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  • Values Deliberation and Collective Action

    Community Empowerment in Rural Senegal

    by Beniamino Cislaghi, Diane Gillespie, Gerry Mackie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book describes how a program of values deliberations–-sustained group reflections on local values, aspirations, beliefs and experiences, blending with discussions of how to understand and to realize human rights--led to individual and collective empowerment in communities in rural Senegal. The study explains what happens during the deliberations and shows how they bring about a larger process ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • Geography of Power

    Making Global Economic Policy

    by Richard Peet ...
    This work looks at how contemporary global economic policies are made: by which institutions, under what ideologies, and how they are enforced. The author reveals the central roles played by organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank in supervising the livelihoods of over 2.5 billion people. He shows that neoliberal economic policy is enforced by a few thousand unelected and unaccountable ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Spaces of Aid

    How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

    by Lisa Smirl ...
    Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization

    Towards a Renewal of Critical Theory

    by José Maurício Domingues ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies
    This book investigates modern global civilization, offering an alternative to post-colonial theories and the "multiple modernities" approach (as well as the civilizational theory linked to it). It argues that modernity has become a global civilization that is heterogeneous and intertwined with other civilizations, and also aims at a renewal of critical theory that is not US-centric and Eurocentric ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Agrarian Distress and Farmer Suicides in North India

    by Lakhwinder Singh, Kesar Singh Bhangoo, Rakesh Sharma ...
    This volume provides a comprehensive and detailed socio-economic overview of agrarian distress in India which has manifested in the suicides of farmers and agricultural labourers. Using empirical research and field data from rural India, especially Punjab, this book examines the underlying causes of farmer suicide and steps which can mitigate the crisis.Covering nearly 1,400 rural households, the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • UN Millennium Development Library: Environment and Human Well-being

    A Practical Strategy

    by UN Millennium Project ...
    The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • China and Global Capitalism

    Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics

    by L. Chun ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In this concise historical and conceptual analysis of China's evolving position in a world defined predominantly by global capitalist development, Lin offers a critical review of relevant debates and discusses the imperative and feasibility of a socialist Chinese model, reconstructed, as an alternative to standardized modernity at an impasse. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Asia

    Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development

    Edited by John Farrington, David J. Lewis ...
    Series series Non-Governmental Organizations series
    This presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Asia. Beginning with a broad review of institutional activity at the grassroots, the authors set the case material within the context of NGO relations with the State and their contribution to democratisation and the consolidation of rural civil society ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The Aesthetics of Development

    Art, Culture and Social Transformation

    Edited by John Clammer, Ananta Kumar Giri ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Through a unique range of theoretical and practical case studies, this collection considers the relationship between the arts (understood as the visual arts, crafts, theatre, dance, and literature) and development, creating both a bridge between them that is rarely explored and filling in concrete ways the content of the “culture” part of the equation “culture and development”. It includes ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Epidemics

    Science, Governance and Social Justice

    Edited by Sarah Dry, Melissa Leach ...
    Series series Pathways to Sustainability
    Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so-called 'emerging infectious diseases'. Understanding and responding to these often unpredictable events have become major challenges for local, national and international bodies. All too often, responses can become restricted by implicit ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Development and Sustainability

    The Challenge of Social Change

    Edited by Alberto Cimadamore, Maurice Mittelmark, Gro Therese Lie, Fungisai P. Gwanzura Ottemöller ...
    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    While the need for effective action toward a greener and socially inclusive economy has long been evident, health promotion in the context of sustainable development has faltered. Arguing that human health is the key factor to sustainable development, Development and Sustainability promotes a fresh, transdisciplinary approach to the eradication of extreme poverty.This ground-breaking book calls ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Making Poverty

    A History

    by Thomas Lines ...
    In this clear and intelligent book, Thomas Lines examines the role that global policies have played in creating a crisis of rural poverty. He explains the mechanisms of markets and supply chains, charting their impact on agricultural trade in the world's poorest countries.A desperate situation is emerging which could soon leave little place for hundreds of millions of smallholders across the world ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD