Reception or Interpretation studies / Audience Theory Books
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
Book Synopsis
£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.
£22.50
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
£50.40
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
£22.50
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
£22.50
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.
£38.90
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 Politics of Development
Book SynopsisBlending political, cultural and economic perspectives, this text traces the evolution of Asian countries in the 20th century. Its aim is to determine the mix of culture, experience, scale, timing, leadership and policy that shapes individual developing nations.
£999.99
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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Princeton University Press Political Parties and Political Development. SPD6
Book SynopsisA group of specialists trace the origins and development of political parties, explore their impact on the system in which they exist, and raise new questions about the potential role of parties. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print boTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*1. The Origin and Development of Political Parties, pg. 3*2. Parties, Elites, and Political Developments in Western Europe, pg. 43*3. Parties and Nation-Building in America, pg. 79*4. The Development of Parties in Turkey, pg. 107*5. European Political Parties: The Case of Polarized Pluralism, pg. 137*6. The Transformation of the Western European Party Systems, pg. 177*7. The Decline of the Party in Single-Party African States, pg. 201*8. Political Recruitment and Participation in Egypt, pg. 217*9. Electoral Mobilization, Party Competition, and National Integration, pg. 241*10. Parties and National Integration in Africa, pg. 267*11. Political Parties and the Crisis of Succession in the United States: The Case of 1800, pg. 303*12. Political Parties and Policy-Making in Latin America, pg. 331*13. Party Systems and National Development in Asia, pg. 369*CONCLUSION. The Impact of Parties on Political Development, pg. 399*A Selected Bibliography, pg. 439*Contributors, pg. 465*Index, pg. 471
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Princeton University Press Political Culture and Political Development
Book SynopsisVolume 5 in the Studies in Political Development Series. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books whilTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface and Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*1. Introduction: Political Culture and Political Development, pg. 1*2. Japan: The Continuity of Modernization, pg. 27*3. England: The Traditionally Modern Political Culture, pg. 83*4. Germany: The Remaking of Political Culture, pg. 130*5. Turkey: The Modernity of Tradition, pg. 171*6. India: Two Political Cultures, pg. 199*7. Ethiopia: Identity, Authority, and Realism, pg. 245*8. Italy: Fragmentation, Isolation, and Alienation, pg. 282*9. Mexico: The Established Revolution, pg. 330*10. Egypt: The Integrative Revolution, pg. 396*11. Soviet Russia: Orthodoxy and Adaptiveness, pg. 450*12. Conclusion: Comparative Political Culture, pg. 512*Contributors, pg. 561*Index, pg. 565
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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
£24.29
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
£72.25
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
£17.99
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
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Two Mediterranean Worlds
Book SynopsisThe Mediterranean, a region of uneven globalization, offers clues to understanding the future of democracy in North Africa and the Near East.Table of ContentsPreface to Series / Preface to the English EditionIntroduction / Yassine Essid and William D. ColemanPart 1: Adapting and Integrating -- Governing in Globalization1 Globalization, Governance, and Autonomy / Abdeljabbar Bsaies2 Globalization, Autonomy, and the Euro-Mediterranean Space: The Issues of Regional Cooperation and the Challenges of Sovereignty / Faika Charfi and Sameh ZouariPart 2: Globalization in the Great Texts3 ‘Asabiyya, Market, and Society: The Contemporary Relevance of Ibn Khaldun’s Vision of Social Change / Olivia Orozco de la Torre4 Transmission of Texts and Globalization of Knowledge: Inter-religious Dialogue in Castile in the Fifteenth Century / Sonia FellousPart 3: Religions and Globalization5 Islam: Globalization, Autonomy, and Internationality / Mohamed Yassine Essid6 Muslim Women in the Mediterranean Region: Discriminatory Autonomy / Latifa LakhdharPart 4: Cultural Autonomy -- Music and Food7 Local Tunisian Music and Globalization: Between Musical Autonomy and Commercial Autonomy / Myriem Lakhoua8 Globalization and Food Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region / Amado A. Millán Fuertes9 The Fuentes de Ebro Sweet Onion: Autonomy through Globalization / Rulof Kerkhoff10 Globalization of Food Practices in Amman / Almudena Hasan Bosque11 Food Globalization and Autonomy Strategies: The Case of Meat in Tunisia / Paula Durán MonfortPart 5: Cultural Autonomy -- Languages and Education12 Globalized Literature and Autonomy: The Arabic Novel in the West / François Zabbal13 The Use of English in North Africa: From Globalization to Autonomy / Mongi Bahloul14 Globalization, Autonomy, and Higher Education: The French and Tunisian Cases / Houda Ben HassenPart 6: Globalization and Autonomy -- The Economic Question15 The Economics of Globalization and Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region / Lotfi Bouzaïane16 Globalization and Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region: The Roles of the Main Stakeholders / Rim Ben Ayed Mouelhi17 The Challenge of Financial Globalization in Countries South of the Mediterranean Basin / Samouel Béji18 Industrial Policy in the Mediterranean Region and Capacities for Autonomy in a Context of Globalization / Jihen Malek19 The South Mediterranean Countries and Economic Opening: The State of Affairs / Nizard Jouini20 The Mediterranean and Outsourcing / Fatma SarrajEpilogue21 Globalization and Autonomy: The Individual in the Maghreb / Interview with Dr. Hashmi DhaouiNotes; Works Cited; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Two Mediterranean Worlds
Book SynopsisThe Mediterranean, a region of uneven globalization, offers clues to understanding the future of democracy in North Africa and the Near East.Table of ContentsPreface to Series / Preface to the English EditionIntroduction / Yassine Essid and William D. ColemanPart 1: Adapting and Integrating -- Governing in Globalization1 Globalization, Governance, and Autonomy / Abdeljabbar Bsaies2 Globalization, Autonomy, and the Euro-Mediterranean Space: The Issues of Regional Cooperation and the Challenges of Sovereignty / Faika Charfi and Sameh ZouariPart 2: Globalization in the Great Texts3 ‘Asabiyya, Market, and Society: The Contemporary Relevance of Ibn Khaldun’s Vision of Social Change / Olivia Orozco de la Torre4 Transmission of Texts and Globalization of Knowledge: Inter-religious Dialogue in Castile in the Fifteenth Century / Sonia FellousPart 3: Religions and Globalization5 Islam: Globalization, Autonomy, and Internationality / Mohamed Yassine Essid6 Muslim Women in the Mediterranean Region: Discriminatory Autonomy / Latifa LakhdharPart 4: Cultural Autonomy -- Music and Food7 Local Tunisian Music and Globalization: Between Musical Autonomy and Commercial Autonomy / Myriem Lakhoua8 Globalization and Food Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region / Amado A. Millán Fuertes9 The Fuentes de Ebro Sweet Onion: Autonomy through Globalization / Rulof Kerkhoff10 Globalization of Food Practices in Amman / Almudena Hasan Bosque11 Food Globalization and Autonomy Strategies: The Case of Meat in Tunisia / Paula Durán MonfortPart 5: Cultural Autonomy -- Languages and Education12 Globalized Literature and Autonomy: The Arabic Novel in the West / François Zabbal13 The Use of English in North Africa: From Globalization to Autonomy / Mongi Bahloul14 Globalization, Autonomy, and Higher Education: The French and Tunisian Cases / Houda Ben HassenPart 6: Globalization and Autonomy -- The Economic Question15 The Economics of Globalization and Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region / Lotfi Bouzaïane16 Globalization and Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region: The Roles of the Main Stakeholders / Rim Ben Ayed Mouelhi17 The Challenge of Financial Globalization in Countries South of the Mediterranean Basin / Samouel Béji18 Industrial Policy in the Mediterranean Region and Capacities for Autonomy in a Context of Globalization / Jihen Malek19 The South Mediterranean Countries and Economic Opening: The State of Affairs / Nizard Jouini20 The Mediterranean and Outsourcing / Fatma SarrajEpilogue21 Globalization and Autonomy: The Individual in the Maghreb / Interview with Dr. Hashmi DhaouiNotes; Works Cited; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Globalization Poverty and Income Inequality
Book SynopsisGlobalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality uses diverse empirical approaches to reveal the sometimes unexpected effects of trade and globalization on poverty and inequality.Table of Contents1 Indonesia: Economic History, Growth, Poverty, Income Inequality, and Trade / Richard Barichello2 Globalization and Inequality: Causes, Consequences, and Cures / James W. Dean and Colin McLean3 Trade Expansion in Indonesia: The Impact on Poverty and Income Inequality / Teguh Dartanto, Yusuf Sofiyandi, and Nia Kurnia Sholiha4 Is Globalization Associated with Income Inequality? The Case of Indonesia / Yessi Vadila and Budy P. Resosudarmo5 A Child’s Growth is a Nation’s Growth: Children’s Well-being and Inequality in Indonesia / Santi Kusumaningrum, Arianto Patunru, Clara Siagian, and Cyril Bennouna6 Reducing Rural Poverty through Trade? Evidence from Indonesia / Richard Barichello and Faisal Harahap7 Is Greater Openness to Trade Good? What are the Effects on Poverty and Inequality? / Arianto Patunru8 Coffee Eco-Certification: New Challenges for Farmers’ Welfare / Bustanul Arifin9 Understanding Visual Disability as a Development and Global Human Rights Issues: A Demographic Perspective in Indonesia / Evi Nurvidya Arifin and Aris Ananta10 Urban Property Rights: A View from Jakarta / Michael Leaf11 Indonesia: The Links between Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality / Richard SchwindtList of Contributors; Index
£25.19
Stanford University Press Regional Modernities
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays focuses on development in India to explore the emergence of regional modernities in ways that are distinct from a so-called global modernity and its myriad local variations. Individual essays present case studies of development across India.Trade Review"This is a well-conceived and well-executed anthropological collection of essays." -- Lakshmi R. Iyer * United States Department of Agriculture *"This collection sets a very high standard of scholarship in the social science literature on development and modernity. Individually and collectively, the essays in this volume will challenge and provoke scholars engaged in the critique of development in India and elsewhere." -- Journal of Asian Studies
£22.99
Stanford University Press Degrees Without Freedom
Book SynopsisThis book re-evaluates debates on education, modernity, and social change in India through reference to the strategies of educated un/under-employed young men in western Uttar Pradesh.Trade Review"Overall, the book makes an excellent and original contribution in furthering our understanding of the heterogeneous pathways to masculinities for men from different social locations. It makes an important contribution by illustrating the significance of understanding the relationship between various forms of power in a community shaped by the intersections of caste, class, and religion and their impact on the construction of masculinities in North India in the era of globalization."—Ramaswami Mahalingam, Men and Masculinities"Not since Paul Willis's classic Learning to Labour has a scholarly work conveyed so eloquently the promises and betrayals of formal schooling. Everyone who cares about social justice and development and how, as social scientists and practitioners, we should approach these goals, must read this superb study."—Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi"With verve, clarity, and apt theoretical engagement, this study describes the place of education in youthful imagination and performance, and sociopolitical change in the aftermath of economic liberalization. It's a compelling read, brimming with insight, tinged with humor, a compassionate record of how education, civility, and aspiration become entangled in the reproduction of social inequality in both familiar and new ways."—K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University"The focus on masculinity, education, modernity, and social status among rural young men in northern India highlights the problems with education in India. The authors explore the mindset of those for whom rural education is a system that often fails, demonstrating a volatile mix of disenfranchisement on the one hand and underemployment on the other."—Susan S. Wadley, Syracuse University"The book thus offers us a deep and thoughtful analysis of the socio-political transformations and reproduction of socio-economic inequality which are propelled by the promises of formal education in a terrain of uneven social and economic reality The book captures reflectively the spatial and social transformation occurring in familiar and novel ways."—Progress in Development Studies"The book is important for both academics and policy makers: 'we question accounts of education as an unproblematic social good within development academia'. Not quite the condemnation of education as causing the problem, but a warning that education on its own will not achieve its goals, and that with some people in some contexts, it can have its 'dark side'."—Alan Rogers, University of East Anglia"[T]hrough close ethnographic work, the authors throw new light on larger debates about development, education and employment in India, and raise important issues and questions that demand further exploration and debate by sociologists and policymakers alike."—Economic & Political Weekly"The authors of this book do a magnicent job of analyzing the cultural and political terrain in which the potential benets of education are mediated by social and cultural capital, within highly politicized contexts and uneven economies. Degrees Without Freedom? is a model of excellent research and writing, speaking to critical debates in a number of elds, and I recommend it very highly."—Annals of the Association of American Geographers
£20.89
Stanford University Press Losing Afghanistan
Book SynopsisThe U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds, and people on an international level not seen since World War II. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and tens of billions of dollars flowed into the country. But what was gained for Afghanistanor for the international community that footed the bill? Why did development money not lead to more development? Why did a military presence make things more dangerous? Through the stories of four individualsan ambassador, a Navy SEAL, a young Afghan businessman, and a wind energy engineerNoah Coburn weaves a vivid account of the challenges and contradictions of life during the intervention. Looking particularly at the communities around Bagram Airbase, this ethnography considers how Afghans viewed and attempted to use the intervention and how those at the base tried to understand the communities around them. These compelling stories step outside the tired paradigms of 'unruly' Afghan tribes, an effective Taliban resistance, and Trade Review"Coburn's experienced eye demonstrates that understanding local culture is a two way street. Highly recommended for Afghans, or anyone puzzled by the policies of international military and civilian institutions and in need of practical advice on how to cope with their strange ways of thinking." -- Thomas Barfield * Boston University *"Rich in description and thick with ironies, Losing Afghanistan reveals the insanities of a war run by and for contractors, and by soldiers posing as development agents. In this first-hand account of war-time Afghanistan, Coburn navigates the various and sometimes shared assumptions of walled off foreigners and the world they created in which Afghans play but minor parts. A quiet indictment." -- Catherine Lutz * Brown University *"Losing Afghanistan provides a unique window into the longest, most costly US and international intervention since the Second World War. Having spent over a decade researching and writing about Afghanistan, living with ordinary Afghans, and a bewildering array of international actors, Coburn illuminates the chasm between what ordinary Afghans think and want, and what international actors assume and do, and the frustration and disillusionment that resulted." -- Michael Keating, Associate Director, Chatham House, and Former UN Deputy Envoy to Afghanistan * Kabul *"Though it receives little regard in the conference rooms where policy decisions are arrived at, anthropology in the person of field ethnographers like Noah Coburn provides a much-needed perspective that is almost always ignored or only turned to after the fact. In its careful attention to pinpointing the places where abstract policy gets stuck in practice, Losing Afghanistan demonstrates why anthropology is desperately needed as both counsel and corrective, and why its small-scale but critical truths are so often ignored." -- David Edwards * American Anthropologist *"Coburn convincingly shows that any anthropological understanding of the international intervention in Afghanistan needs to describe the specific subculture of the foreign military, humanitarian workers, consultants, or journalists who flocked into the country in the aftermath of the Taliban regime's fall....Coburn's compelling book is a must-read for everybody interested in Afghanistan and more generally in peacebuilding interventions." -- Noah Coburn * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Surveying the Intervention from Above chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the scale of the international intervention from some of the biggest projects to some of the smallest. It introduces Bagram Airbase, located in the center of Afghanistan, and one of the most important international bases used during the intervention. The chapter looks at some of the agricultural communities around the base and considers the potential for conflict between these communities and the base. It also introduces a company, owned in part by an American engineer, designed to build small-scale wind projects across the country and asks why certain projects receive funding, while others do not. 2Intervening chapter abstractThis chapter charts the move of the anthropologist from a small town in the mountains of Afghanistan to the busy diplomatic circles of Kabul. It considers some of the literature that has been produced about the intervention thus far and argues that much of the thinking about the intervention had a circular nature that derived from the narrow views that many people had. Thus, diplomats tended to support diplomatic solutions, military officers, military ones and development workers were always arguing for more funds. Thus, it suggest that a more holistic, ethnographic approach is required to truly understand the multiple dimensions of the intervention. In particular, it suggests an approach that focuses on individual stories has much to offer and introduces the reader to a Navy SEAL in charge of liaising with the Afghan National Army to demonstrate such an approach. 3The Exotic Tribes of the Intervention chapter abstractThis chapter considers whether the international community should be considered a 'community' and what such a community would look like. It argues that while incredibly diverse in origins and in jobs preformed, as funds increasingly enter the country, the international community was united by the language it used, the places they lived and their common worldview. It also asks what many of the Afghans who worked specifically with the international community had in common and introduces one young merchant who owned a small logistics company that was expanding rapidly. 4Before the Invasion chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the history of the area around Bagram Airbase, as well as the history of the international community in Afghanistan more generally. It begins by focusing on the invasion of Alexander the Great and various other conflicts that shaped the complex ethnic and political composition of the area. It then considers the period of jihad against the Soviet backed government, when most of the international aid community was based in Pakistan. It then considers how these elements have contributed to the lasting conflict around Bagram. Through this period it also tracks the life of Ronald Neumann, whose father was ambassador of Afghanistan, a position his son would hold thirty years later. 5A New Era? chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the recent history of the coalition airbase at Bagram and the international project in Afghanistan more generally since the US-led invasion in 2001. In particular it looks at the case of a Navy SEAL to demonstrate the ways in which for many, despite the long history of conflict in Afghanistan, the intervention really began with the September 11 attacks. Initial momentum in Afghanistan was lost, however, as the international focus shifted to Iraq. With President Obama's announcement of both a surge in troop levels and development spending, there was newfound hope, particularly for small-scale development projects. This was especially apparent in the attempts at electrifying much of the country, which led to large wasteful projects, like the Kajaki Dam and generator projects in Kandahar. The chapter concludes by outlining the history of one small wind energy company and its struggle to secure funding. 6Contracting the Intervention chapter abstractThis chapter looks at one particularly effective, small-scale, sustainable energy project and asks why it failed during the surge years when so much funding was available. It considers the contracting model that was the basis for how much of the development money in the country was distributed and argues that in many cases, smaller NGOs were simply not asking for enough money. This led to a pattern of large scale, inefficient contractors, with little on-the-ground knowledge often beat out small competitors for international funds, creating patterns of waste and corruption. In addition, it considers the ways in coalition soldiers attempted to reach out to local communities using development funds, particularly as the counterinsurgency approach called on soldiers to 'win hearts and minds.' 7Climbing over the Wall chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on ways that the airbase at Bagram attempted to reach out to local communities. It begins by looking at why development was slow in the area and how high risk made Afghan businessmen unlikely to invest in long-term projects. These led to a boom in cheap construction projects, which were an easy way to make money rapidly. As the base increasingly failed to provide either services or security to the communities around it, officials turn to hiring local labor. This proved more difficult than expected, however, due to the complex logistics of contact labor on the base. 8The Merchant-Warlord Alternative chapter abstractWhile many in the communities around Bagram were gaining little from the international presence, there was a small group of young merchants who were able to monopolize much of the easy money coming off the base through contracts. This led to a new form of leader: the merchant-warlord. These figures often relied on bribing lower level coalitions soldiers to falsify bills of sale, steal fuel and countless other schemes. US government auditors worked relentlessly to track down these schemes, but rarely ended up prosecuting anyone but those on the lowest rung of the organizational ladder. This led to some embarrassing cases, including an Afghan driver who was lured to the United States and detained at great cost, despite the fact that it was clear that he had no real knowledge of his company's organization. 9Warlord Density and its Discontents chapter abstractThis chapter looks at local communities' growing resentment of Bagram Airbase. As the intervention went on, rumors spread about what was happening inside the base and stories circulated about the lack of cultural sensitivity of troops. All of this climax in a series of riots outside of the base following the burning of several Korans confiscated from the prison inside Bagram. These protests spread quickly across the country, creating a major rift between the Afghan government and international diplomats. Tensions between these two groups centered in particular on control over detainees who were held often outside the Afghan legal system. 10How to Host Your Own Shura chapter abstractIn response to the sense that the international military was not doing enough to engage local communities, the military increasingly attempt to hold community consultations based upon the tradition of Afghan elders meeting on shuras or councils. The chapter recounts how this led to a series of training programs that actually taught soldiers how to host meetings of elders. The chapter studies one specific case of internationally-sponsored shuras that were used to release Afghan detainees. Another aspect of these types of programs was the Human Terrain program made up of social scientists embedded with the military. All of these projects ultimately had limited impact since, in part, none of them actually built relationships between Afghan leaders and those in the international community. 11The Pieces Left Behind chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the question of whether the intervention in Afghanistan was "worth it." It asks how we measure such a thing and argues that the cross-purposes and constantly changing agenda of the international community was what ultimately doomed it to waste and inefficiency. The intervention was simultaneously a counterinsurgency, a counterterrorist operation, a development project, a state-building enterprise and a human rights mission. And, as a result, was ultimately none of these. The chapter reflects on how the international community might learn lessons more effectively and what this means both for Afghanistan and future potential interventions.
£67.91
Stanford University Press Losing Afghanistan
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Coburn's experienced eye demonstrates that understanding local culture is a two way street. Highly recommended for Afghans, or anyone puzzled by the policies of international military and civilian institutions and in need of practical advice on how to cope with their strange ways of thinking." -- Thomas Barfield * Boston University *"Rich in description and thick with ironies, Losing Afghanistan reveals the insanities of a war run by and for contractors, and by soldiers posing as development agents. In this first-hand account of war-time Afghanistan, Coburn navigates the various and sometimes shared assumptions of walled off foreigners and the world they created in which Afghans play but minor parts. A quiet indictment." -- Catherine Lutz * Brown University *"Losing Afghanistan provides a unique window into the longest, most costly US and international intervention since the Second World War. Having spent over a decade researching and writing about Afghanistan, living with ordinary Afghans, and a bewildering array of international actors, Coburn illuminates the chasm between what ordinary Afghans think and want, and what international actors assume and do, and the frustration and disillusionment that resulted." -- Michael Keating, Associate Director, Chatham House, and Former UN Deputy Envoy to Afghanistan * Kabul *"Though it receives little regard in the conference rooms where policy decisions are arrived at, anthropology in the person of field ethnographers like Noah Coburn provides a much-needed perspective that is almost always ignored or only turned to after the fact. In its careful attention to pinpointing the places where abstract policy gets stuck in practice, Losing Afghanistan demonstrates why anthropology is desperately needed as both counsel and corrective, and why its small-scale but critical truths are so often ignored." -- David Edwards * American Anthropologist *"Coburn convincingly shows that any anthropological understanding of the international intervention in Afghanistan needs to describe the specific subculture of the foreign military, humanitarian workers, consultants, or journalists who flocked into the country in the aftermath of the Taliban regime's fall....Coburn's compelling book is a must-read for everybody interested in Afghanistan and more generally in peacebuilding interventions." -- Noah Coburn * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Surveying the Intervention from Above chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the scale of the international intervention from some of the biggest projects to some of the smallest. It introduces Bagram Airbase, located in the center of Afghanistan, and one of the most important international bases used during the intervention. The chapter looks at some of the agricultural communities around the base and considers the potential for conflict between these communities and the base. It also introduces a company, owned in part by an American engineer, designed to build small-scale wind projects across the country and asks why certain projects receive funding, while others do not. 2Intervening chapter abstractThis chapter charts the move of the anthropologist from a small town in the mountains of Afghanistan to the busy diplomatic circles of Kabul. It considers some of the literature that has been produced about the intervention thus far and argues that much of the thinking about the intervention had a circular nature that derived from the narrow views that many people had. Thus, diplomats tended to support diplomatic solutions, military officers, military ones and development workers were always arguing for more funds. Thus, it suggest that a more holistic, ethnographic approach is required to truly understand the multiple dimensions of the intervention. In particular, it suggests an approach that focuses on individual stories has much to offer and introduces the reader to a Navy SEAL in charge of liaising with the Afghan National Army to demonstrate such an approach. 3The Exotic Tribes of the Intervention chapter abstractThis chapter considers whether the international community should be considered a 'community' and what such a community would look like. It argues that while incredibly diverse in origins and in jobs preformed, as funds increasingly enter the country, the international community was united by the language it used, the places they lived and their common worldview. It also asks what many of the Afghans who worked specifically with the international community had in common and introduces one young merchant who owned a small logistics company that was expanding rapidly. 4Before the Invasion chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the history of the area around Bagram Airbase, as well as the history of the international community in Afghanistan more generally. It begins by focusing on the invasion of Alexander the Great and various other conflicts that shaped the complex ethnic and political composition of the area. It then considers the period of jihad against the Soviet backed government, when most of the international aid community was based in Pakistan. It then considers how these elements have contributed to the lasting conflict around Bagram. Through this period it also tracks the life of Ronald Neumann, whose father was ambassador of Afghanistan, a position his son would hold thirty years later. 5A New Era? chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the recent history of the coalition airbase at Bagram and the international project in Afghanistan more generally since the US-led invasion in 2001. In particular it looks at the case of a Navy SEAL to demonstrate the ways in which for many, despite the long history of conflict in Afghanistan, the intervention really began with the September 11 attacks. Initial momentum in Afghanistan was lost, however, as the international focus shifted to Iraq. With President Obama's announcement of both a surge in troop levels and development spending, there was newfound hope, particularly for small-scale development projects. This was especially apparent in the attempts at electrifying much of the country, which led to large wasteful projects, like the Kajaki Dam and generator projects in Kandahar. The chapter concludes by outlining the history of one small wind energy company and its struggle to secure funding. 6Contracting the Intervention chapter abstractThis chapter looks at one particularly effective, small-scale, sustainable energy project and asks why it failed during the surge years when so much funding was available. It considers the contracting model that was the basis for how much of the development money in the country was distributed and argues that in many cases, smaller NGOs were simply not asking for enough money. This led to a pattern of large scale, inefficient contractors, with little on-the-ground knowledge often beat out small competitors for international funds, creating patterns of waste and corruption. In addition, it considers the ways in coalition soldiers attempted to reach out to local communities using development funds, particularly as the counterinsurgency approach called on soldiers to 'win hearts and minds.' 7Climbing over the Wall chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on ways that the airbase at Bagram attempted to reach out to local communities. It begins by looking at why development was slow in the area and how high risk made Afghan businessmen unlikely to invest in long-term projects. These led to a boom in cheap construction projects, which were an easy way to make money rapidly. As the base increasingly failed to provide either services or security to the communities around it, officials turn to hiring local labor. This proved more difficult than expected, however, due to the complex logistics of contact labor on the base. 8The Merchant-Warlord Alternative chapter abstractWhile many in the communities around Bagram were gaining little from the international presence, there was a small group of young merchants who were able to monopolize much of the easy money coming off the base through contracts. This led to a new form of leader: the merchant-warlord. These figures often relied on bribing lower level coalitions soldiers to falsify bills of sale, steal fuel and countless other schemes. US government auditors worked relentlessly to track down these schemes, but rarely ended up prosecuting anyone but those on the lowest rung of the organizational ladder. This led to some embarrassing cases, including an Afghan driver who was lured to the United States and detained at great cost, despite the fact that it was clear that he had no real knowledge of his company's organization. 9Warlord Density and its Discontents chapter abstractThis chapter looks at local communities' growing resentment of Bagram Airbase. As the intervention went on, rumors spread about what was happening inside the base and stories circulated about the lack of cultural sensitivity of troops. All of this climax in a series of riots outside of the base following the burning of several Korans confiscated from the prison inside Bagram. These protests spread quickly across the country, creating a major rift between the Afghan government and international diplomats. Tensions between these two groups centered in particular on control over detainees who were held often outside the Afghan legal system. 10How to Host Your Own Shura chapter abstractIn response to the sense that the international military was not doing enough to engage local communities, the military increasingly attempt to hold community consultations based upon the tradition of Afghan elders meeting on shuras or councils. The chapter recounts how this led to a series of training programs that actually taught soldiers how to host meetings of elders. The chapter studies one specific case of internationally-sponsored shuras that were used to release Afghan detainees. Another aspect of these types of programs was the Human Terrain program made up of social scientists embedded with the military. All of these projects ultimately had limited impact since, in part, none of them actually built relationships between Afghan leaders and those in the international community. 11The Pieces Left Behind chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the question of whether the intervention in Afghanistan was "worth it." It asks how we measure such a thing and argues that the cross-purposes and constantly changing agenda of the international community was what ultimately doomed it to waste and inefficiency. The intervention was simultaneously a counterinsurgency, a counterterrorist operation, a development project, a state-building enterprise and a human rights mission. And, as a result, was ultimately none of these. The chapter reflects on how the international community might learn lessons more effectively and what this means both for Afghanistan and future potential interventions.
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Stanford University Press The Slow Boil
Book SynopsisStreet food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor''s edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they offer. In The Slow Boil, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria draws on his long-term fieldwork with these vendors to make sense of the paradoxes within the city and, thus, to create a better understanding of urban space in general.Much urban studies literature paints street vendors either as oppressed and marginalized victims or as inventive premoderns. In contrast, Anjaria acknowledges that diverse political, economic, historic, and symbolic processes create contradictions in the vendors'' everday lives, like their illegality and proximity to the state, and their insecurity and permanence. Mumbai''s disorderly sidewalks reflect the simmering tensions over livelihood, democracy, and rTrade Review"A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the contested local forms of participation in the creation of global urbanisms. Theoretically sophisticated and historically informed, Anjaria's sensitive ethnography shows that the lives of urban street hawkers are characterized not by transience and distance, but by deep relationships with the state." -- Lisa Mitchell * University of Pennsylvania *"In this highly readable book, Anjaria demonstrates the power of ethnography to go beyond universalist arguments about neoliberal displacement of the poor from the city. What he offers us instead is finely-observed data that compels surprising arguments about the nature of citizenship and informality in the megalopolis of Mumbai." -- Akhil Gupta * University of California, Los Angeles *"Is street vending Mumbai's lifeblood or affliction? This question animates the battles over space and rights in Anjaria's book. A compelling treatise against dystopic urban theory and determinist readings of the law, this rich ethnography illuminates Mumbai as a terrain of spirited maneuver, rather than outright exclusion." -- Ajantha Subramanian * Harvard University *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThe introduction examines what is at stake for a study of spatial contestations in Mumbai. It outlines three theoretical conversations with which this book engages. Firstly, it discusses how the themes of inequality and urban citizenship are explored in the literature on conflicts over space. Secondly, it discusses how transnationally circulating concepts of streets and public space shape cities in the present. And lastly, it shows how conflicts over urban transformations must contend with the incongruities of the "everyday state" and the varied forms of political recognition it offers. In doing so, this chapter offers a broad outline of the legal, political and social context of the Mumbai hawker controversy. 2The Unruly City chapter abstractThe municipal government has dealt with the "hawker nuisance" at least since the 1880s. And yet, scholars often treat demolitions, dispossessions of the poor, and elite-oriented development as effects of a new logic of urban governance associated with neoliberalism. This chapter show that, for over two centuries, the authorities in Mumbai have struggled to control a landscape of encroachments and illegalities. The chapter provides an account of the history of informality in Mumbai to challenge this assumption of novelty. Drawing from various historical documents—including official publications, travelogues and early twentieth-century newspapers—this chapter shows that for over a century, people's encounters with state functionaries have been characterized by compromise, co-option, and negotiation rather than anonymity and disciplining. What is new about the contemporary urban moment is not spatial contestation itself but its broader significance as a site for negotiating the form and content of rights. 3Occupied Streets chapter abstractThis chapter provides an account of how street vendors inhabit the city, its streets and its public spaces. In doing so, the chapter answers the questions: What does it mean to work on the side of the road without a license? And, is it is an act of urban exclusion or of rebellion? Writings on informal economies typically fall into one camp or the other. By contrast, this chapter shows how hawkers occupy a contradictory existence—inhabiting a vulnerable legal existence while deeply enmeshed in the daily life of a neighborhood. It argues that this space between precarity and possibility offers a model for urban ethnography: attention to political economic processes and affective experiences is not mutually exclusive—with one more "real" than the other—but exist in a generative tension that is constitutive of urban life. 4Managing Illegality chapter abstractStreet vendors' spatial claims are secured through cultivating relationships—sometimes intimate ones—with state functionaries, often through unofficial payments called hafta, but also through counter-surveillance, social interactions and public protest. This chapter examines these encounters with the state. It shows how, despite being unlicensed, hawkers' everyday experiences are marked by proximity to the state rather than distance. Street vendors' protracted encounters with BMC officials, clerks, workers, and the police challenge the language of abandonment and abjection that informs much scholarship on urban marginality. As I demonstrate, the street is not only a product of the disciplinary techniques of rational governance but an outcome of a negotiated process: in the eyes of the everyday state, unlicensed hawkers are not simply outside the law, but exist in a spectrum of illegality. This spectrum opens up possibilities for negotiation. 5Estranged Citizens chapter abstractWhen civic activists brought attention to the "hawker problem" in the 1990s, they raised new questions concerning urban citizenship, corruption, and the proper form of democratic politics. This activism demonstrated that the question of whose voice is heard in urban governance was inseparable from the question of how to speak to the state. This chapter shows how middle-class residents' engagement with the informal life of the street produces a sensibility of the "estranged citizen." This sensibility reflects a feeling of alienation from traditional circuits of power. To civic activists, street vendors symbolize state corruption and inefficiency, but also powerlessness in face of the illiberal rights claims of the poor. However this chapter argue that as a sensibility, the subjectivity of the estranged citizen is irreducible to a single political. This ambivalent subjectivity has the potential for open-ended politics that goes beyond efforts to appropriate urban space. 6Improvisational Urbanism chapter abstractWhereas to civic activists Mumbai's fluid, ad hoc, streetscapes represent a problem, to architects, designers, students, and writers around the world, these features are increasingly celebrated as a virtue. This concluding chapter examines the new place of the ad hoc streetscape within transnational architectural discussions on the megacity. Thirty years ago, Mumbai's landscape of squatters, slums, and informality was seen as an embarrassment; now these characteristics are often celebrated in exhibits, blogs, and films as signs of innovation, ingenuity, and small-scale entrepreneurialism. Resignifying "underdeveloped" urban landscapes as instances of "makeshift" or "tactical" urbanism raises new empirical questions such as, how does informality figure in the "branding" of cities? And, how is this new way to read urban landscapes recalibrating the relationships between the universal and the particular taken for granted in postcolonial theory?
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Stanford University Press BRICS or Bust
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Elsenhans and Babones critique development orthodoxies with aplomb, providing clear guidance on what can be done at a policy level. The authors' knowledge of relevant theory and debates, brought together with original data, results in an impressive synthesis of argument and evidence."—Robert Holton, Trinity College Dublin"Covering a wide range of theory and empirical evidence, this concise, critical survey chronicles the rise of the BRICS and the policy dilemmas that they face. Highly recommended."—Ray Kiely, Queen Mary University of London, author of The BRICs, US "Decline" and Global Transformations"This is a wonderful introduction to the critical policy problems facing the BRICS and to the wide-ranging and deeply insightful global political economy of Hartmut Elsenhans, one of the undersung giants in the field."—Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College"This remarkable book provides a practical road map with theoretical underpinnings about how BRICS countries, despite enormous differences in their socio-political systems, can coalesce for the common goal of escaping the 'low or middle income trap.' The intellectual challenge that the authors pose to conventional market-oriented wisdom is a must-consider for concerned economists and politicians."—Amit Bhaduri, Jawaharlal Nehru University"This is a well-written book on a very important subject: the BRICS. At times provocative and controversial, it is most interesting and highly readable."—Lim Chong Yah, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University"Are the BRICS caught in the middle-income 'trap,' facing a structural 'barrier' to further development? Through a detailed examination of the recent slowdown in these economies, this book offers a compelling theoretical analysis and a clear, actionable set of policies to overcome the barrier."—Jan Kregel, Director of Research, Levy Economics Institute, Bard CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The BRICS Trajectories: Economic, Political, and Social 2. The Role of the State in Economic Development 3. Mass Demand as the Basis of Growth 4. Selective Links to the World Market Conclusion
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Rutgers University Press The Tyranny of Change America in the Progressive
Book Synopsis Between 1890 and 1920, the forces accompanying industrialization sent the familiar nineteenth-century world plummeting toward extinction. The traditional countryside with its villages and family farms was eclipsed by giant corporations and sprawling cities. America appeared headed into an unknown future. In lively, accessible prose, John Chambers incorporates the latest scholarship about the social, cultural, political, and economic changes which produced modern America. He illuminates the experiences of blacks, Asians, Latinos, as well as other working men and women in the cities and countryside as they struggled to improve their lives in a transformed economy. He explores the dimensions of the new consumer society and the new information and entertainment industries: newspapers, magazines, the movies. Striding these pages are many of the prominent individuals who shaped the attitudes and institutions of modern America: J. P. Morgan and corporate reorganization; JanTable of ContentsPreface to the 2000 Edition Preface to the Second Edition Crisis of the 1890s A New Kind of Growth The Age of Industrialism Prelude to the Twentieth Century New Jobs, New Roles The Weakened Spring of Government Politics in the Depression Decade The Taste of Empire The Challenge of Change The Corporate Revolution The Great Merger Movement The Mass Production, Mass Consumption Society Changes in Work and the Work Force Productivity and Pain in Agriculture The New Corporate Economy A Changing Society and Culture A Growing Nation Class and Status in American Society Women, the Family, and Sexuality Modernism and Institutions: Schools, Hospitals, Places of Worship The Challenge of the City A New Mass Consumption Culture Aviation and the Promise of Technology Modernism in Thought and Art The Progressive Impulse The Great Light Progressives as Interventionists The Progressive Agenda The Development of Nationwide Reform Voluntarism as a Middle Way Reform in the Cities Progressivism in the States The Progressive Impulse The Washington Whirligig The Death of a President Theodore Roosevelt: The Warrior as President The Square Deal, 1901 -- 1909 Taft versus the Insurgents, 1909 -- 1913 Woodrow Wilson: The Scholar as Chief Executive The New Freedom, 1913 -- 1916 Political Modernization Taking the Flag Overseas The Road to Interventionism Roosevelt's Big-Stick Diplomacy Taft's Dollar Diplomacy Wilson's Missionary Diplomacy World War I: U.S. Neutrality, 1914 -- 1916 The Road to Belligerency, 1916 -- 1917 The Debate over American Entry World War I and the Search for a New World Order, 1917 -- 1920 America Goes to War Mobilizing the Home Front Workers and War: Organized Labor, Women, and Minorities Victory in France, Defeat in the Soviet Union The Diplomacy of Peacemaking and the Rejection of the League Domestic Discord and Repression The Meaning of the Progressive Era The Interventionist Impulse ``Modernization'' in World Perspective Cycles of Reform The Legacy of the Progressive Era The Progressive Era and the Nature of Modern America Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Water and Power in Highland Peru The Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Development
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Rutgers University Press New Brunswick New Jersey The Decline and
Book Synopsis While many older American cities struggle to remain vibrant, New Brunswick has transformed itself, adapting to new forms of commerce and a changing population, and enjoying a renaissance that has led many experts to cite this New Jersey city as a model for urban redevelopment. Featuring more than 100 remarkable photographs and many maps, New Brunswick, New Jersey explores the history of the city since the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on the dramatic changes of the past few decades. Using oral histories, archival materials, census data, and surveys, authors David Listokin, Dorothea Berkhout, and James W. Hughes illuminate the decision-making and planning process that led to New Brunswick’s dramatic revitalization, describing the major redevelopment projects that demonstrate the city’s success in capitalizing on funding opportunities. These projects include the momentous decision of Johnson & Johnson to build its world headquarteTrade Review“A fascinating look at the City of New Brunswick and its urban decline and rebirth. A book on this subject could not have been better written.” * New Jersey Studies *"Overall, the book does a good job at bringing together multiple perspectives on redevelopment processes and specific projects and is a valuable contribution to many disciplines and fields, including planning, public policy, urban studies, community development, sociology, political science, architecture, historical preservation, history, and geography." * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. The Economy of New Brunswick: A City Reinventing Itself from Inian’s Ferry to the Information Age Photo Essay: The Corner of Albany and George Streets2. The People of New Brunswick: Population and Resident Profile over Time3. The National Context of Urban Revitalization4. New Brunswick Transformation: Challenge and Strategic Response Photo Essay: The Transformation of Seminary Hill5. New Brunswick Transformation: Critical Projects in a Multi-Decade Revitalization6. Looking to the Past and Future of New Brunswick and National Urban RevitalizationAppendix A. New Brunswick Oral History Interviews, 2009–2015: Biographical InformationAppendix B. New Brunswick Redevelopment and Economic History: A TimelineAppendix C. MapsNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Arizona Press SAHEL VISIONS
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University of Arizona Press Local Governments and Rural Development Comparing Lessons from Brazil Chile Mexico and Peru
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University of Arizona Press Indigenous Economics
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University of Arizona Press In a Wounded Land
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Duke University Press Ethnography in Unstable Places
Book SynopsisCollection of anthropological essays studying radical social transformation - including violence - and its effects on the everyday lives of people in a variety of world regions.Trade Review“Ethnography in Unstable Places is a profound exercise in ethnographic reflexivity. It seeks to consider new possibilities, new challenges, new horizons—at once conceptual, political, ethical—for an old anthropological method by taking it precisely where it was not designed to go: into everyday worlds radically transformed by hitherto unimaginedsocial conditions, unimaginable political circumstances, altered states, economies, subjectivities. Expansive in their scope, provocative in their theoretical implications, even poetic in their treatment of human lives, the essays in this volume show ‘where past has gone, where the future will come from’;the past and future, that is, of both anthropology and the worlds with which it concerns itself.”—John Comaroff, University of Chicago“Beyond being topical, this groundbreaking collection represents precisely the kind of inquiry that contemporary anthropology should be dedicating itself to—one brave enough to abide, ethnographically and theoretically, in the interstices of knowledge-based and experiential models, in the gaps between individual and collective agency, in realms of historical and cultural contingency.”—Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Altered States, Altered Lives / Carol J. Greenhouse Part One: Law against Culture Ghettos in the Holocaust: The Improvisation of Social Order in a Culture of Terror / Carroll McC. Lewin Unsettled Settlers: Internal Pacification and Vagrancy in Namibia / Robert J. Gordon Judges without Courts: The Legal Culture of German Reunification / Howard J. De Nike Part Two: Ethnographies of Agency in the Fissures of the State Ethnography in/of Transnational Processes: Following Gyres in the Worlds of Big Science and European Integration / Stacia E. Zabusky The Composite State: The Poor and the Nation in Manila / Phillip C. Parnell Domestic Matters: Feminism and Activism Among Palestinian Women in Israel / Elizabeth Faier “Best Interests” and the Repatriation of Vietnamese Unaccompanied Minors / James M. Freeman and Nguyen Dinh Huu Part Three: Resistance and Remembrance Beating the Bounds: Law, Identity, and Territory in the New Europe / Eve Darian-Smith “Honest Bandits” and “Warped People”: Russian Narratives about Money, Corruption, and Moral Decay / Nancy Ries Trance Against the State / Judy Rosenthal Part Four: Conclusion The Perfidy of Gaze and the Pain of Uncertainty: Anthropological Theory and the Search for Culture / Elizabeth Mertz Toward in Anthropology of Fragments, Instabilities, and Incomplete Transitions / Kay B. Warren Contributors Works Cited Index
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Duke University Press Dilemmas of Difference
Book SynopsisDrawing from ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial theory, Sarah A. Radcliffe centers the experiences of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to show how the efforts of development agencies to reduce social and economic equality fail because they do not reckon with the legacies of colonialism.Trade Review"Radcliffe’s book, well grounded in theory and research, is an important read for scholars of Latin American development and gender. Highly recommended." -- E. E. O'Connor * Choice *"Sarah Radcliffe's recent book offers a rich ethnography of indigenous women in Ecuador which specifically addresses how they encounter and experience development interventions." -- Jessica Hope * Journal of Development Studies *"Dilemmas of Difference represents a timely contribution to the critical literature on indigenous women and development and to the debate of neoliberal instrumentalization of difference.... Overall, with a genealogy of development frameworks contrasted with indigenous women’s experience, Radcliffe demonstrates the persistence of postcolonial stereotypes and colonial assumptions of social difference that produce indigenous women’s dissatisfaction with development." -- María Moreno * American Anthropologist *"Radcliffe’s book represents a powerful contribution to critical development studies and the discipline of geography." -- Emily Billo * Journal of Latin American Geography *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Development and Social Heterogeneity 1 1. Postcolonial Intersectionality and the Colonial Present 37 2. The Daily Grind: Ethnic Topographies of Labor, Racism, and Abandonment 75 Interlude I 121 3. Crumbs from the Table: Participation, Organization, and Indigenous Women 125 4. Politics, Statistics, and Affect: "Indigenous Women in Development" Policy 157 Interlude II 189 5. Women, Biopolitics, and Interculturalism: Ethnic Politics and Gendered Contradictions 193 6. From Development to Citizenship: Rights, Voice, and Citizenship Practices 225 7. Postcolonial Heterogeneity: Sumak Kawsay and Decolonizing Social Difference 257 Notes 291 Glossary 295 Bibliography 329 Index 359
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Duke University Press Doing Development in West Africa
Book SynopsisThis unique collection contains essays by Duke University undergraduates in which they recount their experiences initiating small research and development projects in Togo. Of interest to students and teachers involved in service learning and study abroad, Doing Development in West Africa provides a relatable and intimate look into student-initiated development projects.Trade Review"Students are refreshingly candid about the nature and multitude of problems they faced and the need to scale back their expectations. As Piot notes, development is hard work. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- S. Paul * Choice *"Doing Development in West Africa constitutes an impressive practical and scholarly accomplishment. . . . Contributions and challenges, strengths and limitations, joys and frustrations find articulate and compelling voices in this forthright treatment of selected small-scale student projects undertaken over the past eight years." -- Peter H. Koehn * Journal of Modern African Studies *"Doing Development in West Africa will be a valuable book for courses in international development, African studies, and development anthropology, and provides good 'hands-on' guidance for students preparing for summer projects in Africa, Asia, or Latin America. While written for undergraduates, the book also provides important lessons for development practitioners who often fail to appreciate the importance of local context, history, and knowledge systems, and then wonder why their development efforts go awry." -- Peter D. Little * African Studies Review *"This is an unusual and unusually useful volume. . . . Clearly, this little volume can be used to advantage not only in courses on development but also in applied anthropology and qualitative methods courses." -- Constance deRoche * General Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Charles Piot 1 Part I. Personal Reflections 1. Students Reflect / Stephanie Rotolo, Allie Middleton, Kelly Andrejko, Benjamin Ramsey, Maria Cecilia Romano 19 Part II. Research Articles 2. The Social Life of Medicine / Allie Middleton 43 3. Biomedicine and Traditional Healing / Stephanie Rotolo 67 4. Rural Medicines in an Urban Setting / Kelly Andrejko 83 5. Village Health Insurance / Cheyenne Allenby 99 6. Youth Migration / Maria Cecilia Romano 113 7. Cyber Village / Connor Cotton 137 8. Computer Classes / Sarah Zimmerman 153 9. Microfinancing Teens / Emma Smith 165 10. The Farendé Writers' Society / Caitlin Moyles 187 Epilogue / Charles Piot 205 Index 213
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University of Pittsburgh Press Lefts Dirty Job The
Book SynopsisThe Left's Dirty Job compares the experiences of recent socialist governments in France and Spain, examining how the governments of Francois Mitterrand (1981-1995) and Felipe Gonzalez (1982-1996) provide a key test of whether a leftist approach to industrial restructuring is possible.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Azan on the Moon Entangling Modernity Along Tajikistans Pamir Highway Central Eurasia in Context
Book SynopsisAzan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. In the wake of China's rise in Central Asia, people along the Pamir Highway strive to reconcile a modern future with a modern past.
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