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  • Shifting States

    New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure, and Political Affect

    Modifié par Alison Dundon, Richard Vokes ...
    Collections series ASA Monographs
    Shifting States draws on a rich history of anthropological theorising on all kinds of states – from the pre- to the post- industrial – and explores topics as diverse as bureaucracy, infrastructure, surveillance, securitization, and public health.As we enter the third decade of the twentieth century, there is a growing sense that ‘the state’ is in crisis everywhere. Although the nature of this ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Media and Development

    par Richard Vokes ...
    Collections series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    At the start of the 21st century, the relationship between media and development has never felt more important. Following a series of ‘media revolutions’ throughout the developing world – beginning with the advent of cheap transistor radio sets in the late-1960s, followed by the rapid expansion of satellite television networks in the 1990s, and the more recent explosion of mobile telephony, social ... En savoir plus

    $79.69 CAD

  • Elections in Museveni's Uganda

    Modifié par Sam Wilkins, Richard Vokes ...
    Uganda’s 2016 elections, which returned thirty-year incumbent President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) in yet another landslide, took place in an atmosphere of patronage, coercion and fraud. But is this diagnosis sufficient to understand the processes of voting and regime maintenance in Uganda today? Based on a series of detailed case studies from across Uganda, this ... En savoir plus

    $90.68 CAD

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  • Development Projects Observed

    par Albert O. Hirschman, Michele Alacevich ...
    Collections series A Brookings Classic
    Originally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of Development Projects Observed is deceptive. Today, it is recognized as the ultimate volume of Hirschman's groundbreaking trilogy on development, and as the bridge to the broader social science themes of his subsequent writings. Though among his lesser-known works, this unassuming tome is one of his most influential.It is in ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Post-Disaster Reconstruction

    Lessons from Aceh

    Modifié par Matthew Clarke, Ismet Fanany, Sue Kenny ...
    On Sunday 26 December 2004, a tsunami of up to 30 metres high hit the northern tip of Sumatera in Indonesia, causing immediate destruction and the deaths of at least 130,000 in Indonesia alone. The scale of the devastation and ensuing human suffering prompted the biggest response endeavour to any natural disaster in history.Post-Disaster Reconstruction will be the first major book that analyses ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Disaster and Development

    par Andrew E. Collins ...
    Collections series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of the association of disaster and development is as old as development studies itself, recent decades have produced an intensifying demand for a fuller understanding. Evidence of disaster and development progressing together has ... En savoir plus

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  • Failing to Protect

    The UN and the Politicization of Human Rights

    par Rosa Freedman ...
    Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights. These violations occur worldwide, in war-torn countries and in the wealthiest states. Despite many of the abuses being well-documented, little seems to be done to stop them from happening. The United Nations was established to safeguard world peace and security, development, and human rights yet it is undeniable ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Case Against the Global Economy

    And for a Turn Towards Localization

    Modifié par Jerry Mander ...
    The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be profound and irreversible, but globalization itself is not inevitable. In The Case Against the Global Economy, 24 leading economic, agricultural, ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Localization

    A Global Manifesto

    par Colin Hines ...
    Localization is a manifesto to unite all those who recognize the importance of cultural, social and ecological diversity for our future - and who do not aspire to a monolithic global consumer culture. It is a passionate and persuasive polemic, challenging the claims that we have to be 'internationally competitive' to survive and describing the destructive consequences of globalization. This book ... En savoir plus

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  • UN Millennium Development Library: Halving Hunger

    It Can Be Done

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • One World Mania

    A Critical Guide to Free Trade, Financialization and Over-Globalization

    par Graham Dunkley ...
    In this much-needed book, Graham Dunkley challenges the oft-repeated notion that free trade and global integration are the best means of development for all nations at all times – an idea that has proved even more misguided in the wake of the global financial crisis. By contrast, Dunkley reveals – through a wide range of statistical analysis and case studies – that at best the evidence is mixed. ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Trade Liberalisation and Poverty

    Vietnam now and beyond

    par Minh Son Le, Tarlok Singh, Duc-Tho Nguyen ...
    This book uses Alan Winters’ analytical framework to investigate the effects of trade liberalisation on economic growth and poverty in Vietnam. The country launched a programme of economic and trade reforms, known as Doi Moi, in the mid-1980s which placed the economy on a transitional path from central planning to a market economy. Since then Vietnam has attained a number of remarkable ... En savoir plus

    $90.68 CAD