Skip to main content

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...
  • Borders in Service

    Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centres

    Borders in Service traces the intersection of service labour and national identity across global call centres in seven countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mauritius, Morocco, the Philippines, and the US-Mexico border. While most studies on offshore call centres have focused on India this collection explores the experiences of call center workers in many of the newly emerging hubs of ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Invisible Labor

    Hidden Work in the Contemporary World

    Across the world, workers labor without pay for the benefit of profitable businesses—and it's legal. Labor trends like outsourcing and technology hide some workers, and branding and employer mandates erase others. Invisible workers who remain under-protected by wage laws include retail workers who function as walking billboards and take payment in clothing discounts or prestige; waitstaff at ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • Media and Development

    de Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Communication and Social Change

    A Citizen Perspective

    de Thomas Tufte ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change?In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD

  • Can NGOs Make a Difference?

    The Challenge of Development Alternatives

    Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Partisan Publics

    Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks

    de Ann Mische ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption scandals, political protest, and intense electoral contention. In the midst of this turmoil, Ann Mische argues in this remarkable book, youth activists of various stripes played a vital and unrecognized role, contributing new forms of ... Leer más

    $34.59 USD

  • The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change

    Series series Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
    This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and communication in advancing the goals of social, cultural, and political change.A stand-out reference on a vital topic of primary ... Leer más

    $187.00 USD

  • The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications

    Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates ... Leer más

    $47.00 USD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Facing An Unequal World

    Challenges for Global Sociology

    Edición de Raquel Sosa Elízaga ...
    Series series SAGE Studies in International Sociology
    "Raquel Sosa Elízaga has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading."- Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scientist, Sociology, Yale UniversityOver recent decades, living conditions in poorer countries have deteriorated, leaving us faced with the present phenomenon of global ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Accountability through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action

    Accountability has become a buzzword in international development. Development actors appear to delight in announcing their intention to ?promote accountability??but it is often unclear what accountability is and how it can be promoted. This book addresses some questions that are crucial to understanding accountability and for understanding why accountability is important to improve the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Ethnic Entrepreneurs

    Identity and Development Politics in Latin America

    de Monica DeHart ...
    Indigenous groups are not often recognized as driving forces in the push for economic development. However, in development efforts across Latin America, governments and corporations have begun to see ethnic cultural difference as an advantage. Ethnic Entrepreneurs explores how diverse groups historically seen as obstacles to development have become valuable to state and regional development ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD