Critical Development Studies – serie
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18 produkter
Tiny Engines of Abundance
A history of peasant productivity and repression
Av James Handy
Häftad, 2022
393 kr
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This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, Guatemalan Mayan campesinos, Nigerian hill farmers and Kerala hut dwellers obtained bountiful and …
Hidden Politics in the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Av Adam Sneyd
Häftad, 2024
464 kr
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This book analyzes the politics of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The conventional wisdom is that efforts to achieve the SDGs, or Global Goals, will contribute to building a more inclusive, sustainable and peaceful world. Adam Sneyd’s analysis counters this orthodox and unduly utopian …
Critical Development Studies
An Introduction
Av Henry Veltmeyer, Raúl Delgado Wise
Inbunden, 2018
675 kr
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Development studies is typically used by agencies concerned with improving the living conditions of people across the world by advancing capitalism as the institutional and policy framework of the global development process. Veltmeyer and Delgado Wise, on the contrary, view capitalism as the …
Critical Development Studies
An Introduction
Av Henry Veltmeyer, Raúl Delgado Wise
Häftad, 2018
281 kr
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Development studies is typically used by agencies concerned with improving the living conditions of people across the world by advancing capitalism as the institutional and policy framework of the global development process. Veltmeyer and Delgado Wise, on the contrary, view capitalism as the …
Politics Rules
Power, Globalization and Development
Av Adam Sneyd, Adam Sneyd
Inbunden, 2019
894 kr
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Whether we like it or not, we are subject to politics wherever we go and in whatever we are doing. Development is always and everywhere political, and frequently occurs with the interests of the powerful at the forefront. Can we hope to better understand the politics that shapes and controls our …
Development in Latin America
Toward a New Future
Häftad, 2019
362 kr
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In Development in Latin America, Maristella Svampa explores the contemporary development and resistance dynamics of capitalist development — the workings (on people and societies) of the world capitalist system — in the context of Latin America, where these dynamics have had their most notable …
Development in Latin America
Toward a New Future
Inbunden, 2019
684 kr
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In Development in Latin America, Maristella Svampa explores the contemporary development and resistance dynamics of capitalist development — the workings (on people and societies) of the world capitalist system — in the context of Latin America, where these dynamics have had their most notable …
Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism
Lessons from Bolivia
Av Ben M. Mckay
Häftad, 2020
311 kr
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Around the world, plantation economies are on the rise. Increasing concerns over food, energy and financial security, combined with a geopolitical restructuring of the global agrofood system, have resulted in a rush to secure control over resources. New actors and forms of capital penetration have …
Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism
Lessons from Bolivia
Av Ben M. Mckay
Inbunden, 2020
637 kr
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Around the world, plantation economies are on the rise. Increasing concerns over food, energy and financial security, combined with a geopolitical restructuring of the global agrofood system, have resulted in a rush to secure control over resources. New actors and forms of capital penetration have …
COVID-19 and the Future of Capitalism
Av Efe Can Gurcan, Ömer Ersin Kahraman m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
312 kr
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COVID-19 may be an historical turning point for global capitalism. It has revealed the crisis of neoliberal globalization; however, this does not automatically lead to the ultimate defeat of capitalism or its neoliberal incarnation. The authors in this collection posit that a new framework cannot …
Political Economy of Agribusiness
A Critical Development Perspective
Häftad, 2023
357 kr
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Political Economy of Agribusiness
A Critical Development Perspective
Inbunden, 2023
769 kr
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This book analyzes global economic policies that impact rural communities, land use, food sovereignty and environmental justice. This is the 9th book in the Critical Development Studies series. It traces the global contours of contemporary agriculture, bringing a critical analysis of the origins of …
Politics Rules
Power, Globalization and Development
Av Adam Sneyd
Häftad, 2019
210 kr
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Politics rules. Whether we like it or not, we are subject to politics wherever we go and whatever we are doing. Development is always and everywhere political, and frequently occurs with the interests of the powerful at the forefront. Can we hope to better understand the politics that shapes and …
Extractivisms
Politics, Economy and Ecology
Inbunden, 2021
935 kr
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Open-pit mining, oil extraction, and the spread of monocultures (all extractivisms), are degrading and overwhelming the Global South at a shocking rate, particularly in Latin America. This book is an introduction to the issues raised by extractivisms, covering including economic, political, …
Extractivisms
Politics, Economy and Ecology
Häftad, 2021
374 kr
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Open-pit mining, oil extraction, and the spread of monocultures (all extractivisms), are degrading and overwhelming the Global South at a shocking rate, particularly in Latin America. This book is an introduction to the issues raised by extractivisms, covering including economic, political, …
Global Fishers
The Politics of Transnational Movements
Häftad, 2023
393 kr
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This book explores the critical role of transnational fishers’ movements in the politics of global fisheries. This is the 8th book in the Critical Development Studies series.Global politics around fisheries are complex and contentious. Embedded within this sector, small-scale fishers’ movements are …
Tiny Engines of Abundance
A history of peasant productivity and repression
Av James Handy
Inbunden, 2022
974 kr
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This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, Guatemalan Mayan campesinos, Nigerian hill farmers and Kerala hut dwellers obtained bountiful and …
Global Fishers
The Politics of Transnational Movements
Inbunden, 2023
974 kr
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This book explores the critical role of transnational fishers’ movements in the politics of global fisheries. This is the 8th book in the Critical Development Studies series.Global politics around fisheries are complex and contentious. Embedded within this sector, small-scale fishers’ movements are …
