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“jayson lusk”

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  • The Food Police

    A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate

    by Jayson Lusk ...
    A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are wallowing in government subsidies. Meat packers and fast food ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Unnaturally Delicious

    How Science and Technology Are Serving Up Super Foods to Save the World

    by Jayson Lusk ...
    The food discussion in America can be quite pessimistic. With high obesity rates, diabetes, climate change, chemical use, water contamination, and farm animal abuse, it would seem that there wasn't very much room for a positive perspective. The fear that there just isn't enough food has expanded to new areas of concern about water availability, rising health care costs, and dying bees.In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Transdisciplinary Approaches in Social Work

    Critical and Decolonial Perspectives

    by Abshana Jamal, Fabian Kessl, Henk O. Vandaele, Jaika Maem Gradiz Arce, Jessica Eckhardt, Judit Castellví-Majó, Kiran Thampi, Lija Mary Mathew, M.K. Joseph, Nina Victoria Leistner, Nycil Romis Thomas, Raed Naim Amira ...
    Rooted in Eurocentric and North American beliefs, conventional social work theory increasingly fails to address the interconnected, global nature of contemporary social problems. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from across environmental studies, gender studies, philosophy, anthropology and beyond, this edited collection forges a transdisciplinary, decolonial framework for reimagining ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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  • Learning Activism

    The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements

    by Aziz Choudry ...
    What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that such organizations are best understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge, debates, and ... Read more

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  • The Revolutionary Road to Me

    Identity Politics and the Western Left

    by Chetan Bhatt ...
    How can the left be credible when it can’t decide what a woman is? How can antiracists fight for equality if they promote fictions about race? If identity politics is the answer, why are so many Western left organizations being damaged by it?As the culture wars rage, this compelling book examines why much of the Western political left has foundered because of identity politics. Identity issues ... Read more

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  • Confronting Equality

    Gender, Knowledge and Global Change

    by Raewyn Connell ...
    What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across gender equality struggles, family change, class and education, intellectual workers, and the global dimension of social science, to contemporary ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Feminist Futures

    Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

    by Amy Lind, Rachel Simon-Kumar, Ifi Amadiume, Raka Ray, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Dana Collins, Peter Chua, David McKie, Banu Subramaniam, Arturo Escobar, Wendy Harcourt, Ming-yan Lai, Minoo Moallem, Anjali Prabhu, Linda Klouzal, Julia D Shayne ...
    Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South.Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, ... Read more

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  • Challenging Global Development

    Towards Decoloniality and Justice

    Edited by Henning Melber, Uma Kothari, Laura Camfield, Kees Biekart ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can be challenged through teaching, research, and engagement in policy and practice, and the sorts of ... Read more

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  • Transnationalism

    by Steven Vertovec ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states.This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the study of globalization before concentrating on migrant transnational practices. Each chapter demonstrates ways in which new and contemporary transnational practices of migrants are fundamentally ... Read more

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  • Consciousness-Raising

    Critical Pedagogy and Practice for Social Change

    Edited by Nilan Yu ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    Almost everywhere across the world, economic inequality has been rising within and across national borders. The vision of a fairer world embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being assailed by the advance of conservative ideology aided by vitriolic right-wing populism sweeping across the globe. Neoliberal ideology has had a profound impact in the shaping social work and human ... Read more

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  • Feminisms in Development

    Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges

    Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison, Ann Whitehead ...
    This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies.Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function ... Read more

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