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Book SynopsisThis book is based on several talks and papers presented by the author in recent years. It is organized in two parts, the first dealing with an emerging development paradigm, and the second with the imperative for a new international dialogue in topics central to human development such as a peace agenda for the Third World.Trade ReviewThis remarkably honest, and somewhat provocative book provides a nice account of recent development thinking. * Kyklos *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBuilding on her groundbreaking earlier works, Low astutely describes public spaces as 'infrastructures of inclusion and exclusion,' where people, politics and place converge and connect, opening spaces for the negotiation and contestation of new public cultures. Focusing on contemporary issues such as racial injustice, climate change, socioeconomic and class inequality, she details ways that public space contributes to the flourishing of individuals, communities, cities and societies * Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University *From social justice to ecological sustainability, decades of public space fieldwork are usefully summarized in the latest 'all things public space' from Setha Low. A must have for all students of urbanism. * Emily Talen, Professor of Urbanism, University of Chicago *Most people, when asked their favorite memory of a city, mention public space--a plaza or a boulevard or a beach. How is it then that we understand so little about the social dynamics of places; that the designers and managers of public space seem to have so little research to support their work? In this book Setha Low sets out to fill that void. Why Public Space Matters is essential reading for anyone involved in the design, management, programming or simply the enjoyment, of public space. * David Burney, Director, Urban Placemaking and Management, Pratt Institute *In this brilliant and inspirational book, urban ethnographer Setha Low shows us why the stakes of debates about 'public space' in the 21st century could not be more serious and socially significant. In a world where we tend to either take public space for granted or express fear of the potential dangers they might hold, Low uses her nuanced theoretical lens and a variety of compelling ethnographic examples—from New York's Jones Beach and New Jersey's Lake Welch to Hudson Historical Park, Battery Park City after 9/11, and a thoughtful analysis of how the pandemic impacted the use and sense of public space in New York City—to demonstrate that discussions about democracy and social justice should never underestimate the importance of public space for the very sustainability of human life. * John L. Jackson, Jr., Walter H. Annenberg Dean and Richard Perry University Professor, the University of Pennsylvania *Low maintains an accessible style throughout, suitable for general readers, but the material will appeal most to expert scholars and planners. Anyone interested in public spaces will enjoy this book. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Why Does Public Space Matter? Chapter 2. What is Public Space? Chapter 3. What if Jones Beach Was Not Public: Social Justice and Belonging on Long Island, New York Chapter 4. Rebuilding a Bridge and a Community: Health and Resilience at Walkway Over Hudson, Poughkeepsie, New York Chapter 5. Playing in the Fields of Lake Welch, New Jersey Chapter 6. Improvising Public Space and the Informal Economy: Sidewalks, Streets and Markets in Buenos Aires, New York City, and Baguio City Chapter 7. Green Guerillas, Seed Bombs and Granite Gardens: Environmental Sustainability and Public Space in Paris and New York City Chapter 8. Place attachment and Cultural Identity: Monuments, Parks and Neighborhood Public Space in San José, Costa Rica, and the Statue of Liberty and Battery Park City in New York City Chapter 9. From the Winter of Despair to the Summer of Euphoria: Public Space During COVID-19 in New York City (2020-2021) Chapter 10. How to Study Public Space: The Toolkit for the Ethnographic Study of Space (TESS) in Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan, New York City and Other Strategies Appendices Appendix 1. Contact, Public Culture and Affect Atmospheres: A Theoretical Framework Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDiving into an original and unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development shows how development programs can be designed to work.How can development programs deliver benefits to marginalized citizens in ways that expand their rights and freedoms? Political will and good policy design are critical but often insufficient due to resistance from entrenched local power systems. In Patching Development, Rajesh Veeraraghavan presents an ethnography of one of the largest development programs in the world, the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), and examines NREGA''s implementation in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He finds that the local system of power is extremely difficult to transform, not because of inertia, but because of coercive counter strategy from actors at the last mile and their ability to exploit information asymmetries. Upper-level NREGA bureaucrats in Andhra Pradesh do not possess the capacity to change the power axis through direTrade ReviewHow do you get cash payments for labor to the rural poor in the world's largest anti-poverty program? From the commanding heights of the bureaucracy to the front-lines of the village, from sophisticated software to grass roots social audits, Patching Development brilliantly shows us how the National Rural Employment Guarantee program in India has confronted the infamous problems of the last mile. The challenges and conflicts of implementing public policies to fight poverty have never been illuminated in such detail and with such analytic power. * Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Map Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Genesis of Rights-Based Governance Chapter 3. Patching Technologies of Control Chapter 4. Patching Institutions Chapter 5. Public Meetings at the Last Mile Chapter 6. Reading and Writing the State Records Chapter 7. Caste, Class, and Audits Chapter 8. Conclusion: Patching the Power at the Last Mile Appendix 1. Methodology: Using Ethnography to Study Political Economy of Information Appendix 2. Explanatory Note on Comparing NREGA Performance across States

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHow do you get cash payments for labor to the rural poor in the world's largest anti-poverty program? From the commanding heights of the bureaucracy to the front-lines of the village, from sophisticated software to grass roots social audits, Patching Development brilliantly shows us how the National Rural Employment Guarantee program in India has confronted the infamous problems of the last mile. The challenges and conflicts of implementing public policies to fight poverty have never been illuminated in such detail and with such analytic power. * Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University *Brilliant! In Patching Development, Veeraraghavan offers an innovative solution to bureaucratic hierarchy that is unable to respond to clients as it faces off against local power structures. * Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley *Peppered with exhilarating stories from in-depth research among tribal communities, village councils, social activists, and state officials, Patching Development illuminates a rare case where a combination of political will and digital technology enables democratically accountable socio-economic transformation. * Kentaro Toyama, W.K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan *Veeraraghavan provides an excellent sectional analysis of social audit as patching—a mechanism to check misuse of money and authority in MGNREGA, a massive Indian public works programme. An important addition to systemic research on poverty and unemployment, Patching Development enriches the discussion on the challenges and potential of this emergent process. * Aruna Roy, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan *Development theory needs fresh thinking to move forward. Patching Development answers the call. The multilevel contestation of public officials, local politicians, and social movements is dissected together with the possibilities and limits of information technology to create a synthetic, original vision of how the needs of the poor might be better served. * Peter Evans, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Map Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Genesis of Rights-Based Governance Chapter 3. Patching Technologies of Control Chapter 4. Patching Institutions Chapter 5. Public Meetings at the Last Mile Chapter 6. Reading and Writing the State Records Chapter 7. Caste, Class, and Audits Chapter 8. Conclusion: Patching the Power at the Last Mile Appendix 1. Methodology: Using Ethnography to Study Political Economy of Information Appendix 2. Explanatory Note on Comparing NREGA Performance across States

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis fantastic new book is a major contribution to the literature on colonialism and development. Owolabi addresses the puzzle of why the early colonies with planation slavery often ended up with relatively high levels of development. Owolabi skillfully uses multimethod tools to make an eye-opening argument that merits wide attention among social scientists and historians. * James Mahoney, Northwestern University *Olukunle Owolabi, in his eye-opening treatise, describes what generations of development economists did not see, namely that countries populated by slaves of forced settlement have brought peace, prosperity, and democracy far outpacing countries of colonial occupation. He then explains why, showing the returns to emancipation and citizenship. My hat off to Owolabi for opening our eyes to what has long been obscured by academic prejudices. * David D. Laitin, Stanford University *Owolabi demonstrates that forced-settlement colonies are a distinctive form of colonial rule, fostering economic and political trajectories that diverge from-and surpass-the trajectories of other formerly extractive colonies. This counter-intuitive finding offers an important corrective to usual understandings of colonialism and development. * John Gerring, Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin *In this book, Owolabi asks an intriguing question and, through an impressive multimethod analysis of several former empires, offers a compelling answer linked to the institutional legacies of colonialism. Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects is a must-read for any scholar interested in the long-term impact of colonialism. * Matthew Lange, Professor of Sociology, McGill University *A bold, provocative, and persuasive account of the lasting effects of colonial rule. Longue durée arguments are exceedingly difficult to make yet Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects delivers on its ambitious goal: to show the importance of emancipation during the colonial era for post-colonial development and democratization. * Adria Lawrence, author of Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire *This excellent book rethinks the consequences of extractive colonial institutions. Analyzing the importance of early legal rights, Owolabi explains the puzzle of why countries in the West Indies have experienced better development outcomes than those in West Africa. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in colonialism, development, and democracy. * Jack Paine, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University *This ambitious work will certainly shape the field of comparative political studies of the varied political impact of colonialism for years to come. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Forced Settlement, Colonial Occupation, and the Historical Roots of Divergent Development in the Global South 2. A Historical Overview of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South 3. Historical Institutionalism, Critical Junctures, and the Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation 4. A Global Statistical Analysis of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation: Colonial Institutions and Postcolonial Development 5. Comparing British Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation: Jamaica and Sierra Leone 6. Comparing Portuguese Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation: Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau 7. A Global Tour of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation under French Rule: From Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and Les Antilles to Algeria and Sub-Saharan Africa 8. Conclusions, Reflections, and Avenues for Future Research Bibliography Data Appendix 4.1 Data Appendix 4.2 Data Appendix 4.3 Data Appendix 4.4 Index

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Book SynopsisA new assessment on the role, influence, and limitations of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American political development. Scholars have long debated the role and importance of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American politics. In National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics, Boris Heersink identifies a core DNC and RNC role that has thus far been missed: creating national party brands. Drawing on extensive historical case studies and quantitative analysis, Heersink argues that the DNC and RNC have consistently prioritized their role of using publicity to inform voters about their parties'' policies and priorities from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards. Both committees invested heavily in political communication tools with the goal of shaping voters'' perceptions of their parties. As Heersink shows, the DNC and RNC often have considerable freedom in determining what type of brands to promote, placing them in Trade ReviewHeersink offers a fresh and important new perspective on American political parties, challenging claims that formal party organizations are merely in service to candidates. Drawing on wide-ranging historical evidence, Heersink demonstrates national party committees have played a pivotal role in shaping their party's 'brand,' defining the party's positions and identity for voters. This impressive account will be of wide interest to students of political parties and representation. * Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley *The parties' national committees have long been disregarded as irrelevant. Drawing from new data on committee activities and careful case studies, Boris Heersink convincingly challenges that conventional wisdom, demonstrating that the DNC and RNC have been at the center of their respective party's battles since the early 20th century. In particular, Heersink details the ways in which the party committees seek to shape their party's all-important brands—key to the parties' democracy-enhancing roles as information shortcuts—in collaboration and competition with other party actors. An important read for scholars of American parties and elections. * Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame *American political parties are studied as organizations and as conveyors of information, but not until Boris Heersink's masterpiece have these two perspectives finally, and properly, met. In his diligent, methodologically rich, and empirically sophisticated study of national party committees, Heersink recasts the organizational development of the twentieth-century Democrats and Republicans. * Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University *Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction: National Committees and Party Brands Chapter 2: Examining DNC and RNC Party Branding Quantitatively: Presidential Control and National Committee Branding Decline Chapter 3: Building Permanently Active National Committees, 1912-1932 Chapter 4: National Committees and the New Deal, 1933-1952 Chapter 5: "We Either Have a National Party or We Do Not Have," 1953-1968 Chapter 6: Managing Mixed-Ideological Parties, 1969-1980 Chapter 7: "Reagan's Party" vs. "Recapturing the Center of American Politics," 1981-2000 Chapter 8: "Near Obscurity": The Deterioration of National Committee Branding, 2001-2016 Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Past and Future of National Committees References Index

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Book SynopsisBoth livelihoods and diversity have become popular topics in development studies. The livelihood concept offers a more complete picture of the complexities of making a living in rural areas of low income countries than terms formerly considered adequate, such as subsistence, incomes, or employment. Diversity recognizes that people manage by doing many different things rather than just one or a few things. This book sets out the rural livelihoods approach within the larger context of past and current themes in rural development. It adopts diversity as its principal theme and explores the implications of diverse rural livelihoods for ideas about poverty, agriculture, environment, gender, and macroeconomic policy. It also considers appropriate methods for gaining quick and effective knowledge about the livelihoods of the rural poor for project and policy purposes.Trade Reviewthis book ... has much to commend it * Steve Wiggins, Journal of Development Studies *This is a good guide to those entering the subject with little prior knowledge * Steve Wiggins, Journal of Development Studies *Professor Ellis is to be congratulated. Not for the first time, he has produced a book whose chapters can readily be added to student reading lists * Steve Wiggins, Journal of Development Studies *In a field where there has been much excitement and debate over the last two years, little of this has been overtaken by events: a tribute oto the author's ability to present lucidly mainstream positions and yet still incorporate insights from some interesting but less well known work * Steve Wiggins, Journal of Development Studies *The great virtue of Ellis's book is that it summarises the literature, and seeks to define the terms in a way that will enable future discussion to proceed from a common base * Mary Tiffen, Development Policy Review *strongly recommended. If you only have time to read one book on livelihoods, this is it * Mary Tiffen, Development Policy Review *Table of ContentsPART I. CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS, AND FRAMEWORK ; 1. Livelihoods, Diversification, and Agrarian Change ; 2. A Framework for Livelihoods Analysis ; PART II. DIMENSIONS OF DIVERSE RURAL LIVELIHOODS ; 3. Determinants of Livelihood Diversification ; 4. Poverty and Income Distribution ; 5. Agriculture and Farm Productivity ; 6. Environment and Sustainability ; 7. Gender and Rural Livelihoods ; 8. Macro Policies and Reform Agendas ; PART III. INVESTIGATING LIVELIHOODS FOR POLICY PURPOSES ; 9. Methods and Livelihoods ; 10. A Case-Study in Rural Tanzania ; PART IV. LOOKING AHEAD ; 11. Livelihoods, Diversification, and Policies

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Book SynopsisDevelopment of planted forests in tropical and subtropical countries is accelerating to satisfy the ever-growing global demands for wood products. Indeed, it is expected that within 20 years half of all wood fibre in the world will be sourced from plantations, of which more than half are in the tropics and subtropics. As well as intensively-managed, industrial wood plantations, trees are increasingly being planted as part of farming systems, and to control erosion and rehabilitate degraded lands and forests. Active community involvement in tree planting as part of rural development is now widespread and welcome. This book provides an overview that sets plantation silviculture in the wider context of the development processes and their social, environmental and ecological impacts.For this new edition, the structure and approach of previous editions have been retained but every chapter has been comprehensively revised and updated. Two new chapters - ''clonal forestry'' and ''ecological restoration'' - have been added. The central theme remains the silviculture that underpins successful industrial planted forests. Overall the book provides an up-to-date account of silvicultural practices, some of the socio-economic essentials and the key role tree planting now plays in natural resource management and improving rural livelihoods in the tropics. Contemporary issues such as full stakeholder participation and sustainable management practices in planted forests are also addressed.This expanded third edition provides a comprehensive introduction to plantation forestry practices in the tropics as part of sustainable land use. Both the historical context and recent developments are presented so that students, professional foresters, development specialists, and all with an interest in tropical forest management will find this a valuable reference text.Trade ReviewThis new edition of Plantation Forestry in the Tropics firmly re-establishes it as the standard text...Julian Evans's book deserves a place on the bookshelf of all foresters - they will find much to learn from it. * Forestry *This book provides the student with a comprehensive introduction or the practitioner or development specialist with an overview of plantation forestry and tree planting in tropical countries as part of sound land use. * Rural Development Forestry Network, Newsletter 14 *Table of ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION ; PART II LAND, SOCIAL & ECONOMIC FACTORS, AND PLANNING IN PLANTATION DEVELOPMENT ; PART III PLANTATION SILVICULTURE ; PART IV TREE-PLANTING AND PLANTATION FORESTRY IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT, SOIL CONSERVATION, REHABILITATION, ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY

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Book SynopsisThis is a study of the effectiveness of aid that the North provides to help the economic development of the South. Robert Cassen and associates range as widely as possible over the whole of official Western aid, and present the facts of what has and what has not been achieved. For this second edition the author has fully revised the text and the data, to reduce the technical content of the book, and to incorporate research findings since 1986.Trade ReviewFrom reviews of the first edition: `this is a welcome volume which deserves a place on development economics reading lists, while it is also accessible to the general reader' EconomicaTable of ContentsIntroduction ; The Macroeconomic Contribution of Aid ; Aid and Poverty ; Policy Dialogue ; Performance and Evaluation: Project, Programme, and Food Aid ; Technical Co-operation ; The Systemic Effects of Aid and the Role of Co-ordination ; Aid and Market Forces ; Multilateral-Bilateral Comparisons ; Summary: Conclusions and Recommendations

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a significant new collection of studies on formality and informality in developing countries. Containing contributions from some of the very best analysts in development studies, the volume is multidisciplinary in nature, with contributions from anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition No matter how you divide up the developing world-'formal-informal', 'legal-extralegal' (my preference)- one thing is not debatable: most people are poor, on the outside of the system looking in, and getting angrier every day. The message of this book is it's time to stop talking and start designing reforms based on the informal practices and organizations that poor entrepreneurs already use. I second that motion. If you rebuild the system from the bottom-up, they will come, with their enterprise, creativity, and piles of potential capital. * Hernando de Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru *The obvious is not necessarily the best. For many, a well-defined set of formal institutions is the obvious road to economic success. Academic analysts are attracted by the parsimony of formal institutions. Policy makers appreciate the apparent predictability of the effect on addressees. Constitutional lawyers prefer formal institutions since they lend themselves to ex post control. Yet as the book convincingly demonstrates, in many contexts, and in developing countries in particular, going for the obvious is bad policy. Imposing a small set of formal institutions forces all economic activity into a Procrustes' bed. Often, a clever mixture of formal and informal elements has two main advantages: harnessing new resources for corporate governance, and making the firm more responsive to its environment, be it demand, competition or regulatory expectations. * Christoph Engel, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn *Linking the Formal and Informal Economy is an excellent synthesis of past debates and contemporary policy analysis. It embraces economic development, governance and social justice issues and it provides innovative case studies from a wide variety of contexts. * Ray Bromley, State University of New York at Albany *Table of Contents1. Beyond Formality and Informality ; CONCEPTS AND MEASUREMENT ; 2. Bureaucratic Form and the Informal Economy ; 3. The Global Path: Soft Law and Non-sovereigns Formalizing the Potency of the Informal Sector ; 4. The Relevance of the Concepts of Formality and Informality: A Theoretical Appraisal ; 5. Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment ; 6. Formal and Informal Enterprises: Concept, Definition, and Measurement Issues in India ; EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF POLICIES AND INTERLINKING ; 7. The Impact of Regulation on Growth and Informality: Cross-Country Evidence ; 8. Financial Liberalization in Vietnam: Impact on Loans from Informal, Formal, and Semi-formal Providers ; 9. Blocking Human Potential: How Formal Policies Block the Informal Economy in the Maputo Corridor ; 10. Microinsurance for the Informal Economy Workers in India ; 11. Turning to Forestry for a Way Out of Poverty: Is Formalizing Property Rights Enough? ; 12. Voluntary Contributions to Informal Activities Producing Public Goods: Can These be Induced by Government and other Formal Sector Agents? Some Evidence from Indonesian Posyandus ; 13. Social Capital, Survival Strategies, and their Potential for Post-Conflict Governance in Liberia ; 14. Enforcement and Compliance in Lima's Street Markets: The Origins and Consequences of Policy Incoherence Toward Informal Traders ; 15. Formalizing the Informal: Is There a Way to Safely Unlock Human Potential Through Land Entitlement? A Review of Changing Land Administration in Africa

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Book Synopsis''Grow first, clean up later'' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia - China, Korea, and Taiwan in Northeast Asia and Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia - pose a critical regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of continuing rapid urban-based industrial growth. It is the most polluted region in the world.Whilst being at the leading edge of the processes of urbanization, industrialization, and globalization these economies are in the midst, not at the end, of their urban-industrial transformations. During the next 25 years urban populations in the region are expected roughly to double, and most of the industrial capital stock that will be on the ground by 2030 has not yet been built. Given East Asia''s growing size in the world''s economy and ecology, and its increasingly polluted environment, this looming urban-industrial transformation is both a challenge and an opportunity. Unless steps are taken now to make this transformation more sustainable, East Asia''s, and the world''s, environmental future is likely to deteriorate seriously.Using detailed case studies and rigorous empirical analyses Rock and Angel, leading experts in this field, show that East Asian governments have found institutionally unique ways to overcome the sustainability challenge. As a result of these findings, they demonstrate how even low income economies in the rest of the world can use regulatory polices, industrial policies, and an openness to trade and foreign investment that will increase the competitiveness of their firms whilst improving their environmental performance, thus proving an important antidote to those who argue that poor countries cannot afford to clean up their environment whilst their economies remain under-developed.Table of Contents1. East Asia's Sustainability Challenge ; 2. Late Industrialization and Technological Capabilities Building ; 3. Policy Integration: From Technology Upgrading to Industrial Environmental Improvement ; 4. The Role of Environmental Regulatory Agencies in Sustainability: Korea and Indonesia ; 5. Globalization, Opennes to Trade and Investment, Technology Transfer and Technology and the Environment: The Cement Industry in East Asia ; 6. Win-Win Environmental Intensity or Technique Effects and Technological Learning: Evidence from Siam City Cement ; 7. Impact of Multinational Corporations' Firm-Based Environmental Standards on Subsidiaries and their Suppliers: Evidence from Motorola-Penang ; 8. Global Standards and the Environmental Performance of Industry ; 9. Implications for other Industrializing Economies ; 10. Prospects for Policy Integration in Low Income Economies ; 11. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisForeign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 percent is provided as emergency assistance. In this first-ever attempt to provide an overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell presents a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all. Does Foreign Aid Really Work? sets out the evidence and exposes the instances where aid has failed and explains why. The book also examines the way that politics distorts aid, and disentangles the moral and ethical assumptions that lie behind the belief that aid does good. The book concludes by detailing the practical ways that aid needs to change if it is to be the effective force for good that itTrade Review'...[an] excellent and significant book...' * Alex De Waal, Times Literary Supplement *'...essential reading for anyone interested in the subject of aid and wishing to be informed about the issues involved.' * Nigel Grimwade, Times Higher Education Supplement *'Roger Riddell's text provides the single best introduction to the history and range of contemporary debates associated with foreign aid, including the rise of international NGOs as major actors and the centrality of domestic politics to shaping aid practice.' * John Gershman, Foreign Affairs *'Riddell provides a compelling and thorough account of the intricacies of foreign aid. The strength of this book is that it establishes the positive attributes of aid without avoiding the need to critically assess its failures. Through a combination of personal experience, conceptual insight and empirical substance, Riddell demonstrates that investigating whether foreign aid works could ensure its future, rather than undermining it.' * Sara E. Davis, International Affairs *'For anyone who wants to know more about development assistance, this is a 'must- read'. Roger Riddell provides us with a nuanced and honest outline of past and current aid-flows, their complexities, trends and possible impact. Does aid really work? His answer is a conditional, cautious - yes. And he presents some bold proposals to address some of the systemic weaknesses. It was strong international leadership that delivered the aid-reforms of the 90's. The question is whether the current leaders in development are ready for this debate?' * Hilde Frafjord Johnson, former Minister of International Development of Norway *'This book is a heroic achievement. Not only has Roger Riddell mapped out with great clarity the arcane world of international aid, in a way that will help the practitioner as much as the general reader, he has also produced visionary and challenging recommendations for reform of the system.' * Sir Michael Aaronson, former Director General of Save the Children UK *'In this impressive new study, Riddell has surpassed even his distinguished Foreign Aid Reconsidered. It includes a rare and much-needed analysis of emergency and voluntary assistance. Complete and authoritative, the book will have a long life as the definitive account of its important subject.' * Professor Robert Cassen, London School of Economics *Table of Contents1. 'A Good Thing?' ; PART I: THE COMPLEX WORLDS OF FOREIGN AID ; 2. The origins and early decades of aid-giving ; 3. Aid-giving from the 1970s to the present ; 4. The growing web of bilateral aid donors ; 5. The complexities of multilateral aid ; PART II: WHY IS AID GIVEN? ; 6. The political and commercial dimensions of aid ; 7. Public support for aid ; 8. Charity or duty? The moral case for aid ; 9. The moral case for governments and individuals to provide aid ; PART III: DOES AID REALLY WORK? ; 10. Assessing and measuring the impact of aid ; 11. The impact of official development aid projects ; 12. The impact of programme aid, technical assistance and aid for capacity development ; 13. The impact of aid at the country and cross-country level ; 14. Assesing the impact of aid conditionality ; 15. Does official development aid really work? A summing up ; 16. NGOs in development and the impact of discrete NGO development interventions ; 17. The wider impact of non-governmental and civil society organizations ; 18. The growth of emergencies and the humanitarian response ; 19. The impact of emergency and humanitarian aid ; PART IV: TOWARDS A DIFFERENT FUTURE FOR AID ; 20. Why aid isn't working ; 21. Making aid work better by implementing agreed reforms ; 22. Making aid work better by recasting aid relationships

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at poverty dynamics, or how individual experiences of poverty and wellbeing change over time. It includes work from anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists and combines qualitative and quantitative research approaches to help deepen our understanding of why some people remain poor while others escape.Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective ; PART II: POVERTY DYNAMICS: POVERTY MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT ; 2. Chronic Poverty and All That: The Measurement of Poverty Over Time ; 3. A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures ; 4. Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty ; 5. The Construction of an Asset Index Measuring Asset Accumulation in Ecuador ; 6. Looking Forward: Theory-Based Measures of Chronic Poverty and Vulnerability ; 7. Exploring Poverty Dynamics from Life History Interviews in Bangladesh ; 8. Subjective Assessments, Participatory Methods and Poverty Dynamics: The Stages of Progress Method ; PART III: EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORKS FOR UNDERSTANDING POVERTY DYNAMICS ; 9. Bringing Politics Back into Poverty Analysis: Why Understanding of Social Relations Matters More for Policy on Chronic Poverty than Measurement ; 10. Poverty Measurement Blues: Beyond 'Q-Squared' Approaches to Understanding Chronic Poverty in South Africa ; 11. When Endowments and Opportunities Don't Match: Understanding Chronic Poverty ; 12. Investments, Bequeaths, and Public Policy: Intergenerational Asset Transfers and the Escape From Poverty ; 13. Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children Up To the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty? ; 14. The Social Distribution of Sanctioned Harm: Thinking Through Chronic Poverty, Durable Poverty and Destitution ; 15. Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigour and Relevance of Social Theory

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Book SynopsisThis book presents development strategies and lessons based on a large range of ''success'' countries across the developing world. In addition to the country cases, it presents regional and overall syntheses that cover orthodox vs. heterodox policies; the importance of capability, primary exports, diversification and financing; managing diversity; the role of institutions and governance; and human development.The book reveals much diversity in successful development strategies offered by the various select countries: for example, the ''disinterested-government'' political economy of China; the democratically supported, high-service-sector development approach of India; the ''Washington-Consensus-based'' reforms of Ghana and China; the diversification strategies of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Oman; the dynamic orthodox-heterodox strategy of Malaysia and Vietnam; the effective natural-resource management of Botswana, Oman, Bahrain and the UAE; the social-sector underpinniTrade ReviewThis valuable collection of studies is full of new insights. It confirms that a deep understanding of economic history really matters for policy makers in developing countries. * Nicholas Crafts, Professor of Economic History, Warwick University *Comparative analysis of development successes based on country case studies is a useful complement to statistical cross-country regressions. While they have no claim at establishing causality, they give us a richness of detail that reliably suggests policy approaches to success. The 21 case studies from all five continents presented in this book show that success can be achieved, that there are many ways of engineering success, but that good governance and market forces play key complementary roles. While we have a good understanding of how markets work, knowing how to make developing country governments assume developmental functions is one of the greatest challenges to the development profession. This book makes an important contribution in that direction that will be of great assistance to both scholars and policy makers. * Elisabeth Sadoulet, Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley *Nations are not destined to fail, however most fail to be successful. The case studies in this book provide both aspiration and insights on how to guide a nation away from failure towards success. This book will become an essential reading for scholars and for policy makers in developing countries, international development community, and in developed countries as well. * Justin Yifu Lin, Professor and Honorary Dean, National School of Development, Peking University and Former Chief Economist, World Bank *Table of ContentsPART I: EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (SOUTH KOREA, MALAYSIA, THAILAND, AND VIETNAM); PART II: THE EMERGING ASIAN GIANTS (INDIA AND CHINA); PART III: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (BOTSWANA, MAURITIUS, SOUTH AFRICA, AND GHANA?; PART IV: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (BRAZIL, CHILE, COSTA RICA, AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC); PART V: MIDDLE-EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (OMAN, BAHRAIN, TUNISIA, AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES)

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Book SynopsisA contemporary analyses of the problem of technology.

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Book SynopsisStripping urban sprawl of its pejorative connotations, this book offers a new vision of the city and its growth. The author leads readers to the conclusion that in its complexity and constant change, the city is a wonderful work of mankind.Trade Review"Robert Bruegmann's Sprawl is the most important book on the American landscape since Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities. It will be as influential in helping us to see American cities and suburbs as they actually are, rather than as imagined by the world's ideologues." - Alexander Garvin, Professor of Urban Planning and Management, Yale University, and author of The American City: What Works, What Doesn't"

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the examples of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and transitional European economies, this volume proposes an alternative vision of institutional development with chapter-length applications to finance, state formation, and health care to provide a holistic, contextualized solution to the problems of developing nations.Trade Review"A fascinating analysis of World Bank policies and lending, focusing primarily on the theory and practice of structural adjustment.... The historical aspects of the presentation are especially interesting, as are institutional details in the chapters on financial repression and health policy." (Choice) "Every year books about the World Bank are published. Few make an impact beyond the moment, if at all. This book does more than make an impact: it sets the standard." (John Weeks, University of London)"

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted field work in Kaixian'gong, a village in Jiangsu province in east China. This village became the subject of his now classic study Peasant Life in China, in which he argued that, because of China's huge population and the scarcity of cultivable land, household industries such as production of raw silk were vital to the peasants' economic survival. His conclusions, long rejected by China's policymakers, have recently been embraced by the government under the political leadership of Deng Xiaopeng. Returning to Kaixian'gong in 1957 and again in the 1980s, Fei examined the changes that had occurred since his initial research. Three essays that resulted from these follow-up studies are included in this collection, providing a rare summary and ana

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Book SynopsisThis book includes Janowitz's seminal work, The Military in the Political Development of New Nations, with additional new analysis of Latin American nations and of the increasing significance of paramilitary and police forces in authoritarian regimes in developing nations.

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Book SynopsisBy considering the fada as a site of experimentation, Masquelier offers a nuanced depiction of how young men in urban Niger engage in the quest for recognition and reinvent their own masculinity in the absence of conventional avenues to self-realization.

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Book SynopsisBy considering the fada as a site of experimentation, Masquelier offers a nuanced depiction of how young men in urban Niger engage in the quest for recognition and reinvent their own masculinity in the absence of conventional avenues to self-realization.

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Book SynopsisThe last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a “Participatory Revolution,” with authorities called into communities to listen to ordinary people through “open” forums for engagement. The Participation Paradox argues that amplifying the voices of the poor and dispossessed is often a quick fix incapable of delivering lasting change.Trade Review“This is an outstanding book, rich with data from the grassroots of South African politics and brimming with significant and important contributions to how we should understand the power of a radical reframing of participation.” Alexander Beresford, University of Leeds and author of South Africa’s Political Crisis: Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles

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Book SynopsisThis collection asks how citizens and civil society express their interests and exert their agency in authoritarian settings. Focusing on the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front regime over three decades, the book explores civic activism in Ethiopia, presenting diverse examples of how citizens have (re)shaped the country.Trade Review“This crucial volume addresses a clear gap in the existing literature by thoroughly studying Ethiopian civil activism in recent years. The book comes at an important moment of instability and change in Ethiopian politics, providing a wide range of extremely illuminating case studies of civil society activity and the constraints it has faced. It is particularly pleasing to see so many excellent Ethiopian authors contributing chapters, something that is unfortunately uncommon in international publications.” Tom Lavers, University of Manchester and editor of The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers: State Capacity and Political Contestation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

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Book SynopsisAmid a rise of challenges to the advancement of women’s rights, reproductive health is at the center of discussions of gender equality. Asking how communications are used to shape policy, Carolina Matos explores feminist and health NGOs from across the world and how they are improving discourse on reproductive health in the public sphere.Trade Review“This book makes an important contribution to a range of areas, bringing together debates across gender and development, feminist theory and praxis in development, communication and media analysis, international development, sexual and reproductive health rights, and social justice. I strongly recommend this book for students, scholars and practitioners interested in the field.” Suzanne Clisby, Coventry University“This fascinating work combines intellectual traditions, with practical examples and critical empirical approaches. It is the first book, in a long time, that provides both a theoretical and empirical critique from a feminist perspective, of the field of communication for development. Carolina Matos exposes, using a range of research methods including critical discourse analysis, the problems, difficulties and challenges of the practices that characterise the work of NGOs, especially when they work towards the ‘emancipation of women’.” Linje Manyozo, RMIT University

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Book SynopsisAmid a rise of challenges to the advancement of women’s rights, reproductive health is at the center of discussions of gender equality. Asking how communications are used to shape policy, Carolina Matos explores feminist and health NGOs from across the world and how they are improving discourse on reproductive health in the public sphere.Trade Review“This book makes an important contribution to a range of areas, bringing together debates across gender and development, feminist theory and praxis in development, communication and media analysis, international development, sexual and reproductive health rights, and social justice. I strongly recommend this book for students, scholars and practitioners interested in the field.” Suzanne Clisby, Coventry University“This fascinating work combines intellectual traditions, with practical examples and critical empirical approaches. It is the first book, in a long time, that provides both a theoretical and empirical critique from a feminist perspective, of the field of communication for development. Carolina Matos exposes, using a range of research methods including critical discourse analysis, the problems, difficulties and challenges of the practices that characterise the work of NGOs, especially when they work towards the ‘emancipation of women’.” Linje Manyozo, RMIT University

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Book SynopsisSocial protection is fast becoming an important theme in development policy. This book examines the political processes shaping social protection policies; compares the key conceptual frameworks available for analyzing social protection; and provides a comparative discussion on social protection policies focused on the poor and the poorest.Table of ContentsForeword by Frances Stewart PART I. INTRODUCTION Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest: An Introduction; A.Barrientos& D.Hulme PART TWO: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS FOR SOCIAL PROTECTIONS: RISKS, NEEDS AND RIGHTS Risks, Needs and Rights: Compatible or Contradictory Bases for Social Protection?; L.Munro Insurance for the Poor?; S.Dercon, T. Bold& C. Calvo Transformative Social Protection: The Currency of Social Justice; S.Deveureux& R.Sabates-Wheeler Poverty Traps and Natural Disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras; M.Carter, P. Little, T. Mogues& W. Negatu PART THREE: WHAT POLICIES WORK FOR THE POOREST? Indonesia's Social Protection during and after the Crisis; S.Sumarto, A. Suryahadi& S. Bazzi HIV/AIDS, Social Protection and Chronic Poverty; R.Slater The Social Protection Function of Short-term Public Works Programmes in the Context of Chronic Poverty; A.McCord The Emergence and Popularity of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America; T.Britto Assisting the Poorest in Bangladesh: Learning from BRAC's 'Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme'; D.Hulme& K.Moore Protecting the Poorest with Cash Transfers in Low Income Countries; B.Schubert PART FOUR: THE POLITICS AND FINANCING OF SOCIAL PROTECTION Process Deficits in the Provision of Social Protection in Rural Maharashtra; S.Pellissery Conceptualising the Politics of Social Protection in Africa; S.Hickey Political Incumbency and Drought Relief in Africa; N. Munemo Can Low Income Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa Afford Basic Social Protection? First Results of a Modelling Exercise; C.Berendt Financing Social Protection; A.Barrientos PART FIVE: CONCLUSION Embedding Social Protection in the Developing World; A.Barrientos& D.Hulme

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Book SynopsisThis monograph argues that, contrary to stated claims, Japanese foreign aid is inextricably linked to Japanese business interests. It demonstrates how Japanese aid to the developing world is often tied to purchases from Japan, with potentially devastating consequences to Third World nations.

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Book SynopsisThis analysis of the current economic situation in Africa describes the international and domestic political and social developments that have contributed to the present state of affairs. The contributors call for significant changes in the manner in which Western aid is provided and utilized.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA very intelligent presentation... Highly Recommended. Choice Of great value to anyone interested in policies influencing the future of the Amazon basin. Southeastern Naturalist An outstanding collection on the cultural and political ecology of native Amazonians and other traditional inhabitants of the region. -- Thomas Ludewigs Environmental Conservation

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Book SynopsisThrough pressing, current case studies, contributors examine the ubiquitous interplay among migration, development, culture, human rights, and government, all toward advancing more effective solutions to international migration issues.Trade ReviewNew Perspectives on International Migration and Development offers fresh insights from contributors using different lenses to analyze the nexus between migration and development, illustrating how conventional assumptions need to be reexamined. Many essays also contain surveys of relevant literature, which makes the book a handy reference, especially for those studying international relations, sociology, politics, and government. -- Manolo Abella, former director of the International Labor Organization's Migration Program This book provides a penetrating assessment of international migration and development that is comprehensive in both coverage and points of view. It incorporates broad conceptual approaches at the global level, as well as regional and local perspectives. Importantly, development is seen as much more than economic change, and chapters draw welcome attention to cultural and political dimensions, as well as to the roles of families, women, and children in the migration process. Theories are well supported by case studies at village, country, and regional levels, highlighting several of the main migration corridors in international population movement. This book will be a key reference for professionals, as well as teachers and students, on one of the leading policy issues of our day. -- Ronald Skeldon, University of Sussex A much-needed and timely look at the complex question of how migration affects developing countries, this book addresses an impressive range of issues as it debunks common wisdom and offers new insight in its place. -- Dilip Ratha, lead economist, World BankTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jeronimo Cortina, and Enrique Ochoa-Reza Part I. Migration, Development, States, Culture, and Human Rights 1. Development and Migration: Historical Trends and Future Research, by Josh DeWind and Damla Ergun 2. The Impact of Migration on Development: Explicating the Role of the State, by Rodolfo O. de la Garza 3. Bringing Culture Back In: Opportunities and Challenges for the Migration-Development Nexus, by Peggy Levitt and Deepak Lamba-Nieves 4. Protecting the Rights of Migrant Workers, by Khalid Koser Part II. Migration, Development, Children, and Women 5. Family and School Reconfiguration: The Case of Ecuadorian Highland Migration to Spain, by Alexandra Escobar Garcia and Soledad Alvarez Velasco 6. Women, Children, and Migration: Developmental Considerations, by Jeronimo Cortina and Enrique Ochoa-Reza Part III. Migration and Development: Country Experiences 7. Migration and Development: Lessons from the Moroccan Experience, by Hein de Haas 8. The Southern Crossroads: Human Mobility, Governance, and Development in South Africa, by Loren B. Landau and Aurelia Segatti 9. Migration Between the Asia- Pacific and Australia: A Development Perspective, by Graeme Hugo 10. Asian Migration to the United States: Development Implications for Asia, by Philip Martin 11. Indian Migrants to the Gulf: The Kerala Experience, by S. Irudaya Rajan and K. C. Zachariah Notes Index

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Book SynopsisRare interviews with contemporary slaveholders reveal how they justify their actions and resist challenges to their authority.Trade ReviewA much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone-raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves The exponential growth of social movement studies has yielded a rich and varied portrait of movements and movement groups. By contrast, we know little about movement targets. In this important book, Choi-Fitzpatrick not only reverses this emphasis, but offers the beginnings of a theory of how targets respond to movement pressure. And what is the data on which his theory is based? Nothing less than in-depth interviews with slaveholders targeted by contemporary anti-slavery groups. It would be hard to imagine a more original or significant contribution to the field than What Slaveholders Think. -- Doug McAdam, Stanford University Choi-Fitzpatrick reinvigorates the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binaries between slavery and freedom, victims and perpetrators. Incisive and stimulating, this is a stellar work of scholarship that demands of the academy-and human rights campaigners-a marked shift in direction. -- Zoe Trodd, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets 2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social-Movement Targets 3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery 4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation 5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats 6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India 7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement 8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and Reappraisal Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India. Through frank and unprecedented conversations with slaveholders, Choi-Fitzpatrick reveals the condescending and paternalistic thought processes that blind them.Trade ReviewA much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone—raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the SlavesThe exponential growth of social movement studies has yielded a rich and varied portrait of movements and movement groups. By contrast, we know little about movement targets. In this important book, Choi-Fitzpatrick not only reverses this emphasis, but offers the beginnings of a theory of how targets respond to movement pressure. And what is the data on which his theory is based? Nothing less than in-depth interviews with slaveholders targeted by contemporary anti-slavery groups. It would be hard to imagine a more original or significant contribution to the field than What Slaveholders Think. -- Doug McAdam, Stanford UniversityChoi-Fitzpatrick reinvigorates the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binaries between slavery and freedom, victims and perpetrators. Incisive and stimulating, this is a stellar work of scholarship that demands of the academy—and human rights campaigners—a marked shift in direction. -- Zoe Trodd, University of NottinghamThe book offers a detailed account and analysis of how and to what extent perpetrators adapt, accommodate, and profit from this social phenomenon. Moreover, What Slaveholders Think makes a great contribution to the literature on social movements, human rights, political sociology, labor movements, and other fields of study. * American Journal of Sociology *Provides readers with many truly unique and largely overlooked insights into the world of contemporary slavery. . . . Path-breaking. * International Sociology *A rich treatment of a compelling (albeit troubling) topic, one that makes an important contribution to social movement theory. * Mobilization *A rich, theoretically interesting work that should be taken seriously by scholars of social movement activity. . . . Well-written, engaging, and theoretically insightful. * Contemporary Sociology *Choi-Fitzpatrick’s work is an essential contribution to the literature on slavery and bonded labor. * Journal of Human Trafficking *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social-Movement Targets3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and ReappraisalNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Remnants of Race Science traces the influence of ideas from the Global South on UNESCO’s race campaign, illuminating its relationship to notions of modernization and economic development.Trade ReviewBrilliantly and provocatively, The Remnants of Race Science reveals that the so-called decline of racial thought in human biology was really just a substitution of other more flexible ideas of human difference—mostly from the Global South—for the rigid racist typologies of the Global North. This more inclusive refiguring of racial difference would make possible the economic ‘development’ of people once excluded from modernity—which meant in practice their neocolonial incorporation into the netherworlds of global capitalism. In this paradigm-shifting book, Gil-Riaño thus offers us a new ‘southern’ vocabulary to talk about racism and antiracism. -- Warwick Anderson, author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the PhilippinesStarting with scientific research from the Southern Hemisphere, this important book overturns the common story of antiracist science as simplistically rooted in rejecting fixed biological kinds. Drawing from a transnational archive, Gil-Riaño shows how so-called anti-racist science was caught up in projects of improvement that rested on a multitude of other racisms. -- M. Murphy, author of The Economization of LifeLatin Americanists have long maintained that race and biology are shaped by culture, social organization, and economic conditions. In this deeply researched study, Gil-Riaño shows how Latin American racial ideas shaped the post–World War II human sciences and UNESCO projects. The human sciences did not renounce racial explanation—as so many believe—but folded them into global ideas about economic development. -- Karin Rosemblatt, author of The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950Offers useful historical context to current debates about how to successfully build solidarity in science and society. * Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Remnants of Race SciencePart I: Confronting Racism in the Southern Hemisphere, 1890–19511. Substituting Race: Arthur Ramos, Bahia, and the “Nina Rodrigues School”2. Relocating Race Science After World War II: Situating the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race in the Southern Hemisphere3. Vikings of the Sunrise: Alfred Metraux, Te Rangi Hīroa, and Polynesian Racial ResiliencePart II: Race in the Tropics and Highlands and the Quest for Economic Development, 1945–19624. A Tropical Laboratory: Race, Evolution, and the Demise of UNESCO’s Hylean Amazon Project5. “Peasants Without Land”: Race and Indigeneity in the ILO’s Puno-Tambopata ProjectPart III: Engineering Racial Harmony and Decolonization, 1952–19616. A Brazilian Racial Dilemma: Modernization and UNESCO’s Race Relations Studies in Brazil7. A White World Perspective and the Collapse of Global Race Relations InquiryConclusion: “Racism Continues to Haunt the World”NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Remnants of Race Science traces the influence of ideas from the Global South on UNESCO’s race campaign, illuminating its relationship to notions of modernization and economic development.Trade ReviewBrilliantly and provocatively, The Remnants of Race Science reveals that the so-called decline of racial thought in human biology was really just a substitution of other more flexible ideas of human difference—mostly from the Global South—for the rigid racist typologies of the Global North. This more inclusive refiguring of racial difference would make possible the economic ‘development’ of people once excluded from modernity—which meant in practice their neocolonial incorporation into the netherworlds of global capitalism. In this paradigm-shifting book, Gil-Riaño thus offers us a new ‘southern’ vocabulary to talk about racism and antiracism. -- Warwick Anderson, author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the PhilippinesStarting with scientific research from the Southern Hemisphere, this important book overturns the common story of antiracist science as simplistically rooted in rejecting fixed biological kinds. Drawing from a transnational archive, Gil-Riaño shows how so-called anti-racist science was caught up in projects of improvement that rested on a multitude of other racisms. -- M. Murphy, author of The Economization of LifeLatin Americanists have long maintained that race and biology are shaped by culture, social organization, and economic conditions. In this deeply researched study, Gil-Riaño shows how Latin American racial ideas shaped the post–World War II human sciences and UNESCO projects. The human sciences did not renounce racial explanation—as so many believe—but folded them into global ideas about economic development. -- Karin Rosemblatt, author of The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950Offers useful historical context to current debates about how to successfully build solidarity in science and society. * Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Remnants of Race SciencePart I: Confronting Racism in the Southern Hemisphere, 1890–19511. Substituting Race: Arthur Ramos, Bahia, and the “Nina Rodrigues School”2. Relocating Race Science After World War II: Situating the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race in the Southern Hemisphere3. Vikings of the Sunrise: Alfred Metraux, Te Rangi Hīroa, and Polynesian Racial ResiliencePart II: Race in the Tropics and Highlands and the Quest for Economic Development, 1945–19624. A Tropical Laboratory: Race, Evolution, and the Demise of UNESCO’s Hylean Amazon Project5. “Peasants Without Land”: Race and Indigeneity in the ILO’s Puno-Tambopata ProjectPart III: Engineering Racial Harmony and Decolonization, 1952–19616. A Brazilian Racial Dilemma: Modernization and UNESCO’s Race Relations Studies in Brazil7. A White World Perspective and the Collapse of Global Race Relations InquiryConclusion: “Racism Continues to Haunt the World”NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.Trade ReviewIn an age of ever mounting challenges, it is essential to reimagine and transform our approach to education to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors necessary for sustainable development. The Global Compact for Education calls on all of us to prioritize inclusive and transformative education for a sustainable tomorrow. -- Ban Ki-moon, eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and cochair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global CitizensImagine: education for all would employ the languages of the head, heart, and hands. It would give us purpose in life. It would infuse us with the motivation to pursue truth, goodness and creativity, while working to mend the fabric of human relationships. This book makes me want to make that vision reality. -- Yo-Yo MaPope Francis’s urgent call for a new compact on education is timely and should serve as a wake-up call. While many heads of state play their power games, hundreds of millions of children suffer and miss what they so obviously need: a solid education. This authoritative book sketches out what should be done and shows how. Clear-eyed about contemporary crises of pandemic, climate change, and heartbreaking migration, the authors offer an impressive range of educational insight and reform. -- Jerry Brown, former governor of CaliforniaThis volume brings together some of the very best minds from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as they respond to Pope Francis' visionary “summons to solidarity” for a new global compact on education. The chapters, carefully crafted and curated for the volume, address the need for education practices and policies to promote healthy, flourishing and engaged children. The authors coalesce in defining critical issues in education today: early childhood education as a foundation for learning, education and social inequality, the needs of children from more vulnerable populations, education as a moral responsibility, and much more. This is a book for our times, as we strive to educate children across the world for purposeful lives. -- Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith CollegeIn this timely, engaging, and compelling book, the authors describe how education can be reformed so that students in nations around the world can attain the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively in a highly technological, diverse, complex, and changing world. Once again, editors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have assembled a group of eminent scholars who enrich this book with original and trenchant insights. This innovative and informative book deserves a wide and influential audience. -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, SeattleHow can education address the social, moral and environmental crises of our time? This important and unique volume combines rigorous cutting-edge research and a strong ethical foundation to address issues in education across the globe. Foregrounding the well-being and flourishing of children, the scholars assembled here provide cogent accounts of inequalities and injustices, as well as hopeful calls to action to improve and provide access to quality education for all. This volume deserves a wide readership across academia and among policy makers. It is both a clear eyes assessment of the present state of education, and a clarion call to work towards a better future. -- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForeword. Education: The Global Compact, by the Holy Father Pope FrancisAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Compact on Education, by Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoPart I. Addressing Our Most Vulnerable1. Education and Inequality, by Jeffrey D. Sachs2. Education, Health, and Demography, by David E. Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna,3. Child Poverty and Cognition: Developmental and Educational Implications, by Sebastián Lipina4. Education for Refugee and Displaced Children, by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Dana Burde and J. Lawrence Aber5. The Consequences of Emergency and Humanitarian Relief Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey and Lebanon, by Maha Shuayb, Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie6. Countering Cascading Xenophobia: Educational Settings at the Frontline, by Carola Suárez-OrozcoPart II. Ethical and Civic Considerations7. Education as a Moral Responsibility, by Stefano Zamagni8. On Educating the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach, by Howard Gardner9. Ethics in Education and Education of Ethics, by Vittorio Hosle10. Education for a Purposeful Life, by William Damon and Anne Colby11. Educating for Democracy in Contentious Times, by John RogersPart III. Educating for a Sustainable Future12. Climate Change Education for All: Bending the Curve Education Project, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Fonna Forman, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Alan Roper, Scott Friese, Karen Flammer,, Hahrie Han, Adam Millard-Ball, Paula Ezcurra, and Astrid Hsu13. Education for Sustainable Development, by Radhika Iyengar, Haein Shin, and Tara Stafford OcanseyPart IV. The Foundations of Education14. Early Childhood Education in Reggio Emilia and the World, by Carla Rinaldi15. Addressing our Global Developmental Emergency: Early Intervention and the Think Equal Early Years Program, by Leslee Udwin16. The Future of Literacy in a Digital Culture: Promise and Perils, by Maryanne Wolf17. The Feeling of Reading in a Changing World: From Neurons to Narratives, by Tami KatzirPart V. The Futures of Education18. Global Learning Ecologies: Leveraging Technologies for Equity, by Brigid Barron19. Improvement Science: The Social Glue that Helps Helpers Help?, by Louis M. Gomez, Manuelito Biag, and David G. Imig20. UNESCO and the Futures of Education, by Stefania GianniniAfterword: Universal Education: An Essential Pillar for All Sustainable Development Goals, by Jennifer Gross, Peter Stengaard, and Vanessa Fajans-TurnerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.Trade ReviewIn an age of ever mounting challenges, it is essential to reimagine and transform our approach to education to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors necessary for sustainable development. The Global Compact for Education calls on all of us to prioritize inclusive and transformative education for a sustainable tomorrow. -- Ban Ki-moon, eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and cochair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global CitizensImagine: education for all would employ the languages of the head, heart, and hands. It would give us purpose in life. It would infuse us with the motivation to pursue truth, goodness and creativity, while working to mend the fabric of human relationships. This book makes me want to make that vision reality. -- Yo-Yo MaPope Francis’s urgent call for a new compact on education is timely and should serve as a wake-up call. While many heads of state play their power games, hundreds of millions of children suffer and miss what they so obviously need: a solid education. This authoritative book sketches out what should be done and shows how. Clear-eyed about contemporary crises of pandemic, climate change, and heartbreaking migration, the authors offer an impressive range of educational insight and reform. -- Jerry Brown, former governor of CaliforniaThis volume brings together some of the very best minds from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as they respond to Pope Francis' visionary “summons to solidarity” for a new global compact on education. The chapters, carefully crafted and curated for the volume, address the need for education practices and policies to promote healthy, flourishing and engaged children. The authors coalesce in defining critical issues in education today: early childhood education as a foundation for learning, education and social inequality, the needs of children from more vulnerable populations, education as a moral responsibility, and much more. This is a book for our times, as we strive to educate children across the world for purposeful lives. -- Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith CollegeIn this timely, engaging, and compelling book, the authors describe how education can be reformed so that students in nations around the world can attain the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively in a highly technological, diverse, complex, and changing world. Once again, editors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have assembled a group of eminent scholars who enrich this book with original and trenchant insights. This innovative and informative book deserves a wide and influential audience. -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, SeattleHow can education address the social, moral and environmental crises of our time? This important and unique volume combines rigorous cutting-edge research and a strong ethical foundation to address issues in education across the globe. Foregrounding the well-being and flourishing of children, the scholars assembled here provide cogent accounts of inequalities and injustices, as well as hopeful calls to action to improve and provide access to quality education for all. This volume deserves a wide readership across academia and among policy makers. It is both a clear eyes assessment of the present state of education, and a clarion call to work towards a better future. -- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForeword. Education: The Global Compact, by the Holy Father Pope FrancisAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Compact on Education, by Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoPart I. Addressing Our Most Vulnerable1. Education and Inequality, by Jeffrey D. Sachs2. Education, Health, and Demography, by David E. Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna,3. Child Poverty and Cognition: Developmental and Educational Implications, by Sebastián Lipina4. Education for Refugee and Displaced Children, by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Dana Burde and J. Lawrence Aber5. The Consequences of Emergency and Humanitarian Relief Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey and Lebanon, by Maha Shuayb, Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie6. Countering Cascading Xenophobia: Educational Settings at the Frontline, by Carola Suárez-OrozcoPart II. Ethical and Civic Considerations7. Education as a Moral Responsibility, by Stefano Zamagni8. On Educating the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach, by Howard Gardner9. Ethics in Education and Education of Ethics, by Vittorio Hosle10. Education for a Purposeful Life, by William Damon and Anne Colby11. Educating for Democracy in Contentious Times, by John RogersPart III. Educating for a Sustainable Future12. Climate Change Education for All: Bending the Curve Education Project, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Fonna Forman, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Alan Roper, Scott Friese, Karen Flammer,, Hahrie Han, Adam Millard-Ball, Paula Ezcurra, and Astrid Hsu13. Education for Sustainable Development, by Radhika Iyengar, Haein Shin, and Tara Stafford OcanseyPart IV. The Foundations of Education14. Early Childhood Education in Reggio Emilia and the World, by Carla Rinaldi15. Addressing our Global Developmental Emergency: Early Intervention and the Think Equal Early Years Program, by Leslee Udwin16. The Future of Literacy in a Digital Culture: Promise and Perils, by Maryanne Wolf17. The Feeling of Reading in a Changing World: From Neurons to Narratives, by Tami KatzirPart V. The Futures of Education18. Global Learning Ecologies: Leveraging Technologies for Equity, by Brigid Barron19. Improvement Science: The Social Glue that Helps Helpers Help?, by Louis M. Gomez, Manuelito Biag, and David G. Imig20. UNESCO and the Futures of Education, by Stefania GianniniAfterword: Universal Education: An Essential Pillar for All Sustainable Development Goals, by Jennifer Gross, Peter Stengaard, and Vanessa Fajans-TurnerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisNobody who comes away from reading The Bill Gates Problem will look at him in the same way' - The TimesYou know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic, kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes around the world. But there''s another side to Bill Gates.We might like to think of the Gates Foundation as an innocent charity giving away money, collaborating with stakeholders, and listening to the desires of the populations it hopes to help, but is that how it works in practice?Combining rich storytelling and ground-breaking reporting, The Bill Gates Problem offers readers a provocative and timely counter-narrative about one of the world''s most widely recognized individuals - a true global celebrity with international reach. But more than that, this book speaks to a vital political question around economic inequality and the erosion of democratic institutions - why should the super-rich be ableTrade ReviewInvestigative journalism with a fierce polemical edge … Nobody who comes away from reading The Bill Gates Problem will look at him in the same way. * The Times *A tale of frustration and even rage at the culture of secrecy and often incompetence inside Gates’s philanthropic world, it is also strangely heartening. * New Statesman *Tim Schwab has written the definitive critique of Bill Gates as bully-philanthropist. Schwab uses the case of Gates to tell a compelling and carefully researched story that raises disturbing questions about the lack of accountability of power-philanthropy. * Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor, The American Prospect *This is not the story of one bad man, so much as a demonstration of the inability for anyone-no matter how smart or rich-to solve the world's problems from the top down with money and technology. * Douglas Rushkoff, author of Survival of the Richest *In this incisive and penetrating book, Schwab dares to confront a question society has long ignored: should a secretive, unaccountable billionaire dictate policy in public health, education, and science? Fearlessly rendered and much-needed. * Sonia Shah, author of The Next Great Migration *Tim Schwab follows the money to expose what happens when one man-however intelligent or well-intentioned-amasses so much wealth and so much power, he can literally dictate to governments around the world. With great skill-and given the range of Bill Gates's influence, considerable courage-Schwab pulls back the curtain to deliver a classic of muckraking journalism. * D. D. Guttenplan, editor, The Nation *An extraordinary and detailed work of investigative journalism into an underexplored nexus of influence in global affairs. * The Telegraph *[An] excellent exposé of hyper-billionaire ‘myths’ * Nature *

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Book SynopsisNobody who comes away from reading The Bill Gates Problem will look at him in the same way' - The TimesYou know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic, kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes around the world. But there''s another side to Bill Gates.We might like to think of the Gates Foundation as an innocent charity giving away money, collaborating with stakeholders, and listening to the desires of the populations it hopes to help, but is that how it works in practice?Combining rich storytelling and ground-breaking reporting, The Bill Gates Problem offers readers a provocative and timely counter-narrative about one of the world''s most widely recognized individuals - a true global celebrity with international reach. But more than that, this book speaks to a vital political question around economic inequality and the erosion of democratic institutions - why should the super-rich be ableTrade ReviewInvestigative journalism with a fierce polemical edge … Nobody who comes away from reading The Bill Gates Problem will look at him in the same way. * The Times *A tale of frustration and even rage at the culture of secrecy and often incompetence inside Gates’s philanthropic world, it is also strangely heartening. * New Statesman *Tim Schwab has written the definitive critique of Bill Gates as bully-philanthropist. Schwab uses the case of Gates to tell a compelling and carefully researched story that raises disturbing questions about the lack of accountability of power-philanthropy. * Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor, The American Prospect *This is not the story of one bad man, so much as a demonstration of the inability for anyone-no matter how smart or rich-to solve the world's problems from the top down with money and technology. * Douglas Rushkoff, author of Survival of the Richest *In this incisive and penetrating book, Schwab dares to confront a question society has long ignored: should a secretive, unaccountable billionaire dictate policy in public health, education, and science? Fearlessly rendered and much-needed. * Sonia Shah, author of The Next Great Migration *Tim Schwab follows the money to expose what happens when one man-however intelligent or well-intentioned-amasses so much wealth and so much power, he can literally dictate to governments around the world. With great skill-and given the range of Bill Gates's influence, considerable courage-Schwab pulls back the curtain to deliver a classic of muckraking journalism. * D. D. Guttenplan, editor, The Nation *An extraordinary and detailed work of investigative journalism into an underexplored nexus of influence in global affairs. * The Telegraph *[An] excellent exposé of hyper-billionaire ‘myths’ * Nature *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBeyond Coloniality is, unsurprisingly, a superbly well-informed and complex book. Forthright in tone and urgent in message, it is also remarkably engaging, and Kamugisha does his scholarly job of identifying important lacunae and unpaid debts in the existing literature on Caribbean thought. * Social Text *Aaron Kamugisha's Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, represents the radical dimension of the black nationalist tradition. * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Most absorbing is the book's critical assessment of how certain theories and metanarratives are inadequate to address the current realities of political-cultural discord in the contemporary Caribbean. * Small Axe.net *Kamugisha moves with great skill between the more specific discourses of the state, the middle class, tradition and modernity, and his close readings of members of the Caribbean intellectual tradition. -- Paget Henry * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsPreface1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality2. The Contemporary as Absurdity: Denials of Citizenship in the Caribbean Postcolony3. Caribbean Racial States4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C.L.R. James's New Society and Caribbean Freedom5. The Caribbean Beyond: Reading Sylvia Wynter on Freedom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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