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Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development
A Critical and Reflexive Approach
Av Lia Kent, Miranda Forsyth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2525 kr
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The concept of hybridity highlights complex processes of interaction and transformation between different institutional and social forms, and normative systems. It has been used in numerous ways to generate important analytical and methodological insights into peacebuilding and development. Its …
Agency of the Governed in the Global South
Normative and Institutional Change
Av Anke Draude
Inbunden, 2018
2323 kr
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Research on global norm diffusion and institutional transfer has often neglected the agency of the governed. This collection argues that limited statehood – the lack of state capacities in most parts of the global South – provides opportunities for the governed to raise their voices and be listened …
UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015
Häftad, 2018
776 kr
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There is a woeful neglect of the current United Nations in the academic and policy literatures, and so it is unsurprising that an examination of that multilateral structure before 1945 shows an even more egregious absence of analytical attention. Such ignorance conveniently ignores the forgotten …
Rising Powers and South-South Cooperation
Häftad, 2018
754 kr
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This book examines the extent to which a space has opened up in recent years for the so-called "rising powers" of the global South to offer an alternative to contemporary global economic and political governance through emergent forms of South-South cooperation. In contrast to the Third Worldism of …
Food Sovereignty
Convergence and Contradictions, Condition and Challenges
Av Eric Holt-Gimenez, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
754 kr
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A fundamentally contested concept, food sovereignty (FS) has – as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement and an analytical framework – barged into global discourses, both political and academic, over the past two decades. This collection identifies a number of key …
'Local Turn' in Peacebuilding
The Liberal Peace Challenged
Av Joakim Ojendal, Isabell Schierenbeck m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
754 kr
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Contemporary practices of international peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction are often unsatisfactory. There is now a growing awareness of the significance of local governments and local communitites as an intergrated part of peacebuilding in order to improve quality and enhance precision …
Green Economy in the Global South
Av Stefano Ponte, Daniel Brockington
Häftad, 2018
754 kr
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The idea and practice of the ‘green economy’ is gaining momentum, coinciding with financial instability and continued economic woe in the Global North, but generally more positive economic circumstances in the Global South. ‘Green economic initiatives’ in the Global South are multiplying, and …
Innovations in 'Sport for Development and Peace' Research
Av Megan Chawansky, Lyndsay Hayhurst m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2525 kr
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Transnational organizations and practitioners who use sport for international development often position sport as a unique option for tackling development challenges. While sport can be a tool for social change, the authors in this collection bring a critical eye to this assumption and offer new …
International Politics of Ebola
Av Anne Roemer-Mahler, Simon Rushton
Häftad, 2019
776 kr
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The outbreak of Ebola virus disease that gripped Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone through much of 2014 and 2015 was undoubtedly a health emergency, yet it was also a global political event. This book examines the international politics of the Ebola outbreak in all of its dimensions, critically …
China's Contingencies and Globalization
Av Changgang Guo, Liu Debin m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
754 kr
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How have Chinese views on globalization developed over time? How is China managing the new normal of slower growth? Is China creating an alternative modernity? Is China a status quo power or a reform power? Can China manage its growing international role in international institutions and in the New …
Power of Human Rights/The Human Rights of Power
Av Louiza Odysseos, Anna Selmeczi
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as politically compromised or glorifying them as a priori progressive in enabling resistance. Drawing on plural social theoretic and philosophical literatures – and a multiplicity of empirical domains – …
Global Debt Dynamics
Crises, Lessons, Governance
Av Andreas Antoniades, Ugo Panizza
Inbunden, 2019
2759 kr
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This comprehensive volume explores debt dynamics and the intensification of debt crises across the globe, bringing together several recent but underexplored debt crises from different regional and socioeconomic contexts. Using detailed case studies, the authors recast the perils of debt-based …
Developmental States beyond East Asia
Av Jewellord T. Nem Singh, Jesse Salah Ovadia
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This comprehensive volume reviews recent scholarship regarding the role of the state in economic development. With a wide range of case studies of both successful and failed state-led development, the authors push the analysis of the developmental state beyond its original limitations and into the …
Gendering Security and Insecurity
Post/Neocolonial Security Logics and Feminist Interventions
Av Navtej K. Purewal, Sophia Dingli
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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Security studies and international relations have conventionally relegated gendered analysis to the margins of academic concern, most commonly through the ‘women in’ or ‘women and’ politics and IR discourse. This comprehensive volume contributes to debates which seek to move feminist scholarship …
War Economies and Post-war Crime
Av Sabine Kurtenbach, Angelika Rettberg
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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Even when armed conflicts formally end, the transition to peace is not clear-cut. This comprehensive volume explores the mounting evidence which suggests that it is rather ‘unlikely to see a clean break from violence to consent, from theft to production, from repression to democracy, or from …
Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond
Häftad, 2019
490 kr
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This volume contributes new insights to the scientific debate on post-Socialist urbanities. Based on ethnographic research in cities of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Russia, its contributions scrutinise the social production of diverse public, parochial and private spaces in conjunction with …
Class Dynamics of Development
Av Jonathan Pattenden, Liam Campling m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
827 kr
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This book argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries. It does so via a transdisciplinary approach that draws on case studies from Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Contributors illustrate and …
Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
Critical Approaches
Inbunden, 2019
2323 kr
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Disputes and dispossession of property rights in the mining sector are causes of injustice, violence, and forced resettlement around the world. This comprehensive volume examines mining, particularly what is often called ‘Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining’, from a perspective of governance and …
Post-conflict Reconstruction and Local Government
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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The subject of local government and post-conflict reconstruction sits at the intersection of several interrelated research areas, notably conflict/peacebuilding, governance, and political economy. This volume addresses a gap in the academic literature: whilst decentralisation is frequently included …
Fragility, Aid, and State-building
Understanding Diverse Trajectories
Häftad, 2019
724 kr
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Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with generally mixed results. This volume explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its …
Violence and the Third World in International Relations
Av Randolph B. Persaud, Narendran Kumarakulasingam
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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Violence and the Third World in International Relations is intended as a contribution to the decolonization of international relations, and especially of international security studies, much of which is dominated by a self-sustaining Eurocentrism. Rather than focusing on the motivations of …
Studying the State
A Global South Perspective
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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Studying the State explores the results of governments in the Global South, particularly in Latin America, turning to the state as a vehicle for mobilizing people, resources and political change. The book evaluates the results of this return to the state by looking at recent historical events to …
Beyond the Gatekeeper State
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Beyond the Gatekeeper State explores the dynamic changes occurring within and between African states, and the international system since the turn of the century.Frederick Cooper’s model of ‘gatekeeper states’ – shaped as much by their international links as by their domestic practices – provides …
Affectedness And Participation In International Institutions
Av Jan Sändig, Jochen von Bernstorff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2323 kr
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Affectedness and Participation in International Institutions looks at the growing involvement of affected persons in global politics, such as young climate activists, indigenous movements, and persons affected by HIV/AIDS. Since the early 2000s, international organisations within various policy …
Rising Powers in International Conflict Management
Converging and Contesting Approaches
Inbunden, 2020
1530 kr
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Rising Powers in International Conflict Management locates rising powers in the international conflict management tableau and decrypts their main motives and limitations in the enactment of their peacebuilding role. The book sheds light on commonalities and divergences in a selected group of rising …
Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements
Av Tsegaye Moreda, Saturnino M. Borras Jr. m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements argues that multiple contemporary converging crises have significantly altered the context for and object of political contestations around agrarian, climate, environmental and food justice issues.This shift affects alliances, collaboration and …
Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism
Development Futures?
Av Anne Meike Fechter, Anke Schwittay
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately-funded forms of aid that operate on the margins of the official development sector. The last decade has seen a …
Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities
Av Emma Elfversson, Ivan Gusic m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities analyses violence in post-war cities from different perspectives and in different parts of the world, with a shared attention to space and how it affects violent dynamics. The world is urbanising rapidly and cities are increasingly held as the most …
Beyond the Gatekeeper State
Häftad, 2024
695 kr
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Beyond the Gatekeeper State explores the dynamic changes occurring within and between African states, and the international system since the turn of the century.Frederick Cooper’s model of ‘gatekeeper states’ – shaped as much by their international links as by their domestic practices – provides …
Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism
Development Futures?
Av Anne Meike Fechter, Anke Schwittay
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately-funded forms of aid that operate on the margins of the official development sector. The last decade has seen a …
