Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“marian simms”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marian simms”
Skip side bar filters

  • Gender, Globalization, & Democratization

    by Yassine Fall, Laura Gonzalez, Suranjana Gupta, Seiko Hanochi, Kinhide Mushakoji, Marian Simms, Arpana Sircar, Urvashi Soni-Sinha, Bang-Soon L. Yoon ...
    Women's voices and experiences from around the world are brought to bear upon issues of globalization and democratization in this volume of strikingly original and diverse essays. From the Comfort Women of Japan to the Mexican maquiladoras, from the debt burdened nations of Africa to the 'new settler societies' of Oceania, the impact of globalizing forces and uneven democratization yields gender ... Read more

    Was $86.99 USD Now $30.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Women, Gender and Development Reader

    by Valentine Moghadam, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah White, Diana L. Wolf, Deepa Shankaran, Lourdes Beneria, Aysan Sev'er, Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Beth Herzfeld, Aili Mari Tripp, Kalpana Wilson, Susie Jolly, Sylvia Chant, Diane Elson, Gita Sen, Betsy Hartmann, Peggy Antrobus, Elizabeth Barajas-Roman, Jennifer Fluri, Anesu Makina, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, Ruth Needleman, Alice Mungwa, Jean Pyle, Sonia Corra, Ayesha M. Imam, Amy Lind, Jennifer L. Fruri, Samanthi Gunawardana, Haejin Kim, Paula Voos, Gulay Toksoz, Lila Abu-Lughod, Annette Desmarais, Shirin M. Rai, Ruth Pearson ...
    The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Explaining Institutional Change

    Ambiguity, Agency, and Power

    Edited by Kathleen Thelen, James Mahoney ...
    This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring the general theory to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Immigrant Networks and Social Capital

    by Carl L. Bankston III ...
    Series series Immigration and Society
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015In recent years, immigration researchers have increasingly drawn on the concept of social capital and the role of social networks to understand the dynamics of immigrant experiences. How can they help to explain what brings migrants from some countries to others, or why members of different immigrant groups experience widely varying outcomes in their ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Comparative Planning Cultures

    Edited by Sanyal Bishwapriya ...
    Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Human Rights

    A Primer

    by Judith Blau, Louis Edgar Esparza ...
    Human Rights: A Primer breaks new ground in clarifying for undergraduates the international significance of human rights. This new edition highlights current and recent developments, using themes familiar to undergraduates. For example, Americans are increasingly aware of the growing disparities in economic well-being. It is indeed a crisis that is global and national. Because this book focuses on ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • African Diaspora Identities

    Negotiating Culture in Transnational Migration

    by John A. Arthur ...
    African Diaspora Identities provides insights into the complex transnational processes involved in shaping the migratory identities of African immigrants. It seeks to understand the durability of these African transnational migrant identities and their impact on inter-minority group relationships. John A. Arthur demonstrates that the identities African immigrants construct often transcends country ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Gender and Migration

    by Caroline B. Brettell ...
    Series series Immigration and Society
    Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Through an exploration of gendered labor markets, laws and policies, and the transnational model of migration, Caroline Brettell tackles a ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Global Migration and Development

    Edited by Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, the World Bank, United Nations Commissions and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice

    Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization

    by Louise Fortmann ...
    Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together scholars, policymakers, and development workers to reflect on where the field is today and where it is headed. The contributors draw from their experiences and research in Latin America, Asia, and Africa to illuminate the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty

    Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 2

    Edited by Marc Edelman ...
    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide variety of social movements, on-the-ground experiments, and policy innovations flying under its broad banner. Despite its large and growing popularity, the history, theoretical foundations, and political ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Globalization and Food Sovereignty

    Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food

    Edited by Peter Andree, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael Bosia, Marie-Josee Massicotte ...
    In recent years, food sovereignty has emerged as a way of contesting corporate control of agricultural markets in pursuit of a more democratic, decentralized food system. The concept unites individuals, communities, civil society organizations, and even states in opposition to globalizing food regimes.This collection examines expressions of food sovereignty ranging from the direct action tactics ... Read more

    $35.99 USD