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  • Rice Politics in Southeast Asia

    Legacies of the Green Revolution

    by Jamie S. Davidson ...
    Rice is the foremost foodstuff in terms of caloric intake for Southeast Asians and for bolstering national food security, yet writings on the region's politics have overlooked the crucial role rice production programs have played in shaping signal political and development outcomes. In this comparative historical analysis, Jamie S. Davidson argues that the performance legitimacy stemming from the ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Indonesia

    Twenty Years of Democracy

    by Jamie S. Davidson ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
    This Element argues that after twenty years of democratization, Indonesia has performed admirably. This is especially so when the country's accomplishments are placed in comparative perspective. However, as we analytically focus more closely to inspect Indonesia's political regime, political economy, and how identity-based mobilizations have emerged, it is clear that Indonesia still has many ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Indonesia's Changing Political Economy

    Governing the Roads

    by Jamie S. Davidson ...
    Indonesia is Southeast Asia's largest economy and freest democracy yet vested interests and local politics serve as formidable obstacles to infrastructure reform. In this critical analysis of the politics inhibiting infrastructure investment, Jamie S. Davidson utilizes evidence from his research, press reports and rarely used consultancy studies to challenge mainstream explanations for low ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Water as a Social Opportunity

    Edited by Jamie Linton, Warren E. Mabee, Seanna Davidson ...
    Series Book 3 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen’s University with the idea that it is more illuminating and constructive to think about water as an opportunity.Water as a Social Opportunity conveys the idea that the ways in which society responds to water-related challenges has the potential to ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics

    The Deployment of Adat from Colonialism to Indigenism

    Edited by Jamie Davidson, David Henley ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    The Indonesian term adat means ‘custom’ or ‘tradition’, and carries connotations of sedate order and harmony. Yet in recent years it has suddenly become associated with activism, protest and violence. This book investigates the revival of adat in Indonesian politics, identifying its origins, the historical factors that have conditioned it and the reasons behind its recent blossoming.It considers ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    The Tragedy of Endowment

    by Abiodun Alao ...
    Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to land in Zimbabwe and water in theHorn of Africa, the politics surrounding ownership, management, and control of natural resources has disrupted communities and increased external intervention in these ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Land

    by Derek Hall ...
    Series series Resources
    Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so complex, it can be difficult to think them through in a unified way. This path-breaking book aims to change that by combining ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The New Scramble for Africa

    by Padraig R. Carmody ...
    Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now rising and the availability of natural resources falling, the continent finds itself at the centre of a battle to gain access to and control of its valuable natural assets. China's role in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Money, Power, and Ideology

    Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

    by Marcus Mietzner ...
    Are political parties the weak link in Indonesia’s young democracy? More pointedly, do they form a giant cartel to suck patronage resources from the state? Indonesian commentators almost invariably brand the country’s parties as corrupt, self-absorbed, an ... Read more

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  • The End of Development

    A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity

    by Andrew Brooks ...
    Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?Human history unfolded differently across the globe. The world is separated in to places of poverty and prosperity. Tracing the long arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early twenty first century in an argument grounded in a deep understanding of geography, Andrew Brooks rejects popular explanations for the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Caribbean Community: the Struggle for Survival

    by Kenneth Hall, Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang ...
    The papers which comprise this publication, The Caribbean Community: The Struggle for Survival represents the Editor's choice from among thousands of articles, books and other commentaries that have provided clear and reasoned responses and solutions to inform and guide Caribbean leadership and the people of the Region. They also take a comprehensive look at regional intergration and serve as a ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Dragon in the Caribbean: China's Global Re-Dimensioning - Challenges and Opportunities for the Caribbean

    by Richard L. Bernal ...
    Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China’s economic relationship with the countries of the Caribbean has grown significantly. While most of the burgeoning literature on China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean, focus primarily on Latin America, Dragon in the Caribbean is arguably the first book to examine China’s relationship with the Caribbean.An overview is given of ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD