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  • The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa

    Beyond the Margins

    by Wale Adebanwi, Jane Guyer, John and Jean Comaroff, Maxim Bolt, Michael J. Watts, Peter L Geschiere, Sara S. Berry, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Tristan Oestermann, Adigun Agbaje0, Anne-Maria Makhulu1, Celestin Monga2, David Pratten3, Elisha Elisha Renne4, Frederick Cooper5, Gbemisola Animasawun6, James Ferguson7 ...
    What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Megayear Future History

    Channelled Timelines for the Next Million Years

    by David H Wegert AssDipx3 ...
    This book covers three time periods (Post Mayan Event, 2012 AD): years 1,000–10,000 in chapters 1 to 9 cover psychic development, singularities, scientology, time travel, explorations in space and time, and communications; years 10,000 to 100,000 in chapters 10 to 19 cover technology developments, explorations, communications, psychic powers, singularities, teleportation, fields of science ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Limits of Peacekeeping: Volume 4, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations

    Australian Missions in Africa and the Americas, 1992–2005

    Edited by Jean Bou, Bob Breen, David Horner, Garth Pratten, Miesje de Vogel ...
    The Limits of Peacekeeping highlights the Australian government's peacekeeping efforts in Africa and the Americas from 1992 to 2005. Changing world power structures and increased international cooperation saw a boom in Australia's peacekeeping operations between 1991 and 1995. The initial optimism of this period proved to be misplaced, as the limits of the United Nations and the international ... Read more

    $139.39 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

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    Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government. And even after decades of free-market criticism and reform, their core institutions have proven ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

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  • Ethnicity, Inc.

    by John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to International Law

    Edited by James Crawford, Martti Koskenniemi ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
    This intellectually rigorous introduction to international law encourages readers to engage with multiple aspects of the topic: as 'law' directing and shaping its subjects; as a technique for governing the world of states and beyond statehood; and as a framework within which several critical and constructivist projects are articulated. The articles situate international law in its historical and ... Read more

    $48.39 USD

  • Season of Rains

    Africa in the World

    by Stephen Ellis ...
    Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of poverty, starvation, and violent conflict. But while these problems are real, that does not mean that Africa is a lost cause. Instead, as Stephen Ellis explains in Season of Rains, we need to rethink Africa’s place in time if we are to understand it in ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Political Geography

    World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality

    by Colin Flint, Peter J. Taylor ...
    The new and updated seventh edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual clarity, rigour and vision of previous editions based upon its world-systems approach, and is complemented by the perspective of feminist geography. The book successfully integrates the complexity of individuals with ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The World-System and Africa

    by Immanuel Wallerstein ...
    In The World-System and Africa, Immanuel Wallerstein examines three important, interconnected themes that link Africa and the capitalist world-system of the last 500 years. While drawing attention to the structural crisis of the modern world-system, Wallerstein uses the first set of essays to explore the impact of this worldwide structural crisis on Africa. Next, he turns to identity politics, a ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • African Politics in Comparative Perspective

    by Goran Hyden ...
    This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Globalization and Its Enemies

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    A provocative argument that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created and the lagging economic reality in poor countries.The enemies of globalization—whether they denounce the exploitation of poor countries by rich ones or the imposition of Western values on traditional cultures—see the new world economy as forcing a system on people who do not want it. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD