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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
After three decades of privatization and anti-state rhetoric, government ownership and public management are back in vogue. This book explores this rapidly growing trend towards ‘corporatization’ - public enterprises owned and operated by the state, with varying degrees of autonomy. If sometimes...
Leftover Women
The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
‘Scattered with inspiring life-stories of courageous women.’
The Guardian
In the early years of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations. Yet those gains have been steadily eroded in China’s post-socialist era.
Contrary to the image presented...
Poverty
An International Glossary
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional and complex nature of this social...
Uganda
The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The first comprehensive study of political economy in contemporary Uganda
Brings together an impressive roster of leading international and Ugandan scholars
Features a wealth of unique empirical material - essential reading for anyone interested in Uganda
Uganda and its President remain high-profile and contentious topics amongst those who study Africa
The State of Resistance
Popular Struggles in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This indispensable book offers a panorama of social resistances to neoliberal globalization in the South. Writers and activists from forty different countries or regions offer snapshots of the latest mobilizations, from the anti-privatization groups in South Africa and the anti-WTO campaign of peasants...
Global Health Watch 4
An Alternative World Health Report
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Global Health Watch, now in its fourth edition, is widely perceived as the definitive voice for an alternative discourse on health and healthcare. It covers a range of issues that currently impact on health, including the present political and economic architecture in a fast-changing and globalized...
Planet Dialectics
Explorations in Environment and Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
All effects of human action will inevitably be played out within our planet’s limits; any hope of infinity is an illusion. And yet, as Wolfgang Sachs warned almost twenty years ago, environmental concerns have been assimilated into the rhetoric, dynamics and power structures of development.
This...
Politics in Africa
A New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Democracy, prosperity and self-rule, this was the vision of African independence. Across the continent, however, the 'optimism' that characterized the immediate post-independence period has largely faded. Meanwhile, ordinary Africans lurch between undemocratic, unaccountable and unresponsive governments...
Relational Accountability
Complexities of Structural Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
In this insightful new book, Moncrieffe argues that the traditionally narrow interpretation of accountability obscures relationships, power dynamics, structures, processes and complexities. The relational view, in contrast, seeks to understand the ways in which people perform in their roles as social...
The Fire Now
Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The first book on anti-racism scholarship written by predominately UK academics
Features an afterword by George Yancy, who wrote the highly controversial open letter ‘Dear White America’ in the New York Times.
Addresses crucial urgent issues inc. representation and queer intersectionality, Brexit and the impact of the Trump presidency
The Gender Politics of Development
Essays in Hope and Despair
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In The Gender Politics of Development Shirin Rai provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has emerged and developed in post-colonial states. In chapters on key issues of nationalism and nation-building, the third wave of democratization and globalization and governance, Rai argues...
Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance
Lessons from the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Ever since the uprisings that swept the Arab world, the role of Arab women in political transformations received unprecedented media attention. The copious commentary, however, has yet to result in any serious study of the gender dynamics of political upheaval. Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and...
Globalizing Citizens
New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance, citizens in every nation are linked by the institutions of global governance, bringing new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. For some, globalization provides a sense...
Sex Without Consent
Young People in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The pressing need to break the silence on non-consensual sex among young people – an issue shrouded by denial, underreporting and stigma – is self-evident. Despite the growing body of research regarding young people’s sexual behaviours, the study of coercive sexual experiences has generally...