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  • Communicating Development with Communities

    av Linje Manyozo ...
    Serie serien 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 ... Les mer

    546,96 kr

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  • The Idealist

    Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

    av Nina Munk ...
    **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYBloomberg • Forbes • The SpectatorRecipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award**A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the ... Les mer

    58,82 kr

  • The Blood Bankers

    Tales from the Global Underground Economy

    av 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 ... Les mer

    115,78 kr

  • Global Muckraking

    100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World

    Redigert av 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 ... Les mer

    162,69 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Food and Development

    av E.M. Young ...
    Serie serien 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 ... Les mer

    770,76 kr

  • Accounting for Sustainability

    Practical Insights

    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 ... Les mer

    633,99 kr

  • The Future of African Peace Operations

    From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram

    Serie serien 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 ... Les mer

    332,99 kr

  • Confronting the Blue Revolution

    Industrial Aquaculture and Sustainability in the Global South

    av 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 ... Les mer

    322,49 kr

  • Mediatized China-Africa Relations

    How Media Discourses Negotiate the Shifting of Global Order

    av Shubo Li ...
    Serie serien 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 ... Les mer

    971,12 kr

  • Democratization in the Global South

    The Importance of Transformative Politics

    Redigert av K. Stokke, O. Törnquist ...
    Serie serien 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. ... Les mer

    539,46 kr

  • Political Economy of Macao since 1999

    The Dilemma of Success

    Serie serien 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 ... Les mer

    971,12 kr

  • Power Shift

    On the New Global Order

    av 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 ... Les mer

    1 000,35 kr