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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender Poverty and Development
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£1,045.00
Princeton University Press Congo 1964
Book SynopsisSections in English and sections in French.Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*FOREWORD, pg. v*CONTENTS, pg. vii*INTRODUCTION, pg. ix*I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF REVOLUTIONARY OPPOSITION, pg. 3*II. LEGAL POLITICAL ACTIVITIES, pg. 79*III. REAPPEARANCE OF TSHOMBE ON THE CONGOLESE POLITICAL SCENE, pg. 123*I. TSHOMBE'S GOVERNMENT, pg. 189*II. FROM THE THEME OF NATIONAL RECONCILIATION TO RECONQUEST BY MILITARY FORCE, pg. 202*III. DEVELOPMENT OF LEGAL OPPOSITION TO TSHOMBE'S GOVERNMENT, pg. 412*IV. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE TSHOMBE GOVERNMENT AND AFRICAN CONFERENCES ON THE CONGO, pg. 444*V. THE CONGO AFTER THE STANLEYVILLE OPERATION, pg. 523*MAP OF THE REBEL REGIONS, AUGUST 1964, pg. 542*MAP OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, pg. 543*INDEX, pg. 545*TABLE OF CONTENTS AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS, pg. 575*Backmatter, pg. 592
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Edinburgh University Press The Ethics of Development
Book SynopsisA self-contained introduction to the field of ethics and development for students, practitioners and the general reader.Trade ReviewDes Gasper's critical survey of the field of 'the ethics of development' is not a difficult read and can be appreciated as much by the general reader as by students of development ! a helpful source book for a module on the subject area. Journal of Development Studies Des Gasper has written the best book available on the "ethics of development" -- its history, scope, and challenges. Offering searching criticisms of mainstream development as conceptually blinded to human destitution and social justice, Gasper insightfully analyzes and evaluates alternative development visions. Novice and specialist alike will benefit from his careful dissection of such concepts as economic growth, efficiency, equity, poverty, violence, basic human needs, culture, and human development. -- Professor David Crocker, University of MarylandTable of ContentsPreface; 1. What is the Ethics of Development?; 1.1. Why Development Ethics? Cases and Questions; Extreme poverty amidst immense riches; Health and sickness, needs and profits; Towards a 'calculus of pain': recognising varieties of suffering and violence; The infliction of costs on the weak: the examples of dams, famines, debt, and structural adjustment; Global obligations and universal values?; What is development?; 1.2. What? On Meanings and Agenda; The core agenda of development ethics; Emergence and contributors; Definitions; 1.3. How? On Methods and Roles; Methods; Possible roles of development ethics; Global or Southern?; 2. The Meaning of 'Development'; 2.1. Purposes and Themes; 2.2. Ahistorical Definitions; Usages across the disciplines; Usages in development studies; 2.3. Historically Specific Conceptions Of Development: On Change, Intervention and Progress; 2.4. On Improvement: Issues in Normative Ahistorical Definition; Development as opportunity or as achievement?; Universalism and relativism; Commonality?; 2.5. Conclusion; 3. 'Efficiency & Effectiveness'; - Mainstream Development Evaluation in Theory & Practice; 3.1. Introduction: Mainstream Value Positions, and Alternatives; 3.2. Effectiveness Towards What and For Whom?; Effectiveness towards what?; Effectiveness for whom?; 3.3. Efficiency in Terms of Which Values ?; What is efficient depends on what one's values are; Tacit variants of economic efficiency: Paretian and utilitarian; Concepts of efficiency and practices of victimization; 3.4. Setting Economic Efficiency in Social and Environmental Context; Limitations of a separate concept of economic efficiency; Economic efficiency confined to a delimited role within a human and physical context; Means and ends; 3.5. Understanding Value-Systems; Comparison of value positions in development evaluation; The structure of market-oriented arguments; 'Consumer sovereignty'; 3.6. Conclusion: Beyond Economism; 4. 'Equity' - Who Bear Costs and Who Reap Benefits?; 4.1. Sacrificing the Weak; 4.2. Aspects of Equity; Criteria of distributive equity; An application to the regulation of grazing in Zimbabwe; An application to selection for resettlement in Zimbabwe; Positive discrimination; 4.3. A Deeper Analysis of Concepts; Sen's framework for understanding different distributive criteria; Land, returns, and the fruits of effort; Whose are the international debts?; 4.4. Assessing the Different Interpretations; Equality of what? Why equality?; Selecting from or interrelating the principles; Socio-political contexts; 4.5. Conclusion; 5. Violence and Human Security; 5.1. The Reemergence of Violence and Security as Central Concerns; 5.2. Development and Violence as Value-relative? On Concepts; 'Violence'; 'Development' and peace; 5.3. Development as Value-Damaging?; Varieties of violence; Violence and the economy; 5.4. Downgrading the Cost of Violence and Denying Alternatives; Market theory: only interests, no passions; The downgrading and defining away of costs and alternatives; 5.5. Real Alternatives and Painful Choices; Notions of tragedy, evil, dilemma; Towards a calculus of pain with a respect for persons?; 6. Needs and Basic Needs; 6.1. First Things First; 6.2. The Language of Need; Meanings and syntax of 'need'; A unifying framework for needs ethics and policy; Meanings of 'basic'; 6.3. A Richer Picture of Persons; Do we need a picture of persons?; A better empirical base for prediction and evaluation; Reinterpretations of poverty, luxury, and limitless demand; 6.4. Dangers in Needs Theories and Ethics; Passive and pacifying?; Overextended?; 6.5. The Discursive and Practical Strategy of 'Basic Human Needs'; A required basis for other ethics; Steps in operationalization; A programmatic alternative to economism; 6.6. Conclusions: Beggars can't be Choosers; 7. 'Human Development': Capabilities and Positive Freedom; 7.1. From Basic Needs to a Fuller Philosophy of Development; 7.2. The UNDP Human Development School; The Human Development Reports; Human Development and Human Rights; 7.3. Sen's Capability Approach and 'Development as Freedom'; Freedom and Reason; Development as Freedom; Components of the capability approach; Policy orientation; 7.4. Doubts and Alternatives; Sen's picture of persons, capabilities and freedom; Nussbaum's capabilities ethic; For and against a universal list of priority capabilities; 7.5. Conclusion; 8. Cultures and the Ethics of Development; 8.1. Can One Criticise Cultures and Yet Avoid Ethnocentrism?; Agenda; Introductory cases; Is liberalism illiberal?; 8.2. Culture: The Underlying Issues; Conceptions of 'culture'; Roles perceived for culture; Natural man, plasticine man, and nurtured natural man; The uneasy balance between individual rights and group rights; Women's right to employment?; 8.3. Communitarian Ethics and Cultural Relativism; The texture of communitarian ethics; Walzer's worlds; Communitarianism is based on poor sociology; Cultural relativism is inconsistent; The centrality of internal criticism; 8.4. Cases and Procedures; Criteria for just decisions; An overview of cases; 8.5. Conclusion; 9. Epilogue; Bibliography.
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Random House USA Inc Blood and Earth
Book SynopsisFor readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo’s Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains comes a powerful and captivating examination of two entwined global crises: environmental destruction and human trafficking—and an inspiring, bold plan for how we can solve them. A leading expert on modern-day slavery, Kevin Bales has traveled to some of the world’s most dangerous places documenting and battling human trafficking. In the course of his reporting, Bales began to notice a pattern emerging: Where slavery existed, so did massive, unchecked environmental destruction. But why? Bales set off to find the answer in a fascinating and moving journey that took him into the lives of modern-day slaves and along a supply chain that leads directly to the cellphones in our pockets. What he discovered is that even as it destroys individuals, families, and communities, new forms of slavery that proliferate in the world’s lawless zones also pose a grave threat to the environment. Simply put, modern-day slavery is destroying the planet. The product of seven years of travel and research, Blood and Earth brings us dramatic stories from the world’s most beautiful and tragic places, the environmental and human-rights hotspots where this crisis is concentrated. But it also tells the stories of some of the most common products we all consume—from computers to shrimp to jewelry—whose origins are found in these same places. Blood and Earth calls on us to recognize the grievous harm we have done to one another, put an end to it, and recommit to repairing the world. This is a clear-eyed and inspiring book that suggests how we can begin the work of healing humanity and the planet we share.Praise for Blood and Earth “A heart-wrenching narrative . . . Weaving together interviews, history, and statistics, the author shines a light on how the poverty, chaos, wars, and government corruption create the perfect storm where slavery flourishes and environmental destruction follows. . . . A clear-eyed account of man’s inhumanity to man and Earth. Read it to get informed, and then take action.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[An] exposé of the global economy’s ‘deadly dance’ between slavery and environmental disaster . . . Based on extensive travels through eastern Congo’s mineral mines, Bangladeshi fisheries, Ghanian gold mines, and Brazilian forests, Bales reveals the appalling truth in graphic detail. . . . Readers will be deeply disturbed to learn how the links connecting slavery, environmental issues, and modern convenience are forged.”—Publishers Weekly “This well-researched and vivid book studies the connection between slavery and environmental destruction, and what it will take to end both.”—Shelf Awareness (starred review)“This is a remarkable book, demonstrating once more the deep links between the ongoing degradation of the planet and the ongoing degradation of its most vulnerable people. It’s a bracing reminder that a mentality that allows throwaway people also allows a throwaway earth.”—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
£20.70
University of Regina Press Organized Violence
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£54.00
Taylor & Francis Global Health and Human Rights
Book SynopsisThis textbook explores public health and individual health care through the prism of global human rights and ethical decision-making.Written by leading experts in this field, the book is divided into three distinctive parts. Part I introduces the theoretical framework through which the core issues can be understood, contrasting a clinical approach to health care with a social determinant perspective and discussing the decolonialisation of global health. Part II discusses how a human rights rationale impacts different social groups, from children to the elderly to those with disabilities, highlighting issues such as abortion and euthanasia. Part III addresses contemporary topics such as infectious diseases, migration, mental health care, the impact of advanced medical technology and climate change. Each chapter features case studies which ask readers to assess complex ethical dilemmas, fostering decision-making based on clear moral reasoning, as well as discussion assignments
£34.19
Taylor & Francis Ltd Energy Poverty and Development
Book SynopsisIncredibly, close to one-quarter of humanity lives without electricity or other modern forms of energy, while as many as one-third of the worldâs population relies (at least in part) on traditional biofuels, such as cow dung or firewood, at great cost to its health, security, and economic welfare. Although these stark facts have only recently been fully acknowledged, energy deprivation is a major obstacle to development efforts around the world, especiallyâthough not exclusivelyâin the âBottom Billionâ economies of sub-Saharan Africa and developing Asia. Indeed, sustainable development cannot succeed without a robust energy-access component. Furthermore, this is not just a ghastly problem for the poor, but rather a global concern. Energy deprivation is a leading contributor to disease epidemics, social discontent, political unrest, and environmental instabilityâit gravely threatens the âenergy-havesâ as well as the âhave-notsâ.Research in and around energy, poverty, and development is now flourishing. But much of the relevant literature remains inaccessible or is highly specialized and compartmentalized, so that it is difficult for many of those who are interested in the subject to obtain an informed, balanced, and comprehensive overview. This new four-volume collection from Routledgeâs acclaimed series, Critical Concepts in Development Studies, meets the need for a reference work to make sense of the subjectâs vast and dispersed literature.The collection includes a full index and is supplemented by a newly written introduction, which places the gathered materials in their historical and intellectual context. Energy, Poverty, and Development is an essential reference work which will be valued as a vital resource by students, academics, policy-makers, and practitioners.
£1,140.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Resource Recovery from Waste
Book SynopsisHumans generate millions of tons of waste every day. This waste is rich in water, nutrients, energy and organic compounds. Yet waste is not being managed in a way that permits us to derive value from its reuse, whilst millions of farmers struggle with depleted soils and lack of water. This book shows how Resource Recovery and Reuse (RRR) could create livelihoods, enhance food security, support green economies, reduce waste and contribute to cost recovery in the sanitation chain. While many RRR projects fully depend on subsidies and hardly survive their pilot phase, hopeful signs of viable approaches to RRR are emerging around the globe including low- and middle-income countries. These enterprises or projects are tapping into entrepreneurial initiatives and public ? private partnerships, leveraging private capital to help realize commercial or social value, shifting the focus from treatment for waste disposal to treatment of waste as a valuable resource for safe reuse. Trade Review"The catalogue fills a significant gap in the literature and should prove useful not only for today’s investors and policy makers but also for the curricula of engineering, economics, environmental and business schools. This will help sensitize the next generation of decision makers to the opportunities inherent in the Circular Economy." - taken from the Foreword, Guy Hutton, Senior Advisor at UNICEF, and previously a Senior Economist at the World Bank "It is my strong belief that this handbook is a vital resource for all those seeking to help the world grow sustainably and equitably through the 21st century and beyond. I am confident that it will soon become the standard reference for all those who study and practice these important issues, in developed and developing countries alike." - taken from the Epilogue, Professor Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Business and Enterprise at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, UK, and author of Jugaad Innovation (Wiley, 2012)Table of ContentsForeword Part I Business models for a circular economy: Introduction 1. Business Models for a Circular Economy: Linking Waste Management and Sanitation with Agriculture 2. Defining and Analysing RRR Business Cases and Models Part II Energy Recovery from Organic Waste 3. Business Models on Solid Fuel Production from Waste 4. Business Models for in-house Biogas Production for Energy Savings 5: Business Models for Sustainable and Renewable Power Generation 6. Business Models on Emerging Technologies/Bio-fuel Production from Agro-Waste Part III Nutrient and Organic Matter Recovery 7. Business Models on Partially Subsidized Composting at District Level 8. Business Models on Subsidy-Free Community Based Composting 9. Business Models on Large-Scale Composting for Revenue Generation 10. Business Models on Nutrient Recovery from own Agro-Industrial Waste 11. Business Models on Compost Production for Sustainable Sanitation Service Delivery 12. Business Models for Outsourcing Fecal Sludge Treatment to the Farm 13. Business Models on Phosphorus recovery from Excreta and Wastewater Part IV Wastewater for Agriculture, Forestry and Aquaculture 14. Business Models on institutional and regulatory pathways to cost recovery 15. Business Models beyond Cost Recovery 16. Business Models for Cost sharing and Risk Minimization 17. Business Models on Rural-Urban Water Trading 18. Business Models for increasing Safety in Informal Wastewater Irrigation 19. The Enabling Environment and Finance of Resource Recovery and Reuse Frugal Innovations for the Circular Economy – An Epilogue
£175.75
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Development Dictionary
Book SynopsisWolfgang Sachs is an author and Research Director at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, in Germany. He has been chair of the board of Greenpeace Germany, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and is a member of the Club of Rome. He teaches at Schumacher College and as Honorary Professor at the University of Kassel. His other books include Planet Dialectics (with Susan George, Zed 2015), and the edited collection Fair Future (Zed 2007).Trade ReviewShort, pithy and well reasoned... There is something in each chapter to challenge, even assault, our dearest, most tightly held assumptions. * Praise for the First Edition, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society *The Development Dictionary questions the whole basis for twentieth century development through a series of brilliantly written essays by leading writers from around the world. * Praise for the First Edition, Resurgence *Unique...the book is a scream of pain from the receiving end of a process experienced as cultural genocide. * Praise for the First Edition, The Guardian *Table of ContentsForeword to the New Edition Introduction - Wolfgang Sachs 1. Development - Gustavo Esteva 2. Environment - Wolfgang Sachs 3. Equality - C. Douglas Lummis 4. Helping - Marianne Gronemeyer 5. Market - Gerard Berthoud 6. Needs - Ivan Illich 7. One World - Wolfgang Sachs 8. Participation - Majid Rahnema 9. Planning - Arturo Escobar 10. Population - Barbara Duden 11. Poverty - Majid Rahnema 12. Production - Jean Robert 13. Progress - Jose Maria Sbert 14. Resources - Vandana Shiva 15. Science - Claude Alvares 16. Socialism - Harry Cleaver 17. Standard of Living - Serge Latouche 18. State - Ashis Nandy 19. Technology - Otto Ullrich
£21.99
Edinburgh University Press Migration and BorderMaking
Book SynopsisThis book deals with the ongoing processes of migration and boundary-(re)making in Europe and other parts of the world. It takes stock of recent and hitherto unpublished research on the refugee crisis in Europe, migration dynamics in the Middle East and migration flows in Africa and Latin America, specifically in relation to their political, social and cultural framing. In particular, chapters in this collection focus on newer cases of transnational migration and their socio-political implications. Alongside the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe,new patterns of migration and re-bordering can also be seen across Europe, the Middle East and beyond. These include both the rise of anti-immigration populism within the nation-states and practices of discouraging migration at the regional level such as the EU.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Kinship State Formation and Governance in the
Book SynopsisBuilds a theoretical model of tribe-state relations through historical political analysis of tribal politics in Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman
£85.50
Profile Books Ltd How Africa Works
£15.29
Grin Publishing Somalia Development and Failure
£14.16
Springer Student Migration and Development
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£61.74
Springer India Japan and Beyond
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£123.49
The University of Chicago Press Sprawl A Compact History
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"
£32.30
University of Chicago Press The Magical State Nature Money and Modernity in
Book SynopsisIn 1935 Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter, establishing South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. This text examines key transformations in Venezuela's polity, culture and economy, recasting theories of development for other postcolonial nations.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: The Magical State and Occidentalism Pt. I: Premiere - The Nature of the Nation: State Fetishism and Nationalism 1: History's Nature 2: The Nation's Two Bodies Pt. II: Debut - Venezuelan Counterpoint: Dictatorship and Democracy 3: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Dictatorship 4: Constructing the Nation; The Nation as a Construct 5: The Twenty-third of January of Democracy Pt. III: Revival - The Petrostate and the Sowing of Oil 6: The Motors Wars: The Engines of Progress 7: Mirages of El Dorado: The Death of a Tractor Factory 8: The Devil's Excrement: Criminality and Sociality Pt. IV: Sequel - Black Gold: Money Fetishism and Modernity 9: Harvesting the Oil: The Storm of Progress 10: Beyond Occidentalism: A Subaltern Modernity References Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Magical State Nature Money and Modernity in
Book SynopsisIn 1935 Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter, establishing South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. This text examines key transformations in Venezuela's polity, culture and economy, recasting theories of development for other postcolonial nations.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Beyond the World Bank Agenda An Institutional
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)"
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Military Institutions and Coercion in the Develo
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.
£22.00
The University of Chicago Press Fada
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.
£74.10
The University of Chicago Press Fada
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.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Beyond the World Bank Agenda An Institutional
Book SynopsisUnder the tutelage of the World Bank, developing countries have experienced lower growth and rising inequality. This book argues that the institution is plagued by a myopic, neoclassical mindset that wrongly focuses on individual rationality and downplays the social and political contexts that can either facilitate development.Trade Review"Beyond the World Bank Agenda will certainly make an important and novel contribution to the literature. Howard Stein puts forward an institutional approach to development, very different and more akin to the real world than the prevailing view. Commendable." - Philip Arestis, Cambridge Center for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge"
£76.00
Columbia University Press The Plight and Promise of Arid Land Agriculture
Book SynopsisThe world's arid and semiarid lands are plagued by serious environmental problems and are deteriorating in their ability to sustain conventional crops. The authors discuss the plight of deteriorating arid lands and, more importantly, offer practical solutions for improved land and water usage and the use of alternative new crops for food, chemicals, and energy production.
£64.00
Columbia University Press Doing Good or Doing Well Japans Foreign Aid
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.
£52.70
Columbia University Press Sex and World Peace
Book SynopsisSex and World Peace is a groundbreaking demonstration that the security of women is a vital factor in the occurrence of conflict and war. This second edition revises and updates the book, enhancing its arguments with fresh data and analysis of additional examples of gender and conflict throughout the world.Table of ContentsMaps, Figures, and TablesPreface and Acknowledgments1. Roots of National and International Relations2. What Is There to See, and Why Aren’t We Seeing It?3. What Is the Global Picture?4. How Did Male-Dominated Social Structures Develop Throughout Human Cultures?5. The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States6. Wings of National and International Relations, Part 1: Effecting Positive Change Through Top-Down Approaches7. Wings of National and International Relations, Part 2: Effecting Positive Change Through Bottom-Up Approaches8. Taking WingNotesContributorsIndex
£20.90
Indiana University Press An Ethnography of Hunger
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is ethnographically rich and presents us with new ways of thinking about development practices and environmental politics broadly defined. More importantly, An Ethnography of Hunger makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the relationship between power, politics and the environment. The book, for many years to come, will provoke intellectual debate about the place of politics and the environment in Tanzania, Africa, and beyond. * Political and Legal Anthrology Review *Recommended. * Choice *Phillips's nuanced analysis of the lived experience of hunger, its embeddedness in social relationships, and its impact on political subjectivity are truly original and set this book apart from other anthropological studies of hunger, subsistence farming, or political subjectivity. -- Jennie E. Gurnet - Georgia State University * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsPreface AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Subsistence CitizenshipPART I: The Frames of Subsistence in Singida: Cosmology, Ethnography, HistoryChapter 1 Hunger in Relief: Village Life and Livelihood Chapter 2 The Unpredictable Grace of the Sun: Cosmology, Conquest, and the Politics of SubsistencePART II: The Power of the Poor on the Threshold of SubsistenceChapter 3 We Shall Meet at the Pot of Ugali: Sociality, Differentiation, and Diversion in the Distribution of FoodChapter 4 Crying, Denying, and Surviving Rural HungerPART III: Subsistence CitizenshipChapter 5 Subsistence versus DevelopmentChapter 6 Patronage, Rights, and the Idioms of Rural Citizenship Conclusion: The Seasons of Subsistence and CitizenshipNotesBibliographyIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press Transformations on the Ground
Book SynopsisIn Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. Land, Power, and the Global considers the ways in which power in all its formslocal, international, legal, familialaffects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use.Trade Review"An important and original contribution to scholarship. Transformations on the Ground offers a nuanced and empirically dense account of land issues —a hot and controversial topic both in academic and political discussions. This book adds a particular dimension to the very large body of literature with its specific mix of legal aspects, ethnographic data, and a global framework."—Dr. Andreas Eckert, coeditor of Afrika 1500 - 1900: Geschichte und Gesellschaft Taschenbuch [Africa 1500 - 1900: History and Society] and Director Re-Work Humboldt University Berlin"Botswana is a darling of international donors and regularly praised as an upwardly mobile, prosperous and successful country. At the same time, it is characterized by poverty and exclusion, especially of women. In her insightful case study on land politics, Anne Griffiths effectively contrasts the image of a coherent state against myriad realities and confusion of competences on the ground. Based on decades of ethnographic fieldwork, this book masterfully demonstrates how in the realm of land and law, international, national, regional and local domains intersect and overlap, and come into conflict with one another."—Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin"Anne Griffiths' ambitious and original book reveals how the 'global' is always situated in specific places and times through her insightful analysis of how land in Botswana has figured in practices, policy and politics from the standpoints of household, family, village, district, national and international levels. Griffiths' astute use of political and legal history, legal documents, observation of statutory and customary law settings, multi-generational life histories and detailed ethnography enable her to provide a rich and informative account that goes well beyond the mantra of 'the global in the local'. While insisting on foregrounding "the voices, perceptions, and experiences of people's relationships with land", Griffiths shows how these interact with national politics, policies, laws and legal practice and with the effects of international and global agencies and processes to produce inequality and class differences, despite some improvement in gendered patterns of land entitlement. "—Pauline Peters, Faculty Associate, Harvard Kennedy School and Center for African StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionSection I: Historical Dimensions of Land in Botswana: Contemporary Entanglements1. The International Landscape and its Influence on Land in Botswana2. Reframing the Governance of Land3. Institutional Frameworks and GovernanceSection II: The Bottom Up Impact of Land on Diverging Family Lifeworlds and Gender Relations4. Families, Networks and Status5. Transformations on the GroundSection III: Law and Space: Negotiating Legal Plurality in Botswana6. Negotiating Conflict: The Handling of Disputes in the Land Tribunal7. Constructing Legality in the High Court and Court of AppealFinal ReflectionsAppendixBibliographyIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press The UN and Development
Book SynopsisOffers an overview of development policies and activities of the United Nations system from the late 1940s onwards. Focusing on the history of the generated ideas, institutionalized, and implemented by UN organizations, this book examines trends in development paradigms from the concept of technical assistance to underdeveloped countries.Trade Review...a sound reference work...Recommended. —ChoiceFeb. 2010 -- D. P. Forsythe * University of Nebraska *Table of ContentsList of Boxes and TablesSeries Editors' Foreword Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. WeissPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1. The Emergence of International Development Assistance 1. The Institutional Heritage and Pre-Aid Traditions and Ideas 2. The Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance 3. The UN Fund for Economic Development 4. First Steps Down the Road: What Can the Footprints Tell?Part 2. The Formative Years 5. The First Development Decade: An Instrument of Persuasion? 6. The Second Development Decade 7. The United Nations Development Programme, 1966–1981 8. The World Food Programme, 1961–1981: Surplus Food for Development and Relief 9. The 1960s and 1970s: Perspectives on DevelopmentPart 3. The Lost Decade and a New Beginning 10. Visions and Priorities for the 1990s: The United Nations Strategy for the Fourth Development Decade 11. The Revival of the Social and Human Dimensions of Development 12. Evolving Priorities, Patterns, and Trends, 1982–2005 13. Food Aid: From Development to Humanitarian Relief 14. The Long Road toward the Millennium Development Goals 15. The Contribution of the UN System to International Development CooperationAppendix: A Bird's-Eye View of ODA to Developing Countries and Multilateral Institutions NotesIndexAbout the AuthorAbout the Project
£28.80
Yale University Press The Trouble with Africa
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£12.99
WW Norton & Co The End of Karma Hope and Fury Among Indias Young
Book SynopsisA penetrating, personal look at contemporary Indiathe world's largest democracyat a moment of transition.Trade Review"Anyone who imagines that India today is simply a land of IT companies and call centers should read this book. Somini Sengupta sees the new India in all its complexity-its gated towers and remote villages; its kidnapped maids and chief ministers; those who want to remake it into a Hindu nation and those who care only about getting ahead. India is home to nearly a fifth of the world's people-few places will be more important to the shape of the twenty-first century. The End of Karma, with its vivid storytelling and intimate portraits of India's younger generation, is a riveting vision of the future." -- Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning "The End of Karma brilliantly opens the door into the world of the striving young men and women of the new India as they try to shed India's past and invent their own future. Somini Sengupta's chosen characters are so vividly drawn and so sensitively reported." -- Tina Brown "In fluent, conversational style, Somini Sengupta asks that burning question of contemporary India-'What happens to a dream deferred?'-by looking at the trajectories of seven lives. The resulting book is compelling, moving, necessary and, above all, truthful." -- Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others "The End of Karma is the essential beginning for any reader who wants to understand the future of the world's biggest democracy. With meticulously researched, grippingly told stories about youth in today's India, Sengupta's quest to understand her daughter's birthplace seized me like no other book coming from the country today." -- Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Environment and the Developing World
Book SynopsisMost of the developing countries are located near the tropics which determine the success or failure of sustainable development strategies in these regions. This environmental study focuses on the developing world, integrating physical/biological discussion with social/development analysis.Trade Review"The overall impression is of a stimulating text" (Progress in Physical Geography, Vol.25 No 3, 2001)Table of ContentsBASIC TOOLS AND CONCEPTS. Introduction to the Physical Environment. World Population: Distribution and Trends. Economics of Environment: Concepts and Tools. MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT. Natural Vegetation as a Resource Land Use and Environmental Impact. Development of Water Resources. Energy and Development. Changing Air Quality. Urban Development and Environmental Modification. The Coastal Waters. Techniques for Environmental Evaluation. THE GLOBAL ISSUES. The History of Current Environmental Awareness. Current Global Events and Projected Effects. Environmental Arrangements: Present and Future. Global Governance for Environment. The Main Issues. References. Index.
£80.06
The University of Michigan Press Power Knowledge Land
£69.30
University of California Press Dependency and Development in Latin America
Book SynopsisAt the end of WWII, several Latin American countries seemed to be ready for industrialization. Instead, they found that they had exchanged old forms of economic dependence for a new kind of dependency on the international capitalism of multinational corporations. This book offers an analysis of the economic development of Latin America.
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University of California Press Livable Cities Urban Struggles for Livelihood and
Book SynopsisThe cities of the developing world are hubs of economic growth, but they are increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unliveable. This book explores the issues of livelihood and ecological sustainability in cities of the developing and transitional world.Trade Review"An exciting book that captures the urban environmental condition through the struggles and knowledge of real people, Livable Cities? reveals how grassroots input can make top-down policy more effective. By focusing on small, seldom-studied communities in such countries as Vietnam, the book illuminates the particular intersection between larger environmental dynamics and their concrete materializations in specific settings." - Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City 2001; "This is an essential book about a fundamental topic: the urban politics of environmental sustainability. Leading social researchers from around the world provide a rigorous assessment on the conditions under which local societies can contribute to the development of a sustainable global order." - Manuel Castells, co-author of The Local and the Global: Management of Cities in the Information Age; "Livable Cities? introduces a fresh and crucial agenda for scholars and activists: how can communities across the world organize to foster both environmental reform and economic well-being-in a word, "livability"? Urban scholars, development scholars, and those in the growing environmental field will take a keen interest in this book." - Harvey Molotch, co-author of Building Rules: How Local Controls Shape Building Environments and Economies; "Peter Evans opens up a new area of thinking on how global environmental problems arise in the context of cities in the Third World and how they are translated into continuing policy debates and political struggles." - John R. Logan, author of The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform; "Within a comprehensive theoretical framework, Livable Cities? studies how particular "ecologies" of political actors have formed in diverse cities in East Asia, Europe, and Latin America to improve the quality of life in poor communities. With its focus on cities and their disempowered majorities, this book provides a welcome contribution to the politics of "another" development, one centered on people's well-being." - John Friedmann, co-author of Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico CityTable of ContentsList of Tables and Illustrations Preface Manuel Castells Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Looking for Agents of Urban Livability in a Globalized Political Economy Peter Evans 2. Urban Poverty and the Environment: Social Capital and State-Community Synergy in Seoul and Bangkok Mike Douglass, Orathai Ard-am, and Ik Ki Kim 3. Collective Action toward a Sustainable City: Citizens' Movements and Environmental Politics in Taipei Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Hwa-Jen Liu 4. Community-Driven Regulation: Toward an Improved Model of Environmental Regulation in Vietnam Dara O'Rourke 5. Social and Spatial Inequalities in Hungarian Environmental Politics: A Historical Perspective Zsuzsa Gille 6. "Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink": Land Use and Water Policy in Sao Paulo, Brazil Margaret E. Keck 7. Sustainability, Livelihood, and Community Mobilization in the Ajusco "Ecological Reserve" Keith Pezzoli 8. Political Strategies for More Livable Cities: Lessons from Six Cases of Development and Political Transition Peter Evans References List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Domesticating the World
Book SynopsisExploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, this book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been dictated by outsiders.Trade Review"Domesticating the World comes at an important moment in the development of globalization studies." -- Jessica Lynn Achberger World History Bltn "This is truly a remarkable and important book. It is extremely well written, includes some wonderful pictures and illustrations, and is very accessible and engaging for scholars and students." -- Dorothy L. Hodgson American Historical Review "The breadth and methodological approach, along with the singularity of its content, make this book a highly necessary addition to the ever-growing body of scholarship on globalization." Journal Of World HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Histories and Globality 1. Similitude and Global Relationships: Self-Representation in Mutsamudu 2. The Social Logics of Need: Consumer Desire in Mombasa 3. The Global Repercussions of Consumerism: East African Consumers and Industrialization 4. Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Domestication: Consumer Imports in Zanzibar 5. Symbolic Subjection and Social Rebirth: Objectification in Urban Zanzibar 6. Picturesque Contradictions: New Taxonomies of East Africa Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Institutions Count
Book SynopsisWhat leads to national progress? The growing consensus in the social sciences is that neither capital flows, nor the savings rate, nor diffuse values are the key, but that it lies in the quality of a nation's institutions. This book shows how real institutions affect national development.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Institutions and Development: A Conceptual Reanalysis Alejandro Portes 2. The Comparative Study of Institutions: The "Institutional Turn" in Development Studies: A Review Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith 3. Institutional Change and Development in Argentina Alejandro Grimson, Ana Castellani, and Alexander Roig 4. Institutional Change and Development in Chilean Market Society Guillermo Wormald and Daniel Brieba 5. The Colombian Paradox: A Thick Institutional Analysis Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito 6. Development Opportunities: Politics, the State, and Institutions in the Dominican Republic in the Twenty-First Century Wilfredo Lozano 7. The Uneven and Paradoxical Development of Mexico's Institutions Jose Luis Velasco 8. Conclusion: The Comparative Analysis of the Role of Institutions in National Development Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith Appendix: Investigators Contributors Index
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University of California Press Fantasy Islands
Book SynopsisThe rise of China and its status as a leading global factory are altering the way people live and consume. This book probes Chinese, European, and American eco-desire and eco-technological dreams, and examines the solutions they offer to environmental degradation in this age of global economic change.Trade Review"Julie Sze has written a perceptive and engaging account of the hopes and dreams embodied in Dongtan and why the project was such an abysmal failure. A mix of critique and reportage, the weaving of a theoretical approach with that of a traveler whose father coincidentally grew up on Chongming, Sze masterfully unpicks the strands of what was intended as the world's largest new environmental city... An impressive achievement in looking through new eyes at China's efforts to deal with its environmental challenges." -- Mark L. Clifford Asian Review of Books "Sze's exploration of the official self-delusion and public eco-desires that sustain fantasies such as Dongtan is compelling... What Sze's exploration of the narratives of eco-modernism shows well is how flexible the creed of environmentalism can be - and how that quality can be manipulated." -- Fred Pearce New Scientist "Recommended reading for both those trying to get to grips with green purchasing in developing countries, as well as those interested in what the people on the street think of planning green and thinking huge. It is also a refreshing read compared to media coverage on the issue, which tends to label developments as 'hilarous' or 'bizarre', or just interview the big names involved, without providing much on-the-ground insight." -- Michael Veale LSE Review of Books "Carbon-neutral, zero-waste and home to 500,000 people: the Chinese eco-city of Dongtan seemed a radical urban dream. But the city, to be sited near Shanghai on Chongming - the world's biggest alluvial island - remains a blueprint. As Julie Sze argues in this thoughtful ... analysis of Chinese "eco-desire", the culprit could be irreconcilable beliefs in harmony with nature, and the ability of autocratic political structures to enact radical change." -- Barbara Kiser Nature "A fascinating story for readers interested in modern China, urban history, and global studies of ecology and the environment!" -- Carla Nappi New Books Network/New Books in East Asian Studies "A thought-provoking new book." -- Jan McGirk China Dialogue "It is easy to paint a black-and-white picture of China's environmental policies. But in Fantasy Islands, Julie Sze is able to bring a more nuanced view... In Fantasy Islands, the author raises some excellent questions about global efforts to deal with climate change through technological solutions." -- Joan Mooney Urbanland "Fantasy Islands accessibly introduces paradoxes of greening China's future." -- G. W. McDonogh CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Fear, Loathing, Eco-Desire: Chinese Pollution in a Transnational World 2. Changing Chongming 3. Dreaming Green: Engineering the Eco-City 4. It's a Green World After All? Marketing Nature and Nation in Suburban Shanghai 5. Imagining Ecological Urbanism at the World Expo Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Prescriptions for Death
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Development
Book Synopsis* Gathers together key readings on the major themes in the study of development and culture. * Structured clearly and supported by editorial material in order to aid teaching. * Can be used alongside Culture and Development: A Critical Introduction (Blackwell Publishers, 2000). .Trade Review"Schech and Haggis' collection is a very good starting point for those interested in teaching and researching the culture and development." South African Geographical JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Pathways to culture and development: Jane Haggis and Susanne Schech. Part I: Modernizing Cultures:. 1. The Grocer and the Theif: A Parable: Daniel Lerner. 2. Modernization Ideals: Gunnar Myrdal. 3. A Universal Civilization? Modernization and Westernization: Samuel P Huntington. 4. Divided Market Cultures in China. Gender, Enterprise and Religion: Robert P Weller. Part II: Culture/Power/Knowledge:. 5. Orientalism: Edward W Said. 6. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power: Stuart Hall. 7. Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth Century: Sander L Gilman. Part III: Development as Discourse:. 8. The Problematisation of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development: Arturo Escobar. 9. The Constitution of the Object of "Development" - Lesotho as a "Less Developed Country": James Ferguson. 10. Becoming a Development Category: Nanda Shrestha. 11. Knowledge for Development: The World Bank. Part IV: Development Culture and Human Rights:. 12. Universalism, Particularism and the Question of Identity: Ernesto Laclau. 13. Human Rights as Cultural Practice: Ann Belinda Preis. 14. Women's Rights, Human Rights and Domestic Violence in Vanuatu: Margaret Jolly. Part V: Global/Local:. 15. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy: Arjun Appadurai. 16. Capitalisms, Crises and Cultures II: Notes on Local Transformation and Everyday Cultural Struggles: Alan Pred. 17. Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East: Jane A Margold. 18. Learning to be Local in Belize. Global Systems of Commom Difference: Richard Wilk. Part VI: Place and Space:. 19. Geography as Destiny: Cities, Villages and Khmer Rouge Orientalism: Kevin McIntyre. 20. Contesting Cultures: Westernization, Respect for Cultures and Third-World Feminists: Uma Narayan. 21. Gender, Place and Networks. A Political Ecology of Cyberculture: Arturo Escobar. 22. Maya Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala: Diane M Nelson. 23. CyberResistance: Saudi Opposition Between Globalization and Localization: Mamoun Fandy. Part VII: Multiple Modernities:. 24. The Invention of Tradition Revisited: The Case of Colonial Africa: Terence Ranger. 25. Contentious Traditions: The Debate of Sati in Colonial India: Lata Mani. 26. "When the Earth is Female and the Nation is Mother". Gender, the Armed Forces and Nationalism in Indonesia: Saraswati Sunindyo. 27. The Objects of Soap Opera: Egyptian Television and the Cultural Politics of Modernity: Lila Abu-Lughod. 28. The Credible and the Credulous: The Question of "Villagers' Beliefs" in Nepal: Stacy Leigh Pigg. 29. Modernizing the Malay Mother: Maila Stivens. Index.
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Harvard University Press Ripe for Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Cold War–era experiments of the Global South make clear that socialism is more than Stalinism. Jeremy Friedman looks to Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Angola, and Iran to understand how socialism has worked in practice. Each state developed its own socialism, pragmatically addressing local needs and shaping the horizons of socialism today.Trade ReviewImpressive…Although the pursuit of socialism in the global South generally ended in failure, Friedman argues that it left lasting legacies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. -- Maria Lipman * Foreign Affairs *Impressive…[Ripe for Revolution] reveals much that we did not know—and have been desperate to learn—about Soviet involvement in, and evaluations of, the Third World. -- Tanya Harmer * H-Diplo *A brilliantly original study of how communism was transformed by its encounter with the postcolonial world, forging a model of socialist development that shapes our world down to the present. In an era overshadowed by talk of a new Cold War, Ripe for Revolution is essential reading. -- Adam Tooze, author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the WorldAn illuminating exploration of the power of the concept of socialism, especially in the developing world, that provides clues to today’s challenges—from Xi Jinping’s ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ to Bernie Sanders’s ‘socialism with American characteristics.’ -- Graham Allison, author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?An outstanding book. By showing how and why socialism became a preferred model for state building and social transformation in countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Friedman reestablishes the centrality of non-capitalist models of development and illuminates what made scientific socialism so attractive for so many in the postcolonial world. -- Odd Arne Westad, author of Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea RelationsOriginal and lucid, Ripe for Revolution confirms Friedman’s standing as one of our foremost practitioners of Cold War international history. His book deepens our understanding of the winding path of Soviet promotion of socialism, incisively revealing strains of pragmatic calculation within ideological parameters. It not only has fresh implications for understanding the postwar communist realm but also illuminates Western Cold War calculations. -- James G. Hershberg, author of Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in VietnamFriedman strides confidently around the world to the hotspots of late Cold War socialism, from Tanzania to Chile and Angola to Indonesia, to show the many ways in which Marx, Lenin, and Mao were put into practice. With a dazzling array of sources about the local varieties of socialism, Friedman never loses track of geopolitics. The result is a tour de force of Cold War history on a global scale. -- David C. Engerman, author of The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in IndiaTransforming how we see the Cold War and its legacies, Friedman punctuates standard narratives of capitalist diffusion as he tracks the variety of policies and institutions across different socialist states alongside their stubborn independence from patrons in Moscow and Beijing. Anyone interested in understanding political development in the Global South must read this revealing book. -- Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office
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Harvard University Press Obstetrics and Gynecology in LowResource Settings
Book SynopsisObstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings provides practical guidelines for ensuring quality care to women in locations where facilities are inadequate, equipment and medications are in short supply, and medical staff are few. This reference will be an essential companion to health care providers throughout the world.Trade ReviewUnder Nawal Nour’s guidance and gentle tutelage, this book lays out current knowledge about the ranking threats—from obstetric fistula and genital cutting to obstructed labor and stillbirths, cervical cancer, HIV, and malaria in pregnancy—to the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of women. Nor are gender-based violence and access to contraception scanted, as so often in medical texts. Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings: A Practical Guide will prove indispensable to students, trainees, and clinicians seeking to span such divides in order to improve and save lives. It’s a go-to reference for all those who care about the role of gender equity in the broader struggle for global health equity. And that should mean all of us. -- Paul E. Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and cofounder of Partners In HealthDr. Nour has gathered the foremost experts in obstetrics and gynecology to address the most devastating health issues faced by women in low-resource settings. Practical and easy to read, this book is essential for health providers working in low-resource regions of the world, and indispensable for individuals committed to improving the health and well-being of women everywhere. Not only meant to improve women’s lives, this publication will no doubt save women’s lives. -- Christy Turlington Burns, global maternal health advocate and founder of Every Mother CountsObstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings: A Practical Guide is the first book of its kind to describe a broad range of applications to women’s health worldwide. As a resource for not only physicians, but also non-physician women’s health providers, this volume will have a broad appeal. Of importance is the inclusion of information regarding the need to learn cultural sensitivity and an appreciation of the need to highlight social determinants of maternal mortality and morbidity, including gender-based violence. -- Douglas W. Laube, past president, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
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Princeton University Press The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions
Book SynopsisOver the decades, there has been a widespread movement from authoritarian to democratic rule among developing countries, often occurring against a backdrop of severe economic crises and the adoption of market-oriented reforms. This title explores this relationship, addressing a variety of questions.Trade Review"Haggard and Kaufman...bring a fresh perspective to the study of the political economy of democratic transitions by reminding us that institutional landscapes are important in determining policy preferences, choices, and outcomes in 'transition' societies."--Omar G. Encarnacion, Comparative PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions3Ch. 1The Political Economy of Authoritarian Withdrawals25Ch. 2Economic Crisis and Authoritarian Withdrawal45Ch. 3Surviving Crises, Withdrawing in Good Times75Ch. 4Comparing Authoritarian Withdrawals109Ch. 5Democratic Transitions and Economic Reform151Ch. 6New Democracies and Economic Crisis183Ch. 7Economic Management in Non-crisis Democracies228Ch. 8Economic and Political Reform in Dominant-Party Systems: Mexico and Taiwan267Ch. 9Economic Reform and Democratic Consolidation309Ch. 10Institutions, Democratic Consolidation, and Sustainable Growth335Conclusion: Comparing Democratic Transitions365Index381
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Princeton University Press From Development to Democracy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The authors argue persuasively that some regimes are capable of moving from authoritarian forms of government to democracy."---Warren I. Cohen, Washington Post"From Development to Democracy offers an engaging and novel theoretical argument that the authors present in a lucid and highly readable manner. . . . The book makes an important contribution to democratization studies, but it might also interest area specialists and historians of Asia. I recommend it thoroughly."---Etienne Hanelt, Democratization
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Pluto Press The Great Deception
Book SynopsisEssential reading for anyone wanting to understand Britain and the United States’ true role in the worldTrade Review'A powerful, compelling book ... It leaves the reader outraged at the hypocrisy and duplicity of British politicians and officials' -- Race and Class'Demonstrates how Britain remains the key supporting player in US domination, and how far from benign that domination is in its impact on the rest of the world' -- Victoria Brittain'Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand Britain and the United States' true role in the world and the so-called order imposed by the Anglo-American alliance' -- John Pilger'His findings are damning' -- London Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Foreign Policy 1. Postwar Foreign Policy and the Special Relationship 2. Foreign Policy Under the Democrats and Labour Part Two: Development 3. The 'Development' System 4. The Prevention of Development Part Three: the Middle East 5. Controlling the Modern Middle East 6. The Gulf Part Four: the United Nations 7. The Us, Britain and the Un in History 8. Current Policy, Intervention and the Case of Rwanda Notes Index
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Pluto Press A Peoples Green New Deal
Book SynopsisAn urgent demand for a People's Green New Deal, foregrounding global agricultural transformation and climate justice for the Global SouthTrade Review'Hands-down the best book yet on the Green New Deal. Courageous, bold, refreshing - Ajl pushes the horizons of progressive thought and envisions an ecosocialist transition that is rooted in principles of global justice' -- Jason Hickel, author of 'Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World''An amazing text, truly inspirational. There are few books in which nearly every sentence is urgent and quotable, but this is one. Lucid and profound, it assembles the elements that are necessary for an actual political program of survival and renewal' -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of 'An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States' (Beacon Press, 2014)'You cannot purchase your way out of climate change the same way you cannot pick a 'Green New Deal' brand that suits your personal preferences. Anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism are not by-gone projects, they're very much alive in the Global South. Left climate movements in the North would be better served by following their example as well as reading this critical work' -- Nick Estes, author of 'Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance' (Verso, 2019)‘Ajl guides us with an authority steeped in scholarship but also with panache. If you really want to learn what'll be necessary for our species to survive climate apocalypse, read this book. You'll then know the ways by which humanity's very fate can be won’ -- Rob Wallace, author of 'Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19' (Monthly Review Press, 2020)'Anyone wanting to understand the limitations of the Green New Deal, and how it is being employed as a tool to rationalize Green Capitalism, and sanitize its advance within the capitalist system must read this critical work' -- Kali Akuno, Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson"In this urgent book, Max Ajl poses the question “What would visions for sustainability in Global North look like if they were anti-imperial, reparative, socialist and agroecological?” The answer, he argues, looks radically different from – and more liberating than - the Green New Deals on the table today" -- Raj Patel, co-author of 'A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet' (Verso, 2020)'An exceedingly important and powerful book, a uniquely comprehensive report about climate change, its politics and injustices' -- Judith Deutsch, ‘Counterpunch’‘A bracing and thought-provoking call for those of us in the Global North to reconsider how we fight for social and climate justice’ -- ‘ROAR’‘A refreshing and rich scholarly alternative to how an ideal green new deal should be imagined … an exquisite sketch of ideal avenues towards eco-socialism’ -- ‘Developing Economics’‘Provides a comprehensive survey of the nuanced issues a red-green alliance must confront and resolve’ -- ‘System Change not Climate Change’'An exceedingly important and powerful book, a uniquely comprehensive report about climate change, its politics and injustices'. -- ‘Socialist Project’‘A magnificent work that should be at the top of reading lists for anyone remotely concerned about the climate crisis' -- ‘Canadian Dimension’Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Capitalist Green Transitions 1. Green Transition - or Fortress Eco-Nationalism? 2. Change Without Change: Eco-Modernism 3. Energy Use, Degrowth, and the Green New Deal 4. Green Social Democracy or Eco-Socialism? Part II: A People's Green New Deal 5. The World We Wish to See 6. A Planet of Fields 7. Green Anti-Imperialism and the National Question Conclusion Notes Index
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Pluto Press A Critical History of Poverty Finance
Book SynopsisA comprehensive historical tracing of how the contemporary finance-poverty-development nexus emergedTrade Review'Nick Bernards has crafted the definitive account of the history of poverty finance, skilfully revealing its entanglements with the uneven development of capitalism' -- Susanne Soederberg, Professor of Global Political Economy at Queen's University, Canada‘In this outstanding history of poverty finance, Nick Bernards show that financial exclusion persists not because of a lack of design or fancy technology but because the problem of uneven development is persistent and structural’ -- Andrew Leyshon, Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham'A much-needed book that should be read by anyone interested in the expansion of finance into everyday life. Rich with empirical details and comprehensive in its theoretical engagement with the interrelationship between finance and social justice, it throws into sharp relief how impoverished the conception of poverty reduction is when it relies on financial inclusion to improve welfare of people' -- Johnna Montgomerie, Professor of International Political Economy at King's College London'In this exemplary study, Nick Bernards shows why so many were seduced into wrongly believing that poverty finance might be the key to eradicating global poverty. In fact, its deployment was about advancing the narrow enrichment priorities of the powerful. A major contribution in the study of the politics of finance' -- Milford Bateman, author of 'Why Doesn't Microfinance Work? The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Acronyms Introduction Part I. Poverty finance and the antinomies of colonialism 1. A colonial problem 2. Poverty finance and nascent neoliberalism 3. Structural adjustment, backlash, and the turn to the local: Explaining the rise of microfinance Part II. Making markets for poverty finance 4. Commercialising community: Experiments with marketisation 5. From microcredit to financial inclusion Part III. Innovation to the rescue? 6. The forever-latent demand for microinsurance 7. Fintech and its limits Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of British Columbia Press Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume illuminate key conditions for autonomy and development: the definition and redefinition of national territories as cultural orders clash and mix; control of resource bases upon which northern economies depend; and renewal and reworking of cultural identity.Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgments1 Introduction: On Autonomy and Development / Colin H. Scott2 Healing the Past, Meeting the Future / Peter PenashuePart One: (Re)defining Territory3 Shaping Modern Inuit Territorial Perception and Identity in the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula / Ludger Müller-Wille4 Writing Legal Histories on Nunavik / Susan G. Drummond5 The Landscape of Nunavik/The Territory of Nouveau-Québec / Peter Jacobs6 Aboriginal Rights and Interests in Canadian Northern Seas / Monica E. Mulrennan and Colin H. Scott7 Territories, Identity, and Modernity among the Atikamekw (Haut St-Maurice, Québec) / Sylvie PoirierPart Two: Resource Management and Development Conflicts8 Voices from a Disappearing Forest: Government, Corporate, and Cree Participatory Forestry Management Practices / Harvey Feit and Robert Beaulieu9 Conflicts between Cree Hunting and Sport Hunting: Co-Management Decision-Making at James Bay / Colin H. Scott and Jeremy Webber10 Becoming a Mercury Dealer: Moral Implications and the Construction of Objective Knowledge for the James Bay Cree / Richard T. Scott11 Media Contestation of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement: The Social Construction of the Cree Problem / Donna Patrick and Peter Armitage12 Low-level Military Flight Training in Quebec-Labrador: The Anatomy of a Northern Development Conflict / Mary Barker13 The Land Claims Negotiations of the Montagnais or Innu of the Province of Quebec and the Management of Natural Resources / Paul CharestPart Three: Community, Identity, and Governance14 Community Dispersement and Organization: The Case of Ouje-bougoumou / Abel Bosum15 Gathering Knowledge: Reflections on the Anthropology of Identity, Aboriginality, and the Annual Gatherings in Whapmagoostui, Quebec / Naomi Adelson16 Building a Community in the Town of Chisasibi / Sue Jacobs17 Cultural Change in Mistissini: Implications for Self-Determination and Cultural Survival / Catherine James18 The Decolonization of the Self and the Recolonization of Knowledge: The Politics of Nunavik Health Care / Josée G. Lavoie19 Country Space as a Healing Place: Community Healing at Sheshatshiu / Cathrine Degnen20 The Concept of Community and the Challenge for Self-Government / Hedda Schuurman21 The Double Bind of Aboriginal Self-Government / Adrian Tanner22 Afterword: Reflections on Strategy / Colin H. ScottIndex
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