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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Biopolitical Disaster

    Edited by Sarah Marie Wiebe, Jennifer Lawrence ...
    Series series Interventions
    Biopolitical Disaster employs a grounded analysis of the production and lived-experience of biopolitical life in order to illustrate how disaster production and response are intimately interconnected. The book is organized into four parts, each revealing how socio-environmental consequences of instrumentalist environmentalities produce disastrous settings and political experiences that are evident ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

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  • 101 Letters to a Prime Minister

    The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper

    by Yann Martel ...
    A compendium of 101 book recommendations from Booker Prize–winning author Yann Martel (Life of Pi) to Prime Minister Stephen Harper—each with an accompanying letter, together probing the question: what sort of mind, nourished by what, do we want our leaders to have?Politely and unfailingly, every two weeks for almost four years, Yann Martel sent Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper a book and ... Read more

    PHP1,106.59

  • So They Want Us to Learn French

    Promoting and Opposing Bilingualism in English-Speaking Canada

    by Matthew Hayday ...
    Since the 1960s, bilingualism has become a defining aspect of Canadian identity. And yet, today, relatively few English Canadians speak or choose to speak French. Why has personal bilingualism failed to increase as much as attitudes about bilingualism as a Canadian value?In So They Want Us to Learn French, Matthew Hayday explores the various ways in which bilingualism was promoted to English ... Read more

    PHP1,676.09

  • Homo Politicus

    The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government

    by Dana Milbank ...
    Washington’s most acerbic (and feared) columnist, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, skewers the peculiar and alien tribal culture of politics.Deep within the forbidding land encircled by the Washington Beltway lives the tribe known as Homo politicus. Their ways are strange, even repulsive, to civilized human beings; their arcane rites often impenetrable; their language coded and obscure. ... Read more

    PHP452.99

  • In the Smaller Scope of Conscience

    The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986–1990

    by C. Timothy McKeown ...
    In 1989, The National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA) was successfully passed after a long and intense struggle. One year later, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) followed. These federal repatriation statutes—arguably some of the most important laws in the history of anthropology, museology, and American Indian rights—enabled Native Americans to reclaim ... Read more

    PHP1,283.99

  • The Navajo Political Experience

    by David E. Wilkins ...
    Series series Spectrum Series: Race and Ethnicity in National and Global Politics
    Native nations, like the Navajo nation, have proven to be remarkably adept at retaining and exercising ever-increasing amounts of self-determination even when faced with powerful external constraints and limited resources. Now in this fourth edition of David E. Wilkins' The Navajo Political Experience, political developments of the last decade are discussed and analyzed comprehensively, and with ... Read more

    PHP3,797.69

  • Marginalities in India

    Themes and Perspectives

    Edited by Asmita Bhattacharyya, Sudeep Basu ...
    This volume engages with the renewed focus on various forms of persisting and new marginalities in globalising India. The persistence of hunger in pockets of India; forcible land acquisitions and their impact on deprived sections of society; the effects of urban relocations; material deprivation of minority groups and tribes as a result of conflicts; continuing caste discrimination; reported cases ... Read more

    PHP5,812.49

  • Perilous Desert

    Insecurity in the Sahara

    Edited by Frederic Wehrey, Anouar Boukhars ...
    The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions. The unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises.This insecurity ... Read more

    PHP935.79

  • Love, Sex, and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation

    by M. McLelland ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. ... Read more

    PHP5,812.49

  • Speaking Green with a Southern Accent

    Environmental Management and Innovation in the South

    by Murphy Greene, David A. Breaux, Gerald A. Emison, Deborah R. Gallagher, Erin Holmes, Madeleine W. McNamara, James Newman, Rick Travis ...
    The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a changing environmental policy landscape because they present a contradiction of caution and innovation. This caution derives from the South's well ... Read more

    PHP2,848.09

  • Inequality, Poverty and Precarity in Contemporary American Culture

    by Sieglinde Lemke ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of representation. Set against the dichotomy of the structural narrative of poverty and the opportunity narrative, Lemke's modified concept of precarity reveals new insights into the American situation as well as into the textuality of ... Read more

    PHP5,812.49

  • Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe

    Unpacking the Policy Cycle

    Edited by Leen d'Haenens, Helena Sousa, Josef Trappel ...
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the current European media in a period of disruptive transformation. It maps the full scope of contemporary media policy and industry activities while also assessing the impact of new technologies and radical changes in distribution and consumption on media practices, organizations and strategies. Combining a critical assessment of media systems with a ... Read more

    PHP2,716.49