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  • Capitalist Accumulation and Socio-Ecological Resilience

    Black People in Border Areas of Colombia and Ecuador and the Palm Oil Industry

    by Edna Yiced Martinez ...
    Series Book 9 - Transpekte: Transdisziplinaere Perspektiven der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften / Transpects: Transdisciplinary Perspectives of the Social Sciences and Humanities
    By combining Marxism with feminist political economy and political ecology, this book develops a theoretical frame about the continuity of plundering and looting in the region of Tumaco-San Lorenzo at the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador, as well as the long history of resistance that Black-Afro communities of artisan fishers and small farmers have carried out for more than five centuries. ... Read more

    $60.79 CAD

  • Bounding Greed

    Worklife Integration and Positive Coping Strategies Among Faculty of Color in Early, Middle, and Late Career Stages at Comprehensive Universities

    Edited by René O. Guillaume, Edna Martinez ...
    Series series Work-Life Balance
    Building on the work of Guillaume (2021), the collection of autoethnographies and testimonios in this book highlight positive coping mechanisms, strategies, and healthy boundaries that early, middle, and late-career Faculty of Color at comprehensive universities have deployed to negotiate home and work.As beautifully stated by Aeriel A. Ashlee, whose story you will find in chapter two: 'It is not ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

  • Beyond The Pride and The Privilege

    The Stories of Doctoral Students and Work-Life Balance

    by Joanne M. Marshall ...
    Series series Work-Life Balance
    Attrition among doctoral students has become a perennial issue in higher education (Gardner, 2009; Golde, 2000) as 40 to 60 percent of doctoral students do not complete their program of study (Bair &Haworth, 2005). Such outcomes are inconsistent with the rigorous evaluation that occurs prior to being accepted into a doctoral program (Bair & Haworth, 2005). Despite deemed levels of student ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

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  • Drop the Ball

    Achieving More by Doing Less

    by Tiffany Dufu ...
    Tiffany Dufu's Drop the Ball is a bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement that shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to ... Read more

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  • Climate Chaos

    Ecofeminism and the Land Question

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    Today's social and ecological crises, which threaten the preservation of life on our planet, require our attention to understand the dynamics of patriarchy and capitalism, as well as to unmask "answers" or false solutions that obscure, perpetuate, and even worsen the current situation. Ecofeminists have critically examined several of the underlying assumptions of the capitalist-patriarchal ... Read more

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  • For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

    Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

    by Christopher Emdin ...
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  • Evo's Bolivia

    Continuity and Change

    by Linda C. Farthing, Benjamin H. Kohl ...
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  • Abundant Community

    Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

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  • Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced

    Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land

    by Nicole Fabricant ...
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  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

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    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to ... Read more

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