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  • Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy

    Edited by Anis A. Dani, Caroline Moser ...
    Series series New Frontiers of Social Policy
    Empowering Communities Through Asset-Based Social PolicyIn developing nations, traditional social welfare often falls short. This book offers a new approach: asset-based social policy. It demonstrates how empowering individuals and communities to build and manage their own assets can lead to sustainable livelihoods and poverty reduction.Explore case studies from West Africa, Ecuador, Thailand, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fractured Cities

    Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America

    by Doctor Elisabeth Leeds, Wil Pansters, Ralph Rozema, Doctor Dennis Rodgers, Professor Caroline Moser, Carlos Ivan Degregori, Roberto Briceno-Leon, Cathy McIlwaine ...
    As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable.From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡n in Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, Nicaragua and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope in Lima, this book provides a dynamic analysis of urban insecurity. Based on new empirical evidence, ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Megacities

    The Politics of Urban Exclusion and Violence in the Global South

    by Robert Gay, Professor Caroline Moser, Janice Perlman, Asef Bayat, Jo Beall, Mariano Aguirre, Owen Crankshaw, Susan Parnell ...
    For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second half of the twentieth century. 'Megacities' around the world are rapidly becoming the scene for deprivation, especially in the global South, and the urban excluded face the brunt of what in many cases seems like low-intensity warfare ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Assets, Livelihoods, And Social Policy

    by Moser Caroline; Dani Anis A. ...
    Given the lack of adequate universal social welfare for those unable to find jobs in the salaried formal sector, the livelihoods and well-being of most poor people depends heavily on their asset base. This includes their ability to access and accumulate assets, obtain decent returns from these assets, and use their asset base to manage risks. Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy discusse the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Encounters with Violence in Latin America

    Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala

    by Cathy McIlwaine, Caroline Moser ...
    Latin America is both the world's most urbanized fastest developing regions, where the links between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. The banal, ubiquitous nature of drug crime, robbery, gang and intra-family violence destabilizes countries' economies and harms their people and social structures.Encounters with Violence & Crime in Latin America explores the meaning of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Gender Planning and Development

    Theory, Practice and Training

    by Caroline Moser ...
    Gender planning is not an end in itself but a means by which women, through a process of empowerment, can emancipate themselves. Ultimately, its success depends on the capacity of women's organizations to confront subordination and create successful alliances which will provide constructive support in negotiating women's needs at the level of household, civil society, the state and the global ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities

    Edited by Bruce Frayne, Caroline Moser, Gina Ziervogel ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    There is overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. It is the poorest countries and people who are the most vulnerable to this threat and who will suffer the most. This book shows how increasing urbanization and growing poverty levels mean that it is imperative to ask how climate change might impact on asset accumulation and food security for the urban poor. It demonstrates how these ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    To Flowers From Italy In Winter (Unabridged)

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    by Thomas HARDY ...
    Narrated by Caroline Moser, Aaron Espinoza, Lana Howell, Kaye Henderson ...

    Unabridged

    13 min

    In the starkness of winter, a vibrant bouquet arrives. "To Flowers From Italy," a poem by Thomas Hardy, whisks you away from the barren landscape to a land of eternal spring. Imagine these delicate blooms, questioning their fate in a foreign, frozen land. Do they possess a secret sentience, pondering their exile? Are they messengers, whispering tales of a sun-drenched Italian summer? Hardy's ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration

    by Matthew Sparke ...
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  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Global Regulation

    Edited by Walter Mattli, Ngaire Woods ...
    Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be made to serve broader interests? This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or "regulatory ... Read more

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  • Pigmentocracies

    Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    by Edward Telles ...
    Pigmentocracies — the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) — is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America’s most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by PERLA, this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial ... Read more

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