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  • Sharecropping and Sharecroppers

    de T. J. Byres ...
    First Published in 1983. Of all the social relationships that exist in the countryside in contemporary poor countries, and which have existed in the past in ‘developed’ countries, that of share tenancy is among the most significant and the most fascinating. It is, and has been, geographically widespread, varied in its manifestations, and historically tenacious. Sharecropping has been singled out ... Leer más

    $171.99 USD

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  • Encountering Development

    The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

    de Arturo Escobar ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • Other Cities, Other Worlds

    Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

    Edición de Andreas Huyssen ...
    Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. Paying particular attention to the historical and cultural dimensions of urban life, they ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Parks in Transition

    Biodiversity, Rural Development and the Bottom Line

    de Brian Child ...
    Parks face intense pressure from both environmental and developmental perspectives to conserve biodiversity and provide economic opportunities for rural communities. These imperatives are often in conflict, while potential solutions may be subject to theoretical and practical disagreement and complicated by pressing economic, political and cultural considerations.Parks in Transition collects the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Race, Racism and Development

    Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice

    de Kalpana Wilson ...
    Race, Racism and Development places racism and constructions of race at the centre of an exploration of the dominant discourses, structures and practices of development. Combining insights from postcolonial and race critical theory with a political economy framework, it puts forward provocative theoretical analyses of the relationships between development, race, capital, embodiment and resistance ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Law and Society in Latin America

    A New Map

    Edición de Cesar Garavito ...
    Series series Law, Development and Globalization
    Over the past two decades, legal thought and practice in Latin America have changed dramatically: new constitutions or constitutional reforms have consolidated democratic rule, fundamental innovations have been introduced in state institutions, social movements have turned to law to advance their causes, and processes of globalization have had profound effects on legal norms and practices. Law and ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Humanitarian Invasion

    Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan

    de Timothy Nunan ...
    Series series Global and International History
    Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a country touched by international aid like no other. Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and Afghan sources, Timothy Nunan forges a vivid account of the impact of development on a country on the ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Politics of Tropical Africa

    de Richard Hodder-Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    This wide-ranging and informative introduction to politics in tropical Africa, first published in 1984, is essential reading to students, businessmen, government officials and economic advisers alike. Situating the contemporary scene firmly in its historical context, which stresses both pre-colonial and colonial heritages, he emphasizes how politicians are constrained by the past, the physical ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Cultural Perspectives on Development

    Edición de Vincent Tucker ...
    What does cultural analysis have to offer development studies? Is culture a new paradigm for the study of development or a minefield of theoretical confusion? Can we move beyond notions of global culture' and local culture' to a more refined notion of cultural processes? This collection of articles addresses these issues providing a diversity of approaches. Two themes in particular run through the ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Marginality and Exclusion in Egypt

    de Kamal Fahmi, Moushira Elgeziri, Asef Bayat, Dalia Wahdan, Rabab El Mahdi, Heba Hagrass, Ali Kadri, Saker El Nour, Reem Saad ...
    What does it mean to be marginalized? Is it a passive condition that the disadvantaged simply have to endure? Or is it a manufactured label, reproduced and by its nature transitory?In the wake of the new uprising in Egypt, this insightful collection explores issues of power, politics and inequality in Egypt and the Middle East. It argues that the notion of marginality tends to mask the true power ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Power of Development

    Edición de Jonathan Crush ...
    Post-colonial, post-modern and feminist critiques have challenged the ways we theorise and practice development. Development is not just the conclusion of economic logic; its histories reveal a legacy of contested power, illuminating the contemporary battlefields of knowledge. These essays explore the language of development, its rhetoric and meaning within different political and institutional ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South

    de CROP ...
    This book brings forth debates on the production and eradication of poverty from experiences in the global South. It collects a set of innovative articles concentrating on the way in which poverty, as a social process, has been tackled by popular movements and the governments of various states across the globe. Providing new insights into the limitations of traditional strategies to confront ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD