Development and Change Special Issues – serie
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Social Futures, Global Visions
Av HEWITT DE ALCAN, Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara
Häftad, 1996
310 kr
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Where is the world heading at the turn of the twenty-first century? Towards a desolate landscape of disintegrating societies or towards the construction of new institutions to mitigate violence, reduce poverty and promote peace in a rapidly changing global context? Do ideas of globalization reflect …
Globalization and Identity
Dialectics of Flow and Closure
Häftad, 1999
297 kr
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Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure"Globalization" and "Identity" are an explosive combination, demonstrated by recent outbursts of communalist violence in many parts of the world. Their varying articulations highlight the paradox that accelerating global flows of goods, …
Gendered Poverty and Well-Being
Av Razavi, Shahra Razavi
Häftad, 2000
310 kr
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The interlinkages between gender and poverty have, until recently, escaped careful analytical scrutiny. The contributors to this edited volume critically reflect on some of the key methodological and analytical issues that a gendered analysis of poverty needs to address. These foundational issues …
Forests
Nature, People, Power
Häftad, 2000
324 kr
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The papers in this volume highlight in various ways the complex articulations of local processes and global forces in tropical forest struggles. Taken together, they show how social science research has come of age, moving beyond the crude 'tragedy of the commons' and 'prisoner's dilemma' …
Rule and Rupture
State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship
Av Christian Lund, Christian Lund m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
311 kr
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Rule and Rupture - State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. Combines the latest theory on property rights and citizenship with extensive …
State Failure, Collapse & Reconstruction
Av MILLIKEN, Jennifer Milliken
Häftad, 2003
324 kr
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This book situates state failure and state collapse in historical context and explains the structures and forces that have led to state collapse in a number of countries around the world. It also analyses and critiques contemporary interventions and reconstruction efforts in collapsed states. …
Catalysing Development?
A Debate on Aid
Av Jan P. Pronk
Häftad, 2004
352 kr
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This volume presents a state-of-the-art debate on the controversial topic of development aid. The contributors are all experts in the field of international development. Presents some challenging conclusions about the role that aid plays in catalysing, or stifling, development. Represents a wide …
China's Limits to Growth
Greening State and Society
Häftad, 2006
310 kr
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In this book a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world studies the environmental challenge posed by China’s phenomenal economic growth. An exploration of the environmental challenge posed by China’s phenomenal economic growth. Written by a multi-disciplinary team of experts from …
Twilight Institutions
Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa
Häftad, 2007
306 kr
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Focusing on the condition of public authority in Africa, Twilight Institutions investigates how, when confronted with state failure, public institutions attempt to gain authority; operating in the twilight between state and society, between public and private. Approaches public authority ‘from …
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development
Av Cornwall, Andrea Cornwall m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
297 kr
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This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into ‘gender myths’ and ‘feminist fables’: …
Politics of Possession
Property, Authority, and Access to Natural Resources
Av Thomas Sikor, Christian Lund
Häftad, 2009
297 kr
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The Politics of Possession investigates how struggles over access to resources and political power constitute property and authority recursively. Such dynamics are integral to state formation in societies characterized by normative and legal pluralism. Includes some of the latest theoretical work …
Seen, Heard and Counted
Rethinking Care in a Development Context
Häftad, 2012
297 kr
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Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus.Offers the first global, regionally diverse study of the “invisible economy” of care, including case studies from diverse regional contexts of …
Governing Global Land Deals
The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
Av Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
247 kr
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This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance. Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals …
Transition and Justice
Negotiating the Terms of New Beginnings in Africa
Av Gerhard Anders, Olaf Zenker
Häftad, 2014
247 kr
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Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order. Offers a new perspective on transition and …
