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Voicing Demands

Feminist Activism in Transitional Contexts

Edited by Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan ...

Series series Feminisms and Development
Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women's empowerment. These narratives depart from the existing debate on women's political engagement in formal institutions to examine feminist activism for building and sustaining constituencies through raising, negotiating and legitimizing women's voice under different contexts ... Read more

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Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women's empowerment. These narratives depart from the existing debate on women's political engagement in formal institutions to examine feminist activism for building and sustaining constituencies through raising, negotiating and legitimizing women's voice under different contexts
... Read more
Leaving No Child and No Adolescent Behind

A Global Perspective on Addressing Inclusion through the SDGs

by Sudeshna Chatterjee, Sudeshna Chatterjee, Thomas Pogge, Alberto Minujin, Katie Hodgkinson, Samantha Cocco-Klein, Tomoo Okubo, Ana Maria Restrepo0, Chirawat Poonsab1, Christina Popivanova2, Nicky Pouw3, Marielle L.J. Le Mat4, Jennifer Seager5, Sarah Baird6, Joan Hamory Hicks7, Sabina Faiz Rashid8, Maheen Sultan9, Workneh Yadete0, Nicola Jones1, Ernest Darkwah2, Marguerite Daniel3, Anna Carolina Machado4, Charlotte Bilo5, Ismael Cid Martinez6, Enrique Delamonica7, Jose Luis Espinoza Delgado8, Aristide Kielem9, Mohamed Obaidy0, Martin Hayes1, Melissa Kelly2, Darcy Strouse3 ...

Series Book 8 - CROP International Poverty Studies
The future of our world over the next decade is being shaped by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that seek to uphold children’s wellbeing and, by their call to leave no one behind and to reach the furthest behind first, shine a spotlight on the world’s most vulnerable populations including children and adolescents living in poverty and exclusion. The transformative steps promised in the ... Read more

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The future of our world over the next decade is being shaped by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that seek to uphold children’s wellbeing and, by their call to leave no one behind and to reach the furthest behind first, shine a spotlight on the world’s most vulnerable populations including children and adolescents living in poverty and exclusion. The transformative steps promised in the
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Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course

Evidence from Longitudinal Research

by Shameem Oomur, Susan E Luczak, Aleksandra Szymczyk, Haridhan Goswami, Gary Pollock, Workneh Yadete, Maheen Sultan, Bassam Abu Hamad, Nicola Jones, Sarah Baird, Robert Blum, Leah Koenig, Laurence Steinberg, Emma Sorbring, Ann T. Skinner, Concetta Pastorelli, Patrick S Malone, Qin Liu, Sevtap Gurdal, Kenneth Dodge, Laura Di Giunta, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Marc Bornstein, Dario Bacchini, Suha M Al Hassan, Liane Peña Alampay, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Sombat Tapanya, W. Andrew Rothenberg, Jennifer E Lansford, Sheri A Lippman, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman, Jennifer Ahern, Torsten B Neilands, Emily Agnew, Audrey Pettifor, Ilze Plavgo, Lilli Loveday ...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today but also provide a window into the future for all of us.This book presents impactful findings from international longitudinal studies that respond to the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 commitment to ... Read more

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today but also provide a window into the future for all of us.This book presents impactful findings from international longitudinal studies that respond to the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 commitment to
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South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy

by Doctor Thiven Reddy ...

Series series Africa Now
In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the 'extraordinary', which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of ... Read more

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In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the 'extraordinary', which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of
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The Politics of the Governed

Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

by Partha Chatterjee ...

Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the ... Read more

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Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the
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Health and Poverty

Global Health Problems and Solutions

by Gijs Walraven ...

There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries. This comes out of the realization that poor people will only be able to prosper, and emerge from poverty, if they enjoy better health. Healthy populations are a precondition for sustainable development.Using a novel combination of the personal studies of patients and description of ... Read more

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There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries. This comes out of the realization that poor people will only be able to prosper, and emerge from poverty, if they enjoy better health. Healthy populations are a precondition for sustainable development.Using a novel combination of the personal studies of patients and description of
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Beyond the Profits System

Possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Era

by Harry Shutt ...

Since 2008, we have found ourselves confronted by an historic financial holocaust that world leaders have struggled to come to terms with. All have willfully ignored its long-term, systemic causes and are thus unable to chart a way to survival. As explained by Harry Shutt - who was almost alone in foreseeing such a disaster in the 1990s (in The Trouble with Capitalism) their continued denial stems ... Read more

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Since 2008, we have found ourselves confronted by an historic financial holocaust that world leaders have struggled to come to terms with. All have willfully ignored its long-term, systemic causes and are thus unable to chart a way to survival. As explained by Harry Shutt - who was almost alone in foreseeing such a disaster in the 1990s (in The Trouble with Capitalism) their continued denial stems
... Read more
Mixed Methods Research in Poverty and Vulnerability

Sharing Ideas and Learning Lessons

Edited by Keetie Roelen, Laura Camfield ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity. ... Read more

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The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity.
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The Cost of Winning

Global Development Policies and Broken Social Contracts

by Michael Cosgrove ...

In The Cost of Winning, Michael H. Cosgrove describes how the United States used economic policies to contain the Soviet Union during the post-World War n era and how those policies turned a vibrant American economy into one of broken promises and declining power. Cosgrove defines and examines the five economic building blocks used to contain the Soviets in America's Golden Age: the Marshall Plan, ... Read more

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In The Cost of Winning, Michael H. Cosgrove describes how the United States used economic policies to contain the Soviet Union during the post-World War n era and how those policies turned a vibrant American economy into one of broken promises and declining power. Cosgrove defines and examines the five economic building blocks used to contain the Soviets in America's Golden Age: the Marshall Plan,
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Development Aid—Populism and the End of the Neoliberal Agenda

by Viktor Jakupec ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid. It starts out by describing the rise of national populism, the political landscape and the reasons for rejection of the political establishment, both under Trump and internationally. Next, it gives a historical-political overview of development aid in the post WW-II era and discusses the dominant Washington Consensus ... Read more

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This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid. It starts out by describing the rise of national populism, the political landscape and the reasons for rejection of the political establishment, both under Trump and internationally. Next, it gives a historical-political overview of development aid in the post WW-II era and discusses the dominant Washington Consensus
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Bodies in Resistance

Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism

Edited by Wendy Harcourt ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the book looks at how feminists are engaged ... Read more

$89.09 USD

As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the book looks at how feminists are engaged
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Malaise in Representation in Latin American Countries

Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay

Edited by Alfredo Joignant, Mauricio Morales, Claudio Fuentes ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This edited volume examines malaise with democracy within three middle-income Latin American countries - Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. In particular, the book focuses on the gap within public opinion on democratic system within the context of crisis of representation and breakdowns of democracy. Based on a study using comparative and systematic survey data, the contributors of this volume provide ... Read more

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This edited volume examines malaise with democracy within three middle-income Latin American countries - Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. In particular, the book focuses on the gap within public opinion on democratic system within the context of crisis of representation and breakdowns of democracy. Based on a study using comparative and systematic survey data, the contributors of this volume provide
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