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Rethinking Development eBook Series

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  • Communicating Development with Communities

    by Linje Manyozo ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Development theory and practice are often taught in a manner that strips them of their historical context and obscures alternative intellectual assumptions and critical frameworks. This prevents students from acquiring a holistic understanding of the world and consequently, when it comes to development practice, most lack the skills to live and engage with people. It has become crucial to properly ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • The Blood Bankers

    Tales from the Global Underground Economy

    by James S Henry ...
    Like tentacles on a vast octopus, the firsthand investigations in The Blood Bankers all lead to one core. A financial detective of sorts, investigative journalist Jim Henry analyzes a range of scandals, including the looting of the Philippines by the Marcos family and the financial collapse of nations throughout the developing world. A rogues' gallery of international criminals owes its existence ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Global Muckraking

    100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World

    Edited by Anya Schiffrin ...
    Crusading journalists from Sinclair Lewis to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have played a central role in American politics: checking abuses of power, revealing corporate misdeeds, and exposing government corruption. Muckraking journalism is part and parcel of American democracy. But how many people know about the role that muckraking has played around the world?This groundbreaking new book ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Food and Development

    by E.M. Young ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    The relationship between food and development has always been controversial. Over the last thirty years, development in the north and south has failed to deliver people a decent diet. While some people have too little food and die as a consequence, some people have too much food and die from associated diseases. Furthermore, some methods of food production create social dislocation and deadly ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Accounting for Sustainability

    Practical Insights

    Edited by Anthony Hopwood, Jeffrey Unerman, Jessica Fries ...
    If businesses and other organizations are to meet the many and complex challenges of sustainable development, then they all, both public and private, need to embed sustainability considerations into their decision-making and reporting. However, the translation of this aspiration into effective action is often inhibited by the lack of systems and procedures that take sustainability into account ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Future of African Peace Operations

    From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram

    Edited by Cedric De Coning, Linnéa Gelot, John Karlsrud ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Facing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent. But while the African Union has demonstrated its ability to deploy forces on short notice and in difficult circumstances, the challenges posed by increasingly complex conflict zones have revealed a widening ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Confronting the Blue Revolution

    Industrial Aquaculture and Sustainability in the Global South

    by Saidul Islam ...
    Like the Green Revolution of the 1960s, a “Blue Revolution” has taken place in global aquaculture. Geared towards quenching the appetite of privileged consumers in the global North, it has come at a high price for the South: ecological devastation, displacement of rural subsistence farmers, and labour exploitation. The uncomfortable truth is that food security for affluent consumers depends on a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Mediatized China-Africa Relations

    How Media Discourses Negotiate the Shifting of Global Order

    by Shubo Li ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in media and academic discourses. As Africa’s biggest trading partner and creditor, China explores Africa not only as a marketplace for importing primary commodities and exporting manufactured goods, but ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Democratization in the Global South

    The Importance of Transformative Politics

    Edited by K. Stokke, O. Törnquist ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Given the weaknesses of mainstream democratisation since the 1980s, the authors present a cutting edge examination of dynamics of political change in the direction of more substantive democracy. While focusing on the Global South, they also draw comparisons from historical and contemporary experiences from Scandinavia. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Political Economy of Macao since 1999

    The Dilemma of Success

    by Yufan Hao, Li Sheng, Guanjin Pan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book takes a comprehensive look at the governance and civil society of Macao, the shadowy mecca of gambling in Asia, and the reforms, changes, and social movements which are challenging that reputation today. Thanks to the rapid expansion of the local casino industry, Macao has experienced spectacular economic growth since it returned to Chinese rule in 1999. Following double-digit rates of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Power Shift

    On the New Global Order

    by Richard Falk ...
    This book depicts the challenges associated with the emergence of a new global order in which patterns of conflict and the role of traditional military power are in the process of radical flux.Our ideas about global order have yet to catch up with these new behavioral trends, including the rise of non-state transnational political actors in the context of neoliberal globalization. In this ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Governing Refugees

    Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism

    by Kirsten McConnachie ...
    Series series Law, Development and Globalization
    Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger and refugee passivity. Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism challenges such assumptions, arguing that refugee camps should be recognized as spaces where social capital can not only survive, but thrive.This book examines camp management and the administration of justice in refugee camps on the ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD