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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “shelda jane smith”
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  • Neurodivergent Youthhoods

    Adolescent Rites of Passage, Disability and the Teenage Epilepsy Clinic

    by Shelda-Jane Smith ...
    Series series Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
    Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity. As transitional healthcare becomes an increasing fixture within paediatric and adolescent healthcare, this book captures how normative, biomedical and psychologised understandings of youth development permeate social life.Through an in-depth institutional ethnography of a UK ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Defending Community, Territory, and Indigenous Environmental Relations

    by Levi Gahman, Filiberto Penados, Cristina Coc, Shelda-Jane Smith ...
    Series series Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research
    This Element addresses a range of pressing challenges and crises by introducing readers to the Maya struggle for land and self-determination in Belize, a former British colony situated in the Caribbean and Central America. In addition to foregrounding environmental relations, the text provides deeper understandings of Qʼeqchiʼ and Mopan Maya people's dynamic conceptions and collective defence of ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • A Beginner’s Guide to Building Better Worlds

    Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas

    by Levi Gahman, Nasha Mohamed, Filiberto Penados, Johannah-Rae Reyes, Atiyah Mohamed, Shelda-Jane Smith ...
    This ambitious book offers radical alternatives to conventional ways of thinking about the planet’s most pressing challenges, ranging from alienation and exploitation to state violence and environmental injustice.Bridging real-world examples of resistance and mutual aid in Zapatista territory with big-picture concepts like critical consciousness, social reproduction and decolonisation, the authors ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

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    Putting Freire into Practice

    by Margaret Ledwith ...
    In a world in which social divisions are widening not lessening, it is essential for community development, or any other practice committed to social justice and sustainability, to understand how power works at every level, from grassroots projects to movements for change.This exciting and practical book is filled to the brim with useful ideas for busy practitioners. Building on the work of Paulo ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America

    by Timothy MacNeill ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustainable development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and that it ... Read more

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  • Practising Feminist Political Ecologies

    Moving Beyond the 'Green Economy'

    Edited by Wendy Harcourt, Ingrid L. Nelson ...
    Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the 'green economy', it features the latest analyses of the post-Rio+20 debates alongside a nuanced reading of the impact of ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Men’s Activism to End Violence Against Women

    Voices from Spain, Sweden and the UK

    by Nicole Westmarland, Anna-Lena Almqvist, Linn Egeberg Holmgren, Sandy Ruxton, Stephen Burrell, Custodio Delgado Valbuena ...
    EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Some have argued that more men should play a role in ending violence against women – but what do we know about those men who are already doing so?Using case studies from Spain, Sweden and the UK, this book highlights those men who are already taking action. Examining the social, cultural, political and economic factors that support men ... Read more

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  • Fresh Banana Leaves

    Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

    by Jessica Hernandez Ph.D. ...
    **A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & TechnologyAn Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors.**Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

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  • Using Occupational Therapy Theory in Practice

    Edited by Gail Boniface, Alison Seymour ...
    Competence in any profession depends upon an understanding of the theory that underlies it. This concise and practical text for students and practitioners bridges the gap between occupational therapy theory and clinical practice, offering highly practical advice on using theory in practice in a wide range of settings. It considers the nature of professional practice and the need for a sound ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Decolonizing Methodologies

    Research and Indigenous Peoples

    by Linda Tuhiwai Smith ...
    To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory.This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Encountering Development

    The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

    by Arturo Escobar ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • A Sociology Of Mental Health And Illness

    by Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim ...
    This book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness. ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD