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Book SynopsisWhen aid to the Third World actually works it is usually on such a small scale that it makes little impact on the world''s problems. Can demands for generalizable actions be reconciled with location-specific solutions? The Critical Villager considers how community-based technical aid can be made more effective and sustainable. Calling for development workers, policy makers and researchers to put themselves in the place of the intended beneficiaries of aid, it suggests concrete principles for action and research. It argues that participatory research and ''transfer of technology'' should not be regarded as rival models for development but rather as complementary components in a single process of effective aid.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part A. Reasonable Chapter 1. The Big Idea Chapter 2. Recognized Authorities Chapter 3. Maximum Serendipity Part B. Recognizable Chapter 4.Tangible Entities Chapter 5. Clear Visual Messages Part C. Respectable Chapter 6. Modern Imagery Chapter 7. Influential People Chapter 8. Multile Agendas Conclusions References

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Book SynopsisWritten by a multi-disciplinary team of contributors, this collection explores the different dimensions of well being, poverty and inequality. A personâs sense of well being is compounded of many elements including economic, political and social psychology. Poverty and inequality are aspects of a lack of well being in multiple dimensions and, this texts argues, development should be considered a process that overcomes these multiple deficienciesThis book examines the advantages of analysing poverty and development by multi-discipline research. Economists, political sociologists and anthropologists put forward an idea of well being from their own perspective, using their own research material, while the editors argue in their introduction that bringing to bear of many disciplines can enrich the research output of all. Table of Contents1. The Case for Cross-disciplinary Social Science Research on Poverty, Inequality and Well-being 2. Representing Poverty and Attacking Representations: Perspectives on Poverty from Social Anthropology 3. Pluralism, Poverty and Sharecropping: Cultivating Open-mindedness in Development Studies 4. Capabilities, Reproductive Health and Well-being 5. Development and Social Capital 6. Subjective Well-being Poverty vs. Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 7. Poverty, Persistence and Transitions in Uganda: A Combined Qualitative and Quantitive Analysis 8. Consumption and Welfare in Ghana in the 1990s

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Book SynopsisBy trying to alleviate poverty abroad, foreign development assistance tries to meet, among other things, basic human needs, which some schools of thought classify as basic human rights. However, because development abroad has often been treated as a tool for the pursuit of donor interests, rather than as an end to itself, it often ends up not only neglecting basic human rights, but making them worse. Bethany Barratt develops this argument by presenting a systematic external examination of the internal documentation of aid rationale in three major donor countries (Britain, Canada and Australia). The book sets the discussion of these documents in the context of the foreign policy process and structure of each donor, and contrasts it with the results of statistical analyses of key factors in aid. It shows that different criteria are applied to the various categories of recipient states, resulting in an inconsistent treatment of recipient rights as an aid criterion. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The ‘Rights Way’ in Foreign Policy? 1. The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy 2. Development Assistance: From Means to End 3. Methodology: Means, not End 4. The Global Context: Cross-National Aid Patterns 1980-2004 5. Leadership out of Obligation: British Development Assistance and Human Rights 6. Neither Here nor There?: Canadian Development Assistance and Human Rights 7. ‘Inherited from History and Geography’: Australian Development Assistance and Human Rights 8. Context and Consideration: Three other Donor States 9. Developing a ‘Rights Way’: Conclusions, Implications and Possibilities

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Book SynopsisFor Western Marxists, what is likely to be most astonishing is the many-sided approach to Marxism displayed throughout this work. This reflects a strong emphasis on cultivating an open Marxism, drawing on different views and debates, and various movement vernaculars, in the continuing world struggle for socialism.

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Book SynopsisIn a fluid narrative style, Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World links environmentalism with colonialism and makes the strong case, through well-documented examples, that rapid economic change has caused an environmental and population crisis. Curtin also offers a unique interpretation of familiar history with surprising conclusions about the relationship between colonial attitudes and environmentalism. Today, more than ever, globalization demands that the so-called third world not face their social and environmental issues alone. This book offers clear examples of environmental strategies for our new globalized culture and is not only ideal for courses in environmental ethics, globalization, and environmental politics; it offers students and general readers a practical guide for change.Trade ReviewA clear articulation and synthesis of emerging themes within environmental ethics, bioethics, ecofeminism, and globalization studies....Curtin's work serves as an excellent segue between many of these fields while reminding us of the important role of history within ethics. -- Megan Wade Antieau * The Journal Of Religion *Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World by Deane Curtin opens a discussion that is timely and relevant to contemporary environmentalism. This book avoids the trap of narrowly defined environmentalism by linking environmentalism to progressive ideals, while maintaining that an ethic that marries environmental and social justice claims does not weaken both. -- Dustin Mulvaney * Environmental Ethics *Curtin's discussion of Tarzan alone makes this book worthwhile for courses in environmental studies, and in sociology, literature, or philosophy courses with an environmental emphasis. -- M. C. E. Peterson, University of Wisconsin Colleges * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 One World under God Chapter 2 Lord Greystoke's Legacy Chapter 3 Frankenstein or Tarzan? Chapter 4 What Population Problem? Chapter 5 Gandhi's Vision of Community Development Chapter 6 The Third World in the First World Chapter 7 Clean Clothes/Clean Conscience Chapter 8 Don't Touch the Rocks! Chapter 9 Aldo Leopold's Vision

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Book SynopsisVandana Shiva is the author of the much-acclaimed Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. Physicist, philosopher and feminist, she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, Dehradun. She is active in citizens' action against environmental destruction, including the Chipko Movement. She is also the Science and Environment Advisor of the Third World Network.Trade Review'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists' The Guardian'Shiva has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of ordinary people in India. Her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world.' Ms Magazine'The South's best known environmentalist.' New Internationalist'Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.' The ProgressiveTable of Contents Introduction 1. Science and Politics in the Green Revolution 2. 'Miracle Seeds' and the Destruction of Genetic Diversity 3. Chemical Fertilizers and Soil Fertility 4. Intensive Irrigation, Large Dams and Water Conflicts 5. The political and Cultural Costs of the Green Revolution 6. Pepsico for peace? The Ecological and Political Risks of the Biotechnology Revolution 7. The Seed and the Spinning Wheel: The Political Ecology of Technological Change

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