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  • From Idea to Action
    Andrea Johnson / Mahbooba Waizi / TBD
    This powerful and timely book delves into the pivotal role Afghan women have played-and continue to play-in shaping the country’s social and economic future. Mahbooba Waizi blends rigorous research with her own compelling personal story, to bring to life the voices and experiences of women who, against immense odds, continue to transform their families, communities, and the nat...
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    42,20 €

  • INTELIGENCIA HUMANITARIA
    Atahualpa Campos
    La Nueva Brecha no es Digital, es CognitivaDurante las últimas tres décadas, la comunidad internacional ha invertido miles de millones de dólares y un capital político incalculable en combatir un enemigo que ya ha mutado: la brecha digital. Nos obsesionamos con los cables, con la fibra óptica, con el hardware y con la idea romántica de poner una computadora portátil en el pupit...
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    11,60 €

  • Borderland Anxieties
    Matthew Wilkinson
    Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that is emerging from decades of armed conflict. ...
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    83,14 €

  • Mapping the Digital Divide in Africa
    This collection seeks to analyze the problems and opportunities associated with the ubiquitous digital revolution, providing a cross-disciplinary examination of digital disparities inhibiting social, political and economic progress across Africa. ...
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    82,58 €

  • Integrating Strangers
    Anaïs Ménard
    Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by h...
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    26,25 €

  • Thai Girl Naked
    Noi Thawattana
    Tourists see the fantasy. Noi Thawattana lived the reality.In the neon haze of Bangkok’s nightlife, the truth is rarely unspoken. Western men arrive with 'beer goggles' and cultural ignorance, seeing only what they want to see in the go-go bars and massage parlors. They write memoirs filled with male bravado, totally missing the actual story.Until now.Noi Thawattana is a former...
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    16,52 €

  • We’re Not Supposed to Tell You
    Noi Thawattana
    The neon lights hide a cage.To the tourist, Thailand’s red-light districts look like a party. The girls are smiling, the music is loud, and the alcohol flows freely. If you ask a bargirl if she is happy, she will tell you yes. If you ask if she is forced to work, she will say no.She is lying. She has to.In We’re Not Supposed To Tell You, former insider Noi Thawattana breaks the...
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    14,49 €

  • Southernising Criminology
    This book introduces the ’southern criminology’ movement, explores its theoretical, methodological, and philosophical tools, offers analytical accounts on the development of criminological thoughts in marginalised regions, and showcases the cutting edge of criminological research from southern settings. ...
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    75,73 €

  • Development Discourse and Global History
    Aram Ziai
    Development Discourse and Global History introduces readers to the shifting ways in which people have been talking and writing about ’development’ over time, and the rules governing the conversation. ...
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    76,96 €

  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities
    Yancey Orr
    A groundbreaking follow-up to the 2012 Climate Change and Threatened Communities book, this collection revisits the 15 original case studies, offering fresh insights from the authors on their research sites as they examine parallel developments in their academic fields over the past 13 years.Through the study of human interactions in environments ranging from subarctic tundra t...
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    89,47 €

  • Rivers Unbound
    Rivers have long been the lifeblood of civilizations, shaping landscapes, sustaining livelihoods, and serving as silent witnesses to the unfolding narratives of human history. ...
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    114,03 €

  • The Indian Economy
    Ananya Ghosh Dastidar / Rajib Bhattacharyya
    This book provides a detailed structured analysis of the transition that has taken place in the Indian economy since independence to the present times (including the period of Covid-19 pandemic). ...
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    82,47 €

  • Religious Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
    Carole Rakodi
    This book explores the links between religion, states, social welfare and social change in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. ...
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    82,42 €

  • Pluriversal sovereignty and the state
    Ajay Parasram
    This book documents the political and cosmological processes through which the idea of ’total territorial rule’ came into being in the context of early- to mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Analysing ideas at the core of the modern international system, Pluriversal sovereignty and the state develops a decolonial theoretical framework informed by a ’pluriverse’ of multi...
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    44,45 €

  • Resettlement with People First
    This book puts forward powerful counterfactual case studies to assess what problems real-world development projects would likely have avoided if the project had followed a higher standard, such as the World Commission on Dams policy framework. For academic researchers, development practitioners, and policy makers. ...
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    82,57 €

  • Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice
    Bringing together young scholars from Latin America, Africa and Asia, this book addresses the intersections of gender, sexuality and social justice in relation to dominant development and policy discourses and interventions. This book will interest social scientists and activists, development scholars and practitioners across fields. ...
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    82,60 €

  • Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
    The second edition of this remarkable volume updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.The contributors to this book examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities who are forced to move or settle elsewhere to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity...
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    53,31 €

  • Women’s Empowerment, Population Dynamics, and Development
    Dennis Hodgson
    This book assumes that 'women’s empowerment' is a social movement aimed at producing political, economic and social change. It traces the changing relationship among three unprecedented trends experienced in the 'developing world' since 1950: declining levels of mortality and fertility, socioeconomic development, and women’s empowerment. It offers two policy analyses of the con...
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    64,22 €

  • Post-Development from the Global South
    Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development. The book will be an important guide for students, researchers and practitioners looking for better ways to address the desires and aspirations of marginalised communities in the Global South. ...
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    77,28 €

  • Bokwala
    Congo resident
    Step into the heart of the Congo with 'Bokwala: The Story of a Congo Victim,' a gripping narrative that has been out of print for decades and is now beautifully restored by Alpha Editions. This timeless classic, once lost to history, is a cultural treasure that offers a rare glimpse into the life and struggles of a Congo resident. 'Bokwala' is not just a story; it’s an emotiona...
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    11,62 €

  • Ubuntu Philosophy and Disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Oliver Mutanga
    This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to illuminate the voices of people with disabilities from Sub-Saharan Africa. ...
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    74,78 €

  • Constructing a Cross-Border Region in the Pacific Northwest
    Pierre-Alexandre Beylier
    For residents living at national borders, the divisions between countries are rarely black and white, and often everyday interactions contribute to the creation of a cross-border region. ...
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    82,74 €

  • Contesting Colonial Capitalism in the Americas, Africa, and Asia
    Dip Kapoor
    This book critically assesses the system of capitalist development being driven by the Global North in the modern (neo)colonial era.. An important work for students and scholars of social movement and resistance studies, critical development, indigenous, peasant, and migrant/labour studies. ...
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    76,99 €

  • Development and Disasters
    Ilan Kelman / James Lewis
    Good development could − and should − be the driving force for averting disasters by reducing vulnerability. But conversely, in many cases,development itself becomes a major cause of vulnerability and disasters. This new edition describes the complex relationship between disasters and development. ...
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    63,32 €

  • Sustaining and Scaling Up Community Managed Water
    This book examines the performance and limitations of the Community-based water management (CBWM) model through the case study of the Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP), a successful community-managed scheme that has delivered clean piped drinking water to over 450 mainly rural settlements in Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan. ...
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    53,59 €

  • Remittances and Financial Inclusion
    Vincent Guermond
    This book comprehensively explores the messy and contested relationship between everyday practices of remittance sending and receiving, processes of market making, and operations of micro- and global finance. ...
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    77,53 €

  • Multinationals, Poverty Alleviation and UK Aid
    Jo-Anna Russon
    This book analyses the relationship between the private sector, UK official development aid (ODA) and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book will interest researchers from business management, development studies and political science, as well as to practitioners with an interest in the role of the private sector in ODA. ...
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    77,13 €

  • The Boric Government in Chile
    This book analyses the victory of Gabriel Boric in Chile during the presidential elections of December 2021. Conceived from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book will interest students, scholars and practitioners, interested in the evolution of the Latin American left in general, and the Chilean left specifically. ...
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    77,48 €

  • Gender, Digitalization, and Resilience in International Development
    Anne Namatsi Lutomia / John William Medendorp / Julia Bello-Bravo
    This book explores the intersection of gender, digitization, and resilience in international development. It will be of interest to development practitioners and policy makers, as well as to researchers with specialisms in gender inclusion, resilience, digitization, and international development. ...
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    77,19 €

  • Underdevelopment in Peru
    Jan Lust
    At a time when Peru continues to reel from the impact of COVID-19 and the eruption of corruption scandals involving five former presidents, this book analyses the persistence and the structural underpinnings of underdevelopment in Peru. ...
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    77,36 €


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