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    Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy

    Series series Routledge African Studies
    European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting Africa’s indigenous knowledge, and seeks to recover some of the sites where Africans continue to ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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    The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900

    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of ... Leer más

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  • Unholy Trinity

    The IMF, World Bank and WTO

    de Richard Peet ...
    Who really runs the global economy? Who benefits most from it?The answer is a triad of 'governance institutions' - The IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. Globalization massively increased the power of these institutions and they drastically affected the livelihoods of peoples across the world. Yet they operate undemocratically and aggressively promote a particular kind of neoliberal capitalism. ... Leer más

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  • State of Rebellion

    Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

    Series series African Arguments
    Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins.In this first comprehensive account of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far – ... Leer más

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  • Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development eBook

    de Ian Scoones ...
    Series Libro 4 - Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies
    The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • African Literary NGOs

    Power, Politics, and Participation

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Proposing the novel concept of the "literary NGO," this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their professional activities and the cultural funding sector to make an original contribution to African literary criticism and cultural studies. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The State of the World Atlas

    de Dan Smith ...
    Series series The Earthscan Atlas
    Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political, social, economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night.The world's car population has grown five times as fast as the human population over the last 50 years.Wal-Mart's sales revenue exceeds the GDP of 150 countries.Climate change may put 2.7 billion at ... Leer más

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  • Land and Sustainable Development in Africa

    Edición de Kojo Sebastian Amanor, Sam Moyo ...
    This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa. Featuring chapters and in-depth case studies on South Africa and Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Botswana and West Africa, it traces the development of ideas about sustainable development and addresses a new agenda based on social justice.The authors critically examine contemporary ... Leer más

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  • Postcolonial Automobility

    Car Culture in West Africa

    For more than a century cars have symbolized autonomous, unfettered mobility and an increasingly global experience. And yet, they are often used differently outside the centers of global capitalism. This pioneering book considers how, through the lens of the automobile, we can assess the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in West Africa. Through new and provocative readings of ... Leer más

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  • African City Textualities

    Edición de Ranka Primorac ...
    The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural productions which participate in modernity and its dynamics of global flows and exchanges. This volume merges the concerns of urban, literary and ... Leer más

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  • Globalization and Development Volume II

    Country experiences

    Edición de Shigeru Thomas Otsubo ...
    Globalization and Development is a "cross-national study" on the "interstate dispersion" of the impacts (on growth, inequality and poverty) that international economic integration provides to the economies of the developing countries. In order to present the "Leading Issues in Development with Globalization" in a balanced manner, to identify differences and commonalities among "Country Experiences ... Leer más

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  • Chronic Poverty

    Concepts, Causes and Policy

    Edición de A. Shepherd, J. Brunt ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importance of assets and vulnerability, and conflict, and new thinking about the close relationship between social exclusion and adverse incorporation. ... Leer más

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