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  • Modernity and Malaysia

    Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads

    by Alberto Gomes ...
    Series series The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and modernization in tribal communities.Descendents of hunter-gatherers who have inhabited Southeast Asia for about 40,000 years, the Menraq (also known as Semang or Negritos) were nomadic foragers until they were resettled in a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least

    by Jessica Jackley ...
    In the tradition of Kabul Beauty School and Start Something That Matters comes an inspiring story of social entrepreneurship from the co-founder of Kiva, the first online microlending platform for the working poor. Featuring lessons learned from successful businesses in the world’s poorest countries, Jessica Jackley’s Clay Water Brick will motivate readers to more deeply appreciate the incredible ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Development Fieldwork

    A Practical Guide

    Edited by Regina Scheyvens ...
    This book provides an invaluable guide to undertaking development fieldwork in both the developing world and in western contexts. It takes you through all the key stages in development research and covers:Research design and the roles of quantitative and qualitative methods.Research using archival, textual and virtual data, along with using the internet ethically.Practical as well as personal ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • An Everyday Geography of the Global South

    by Jonathan Rigg ...
    Taking a broad perspective of livelihoods, this book draws on more than ninety case studies from thirty-six countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America to examine how people are engaging and living with modernity. This extends from changes in the ways that households operate, to how and why people take on new work and acquire new skills, how migration and mobility have become increasingly ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Dynamic Sustainabilities

    Technology, Environment, Social Justice

    Edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Andy Stirling ...
    Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international ... Read more

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  • Capitalism in the Age of Globalization

    The Management of Contemporary Society

    by Samir Amin ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following the collapse of the Soviet model, and the apparent triumph of the market and globalization.Amin's ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Feminists in Development Organizations

    Edited by Rosalind Eyben ...
    Feminists in Development Organizations arises from a collaborative project of feminists working inside the head offices of multilateral organizations, government aid agencies and international NGOs.The personal stories in this book show that these feminists are ‘tempered radicals’ positioned on the border of the development agencies that employ them. It is a place where they are neither fully one ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Researching Sustainability

    A Guide to Social Science Methods, Practice and Engagement

    Edited by Alex Franklin, Paul Blyton ...
    This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues. Real-world sustainability problems cross many boundaries, and this is the first book to guide students and practitioners through the practical and theoretical challenges of doing interdisciplinary research in this vital and emerging area ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Regions and Crises

    New Challenges for Contemporary Regionalisms

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Investigates the intimate relationship between regional governance processes and global crises. Analysing the current turmoil in the European Union, it also looks at regional cooperation and integration in the Arab world, Africa, Asia and Latin America through topical case studies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • ASEAN's Engagement of Civil Society

    Regulating Dissent

    by Kelly Gerard ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers an innovative framework for understanding the role of civil society in regional and global policymaking. Using political economy analysis, Gerard demonstrates that ASEAN's people-oriented agenda builds legitimacy, while sidelining its detractors. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Integrating Science and Policy

    Vulnerability and Resilience in Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Roger E Kasperson ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    As progress towards a greater knowledge in sustainability science continues, the question of how better to integrate scientific progress with actual decisions made by practitioners remains paramount. This book aims to help close the gap between science and practice. Based on a two year collaborative project between Harvard and Clark Universities, the book takes as its focus the vulnerability and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • African Culture and Global Politics

    Language, Philosophies, and Expressive Culture in Africa and the Diaspora

    Edited by Toyin Falola, Danielle Sanchez ...
    Series series Routledge African Studies
    This volume attempts to insert itself within the larger discussion of Africa in the twenty-first century, especially within the realm of world politics. Despite the underwhelming amount of attention given to Africa's role in international politics in popular news sources, it is evident that Africa has a consistent record of participating in world politics- one that pre-dates colonization and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD