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  • Modelling Soil Development Under Global Change

    by Peter Finke ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Quantitative assessments of the effects of global change on soil development are mostly focused on soil carbon, some nutrients, pollutants and soil water. Soil however is a complex entity with interacting biological, physical and chemical processes that are rarely modelled in its entirety. Additionally, for the sake of simplicity various soil properties are considered constants whereas in reality ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Qazaq Pastoralists in Western Mongolia

    Institutional Change, Economic Diversification and Social Stratification

    by Peter Finke ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Economic and Social Transformations in Central and Inner Asia
    Taking the case of Qazaq Pastoralists in Western Mongolia, this book looks at the universal human requirement to balance individual flexibility and strategies designed to make a living with the social expectations that impose particular rules of conduct but also enable mutual trust and cooperation to emerge.Pastoralists in Western Mongolia have experienced dramatic changes in recent decades, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia

    Series series Central Asian Studies
    Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia focuses on how tradition is ‘everyday-ified’ in contemporary Central Asia, including Tatarstan and Tibet, and what people seek to achieve in its name. The case studies range from political demonstrations and industrial workers’ gatherings to institutions of religious education, minority communities, weddings, and the Internet.In this volume we regard ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Constructing the Uzbek State

    Narratives of Post-Soviet Years

    by Marlene Laruelle, Sergey Abashin, Peter Finke, Matteo Fumagalli, Alisher Ilkhamov, Svetlana Peshkova, Sebastien Peyrouse, Johan Rasanayagam, Noah Tucker, Rustamjon Urinboyev0, Russell Zanca1, Morgan Y. Liu2, Nick Megoran3, Rano Turaeva-Hoehne4, Maria Louw5 ...
    Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian being Uzbek, Uzbekistan’s political, social, and cultural evolutions largely exemplify the ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Migration and Economy

    Global and Local Dynamics

    by Ricardo Perez, Dolores Koenig, Jeffrey Cohen, Meltem Sancak, Peter Finke, Sasha Newell, Silvia Grigolini, Stephen Lubkemann, Robyn Eversole ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Trager and her coauthors focus on migration not as a single event but as a dynamic process that responds to and is shaped by broader economic, cultural and social forces. Individual essays consider issues of international and internal migration, of voluntary migration and forced movements due to civil conflicts and environmental degradation, and of macro-level forces and micro-level institutions. ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • Planet of Slums

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    The “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization—by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author)According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Capitalism

    A Structural Genocide

    by Garry Leech ...
    In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence.Drawing on a number of fascinating case studies from across the world - including the forced displacement of farmers in Mexico, farmer suicides ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Failure of Global Capitalism

    From Cape Breton to Colombia andBeyond

    by Terry Gibbs, PhD, Garry Leech, MA ...
    What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton’s industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province’s utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing coal—from Colombia. Colombia and Cape Breton represent the loss of well-paid, unionized industrial jobs ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Falling Behind

    Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

    Edited by Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Evidence for Hope

    Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

    by Kathryn Sikkink ...
    A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights workEvidence for Hope makes the case that, yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. They point out that Guantánamo is still open, the Arab Spring protests have been crushed, and governments are cracking down on ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Labor Versus Empire

    Race, Gender, Migration

    Edited by Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul A. Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith, Linda Trinh Võ ...
    The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor. ... Read more

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  • The Internationalization of Palace Wars

    Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States

    by Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    How does globalization work? Focusing on Latin America, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth show that exports of expertise and ideals from the United States to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico have played a crucial role in transforming their state forms and economies since World War II.Based on more than 300 extensive interviews with major players in governments, foundations, law firms, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD