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  • Power and Just Transitions

    Struggles for a Post-Coal Future in an Appalachian Valley

    de John Gaventa, Gabe Schwartzman ...
    Published in 1982, John Gaventa’s award-winning Power and Powerlessness examined the dominance of the absentee coal industry in Central Appalachia. Gaventa and Gabe Schwartzman update the story through coal’s decline and into the present while focusing on how power relations and community mobilizing have changed and evolved during this era of transition. Their analysis tracks the impact on a place ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Power and Powerlessness

    Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley

    de John Gaventa ...
    Using Clear Fork Valley in central Appalachia as an empirical example, Gaventa attempts to discern the "hidden faces of power" - those forces which shape actions and consciousness in ways not readily apparent in formal American political processes. He seeks to clarify and expand upon past theories (by such writers as Bachrach and Lukes) on the nature and maintenance of power.The region studied ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Citizen-led Innovation for a New Economy eBook

    Edición de Alison Mathie, John Gaventa ...
    This collection of eleven cases from Canada and the United States gives expression to the ideal of a new economy based on fairness and environmental sustainability. Grappling with complex problems in their local communities, organized citizens are forging innovation, prying open cracks in the prevailing economic system and seizing opportunities to redirect economic life. Featured here are examples ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Citizen-Led Innovation for a New Economy

    de John Gaventa ...
    This collection of eleven cases of citizens organizing for change in Canada and the United States gives form and substance to the ideal of a new economy based on fairness and environmental sustainability. These are stories of local citizens responding to the economically distorting effects of globalization, the environmental degradation brought about by industrial development and a deep concern ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Global Citizen Action

    Edición de Michael Edwards, John Gaventa ...
    Civil society, or citizen's groups, have taken centre stage in international policy debates and global problem solving. They hold out the promise of a global community and global governance. This volume, by leading scholars and participants, shows how to understand the changes that are occurring, particularly in relation to the international institutions involved. It includes case studies from all ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Globalizing Citizens

    New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion

    de Marjorie Mayo, Melissa Leach, Angela Alonso, Rajesh Tandon, Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras, Steven Robins, Peter Newell CSGR, Rosalba Icaza, Rebecca Cassidy0, Rebecca Napier-Moore1, Jennifer C. Franco2, Julie Thekkudan3, Linda Waldman4, Lyla Mehta5, Marcelo Saguier6 ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance, citizens in every nation are linked by the institutions of global governance, bringing new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. For some, globalization provides a sense of solidarity that inspires them to join transnational movements to claim rights from global ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Citizen Action and National Policy Reform

    Making Change Happen

    de Rabéa Naciri, Amita Baviskar, Michael D. Layton, Ana Maria Sanchez Rodriguez, Claudio A. Fuentes, Beatriz Campillo Carrete, Jennifer C. Franco, Steven Friedman, Ireri Ablanedo Terrazas, Saturnino M. Borras, Pinar Ilkkaracan ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories?These questions need answers. Aid agencies have invested heavily in supporting civil society organizations as change agents in fledgling and established democracies alike. Evidence ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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  • Canada after Harper

    His ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can now work to create the country we want

    de Ed Finn ...
    Most Canadians know that Stephen Harper has had a tremendous impact on the country since becoming prime minister in 2006. But few have the in-depth knowledge of how far his transformation has gone -- what has already been done, and what the consequences will be in the future.This book brings together Canadian experts in a wide variety of areas. They document key changes put in place by the Harper ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Welfare State

    A Very Short Introduction

    de David Garland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government. And even after decades of free-market criticism and reform, their core institutions have proven ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The End of This World

    Climate Justice in So-Called Canada

    de Angele Alook, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman, Bronwen Tucker ...
    The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Indigenous sovereignty and climate justice go hand in hand.Drawing on their work in Indigenous activism, the labour movement, youth climate campaigns, community-engaged scholarship, and independent ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • About Canada: Women’s Rights

    de Penni Mitchell ...
    Series Libro 12 - About Canada
    This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the feminist struggle is as necessary as ever — but thanks to the hard work of activist women, many forms of discrimination are a thing of the ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Economics in America

    An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality

    de Angus Deaton ...
    From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craftWhen economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America’s strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in America explains in ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD

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