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  • Food for Change

    The Politics and Values of Social Movements

    de Jeff Pratt, Peter Luetchford ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Concern about our food system is growing, from the costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of supermarkets and recurring scandals about the origins and content of what we eat.Food for Change documents the way alternative food movements respond to these concerns by trying to create more closed economic circuits within which people know where, how, and by whom their food is produced.Jeff ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Rationality of Rural Life

    Economic and Cultural Change in Tuscany

    de Jeff Pratt ...
    Series series Studies in Anthropology and History
    This monograph analyzes the developments in rural life in detail and at the same time places them in a wider context, exploring the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture. What is revealed is a profound transformation in the rationality of farming, one which touches every aspect of the lives of rural people. ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • The Rationality of Rural Life

    de Jeff Pratt ...
    First published in 2004. The river Orcia flows westwards out of a majestic valley in central Italy, cuts a ravine through the northern flanks of Monte Amiata, and descends through rolling hills to the coastal plain, the Maremma. On its upper reaches, a thousand years ago, the first farms regulated by the mezzadria contract were created, a share-cropping system which established a stable farm ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet

    Labor's Post-Left Future

    de Mark Latham ...
    Series Libro 49 - Quarterly Essay
    With an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark Latham considers the future for Labor. The nation has changed, but can the party?With wit and insight, Latham reveals an organisation top-heavy with factional bosses protecting their turf. At the same time Labor’s traditional working-class base has long been eroding. People who grew up in fibro shacks now live in double ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Dick Smith's Population Crisis

    The dangers of unsustainable growth for Australia

    de Dick Smith ...
    Dick Smith takes on the hot topic of our times, arguing that Australian and global population growth carries enormous risks, dangers that none of our political parties is prepared to address.In 2011 the world's population exceeded 7 billion. Each year we add nearly 80 million people and by mid-century we will require twice as much food and double the energy we use today. Australia will be deeply ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Slow Food Nation

    Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair

    de Carlo Petrini ...
    Traducido por Clara Furlan, Jonathan Hunt ...
    By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge. Here the charismatic leader of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini, outlines many ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Humanizing the Economy

    Co-operatives in the Age of Capital

    de John Restakis ...
    How the largest social movement in history is making the world a better place.At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalization is the only way forward for modern, democratic societies, the spread of this system is failing to meet even the most basic needs of billions of individuals around the world. Moreover ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Development Projects Observed

    de Albert O. Hirschman, Michele Alacevich ...
    Series series A Brookings Classic
    Originally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of Development Projects Observed is deceptive. Today, it is recognized as the ultimate volume of Hirschman's groundbreaking trilogy on development, and as the bridge to the broader social science themes of his subsequent writings. Though among his lesser-known works, this unassuming tome is one of his most influential.It is in ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Constructing Suburbs

    Competing Voices in a Debate over Urban Growth

    de Ann Forsyth ...
    Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late sixties to the mid-nineties, during which time serious environmental and financial problems arose. The book outlines five major visions of the future development and examines forms of political, ... Leer más

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  • Peasants and the Art of Farming eBook

    A Chayanovian Manifesto

    de Jan Douwe van der Ploeg ...
    Series Libro 2 - Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies
    Peasants and the Art of Farming: A Chayanovian Manifesto focuses on the structure and dynamics of peasant farms and the historically highly variable relations that govern the processes of labour and production within peasant farms. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg argues that peasant agriculture can play an important, if not central, role in augmenting food production and creating sustainability. However, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Rural Geography

    Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring

    de Michael Woods ...
    "Michael Woods has taken on the formidable task of giving an overview of rural places and society in advanced economies as a single author and has presented a book that rightly deserves to be called state-of-the-art."- Geographische Rundschau"With Rural Geography Michael Woods remedies the often underestimated dynamism of rural places and rural society by providing the much-needed synthesis of the ... Leer más

    $99.99 USD

  • Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf

    de Colin Crouch ...
    The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy and also of social life, but what is missing is the social policy that needs to accompany this process, if there are not to be major problems. From this perspective marketization and social ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus