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Globalization and Autonomy eBook Series

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  • Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy

    Insights for a Global Age

    Edited by Mario Blaser, Ravi De Costa, Deborah McGregor, William D. Coleman ...
    Series series Globalization and Autonomy
    When the UN adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, it brought the negative effect of globalization on the lives of Indigenous peoples to the centre of public debate. The contributors to this innovative collection extend the discussion by asking what can Indigenous peoples’ experiences with and thoughts on globalization tell us about the relationship between ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Indigenous in the City

    Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation

    Edited by Evelyn Peters, Chris Andersen ...
    Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, including the increased presence of Indigenous ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Real England

    The Battle Against The Bland

    by Paul Kingsnorth ...
    We see the signs around us every day: the chain caf�s and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. For the first time, here is a book that makes the connection between these isolated, incremental local changes and the bigger picture of a nation ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Judgement at Stoney Creek

    by Bridget Moran ...
    Judgement at Stoney Creek has been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central BC. The resulting inquest into what might have been just another small-town tragedy turned into an ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cherokee Astrology

    Animal Medicine in the Stars

    by Raven Hail ...
    Explains the ancient astrological system sacred to the Cherokee and how to use it in the modern world• Provides easy-to-use format for determining what signs and numbers rule the day of your birth and what influence they have on your destiny• Includes a traditional Cherokee ephemeris through 2015An essential aspect of Cherokee religion is the belief that everything on Earth is the reflection of a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mass Starvation

    The History and Future of Famine

    by Alex de Waal ...
    The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy.In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Dilemmas of Difference

    Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy

    by Sarah A. Radcliffe ...
    In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Tarahumara

    Where Night is the Day of the Moon

    by Bernard L. Fontana ...
    Inhabiting the Sierra Madre Occidental of southwestern Chihuahua in Mexico, the Tarahumara (or Rarámuri) are known in their language as the "foot runners" due to the way in which they must navigate their rugged terrain. This book offers an accessible ethnography of their history, customs, and current life, accompanied by photographs that offer striking images of these gentle people.The subtitle of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Globalization and Race

    Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness

    Edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke, Deborah A. Thomas ...
    Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of essays explores the changing meanings of blackness in the context of globalization. It illuminates the connections between ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Nice Work If You Can Get It

    Life and Labor in Precarious Times

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Series Book 8 - NYU Series in Social & Cultural Analysis
    2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA survey into an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven global developmentIs job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that—a dream?In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys the new ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Washington Consensus Reconsidered

    Towards a New Global Governance

    Edited by Narcís Serra, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue
    This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus. Covering a wide range of issues from macro-stabilization to trade and the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game

    At the Center of Ceremony and Identity

    by Michael J. Zogry ...
    Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it lasted so long, surviving through centuries of upheaval and change?Based on his work in the field and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD