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63 produkter
Engineering Global Socialism
Ownership, Non-Alignment, and Corporate Culture in a Bosnian Company
Av Anna Calori
Häftad, 2026
542 kr
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Engineering Global Socialism chronicles the journey of the Bosnian global corporation Energoinvest and its workers from its Yugoslav socialist ideals through decades of dissolution, reconstruction, and post-socialist transformation.Author Anna Calori provides a company-centric window into the …
Framing the Global
Entry Points for Research
Häftad, 2014
329 kr
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Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. Essays are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor's engagement with global studies in the course of empirical research, offering a conceptual toolkit for …
Framing the Global
Entry Points for Research
E-bok, 2014
101 kr
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Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. Essays are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor's engagement with global studies in the course of empirical research, offering a conceptual toolkit for …
Bastards of Utopia
Living Radical Politics After Socialism
Av Maple Razsa
Inbunden, 2015
905 kr
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Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or "globalization from below." Ethnographer Maple Razsa follows …
Bastards of Utopia
Living Radical Politics After Socialism
Av Maple Razsa
Häftad, 2015
334 kr
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Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or "globalization from below." Ethnographer Maple Razsa follows …
Looking Behind the Label
Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer
Av Tim Bartley, Sebastian Koos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
905 kr
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What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and can they really govern global industries? …
Looking Behind the Label
Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer
Av Tim Bartley, Sebastian Koos m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
301 kr
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What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and can they really govern global industries? …
Looking Behind the Label
Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer
Av Tim Bartley, Sebastian Koos m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
276 kr
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What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and can they really govern global industries? …
Faked in China
Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization
Av Fan Yang
Inbunden, 2015
931 kr
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Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation branding and counterfeit culture, two manifestations of the globalizing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime …
Faked in China
Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization
Av Fan Yang
Häftad, 2015
339 kr
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Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation branding and counterfeit culture, two manifestations of the globalizing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime …
Faked in China
Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization
Av Fan Yang
E-bok, 2015
98 kr
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Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation branding and counterfeit culture, two manifestations of the globalizing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime …
Global Heartland
Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking
Inbunden, 2016
905 kr
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Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to work in the local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town in unexpected ways. Drawing on ethnographic …
Global Heartland
Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking
Häftad, 2016
329 kr
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Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to work in the local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town in unexpected ways. Drawing on ethnographic …
Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud
The Politics of Materiality in the European Union
Av Zsuzsa Gille
Inbunden, 2016
931 kr
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In this original and provocative study, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since it joined the European Union: the 2004 ban on paprika due to contamination, the 2008 boycott of Hungarian foie gras by Austrian animal rights activists, and the "red mud" spill of 2010, …
Global Heartland
Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking
E-bok, 2016
101 kr
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Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to work in the local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town in unexpected ways. Drawing on ethnographic …
Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud
The Politics of Materiality in the European Union
Av Zsuzsa Gille
Häftad, 2016
310 kr
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In this original and provocative study, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since it joined the European Union: the 2004 ban on paprika due to contamination, the 2008 boycott of Hungarian foie gras by Austrian animal rights activists, and the "red mud" spill of 2010, …
Archipelago of Care
Filipino Migrants and Global Networks
Inbunden, 2016
961 kr
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Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on interviews and participant observations, her own …
Archipelago of Care
Filipino Migrants and Global Networks
Häftad, 2016
329 kr
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Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on interviews and participant observations, her own …
Fast Money Schemes
Hope and Deception in Papua New Guinea
Av John Cox
Inbunden, 2018
792 kr
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The most notorious scheme, U-Vistract, attracted many thousands of investors, enticing them with promises of 100 percent interest to be paid monthly. Its founder, Noah …
Fast Money Schemes
Hope and Deception in Papua New Guinea
Av John Cox
Häftad, 2018
372 kr
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The most notorious scheme, U-Vistract, attracted many thousands of investors, enticing them with promises of 100 percent interest to be paid monthly. Its founder, Noah …
New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity
Good Intentions on the Road to Help
Inbunden, 2017
456 kr
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Soaring poverty levels and 24-hour media coverage of global disasters have caused a surge in the number of international non-governmental organizations that address suffering on a massive scale. But how are these new global networks transforming the politics and power dynamics of humanitarian …
New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity
Good Intentions on the Road to Help
Häftad, 2017
273 kr
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Soaring poverty levels and 24-hour media coverage of global disasters have caused a surge in the number of international non-governmental organizations that address suffering on a massive scale. But how are these new global networks transforming the politics and power dynamics of humanitarian …
Fast Money Schemes
Hope and Deception in Papua New Guinea
Av John Cox
E-bok, 2018
101 kr
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The most notorious scheme, U-Vistract, attracted many thousands of investors, enticing them with promises of 100 percent interest to be paid monthly. Its founder, Noah …
Global Mountain Regions
Conversations Toward the Future
Av Ann Kingsolver, Sasikumar Balasundaram
Inbunden, 2018
1017 kr
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No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the …
Global Mountain Regions
Conversations Toward the Future
Av Ann Kingsolver, Sasikumar Balasundaram
Häftad, 2018
374 kr
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No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the …
Global Mountain Regions
Conversations Toward the Future
Av Ann Kingsolver, Sasikumar Balasundaram
E-bok, 2018
188 kr
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No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the …
In Sickness and in Wealth
Migration, Gendered Morality, and Central Java
Av Carol Chan
Inbunden, 2018
848 kr
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Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So why do hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers continue to migrate every year? Carol Chan explores this question from the perspective of the …
In Sickness and in Wealth
Migration, Gendered Morality, and Central Java
Av Carol Chan
E-bok, 2018
151 kr
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Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So why do hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers continue to migrate every year? Carol Chan explores this question from the perspective of the …
In Sickness and in Wealth
Migration, Gendered Morality, and Central Java
Av Carol Chan
Häftad, 2018
386 kr
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Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So why do hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers continue to migrate every year? Carol Chan explores this question from the perspective of the …
Africans in Exile
Mobility, Law, and Identity
Av Benjamin N. Lawrance, Nathan Riley Carpenter
Inbunden, 2018
989 kr
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The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles …