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  • Anthropologists in the SecurityScape

    Ethics, Practice, and Professional Identity

    Edited by Robert Albro, George Marcus, Laura A McNamara, Monica Schoch-Spana ...
    As the military and intelligence communities re-tool for the 21st century, the long and contentious debate about the role of social scientists in national security environments is dividing the disciplines with renewed passion. Yet, research shows that most scholars have a weak understanding of what today's security institutions actually are and what working in them entails. This book provides an ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Church, Cosmovision and the Environment

    Religion and Social Conflict in Contemporary Latin America

    Edited by Evan Berry, Robert Albro ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment
    Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilizations and policy debates about environmental issues in the region. This edited collection describes and analyses multiple types of religious engagement with environmental concerns and conflicts seen in modern Latin ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

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    Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

    by Jessica Hernandez Ph.D. ...
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  • Gender, War, and Conflict

    by Laura Sjoberg ...
    Series series Gender and Global Politics
    From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men. Women have fought in wars, either as women or covertly dressed as men, throughout the history of warfare, but only recently have they been allowed to join state militaries, insurgent groups, and terrorist ... Read more

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  • Mixtec Evangelicals

    Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group

    by Mary I. O'Connor ...
    Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor ... Read more

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  • The Deadly Life of Logistics

    Mapping Violence in Global Trade

    by Deborah Cowen ...
    In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our “stuff” has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war.In The Deadly Life of Logistics, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

    $32.99 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

  • Track Two Diplomacy in Theory and Practice

    by Peter Jones ...
    Track Two diplomacy consists of informal dialogues among actors such as academics, religious leaders, retired senior officials, and NGO officials that can bring new ideas and new relationships to the official process of diplomacy.Sadly, those involved in official diplomacy often have little understanding of and appreciation for the complex and nuanced role that Track Two can play, or for its ... Read more

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  • The Broken Village

    Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras

    by Daniel R. Reichman ...
    In The Broken Village, Daniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented migration to and from the United States. The small village—called here by the pseudonym La Quebrada—was once home to a thriving coffee economy. Recently, it has become dependent on migrants working in distant ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Understanding the Intelligence Cycle

    Edited by Mark Phythian ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This book critically analyses the concept of the intelligence cycle, highlighting the nature and extent of its limitations and proposing alternative ways of conceptualising the intelligence process.The concept of the intelligence cycle has been central to the study of intelligence. As Intelligence Studies has established itself as a distinctive branch of Political Science, it has generated its own ... Read more

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  • El Alto, Rebel City

    Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

    by Sian Lazar, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several years, El Alto has been at the heart of resistance to neoliberal market reforms, such as the export ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD