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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “deirdre mckay”
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  • Global Filipinos

    Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village

    by Deirdre McKay ...
    The author of An Archipelago of Care documents the experiences of Filipino contract workers from the same village, traveling abroad for jobs.Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world's largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migrants from one rural community to work sites overseas and then home again. Focusing on the experiences of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Archipelago of Care

    Filipino Migrants and Global Networks

    by Deirdre McKay ...
    Series series Framing the Global
    A study of Filipino caregivers in London and what it says for migrant workers and the networks they build in the global marketplace.Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on interviews and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gifts of the Animals

    by Deirdre McKay ...
    It's exciting living on the coldest stretch of earth and in the Outback too! Read along as these spunky short stories for early readers take you on a trek around the globe. You'll meet some young characters like Wiley and Wynter, and their adored animal companions, Mr. Bark the dog and Beau the horse. Peek into their lives and even learn a few words in their languages! Find out why our characters ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Framing the Global

    Entry Points for Research

    by Prakash Kumar, Stephanie DeBoer, Deborah Cohen, Manuela Ciotti, Katerina Martina Teaiwa, Faranak Miraftab, Alex Perullo, Sean Metzger, Michael Mascarenhas, Deirdre McKay, Rachel Harvey, Zsuzsa Gille, Lessie Jo Frazier, Anne Griffiths, Tim Bartley ...
    Series series Framing the Global
    Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. Essays are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor's engagement with global studies in the course of empirical research, offering a conceptual toolkit for global research in the 21st century. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Giddy Kiddies Joke Book - Volume Two

    Giddy Kiddies Joke Books, #2

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    Series Book 2 - Giddy Kiddies Joke Books
    This second joke book in the series has hilarious chapters that range from Knock Knock Jokes to Chicken Jokes to Dinosaur Jokes to Monster Jokes. Laugh out loud at this gut- busting collection. ... 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

  • Seeking Spatial Justice

    by Edward W. Soja ...
    Series Book 16 - Globalization and Community
    In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the city’s poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, ... Read more

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  • Capitalism on Edge

    How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia

    by Albena Azmanova ...
    Series Book 69 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    The wake of the financial crisis has inspired hopes for dramatic change and stirred visions of capitalism’s terminal collapse. Yet capitalism is not on its deathbed, utopia is not in our future, and revolution is not in the cards. In Capitalism on Edge, Albena Azmanova demonstrates that radical progressive change is still attainable, but it must come from an unexpected direction.Azmanova’s new ... Read more

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  • The Return of Inequality

    Social Change and the Weight of the Past

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  • The Great Kapok Tree

    A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest

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