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  • Migration, Globalization, and the State

    Edited by R. Brickner ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Drawing evidence from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the contributors illustrate that even within the common framework of economic globalization, the ways in which the interests of state actors and the agency of migrants intersects continuously shapes and reshapes both home and destination societies. ... Read more

    $49.49 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Challenge for Africa

    by Wangari Maathai ...
    In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed by the media in extreme terms connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Wangari Maathai, the author of Unbowed, sees things differently, and here she argues for a moral revolution among Africans ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Globalization and the Decolonial Option

    Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Arturo Escobar ...
    This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Understanding Globalization

    The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change

    by Robert K. Schaeffer ...
    Understanding Globalization introduces students to the concept of globalization, providing an essential history, overview of key themes and theories, and a wealth of engaging examples. The fifth edition has been completely revised to connect with students today, opening with a discussion of the far-reaching causes and effects of the recent financial crisis and including new material on global ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Why Cooperate?

    The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

    by Scott Barrett ...
    Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that these global public goods are provided? Scott Barrett provides a thought provoking and accessible ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Capitalism in the Age of Globalization

    The Management of Contemporary Society

    by Samir Amin ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following the collapse of the Soviet model, and the apparent triumph of the market and globalization.Amin's ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Globalization and Development in East Asia

    Edited by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Jongtae Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies
    East Asia is widely regarded as the main "winner" in contemporary globalization, unscathed by the economic crisis of 2008, with its leading new industrializing nations and emerging economies. While 20th-century globalization was mainly led by the West, the 21st century is ushering in different dynamics. The re-emergence of Asia involves alternative visions of the world and different perspectives ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Global Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage

    A Neo-Institutional Approach

    Edited by Bronwyn Winter, Maxime Forest, Réjane Sénac ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of—or refusal to adopt—same-sex marriage laws. The now twenty-one countries where lesbians and gay men can legally marry include recent or longstanding democracies, republics and parliamentary monarchies, and unitary and federal states. They all reflect different positions with respect ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • African Transnational Diasporas

    Fractured Communities and Plural Identities of Zimbabweans in Britain

    by D. Pasura ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Bottom-Up Politics

    An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalization

    Edited by D. Kostovicova, M. Glasius ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or beneficiaries of globalization. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Global Frontiers of Social Development in Theory and Practice

    Climate, Economy, and Justice

    Edited by B. Mohan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume examines developmentality and the archeology of its social practices, unfolding systemic failures that muffle progress. Economic, climate, and social justice are the areas of focus for this analysis of human-social development in the fog of ideological-institutional meltdowns. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD