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  • COVID-19 and Social Protection

    A Study in Human Resilience and Social Solidarity

    Edited by Steven Ratuva, Tara Ross, Yvonne Crichton-Hill, Arindam Basu, Patrick Vakaoti, Rosemarie Martin-Neuninger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19. The crisis of the capitalist economy due to border closure, downturn in business, loss of jobs and large-scale destruction of people’s well-being has worsened poverty, and inequality worsened the situation of the already marginalized. At the same time, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Street-Frequenting Young People in Fiji

    Theory and Practice

    by Patrick Vakaoti ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book, uncovers the lived experiences of street-frequenting young people in Fiji. Typically viewed as ‘out of place’, these young people disturb what it means to be young and Fijian. Despite their marginal existence, they through their activities demonstrate the need to belong. The book adopts a critical postmodern perspective to explore this reality and propose ways of engaging with street ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Rescue

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  • Power and Resistance

    Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues, Sixth Edition

    by Wayne Antony ...
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  • The Black Agenda

    Bold Solutions for a Broken System

    Edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman ...
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  • Precarity

    Uncertain, insecure and unequal lives in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Edited by Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Clifford van Ommen, Natasha Matamua, Shiloh Groot ...
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  • The Contagion Next Time

    by Sandro Galea ...
    How can we create a healthier world and prevent the crisis next time? In a few short months, COVID-19 devastated the world and, in particular, the United States. It infected millions, killed hundreds of thousands, and effectively made the earth stand still. Yet America was already in poor health before COVID-19 appeared. Racism, marginalization, socioeconomic inequality--our failure to address ... Read more

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  • The Economics of International Development

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  • The Power of Wellbeing

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