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Interventions eBook Series

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  • War and Rape

    Law, Memory and Justice

    by Nicola Henry ...
    Series series Interventions
    Wartime rape has been virulent in wars of sovereignty, territory, conquest, religion, ideology and liberation, yet attention to this crime has been sporadic throughout history. Rape remains ‘unspeakable’, particularly within law. Moreover, rape has not featured prominently in post-conflict collective memory. And even when rape is ‘remembered’, it is often the subject of political controversy and ... Read more

    $101.85 AUD

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  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

    Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    In this collection of essays, interviews, and speeches, the renowned activist examines today's issues—from Black Lives Matter to prison abolition and more.Activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis has been a tireless fighter against oppression for decades. Now, the iconic author of Women, Race, and Class offers her latest insights into the struggles against state violence and oppression throughout ... Read more

    $20.89 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Ordinary Virtues

    Moral Order in a Divided World

    by Michael Ignatieff ...
    Winner of the Zócalo Book PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“Combines powerful moral arguments with superb storytelling.”—New StatesmanWhat moral values do we hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are the things we value converging or diverging? These twin questions led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of an ... Read more

    $25.95 AUD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Race To The Bottom

    Why A Worldwide Worker Surplus And Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards

    by Alan Tonelson ...
    With the end of the 1990s economic boom, The Race to the Bottom deftly explores how the United States has entered a no-win global competition in which the countries with the lowest wages, weakest workplace safety laws, and toughest repression of unions win investment from the U.S. and Europe. Tonelson analyzes how the entry of such population giants as China, India, and Mexico into the global ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Megatrends in Global Interaction

    Edited by Bertelsmann Stiftung ...
    We inhabit an increasingly interconnected world, yet too often policymakers and advisors view each issue in a vacuum, focusing primarily on short-term impacts. All of us - policymakers, citizens, and local and global communities - must begin to consider how the major trends that shape our world are likely to develop, and how they will intersect and influence one another. This volume is designed to ... Read more

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  • The No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration

    by Peter Stalker ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    Virtually any commodity can move around the world to satisfy demand, but human beings have far less freedom. Many would-be migrants are forced to risk life and limb traveling illegally. Yet most rich countries are short of workers, have shrinking populations, and need more immigrants. This is a timely guide to a major issue that is never far from the political headlines.Peter Stalker is a former ... Read more

    $14.84 AUD

  • Science and Citizens

    Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement

    Edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Brian Wynne ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around ... Read more

    $60.82 AUD

  • Communication and the Globalization of Culture

    Beyond Tradition and Borders

    by Shaheed Nick Mohammed ...
    Shaheed Nick Mohammed's Communication and the Globalization of Culture: Beyond Tradition and Borders provides a unique perspective on the concept of culture and its fate in the globalized, mediated environment. Acknowledging widespread fears of cultural erosion at the hands of dominant global forces, Mohammed argues that what we understand as culture has always been the product of global forces, ... Read more

    $72.99 AUD

  • Untapped

    Exploring the Cultural Dimensions of Craft Beer

    Edited by Nathaniel G. Chapman, J. Slade Lellock, Cameron D. Lippard ...
    Untapped collects twelve previously unpublished essays that analyze the rise of craft beer from social and cultural perspectives.In the United States, the United Kingdom, and Western Europe there has been exponential growth in the number of small independent breweries over the past thirty years – a reversal of the corporate consolidation and narrowing of consumer choice that characterized much of ... Read more

    $18.58 AUD

  • Birth of Hegemony

    Crisis, Financial Revolution, and Emerging Global Networks

    by Andrew C. Sobel ...
    With American leadership facing increased competition from China and India, the question of how hegemons emerge— and are able to create conditions for lasting stability—is of utmost importance in international relations. The generally accepted wisdom is that liberal superpowers, with economies based on capitalist principles, are best able to develop systems conducive to the health of the global ... Read more

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  • Dealing with Failed States

    Crossing Analytic Boundaries

    Edited by Harvey Starr ...
    With the ever-increasing interdependence across individuals, groups, international organizations, and nation-states an increasingly significant policy concern in the contemporary turbulent world of globalization is the question of state failure. There has been a growing academic interest in the determinants of state failure and an acute awareness across the international community of the need for ... Read more

    $101.99 AUD

  • Contested Citizenship in East Asia

    Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization

    Edited by Kyung-Sup Chang, Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Theories of citizenship from the West – pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall – provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history.The Marshallian trajectory – juridical, political and social rights – was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about liberalism and citizenship among intellectuals in Japan and China was eventually stifled by war, colonialism and ... Read more

    $87.99 AUD