Critical Global Studies – serie
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15 produkter
Weaving Transnational Solidarity
From the Catskills to Chiapas and Beyond
Inbunden, 2010
2400 kr
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Weaving Transnational Solidarity from the Catskills to Chiapas and Beyond analyzes the grassroots, economic justice work (1998-2009) of three groups-two Mexican organizations, Jolom Mayaetik, Mayan women's weaving cooperative, and K’inal Antzetik, NGO in the highlands of Chiapas, and an informal, …
European Bloc Imperialism
Inbunden, 2010
2400 kr
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The reinvigorated debate on imperialism in the last two decades focuses on the means by which Euro-American capital is currently spread around the globe and the different ways it pillages the wealth of the developing countries. The Economic Partnership Agreements being foisted on the African, …
Neoliberalism’s Fractured Showcase
Another Chile is Possible
Inbunden, 2011
2374 kr
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This collection of works by prominent Chilean experts explores the long term effects of neoliberalism. It relentlessly questions Chile's status as a successful and exemplary democratic country. The first part deals with the circumstances that facilitated the establishment of the neoliberal …
Industrial Colonialism in Latin America
The Third Stage
Inbunden, 2013
2192 kr
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This book confronts critical problems being experienced by Latin America in its quest for development. Special attention is paid to the living conditions of the popular sectors over the last half-century under “industrial colonialism.” The author’s framework of analysis weaves together key …
Globalizing Cultures
Theories, Paradigms, Actions
Inbunden, 2015
2817 kr
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With the crisis of the global capitalist economy the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theoretical and practical standpoints. How do we make sense of this rapid flow of global consumer culture across national borders? What is the role of …
Sub-Imperalism Revisited
Dependency Theory in the Thought of Ruy Mauro Marini
Inbunden, 2017
1762 kr
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Does the growing economic might of regional superpowers like Brazil mean that dependency theory of the 1960s was all wrong? The answer to this and many other enigmas of development is found in Sub-Imperialism Revisited, a theoretically rigorous study by the brilliant Mexican analyst Adrián Sotelo …
Social Welfare Responses in a Neoliberal Era
Policies, Practices, and Social Problems
Inbunden, 2018
2757 kr
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Listen to the podcast about Cory Blad's chapter in this book 'Searching for Saviors: Economic Adversities and the Challenge of Political Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era'.This book seeks to explore welfare responses by questioning and going beyond the assumptions found in Esping-Andersen’s (1990) …
Dependency, Neoliberalism and Globalization in Latin America
Inbunden, 2019
3300 kr
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The Marxist Theory of Dependency (TMD) managed to articulate the insertion of peripheral societies into the international market with the capital accumulation processes of each country. It has become an essential theory for the understanding of our societies. Since Ruy Mauro Marini laid out its …
Migration, Reproduction and Society
Economic and Demographic Dilemmas in Global Capitalism
Inbunden, 2019
2570 kr
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In Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales offers a theoretical model for understanding the dilemmas presented by migration in the transformation of contemporary society. Aging and changing demographics in advanced societies make economic and social reproduction dependent upon the …
United States in a World in Crisis
The Geopolitics of Precarious Work and Super-Exploitation
Inbunden, 2019
2752 kr
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This work by the distinguished Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia explores new dimensions of super-exploitation in a context of the structural crisis of capitalism and imperialism. Steeped in a new generation of radical dependency theory and informed by the legacy of his own mentor, the famous …
Fidel in the Cuban Socialist Revolution
Understanding the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961)
Av José Bell Lara, Tania Caram León m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
3117 kr
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The book makes accessible a selection of speeches and television appearances by Fidel Castro during the first two years of the Cuban Revolution. Readers can trace the evolution of this legendary leader’s radical political thought and analyze his extraordinary capacity for overcoming adverse …
Ecuador’s “Good Living”
Crises, Discourse and Law
Inbunden, 2020
3222 kr
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Ecuador’s “Good Living”: Crises, Discourse, and Law by Gallegos Anda, presents a critical approach towards the concept of Buen Vivir that was included in Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution. Due to its apparent legal novelty, this normative formula received much praise from multiple civil society and …
Cuba Was Different
Views of the Cuban Communist Party on the Collapse of Soviet and Eastern European Socialism
Inbunden, 2021
4043 kr
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In Cuba Was Different, Even Sandvik Underlid explores the views of Cuban authorities, official press, and Party members as they reflect back on the collapse of Soviet and Eastern European socialism. In so doing, he contributes to a better understanding as to why the Cuban system – often associated …
Against Inequality
Contributions to a Discourse of Social Emancipation
Av Alejandro I. Canales, Dídimo Castillo Fernández
Inbunden, 2024
2309 kr
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In Against Inequality, the authors offer a theoretical and political proposal for social emancipation, seen as an opportunity to build conditions of equality in contexts of freedom, not only for ethical but essentially political foundations. To achieve this, the authors confront inequality in two …
Mediations of Super-exploitation
A Methodological Proposal for Understanding New Dependency
Inbunden, 2025
2105 kr
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This work by Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia succinctly analyses the process of super-exploitation in the present day context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Drawing upon methodological insights from Hungarian Marxist István Mészáros, Brazilian Marxist Ruy Mauro Marini, and others, …
