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  • Renewing Destruction

    Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in a Latin American Context

    by Alexander A. Dunlap ...
    Series series Transforming Capitalism
    Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments. Wind energy development, in Mexico and most countries, fall into a ‘roll out’ neoliberal strategy that is justified by climate change mitigation programs that are continuing a process of land and wind resources grabbing for profit. The result has been an exaggeration of pre-existing problems in communities ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • The Violent Technologies of Extraction

    Political ecology, critical agrarian studies and the capitalist worldeater

    by Alexander Dunlap, Jostein Jakobsen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Offering a thought provoking theoretical conversation around ecological crisis and natural resource extraction, this book suggests that we are on a trajectory geared towards total extractivism guided by the mythological Worldeater. The authors discuss why and how we have come to live in this catastrophic predicament, rooting the present in an original perspective that animates the forces of global ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • The Prospects of a Pluriversal Transition to a Post-Capitalist, Post-Carbon Future

    Edited by S. A. Hamed Hosseini, Alexander Dunlap, Barry K. Gills ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    This book critically engages with a central dilemma facing counter-hegemonic movements as global crises intensify: how to foster systemic change while maintaining the plurality of their struggles. The Prospects of a Pluriversal Transition to a Post-Capitalist, Post-Carbon Future explores the tensions between fragmentation and convergence, autonomy and solidarity, and the risks of ... Read more

    $309.18 CAD

  • Enforcing Ecocide

    Power, Policing & Planetary Militarization

    Edited by Alexander Dunlap, Andrea Brock ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Policing and ecological crises – and all the inequalities, discrimination, and violence they entail – are pressing contemporary problems. Ecological degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change threaten local communities and ecosystems, and, cumulatively, the planet as a whole. Police brutality, wars, paramilitarism, private security operations, and securitization more widely impact people – ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

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  • Intersectionality

    by Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and ethnicity shape one another?In this fully revised and expanded second edition of their popular text, Patricia Hill Collins ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Encountering Development

    The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

    by 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 ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Territories of Difference

    Place, Movements, Life, Redes

    by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Communication and Social Change

    A Citizen Perspective

    by 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 ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Global Citizenship Education: A Critical Introduction to Key Concepts and Debates

    by Edda Sant, Lynette Shultz, Dr Ian Davies, Dr Karen Pashby ...
    Global Citizenship Education explores key ideas and issues within local, national and global dimensions. Including examples and case studies from across the world, the authors draw on ideas, experiences and histories within and beyond 'the West' to contribute to multifaceted perspectives on global citizenship education.In concise chapters, the authors set out the key concepts and debates within ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • Dilemmas of Difference

    Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy

    by Sarah A. Radcliffe ...
    In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education

    Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple

    Edited by Lois Weis, Greg Dimitriadis, Cameron McCarthy ...
    For more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. Beginning with Ideology and Curriculum (1979), Apple moved to understand the relationship between and among the economy, political and cultural power in society on the one hand "and the ways in which education is thought about, organized and evaluated" on ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Education and Neoliberal Globalization

    by Carlos Alberto Torres ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world. The first section of the book offers analytical avenues to understand and criticize the practices and ... Read more

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