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  • Canada in Question

    Exploring Our Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century

    by Peter MacKinnon ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Exploring pressing questions around Canadian citizenship*, Canada in Question* delves into contemporary issues that come into play in identifying what it means to be Canadian.Beginning with an update on the status of Canadian citizenship, Peter MacKinnon acknowledges that with the exception of Indigenous peoples, most Canadians migrated to Canada in the last 400 years. In surveying the status of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • University Leadership and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century

    A President's Perspective

    by Peter MacKInnon ...
    Canadian universities face a complicated and uncertain future when it comes to funding, governance, and fostering innovation. Their leaders face an equally complicated future, attempting to balance the needs and desires of students, faculty, governments, and the economy. Drawing on more than a decade of service as president of one of Canada’s major research universities, Peter MacKinnon offers an ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • University Commons Divided

    Exploring Debate & Dissent on Campus

    by Peter MacKinnon ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    In recent years, a number of controversies have emerged from inside Canadian universities. While some of these controversies reflect debates occurring at a broader societal level, others are unique to the culture of universities and the way in which they are governed. In University Commons Divided, Peter MacKinnon provides close readings of a range of recent incidents with a view to exploring new ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Humanitarianism in Question

    Politics, Power, Ethics

    Edited by Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader objectives such as human rights, democracy promotion, development, and peacebuilding? For much of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Sociology of Globalization

    by Luke Martell ...
    The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globalization. Taking in the cultural, political and economic dimensions of globalization, the book provides a thorough introduction to key debates and critically evaluates the causes and consequences of a globalizing world.Bringing the discussion right up to ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Globalization's Contradictions

    Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Transformation

    Edited by Dennis Conway, Nik Heynen ...
    Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone’s lives. People are being ‘disciplined’ by neoliberal economic agendas, ‘transformed’ by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and networks, and in the Global South in particular, destroyed livelihoods, debilitating impoverishment, disease pandemics, ... Read more

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  • A Different Kind of State?

    by Gregory Albo, Leo Panitch ...
    A large factor in the appeal of neo-conservatism in the early 1980s was its sustained attack on the welfare state. Even those most dependent on public services were frustrated by a system that allowed them no say in decisions directly affecting their lives. A decade later, the alternative offered by the new right—free market competition—has only deepened the need for effective state assistance. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Women Navigating Globalization

    Feminist Approaches to Development

    by Sue Ellen M. Charlton, Jana Everett ...
    Series series New Millennium Books in International Studies
    This up-to-date text offers a clear and cogent introduction to women in development. Exploring the global structures and processes that impede or support the empowerment of women, Jana Everett and Sue Ellen M. Charlton use a feminist lens to understand contemporary gender roles. Without such a lens, they argue, our understanding of globalization and development is incomplete, resulting in flawed ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria

    A Survey of Indices of Transparency and Accountability

    by OBI KELVIN EZENYILI ...
    Over the last decades, the most striking changes made by the World Bank and other development institutions are their commitments to improve the quality of governance and most importantly fighting corruption and focusing more on the developing Countries. Driven by case studies that developmental deficiencies in the developing Countries are due to the crisis of governance (seeKhan, 2002); As a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The White Working Class

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Justin Gest ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Powered by original field research and survey analysis in the United States and United Kingdom, The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides a comprehensive and accessible exploration of white working-class politics and the populism that is transforming the transatlantic social and political landscape. In recent years, the world has been reintroduced to the constituency of "white ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • Development Organizations

    by Rebecca Schaaf ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Continuing debates over the meaning of development and awareness of the persistence of poverty have resulted in increasing concern over how to ‘do’ development. There are growing numbers of development organizations, undertaking different activities, at different scales, with different motivations, and differing levels of success. It is necessary to identify and evaluate these varied organizations ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

    $280.79 USD