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“anthony oliver smith”

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  • Defying Displacement

    Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development

    by Anthony Oliver-Smith ...
    The uprooting and displacement of people has long been among the hardships associated with development and modernity. Indeed, the circulation of commodities, currency, and labor in modern society necessitates both social and spatial mobility. However, the displacement and resettlement of millions of people each year by large-scale infrastructural projects raises serious questions about the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Disasters in Paradise

    Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability, and Development Decisions

    by Amanda D. Concha-Holmes, Anthony Oliver-Smith, Christopher Berry, Sarah Cervone, Juan Concha, Byron Real, Joanna Reilly-Brown, Astrid Wigidal ...
    Long considered ground zero for global climate change in the United States, Florida presents the perfect case study for disaster risk and prevention. Building on the idea that disasters are produced by historical and contemporary social processes as well as natural phenomena, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith present a collection of ethnographic case studies that examine the social ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The Angry Earth

    Disaster in Anthropological Perspective

    Edited by Susanna Hoffman, Anthony Oliver Smith ...
    The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship between societies and their environments.From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, disasters triggered by both natural and technological hazards have become increasingly frequent and destructive across the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy

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  • India

    A Portrait

    by Patrick French ...
    A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, ... Read more

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  • Dirty Wars and Polished Silver

    The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix

    by Lynda Schuster ...
    From a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, an exuberant memoir of life, love, and transformation on the frontlines of conflicts around the world**Growing up in 1970s Detroit, Lynda Schuster felt certain life was happening elsewhere. And as soon as she graduated from high school, she set out to find it.Dirty Wars and Polished Silver is Schuster’s story of her life abroad as a foreign ... Read more

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  • The 2030 Spike

    Countdown to Global Catastrophe

    by Colin Mason ...
    The clock is relentlessly ticking!Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization.Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Sustainability Indicators

    Measuring the Immeasurable?

    by Simon Bell ...
    Praise for the first edition:'This book should be of interest to anyone interested in sustainable development, and especially sustainability indicators. Bell and Morse easily succeed in exposing the fundamental paradoxes of these concepts and, more importantly, they offer us a way forward. Readers ... will find their practical recommendations for those attempting to do sustainability analysis in ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Politics of Origin in Africa

    Autochthony, Citizenship and Conflict

    by Morten Bøås, Kevin C. Dunn ...
    In this revealing new book, Bøås and Dunn explore the phenomenon of 'autochthony' - literally 'son of the soil' - in African politics. In contemporary Africa, questions concerning origin are currently among the most crucial and contested issues in political life, directly relating to the politics of place, belonging, identity and contested citizenship. Thus, land claims and autochthony disputes ... Read more

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  • Mega-Urbanization in the Global South

    Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state

    Edited by Ayona Datta, Abdul Shaban ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    The global south is entering an ‘Urban Age’ where, for the first time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing - rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion, severe fuel shortages and the breakdown of law and order. We are told that we must be prepared. The solution is simple, they say. Mega ... Read more

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  • Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

    Patching Together a Global Script

    by Tanja A. Börzel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood. The authors argue that a global script of governance transfer by regional organizations is emerging, where regional and national actors are adapting governance standards and instruments to their local context. ... Read more

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  • The Empirical and Institutional Dimensions of Smart Specialisation

    Edited by Philip McCann, Frank van Oort, John Goddard ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Smart specialisation is the new policy approach to the development of regional innovation systems across Europe and it involves fostering innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives which are well tailored to the local context. The different technologies, skills profiles, business activities, institutions and sectors which reflect a region’s economic strengths and potential are to be fostered and ... Read more

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