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  • State and Statehood in the Global South

    Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies

    Edited by Miriam Fahimi, Elmar Flatschart, Wolfram Schaffar ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on critical approaches to the state and state theory in the Global South. In light of the reemergence of the post-colonial and peripheral state as a crucial institution and actor in the 21st century’s capitalist world-system, the book examines the nature, functions and development dynamics of the state in the periphery, as well as its constituting interests and struggles. Drawing ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

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    How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became ... Read more

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  • Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

    by Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson ...
    Series series a Social Text book
    Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various ... Read more

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    This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. Scholars have long held that the postwar stability of Western Europe reveals that restricted democracy, or "democratic elitism," is the only realistic way to guard against forces such as the mass mobilizations ... Read more

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  • Education and Neoliberal Globalization

    by Carlos Alberto Torres ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world. The first section of the book offers analytical avenues to understand and criticize the practices and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Consumers And Citizens

    Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts

    by Nestor Garcia Canclini ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the Americas
    An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.In Consumers and Citizens, Néstor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of ... Read more

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  • Feminist International

    How to Change Everything

    by Veronica Gago ...
    Translated by Liz Mason-Deese ...
    Leader of Latin America’s powerful new women’s movement rethinks the meaning of feminist politicsRecent years have seen massive feminist mobilizations in virtually every continent, overturning social mores and repressive legislation. In this brilliant and original look at the emerging feminist international, Verónica Gago explores how the women’s strike, as both a concept and collective experience ... Read more

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  • Theories of Development

    Capitalism, Colonialism and Dependency

    by Jorge Larrain ...
    This is a new introductory text providing an up-to-date account of leading theories of development. The book includes a discussion of classical accounts of development, particularly that of Marx, but also considers current debates on the issue. Theories of imperialism, neo-imperialism, dependency, world systems theory and other conceptions are all given full and balanced consideration. A feature ... Read more

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  • Urban Ethics as Research Agenda

    Outlooks and Tensions on Multidisciplinary Debates

    Edited by Raúl Acosta, Eveline Dürr, Moritz Ege, Ursula Prutsch, Clemens van Loyen, Gordon M. Winder ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    This book provides an outline for a multidisciplinary research agenda into urban ethics and offers insights into the various ways urban ethics can be configured. It explores practices and discourses through which individuals, collectives and institutions determine which developments and projects may be favourable for dwellers and visitors traversing cities.Urban Ethics as Research Agenda widens ... Read more

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  • The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy

    Empirical Research and Normative Implications

    by Jürg Steiner ...
    Deliberative democracy is now an influential approach to the study of democracy and political behaviour. Its key proposition is that, in politics, it is not only power that counts, but good discussions and arguments too. This book examines the interplay between the normative and empirical aspects of the deliberative model of democracy. Jürg Steiner presents the main normative controversies in the ... Read more

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  • Exploring Post-Development

    Theory and Practice, Problems and Perspectives

    by Aram Ziai ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Tackling issues surrounding post-development which is arguably one of the most significant debates in the field of north-south relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of post-development theory and practice drawing on empirical studies of movements and communities in several continents. ... Read more

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  • Critical Reflections on the Language of Neoliberalism in Education

    Dangerous Words and Discourses of Possibility

    Edited by Spyros Themelis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
    Recognizing the dominance of neoliberal forces in education, this volume offers a range of critical essays which analyze the language used to underpin these dynamics.Combining essays from over 20 internationally renowned contributors, this text offers a critical examination of key terms which have become increasingly central to educational discourse. Each essay considers the etymological ... Read more

    $57.99 USD