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  • When Norms Collide

    Local Responses to Activism against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage

    by Karisa Cloward ...
    Many transnational campaigns, and particularly the transnational campaign on violence against women, promote international norms that target the behavior of local nonstate actors. But these international norms are often at odds with local practices. What happens when the international and local norms collide? When does transnational activism lead individuals and communities to abandon local norms ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Beyond the Boomerang

    From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics

    by Christopher L. Pallas, Elizabeth A. Bloodgood, Susan Appe, Suparna Chaudhry, Karisa Cloward, Andrew Heiss, Laura A. Henry, Lan Phuong Nguyen, Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues0, Jackie Smith1, Shana M. Starobin2, Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom3, Anders Uhlin4, Marisa von Bülow5, Jan Aart Scholte7 ...
    Series series NGOgraphies: Ethnographic Reflections on NGOs
    From Networks to Scales: Rethinking Advocacy Power in Global Politics.Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink introduced the boomerang theory in their 1998 book, Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. It remains one of the first broadly applicable theories for why groups of NGOs and interested individuals form transnational advocacy networks. Since its publication, ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

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    The Role of Non-State Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East

    Edited by David Armstrong, Valeria Bello ...
    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
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  • Participation

    From Tyranny to Transformation: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development

    Edited by Samuel Hickey, Giles Mohan ...
    Participation has established itself as a significant approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in developing and developed countries alike. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by agencies and social change agents intent simply on pursuing their own agendas under cover of community ... Read more

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  • Can NGOs Make a Difference?

    The Challenge of Development Alternatives

    Edited by Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey, Diana C. Mitlin ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Global Labour Studies

    by Marcus Taylor, Sébastien Rioux ...
    Series series Work & Society
    From the rise of fully automated factories to the creation of new migrant workforces, the world of work, employment and production is rapidly changing. By reshaping the global distribution of wealth, jobs and opportunities, these processes are unleashing profound social and environmental tensions, as well as new political movements. As a means to address these crucial themes, Global Labour Studies ... Read more

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  • Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility

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    by Agnieszka Weinar, Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access short reader discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on highly-skilled migration. Highly-skilled migrations are arguably the only non-controversial migrant category in political and public discourse. The common perception is that highly-skilled migrants are high ... Read more

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  • Unfree Labour?

    Edited by Aziz Choudry, Adrian A. Smith ...
    With so many political establishments and economic institutions undergoing enormous changes, many economic theories are being called into question. The legitimacy of capitalism is being considered by socialist economists the world over, and critiques of Marxism are attempting to put the school of thought into a more modern context. Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century calls into ... Read more

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  • Democratizing Global Climate Governance

    by Hayley Stevenson, John S. Dryzek ...
    Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable set of problems that are unprecedented in their scope and severity. Given that climate governance is generated and experienced internationally, effective global governance is imperative; yet current modes of governance have failed to deliver. Hayley Stevenson and John Dryzek argue that effective collective action depends crucially ... Read more

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  • Internal Affairs

    How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights

    by Wendy H. Wong ...
    Why are some international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) more politically salient than others, and why are some NGOs better able to influence the norms of human rights? Internal Affairs shows how the organizational structures of human rights NGOs and their campaigns determine their influence on policy. Drawing on data from seven major international organizations—the International Committee ... Read more

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  • Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice

    Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization

    by Louise Fortmann ...
    Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together scholars, policymakers, and development workers to reflect on where the field is today and where it is headed. The contributors draw from their experiences and research in Latin America, Asia, and Africa to illuminate the ... Read more

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  • Governance and the Democratic Deficit

    Assessing the Democratic Legitimacy of Governance Practices

    by Victor Bekkers, Geske Dijkstra, Menno Fenger ...
    It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policy making, a transformation which has been labelled as a change from 'government' to 'governance'. Governance is used to describe policy making and implementation without a central authority in a non-hierarchical, network-like structure through negotiation and cooperation between public and private actors at one ... Read more

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