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  • Development and Social Change

    A Global Perspective

    by Philip McMichael, Heloise Weber ...
    Development and Social Change explores the historical, socio-political, and ecological aspects of development. The Eighth Edition critically engages with the concept of development, tracing its roots and examining its implications in the contemporary world. Authors Philip McMichael and Heloise Weber use case studies and examples to help describe a complex world in transition. Students are ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Finance or Food?

    The Role of Cultures, Values, and Ethics in Land Use Negotiations

    Edited by Hilde Bjorkhaug, Philip McMichael, Bruce Muirhead ...
    Exploring the ways in which culture, systems of value, and ethics impact agriculture, this volume addresses contemporary land questions and conditions for agricultural land management. Throughout, the editors and contributors consider a range of issues, including pressure on farmland, international and global trade relations, moral and ethical questions, and implications for governance.The focus ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

    Edited by Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones, Saturnino Borras Jr. ...
    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what? Who does what? Who gets what? And what do they do with the surplus wealth? It also addresses the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Contesting Development

    Critical Struggles for Social Change

    Edited by Philip McMichael ...
    At a time when the development promise is increasingly in question, with dwindling social gains, the vision of modernity is losing its legitimacy and coherence. This moment is observable through the lens of critical struggles of those who experience disempowerment, displacement and development contradictions.In this book, case studies serve as an effective means of teaching key concepts and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions eBook

    by Philip McMichael ...
    Series Book 3 - Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies
    Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions extends the original conception of the food regime, formulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, detailing new dimensions of the succession of imperial, intensive and corporate food regimes. Developing the methodological contributions of food regime analysis, McMichael re-examines the agrarian question historically and its present-day implications. He ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

    by Karen Bakker ...
    Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated—and contested—in large cities ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Canada after Harper

    His ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can now work to create the country we want

    by Ed Finn ...
    Most Canadians know that Stephen Harper has had a tremendous impact on the country since becoming prime minister in 2006. But few have the in-depth knowledge of how far his transformation has gone -- what has already been done, and what the consequences will be in the future.This book brings together Canadian experts in a wide variety of areas. They document key changes put in place by the Harper ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Paths to a Green World, second edition

    The Political Economy of the Global Environment

    by Jennifer Clapp, Peter Dauvergne ...
    A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes.This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • From Poverty to Power

    by Duncan Green ...
    This new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes a new chapter with an in-depth analysis of the human impact of the global financial and food crises. From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Future of Development

    A Radical Manifesto

    by Gustavo Esteva, Salvatore J. Babones, Philipp Babcicky ...
    On January 20, 1949 US President Harry S. Truman officially opened the era of development. On that day, over one half of the people of the world were defined as "underdeveloped" and they have stayed that way ever since. This book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and shows how poorly we understand these two terms. It offers a new vision for development, demystifying the ... Read more

    $32.39 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

  • Regime of Obstruction

    How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy

    Edited by William K. Carroll ...
    Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding, but effective action.Regime of Obstruction aims to make visible the complex connections between corporate power and the extraction and use of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD