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Rethinking Globalizations eBook Series

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  • Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia

    The Social Production of Civic Spaces

    Edited by Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho, Giok Ling Ooi ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia presents a detailed examination of the underlying issues of urban life in the Far East.Leading authorities on globalization and politics in the region cover key themes of continuity and change:relationships between civil society and the production of urban spaces. Chapters focus on various types of ‘civic spaces’ that provide spaces for ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature

    What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Our Planet

    by Martin Teitel, Ph.D., Kimberly A. Wilson ...
    • The book that takes a comprehensive look at the threat to our food supply from genetic engineering.• 15,000 copies sold in the first six months.• Includes new studies about the dangers of genetically engineered food.• Refutes the "feed the poor" propaganda spread by agribusinesses.• Is both an expose and educational primer on this controversial technology that is already a part of every American ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Price of Thirst

    Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos

    by Karen Piper ...
    “There's Money in Thirst,” reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so “we're all aware that it has a price.” But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Politics of Global Supply Chains

    by Kate MacDonald ...
    The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and distribution within contemporary global supply chains. Drawing on over 300 interviews with farmers, workers, activists, businesses and government officials in garment and coffee sector supply chains, the book shows how the increased involvement of non-state actors in supply chain governance is re-shaping established ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization

    Edited by Kim Scipes ...
    This anthology explores the international labor movements building worker solidarity across the Global South.Since the 1980s, the world's working class has been under continual assault by the forces of neoliberalism and imperialism. In response, new labor movements have emerged all over the world—from Brazil and South Africa to Indonesia and Pakistan.Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs

    by Irene Bruna Seu, Shani Orgad ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering. The book highlights what NGOs seek to achieve in their communications and explores how their approach and hopes match or don’t match what the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Language and Literacy in Refugee Families

    by Chatwara Suwannamai Duran ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the agreements and discrepancies between public understanding and assumptions about refugees, and the actual beliefs and practices among the refugees themselves in a time of increasing mobility fuelled by what many call 'refugee crisis’. With a focus on language and literacy practices among recently-arrived Karenni refugee families in the United States, this book explores the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The 1975 Referendum on Europe - Volume 2

    Current Analysis and Lessons for the Future

    by Mark Baimbridge ...
    Series Book 2 - The 1975 Referendum on Europe
    Provides an analysis of the relationship between the UK and the EU, treating the key overarching issues in the 1975 referendum and looking ahead to the prospect (eventually) of further referendums on the subjects of EMU and a European constitution. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance

    The Private-Public Policy Nexus in the Global Agora

    by D. Stone ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Diane Stone addresses the network alliances or partnerships of international organisations with knowledge organisations and networks. Moving beyond more common studies of industrial public-private partnerships, she addresses how, and why, international organisations and global policy actors need to incorporate ideas, expertise and scientific opinion into their 'global programmes'. Rather than ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Global Insurrectional Politics

    Edited by Nevzat Soguk ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    The recent Arab uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East have attracted scholarly attention as popular movements with novel transnational and religious dimensions. What became known as the Arab Spring can be read as part of a broader politics of normative defiance of predominant political and economic orders. From religious militations, to Indigenous sovereign claims, to mobilizations of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Irregular Migration from the Former Soviet Union to the United States

    by Saltanat Liebert ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
    This book is the first in English to examine irregular migration from post-Soviet states, focusing in particular on migration to the United States. Due to globalization and the end of the Cold War, citizens of the former Soviet Union are on the move as never before. The political, economic, and social changes that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in widespread poverty and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Global South to the Rescue

    Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries

    Edited by Paul Amar ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of an epochal shift in global order – the fact that global-south countries have taken up leadership roles in peacekeeping missions, humanitarian interventions, and transnational military industries: Brazil has taken charge of the UN military mission in Haiti; Nigeria has deployed peacekeeping troops throughout West Africa; Indonesians have ... Read more

    $80.99 USD