutional weakness in the Philippines and the varied ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • American Empire

    A Global History

    de A. G. Hopkins ...
    Series series America in the World
    A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain and Europe, A. G. Hopkins takes readers from the colonial era to today to show how, far from diverging, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Global Multiculturalism

    Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation

    de Grant H. Cornwell, Eve Walsh Stoddard, Henley Adams, Patricia Alden, Anne Csete, Judith De Groat, Edimilson de Almeida Pereira, Louis Dupont, Kirk Fuoss, Randall T. H. Hill, William Hunt, Joseph Kling, Nathalie LeMarchand, John Makumbe, Celia Nyamweru, Laura Nuzzi O’Shaughnessy, Ansil Ramsay, Steven F. White ...
    Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries-each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity groups are included, or made invisible by forced assimilation, or reviled even to the point of ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD