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  • Contesting Colonial Capitalism in the Americas, Africa, and Asia

    Edited by Dip Kapoor ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Development Studies
    This book is a critical excavation of capitalist development that is being driven by the Global North in the modern (neo)colonial era, with a related focus on the anticolonial and anticapitalist resistance by Indigenous Peoples, peasants, and migrant workers in Africa, Asia/Middle East, and the Americas/Caribbean.Informed by the work of Dr. Abdul Aziz Choudry, the contributors demonstrate how ... Read more

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  • Research, Political Engagement and Dispossession

    Indigenous, Peasant and Urban Poor Activisms in the Americas and Asia

    Edited by Dip Kapoor, Steven Jordan ...
    This collection considers academic research engagements with indigenous, small peasant, urban poor and labour social activism against colonial capitalist dispossession and exploitation in Asia and the Americas.Bringing together contributors from a range of different disciplines, Research, Political Engagement and Dispossession demonstrates how research done for and with these struggles against ... Read more

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  • Human Rights and the Third World

    Issues and Discourses

    Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World: 1. Whether alternative ... Read more

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  • Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession

    Local Resistance in South & East Asia, the Pacific & Africa

    Edited by Dip Kapoor ...
    Under the guise of 'development', a globalizing capitalism has continued to cause poverty through dispossession and the exploitation of labour across the Global South. This process has been met with varied forms of rural resistance by local movements of displaced farm workers, small and landless (women) peasants, and indigenous peoples in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa, who are ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization

    Social Movements and Critical Perspectives

    Development studies is in a state of flux. A new generation of scholars has come to reject what was once regarded as accepted wisdom, and increasingly regard development and globalization as part of a continuum with colonialism, premised on the same reductionist assumption that progress and growth are objective facts that can be fostered, measured, assessed and controlled. Drawing on a variety of ... Read more

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  • Learning from the Ground Up

    Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production

    Series series Education (R0)
    The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces. ... Read more

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    The Global South in a Changing World

    Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of problems, from rapid urbanization to poverty, this book focuses on the diversity of life in the South, and looks at the role the South plays in ... Read more

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  • Facing An Unequal World

    Challenges for Global Sociology

    Edited by Raquel Sosa Elízaga ...
    Series series SAGE Studies in International Sociology
    "Raquel Sosa Elízaga has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading."- Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scientist, Sociology, Yale UniversityOver recent decades, living conditions in poorer countries have deteriorated, leaving us faced with the present phenomenon of global ... Read more

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    Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace

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  • Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises

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    Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What does this mean for our understanding of politics, aid, and local institutions during crises? This book ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Citizen Action and the Politics of Public Participation

    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms of political mobilization, such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying, ... Read more

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  • Citizenship and Social Movements

    Perspectives from the Global South

    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa and Nigeria.This volume points to the complex relationships that ... Read more

    $97.19 USD