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Del 7 - Critical Development Studies
Tiny Engines of Abundance
A history of peasant productivity and repression
AvJames Handy
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
385 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
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 diversified harvests from small parcels of land, provisioning for their families and often local markets. These stories provide us with pictures of carefully limited needs, of sustainable livelihoods and of resilient self-reliance attacked relentlessly and mercilessly in the name of capital, progress, development, modernity and/or the state. For two hundred years we have been told that the hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions of hungry mouths require that peasants be dispossessed to allow more industrious farmers to feed them. This book helps make it clear how wrong we have been. Handy's approach is original, and the book will engage people interested in the history of the peasantry, rural development, and the quest for food sovereignty.
Hidden Politics in the UN Sustainable Development Goals
AvAdam Sneyd
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
448 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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 point of view, uncovering the hidden politics of the SDG project and showing why the SDGs are not an ambitious package of progressive reforms. Sneyd’s analysis of each of the seventeen goals reveals how the SDGs are infused with minimalist intentions and a political orientation that sharply contrasts with the world-changing aspirations typically associated with the goals. He argues that the SDGs do more to bolster the legitimacy of the liberal international economic order and advance capitalist interests than to address pressing global challenges.
Del 1 - Critical Development Studies
Critical Development Studies
An Introduction
AvHenry Veltmeyer,Raúl Delgado Wise
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
654 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 problem rather than the solution, and provide a critical development perspective on some of the major issues that afflict people and countries across the world. This introductory volume provides readers with an overview of the key issues of development studies from a critical perspective: the nature of the global capitalist system and an analysis of the dynamics associated with the development process, the agrarian question, the outmigration and urbanization of rural areas, the formation of a global working class and the emergence of powerful resistance movements such as the Zapatistas.
Del 1 - Critical Development Studies
Critical Development Studies
An Introduction
AvHenry Veltmeyer,Raúl Delgado Wise
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
275 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 problem rather than the solution, and provide a critical development perspective on some of the major issues that afflict people and countries across the world. This introductory volume provides readers with an overview of the key issues of development studies from a critical perspective: the nature of the global capitalist system and an analysis of the dynamics associated with the development process, the agrarian question, the outmigration and urbanization of rural areas, the formation of a global working class and the emergence of powerful resistance movements such as the Zapatistas.
Del 5 - Critical Development Studies
Extractivisms
Politics, Economy and Ecology
AvEduardo Gudynas
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
915 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
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, sociological and environmental issues.
Del 5 - Critical Development Studies
Extractivisms
Politics, Economy and Ecology
AvEduardo Gudynas
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
362 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
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, sociological and environmental issues.
Del 2 - Critical Development Studies
Politics Rules
Power, Globalization and Development
AvAdam Sneyd,Adam Sneyd
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
875 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 lives and dominates the lives of others around the globe?In this concise volume, Adam Sneyd argues that it is imperative to recognize the importance of the sub-field of development politics. He demonstrates how the difficult skill of careful political analysis can shed new light on some of today's most intractable development challenges. Sneyd shows how conflicts over ideas can entrench underdevelopment, and he conveys why we need better analyses of development politics to fight the status quo and expedite inclusive change.
Del 3 - Critical Development Studies
Development in Latin America
Toward a New Future
AvMaristella Svampa
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
352 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 outcomes.She focuses on the phenomenon of “neoextractivism,” the combination of the global advance of resource-seeking extractive capital (foreign investments in the extraction of natural resources) and the commodities consensus (export of raw materials), among both neoliberal and progressive governments — analyzing their common elements as well as their differences.Svampa explores the complex dynamics of socio-environmental conflict associated with neoextractivism, as well as what she refers to as the “eco-territorial turn.” Svampa’s analysis includes both the ecological and gender dimensions of the global and regional capitalist development process.Maristella Svampa is an Argentine sociologist, writer and activist. She is a researcher at Conicet (Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and a professor at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata (Buenos Aires Province). She participates in the Permanent Alternative to Development Group in Latin America and coordinates several groups concerned with ecological themes in Argentina. Maristella Svampa has written several books about political and social problems in Latin America.
Del 3 - Critical Development Studies
Development in Latin America
Toward a New Future
AvMaristella Svampa
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
663 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 outcomes.She focuses on the phenomenon of “neoextractivism,” the combination of the global advance of resource-seeking extractive capital (foreign investments in the extraction of natural resources) and the commodities consensus (export of raw materials), among both neoliberal and progressive governments — analyzing their common elements as well as their differences.Svampa explores the complex dynamics of socio-environmental conflict associated with neoextractivism, as well as what she refers to as the “eco-territorial turn.” Svampa’s analysis includes both the ecological and gender dimensions of the global and regional capitalist development process.Maristella Svampa is an Argentine sociologist, writer and activist. She is a researcher at Conicet (Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and a professor at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata (Buenos Aires Province). She participates in the Permanent Alternative to Development Group in Latin America and coordinates several groups concerned with ecological themes in Argentina. Maristella Svampa has written several books about political and social problems in Latin America.
Del 4 - Critical Development Studies
Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism
Lessons from Bolivia
AvBen M. Mckay
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
337 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 entered the countryside, transforming the forms and relations of production, property and power. Soybeans, with industrial inputs upstream and storage, processing and transportation downstream, have become a quintessential agro-industrial “flex crop,” used as feed, food, fuel and industrial materials, but the very extractive character of the soy complex has severe implications for society, the economy and the environment.The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism analyzes how the Bolivian countryside is transformed by the development and expansion of the soy complex and reveals the extractive dynamics of capitalist industrial agriculture, while also challenging dominant discourses legitimating this model as a means to achieve inclusive and sustainable rural development. Ben McKay finds that within the context of Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, Evo Morales, and the Movement Towards Socialism, fundamental contradictions abound.Ben M. McKay is an assistant professor of development and sustainability at the University of Calgary.
Del 4 - Critical Development Studies
Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism
Lessons from Bolivia
AvBen M. Mckay
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
637 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 entered the countryside, transforming the forms and relations of production, property and power. Soybeans, with industrial inputs upstream and storage, processing and transportation downstream, have become a quintessential agro-industrial “flex crop,” used as feed, food, fuel and industrial materials, but the very extractive character of the soy complex has severe implications for society, the economy and the environment.The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism analyzes how the Bolivian countryside is transformed by the development and expansion of the soy complex and reveals the extractive dynamics of capitalist industrial agriculture, while also challenging dominant discourses legitimating this model as a means to achieve inclusive and sustainable rural development. Ben McKay finds that within the context of Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, Evo Morales, and the Movement Towards Socialism, fundamental contradictions abound.Ben M. McKay is an assistant professor of development and sustainability at the University of Calgary.
Del 6 - Critical Development Studies
COVID-19 and the Future of Capitalism
AvEfe Can Gurcan,Ömer Ersin Kahramanm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
305 kr
Skickas
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 be built on the values and beliefs of current-day consumer capitalist society; resistance in the pandemic age should be based on the values and beliefs that could be the foundation of a new, postcapitalist society. This book formulates a tentative revolutionary program that could take advantage of the COVID-19 environment to defeat and transcend capitalism.
Del 8 - Critical Development Studies
Global Fishers
The Politics of Transnational Movements
AvElyse Noble Mills
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
381 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
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 continuouslyconfronted with new actors, issues and conflicting interests. Yet, these movements and their political agendas have played a critical role in global fisheries. This book offers an insightful exploration and analysis of two transnational movements — the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers (WFF) — tracing their origins, development, struggles and engagement in international political spaces. It explores three overlapping analytical spheres: transnational movements contesting and seeking to influence the politics of global fisheries; international political spaces movements are prioritizing; and contentious fisheries issues movements are struggling over.
Del 7 - Critical Development Studies
Tiny Engines of Abundance
A history of peasant productivity and repression
AvJames Handy
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
953 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
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 diversified harvests from small parcels of land, provisioning for their families and often local markets. These stories provide us with pictures of carefully limited needs, of sustainable livelihoods and of resilient self-reliance attacked relentlessly and mercilessly in the name of capital, progress, development, modernity and/or the state. For two hundred years we have been told that the hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions of hungry mouths require that peasants be dispossessed to allow more industrious farmers to feed them. This book helps make it clear how wrong we have been. Handy's approach is original, and the book will engage people interested in the history of the peasantry, rural development, and the quest for food sovereignty.
Del 8 - Critical Development Studies
Global Fishers
The Politics of Transnational Movements
AvElyse Noble Mills
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
953 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
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 continuouslyconfronted with new actors, issues and conflicting interests. Yet, these movements and their political agendas have played a critical role in global fisheries. This book offers an insightful exploration and analysis of two transnational movements — the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers (WFF) — tracing their origins, development, struggles and engagement in international political spaces. It explores three overlapping analytical spheres: transnational movements contesting and seeking to influence the politics of global fisheries; international political spaces movements are prioritizing; and contentious fisheries issues movements are struggling over.
Del 9 - Critical Development Studies
Political Economy of Agribusiness
A Critical Development Perspective
AvMaria Luisa Mendonça
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
346 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Del 9 - Critical Development Studies
Political Economy of Agribusiness
A Critical Development Perspective
AvMaria Luisa Mendonça
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
742 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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 agribusiness in the US and its subsequent international signature. The investigation reveals that the industrialization of agriculture was a result of a dialectical movement of economic crisis and expansion, and the author's analysis sheds new light on current debates about food sovereignty, agriculture technologies, international financial markets and farmland speculation. For those who are new to the study of agribusiness, this book provides a clear introduction to global trends. For those more engaged, it serves as a valuable overview, an excellent text for students involved in studies of agriculture and food sovereignty.
Politics Rules
Power, Globalization and Development
AvAdam Sneyd
Häftad, Engelska, 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 controls our lives and dominates the lives of others across the globe?In this concise volume, Adam Sneyd argues that it is imperative to understand the sub-field of development politics. He shows how the hard skill of careful political analysis can shed new light on some of today’s most intractable development challenges. In the end, Sneyd shows how conflicts over ideas can entrench underdevelopment and why we need better analyses of development politics in order to fight the status quo and expedite inclusive change.

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Critical Development Studies – serie

Tiny Engines of Abundance

Hidden Politics in the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Critical Development Studies

Critical Development Studies

Extractivisms

Extractivisms

Politics Rules

Development in Latin America

Development in Latin America

Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism

Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism

COVID-19 and the Future of Capitalism

Global Fishers

Tiny Engines of Abundance

Global Fishers

Political Economy of Agribusiness

Political Economy of Agribusiness

Politics Rules

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