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  • Opting Out

    Women Messing with Marriage around the World

    Series series Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
    Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which ... Read more

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  • Aspiring in Later Life

    Movements across Time, Space, and Generations

    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are constructed from the ... Read more

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    Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

    Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South.Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, ... Read more

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    Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity

    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
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  • Politics of Being

    Wisdom and Science for a New Development Paradigm

    "A profound, insightful, extensively researched, sensitive and much needed essay which provides a precious roadmap for traveling together towards a better world" – Mathieu RicardWhat would a wisdom-based or “spiritual” approach to politics look like? How can we tap into science to support our collective conscious evolution?In this groundbreaking work, Thomas Legrand Ph.D. proposes to fundamentally ... Read more

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  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

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    Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise

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  • After Capitalism

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  • Climate Chaos

    Ecofeminism and the Land Question

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    Critical Feminist Perspectives

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