Global Studies – serie
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14 produkter
Narrative Worldviews of Central American Migration
A Multi-vantage Approach
Av Jared Johnson, Skye Cooley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
549 kr
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Alternative Economies and Spaces
New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy
Av Hans-Martin Zademach, Sebastian Hillebrand
Häftad, 2013
338 kr
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The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions – …
Negotiations of the "New World"
The Omnipresence of "Global" as a Political Phenomenon
Häftad, 2016
443 kr
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»Global« is everywhere – recent years have seen a significant proliferation of the adjective »global« across discourses. But what do social actors actually do when using this term?Written from within the political studies and International Relations disciplines, and with a particular interest in …
Bonded Labour
Global and Comparative Perspectives
Av Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf, Ulrike Lindner m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
461 kr
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Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' – mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the …
Sweet Home Chicago? – Mexican Migration and the Question of Belonging and Return
Häftad, 2021
742 kr
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Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among older Mexican migrants in Chicago, Franziska Bedorf investigates the phenomenon of return migration by tracing how people's intentions to go back change over time. Considering global labour mobility, she examines transformations of belonging and the …
Southeast Asian Transformations – Urban and Rural Developments in the 21st Century
Av Sandra Kurfürst, Stefanie Wehner m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
847 kr
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Southeast Asia is one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This volume offers a timely approach to Southeast Asian Studies, covering recent transitions in the realms of urbanism, rural development, politics, and media. While most of the contributions deal with the era of post-independence, …
Labor Turnover in Ethiopia's Textile Industry
A Hotspot of Social Transformation
Häftad, 2025
424 kr
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The Ethiopian textile industry is particularly affected by high labor turnover. In a compelling social study, Michaela Fink investigates the causes of this issue, focusing primarily on the voices of the (female) workforce. She illustrates the tension between rural, community-based orientations of …
Making a Homeland
Roots and Routes of Transnational Armenian Engagement
Häftad, 2023
1023 kr
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Ties to the homeland have always been a central focus of global diaspora and migration studies. How and why do the descendants of migrants maintain their attachment to the ancestral homeland? To what extent do emotional ties bind second and later generations of migrants to that place? Tsypylma …
Lower !Garib - Orange River
Pasts and Presents of a Southern African Border Region
Av Luregn Lenggenhager, Martha Akawa m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
917 kr
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The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and South Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on this hardly discussed stretch of the Orange River to understand the region's social history, …
Delinking and Global Reparations
Alternative Perspectives on the Socio-Ecological Crisis
Av Ndongo Samba Sylla, Kai Koddenbrock
Häftad, 2025
917 kr
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Delinking, as a concept, was initially put forward to propose a progressive economic strategy within and potentially beyond capitalism. This was based on the understanding that Western development has taken place under particular historical and ecological conditions that cannot be reproduced …
Crafting Power
The Situatedness of Artistic Handicraft and Civic Engagement in Contemporary Uganda
Häftad, 2025
828 kr
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In contemporary Uganda, involved actors often associate artistic handicraft production with sustainable economic development and women empowerment. Others highlight its significance for the situated understandings of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, framing artistic handicrafts as …
Making Places Inbetween
Resisting and Inhabiting Border Regimes
Häftad, 2026
1184 kr
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The global border regimes threaten to escalate, and state-controlled refugee camps dominate the discourse while contrary viewpoints seem to be missing. Focusing on autonomous settlements in France, Italy, and Chile, Melanie Garland follows how communities on the move transform so-called non-places …
Drug Assemblages - Policies, Counternarratives, and Local Experiences
Häftad, 2026
992 kr
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In the shifting landscapes of global drug governance, power asymmetries shape drug economies as well as policy discourses. Through counternarratives and regional case studies of the Americas, this edited volume investigates how prohibition, securitization, and regulation intertwine in the …
