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Global Governance and the New Wars

The Merging of Development and Security

by Mark Duffield
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014

In this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse. Aid agencies have become increasingly involved in humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution and the social...
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Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era

Creating Co-operative Economics

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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014

For the past three decades, neoclassical doctrine has dominated economic theory and policy. The balance of power has shifted to protect private interests, resulting in unprecedented damage to the environment and society, with no solution in sight as more austerity and less government continues to...
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The New Extractivism

A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?

by James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014

In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments:...
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The Lord's Resistance Army

Myth and Reality

by Adam Branch, Andrew Mwenda, Kristof Titeca
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010

The Lord's Resistance Army is Africa’s most persistent and notorious 'terrorist' group. Led by the mysterious Joseph Kony, it has committed a series of horrific human rights abuses, including massacres and mutilations. Since the mid 1980s, it has abducted tens of thousands of people, including large...
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Africa

Why Economists Get It Wrong

by Assistant Professor Morten Jerven
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015

‘A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.’ Foreign Affairs Not so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across...
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Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power

Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons

by Max Haiven
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014

Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we re-imagine the forces used as weapons against community,...
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by Chris Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014

The global economic crisis has catalysed debates about the merits of capitalism as a system for organizing production, distribution and exchange. Political elites have argued that capitalism is not fundamentally pernicious or crisis-prone and can be successfully reformed with the right set of policies....
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by Alejandro Nadal
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011

Macroeconomic policies have devastating effects on the environment. They shape the economic processes that drive deforestation, soil erosion, the exhaustion of living marine resources, greenhouse gas emissions, and the massive loss of biodiversity. Despite this, the vital connection between macroeconomic...
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by Hannah Reid
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

Whilst the world's poor are clearly hit hardest by climate change impacts, so too do they hold many of the solutions for how best to cope with its impacts, and at times reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero. In this wide-ranging book, Hannah Reid offers a rich compendium of real life scenarios and...
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Social and Solidarity Economy

Beyond the Fringe

by Suzanne Bergeron, Stephen Healy, Carina Millstone
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015

As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-based development. While we are beginning to understand...
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Poverty and Water

Explorations of the Reciprocal Relationship

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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water. In this book, co-editors David Hemson, Kassin Kulindwa, Haakon Lein, and Adolfo Mascarenhas use a global spread of case studies to illustrate that water is not simply an issue of physical...
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Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America

Economic Networks and Cultural Interactions

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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

A comprehensive and far-reaching study of South-South mobility, one of the key emerging areas of research within the social sciences. Incorporates a diverse array of original case studies and rich empirical detail from across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Offers a distinctive ‘globalization from...
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Organic Farming

Policies and Prospects

by Stephan Dabbert, Anna Maria Haring, Raffaele Zanoli
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Consumers are more and more concerned with the health of the food they eat. While great public anxiety about genetically engineered foodstuffs and BSE in cattle has developed in Europe, on the positive side there has been a rapidly rising demand for organic produce. Food retailers, including supermarkets,...
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Science and Citizens

Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement

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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions,...
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