wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Liberalizing Tanzania's Food Trade: The Public and Private Faces of Urban Marketing Policy, 1939-88
ISBN: 9780852551349 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The author shows the way grain traders and households in five Tanzanian towns were affected by the Tanzanian government's decision to opt for liberalization in the trade of two staple food crops: rice and maize.
The author shows the way grain traders and households in five Tanzanian towns were affected by the Tanzanian government's decision to opt for liberali...
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131,12 zł |
The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks
ISBN: 9781859736814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Migrant networks, in the form of families, associational ties and social organizations, stretch across the globe, connecting cultures and bridging national boundaries. The effects of this global networking are vast. This book is the first to stand back and explore the impact. Families living outside of their original national boundaries have had, and continue to have, a profound influence over the flow of people, goods, money and information. More in-depth perspectives reveal how immigrants face troubling issues of cultural identity, economic change, political uncertainty and social... Migrant networks, in the form of families, associational ties and social organizations, stretch across the globe, connecting cultures and bridging ... |
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188,83 zł |
Food Insecurity and the Social Division of Labour in Tanzania,1919-85
ISBN: 9780333519387 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Most studies of famine and the African food crisis stress how the socio-economic context influences the occurrence of food shortages. By contrast, this book argues that food insecurity itself influences the social and economic organization of the society. Through this approach, the author provides a new interpretation of the causes and consequences of Tanzania's present economic crisis. The book examines the effects of changing food availability on the functioning of the state, the market and clientage networks, over the past seven decades. The conclusion is that clientage is no less...
Most studies of famine and the African food crisis stress how the socio-economic context influences the occurrence of food shortages. By contrast, thi...
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391,77 zł |
Women Wielding the Hoe: Lessons from Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Development Practice
ISBN: 9781859730683 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be applied to the rural African context? These vital issues, and many others, are considered in this topical book by eminent scholars and development consultants. The book aims to increase awareness of the importance of women agricultural producers to African material development and to expose the western biases that have traditionally pervaded the study of rural African women. The authors' critical analyses of conventional research methodology... How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be app... |
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708,33 zł |
Women Wielding the Hoe: Lessons from Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Development Practice
ISBN: 9781859730737 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be applied to the rural African context? These vital issues, and many others, are considered in this topical book by eminent scholars and development consultants. The book aims to increase awareness of the importance of women agricultural producers to African material development and to expose the western biases that have traditionally pervaded the study of rural African women. The authors' critical analyses of conventional research methodology... How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be app... |
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188,83 zł |
Mining and African Urbanisation: Population, Settlement and Welfare Trajectories
ISBN: 9780415826259 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Juxtaposing literatures on urbanisation and mining at a time when small-scale artisanal as well as large-scale mining operations are transforming many African economies, this book focuses on the interplay of Sub-Saharan Africa mining and urbanisation in the context of global shifts in capital and labour flows. Classically, urbanisation has been identified with industrial expansion, but mining is a distinct subset of industrial activity, involving artisanal and large-scale mining. Case studies of a wide variety of countries with long historical experience of large-scale mining (South... Juxtaposing literatures on urbanisation and mining at a time when small-scale artisanal as well as large-scale mining operations are transforming m... |
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760,80 zł |
Identity and Networks: Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity Across Cultures
ISBN: 9781845451615 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this wide-ranging collection of essays, mostly by social anthropologists, focuses instead on the enormous social creativity being invested as collective identities are reconfigured. Using fieldwork findings drawn from Africa, Asia, and Europe, special emphasis is placed on the reformulation of ethnic and gender relationships and identities in the cultural, social, political, and religious realms of public life. Under what circumstances does trust arise, paving the way for... Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this wide-ranging collection of essay... |
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519,44 zł |
Mining and Social Transformation in Africa: Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production
ISBN: 9780415833707 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the booming international market for minerals. Spurred by the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have been engaged in a massive search for alternative livelihoods, one of the most lucrative being artisanal mining. While an expanding literature has documented the economic expansion of artisanal mining, this book is the first to probe its societal impact, demonstrating that artisanal mining has the potential to be far more... After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the boom... |
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760,80 zł |
Identity and Networks: Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity Across Cultures
ISBN: 9781845451622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this wide-ranging collection of essays, mostly by social anthropologists, focuses instead on the enormous social creativity being invested as collective identities are reconfigured. Using fieldwork findings drawn from Africa, Asia, and Europe, special emphasis is placed on the reformulation of ethnic and gender relationships and identities in the cultural, social, political, and religious realms of public life. Under what circumstances does trust arise, paving the way for... Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this wide-ranging collection of essay... |
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146,65 zł |
The Transnational Family : New European Frontiers and Global Networks
ISBN: 9781859736760 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Migrant networks, in the form of families, associational ties and social organizations, stretch across the globe, connecting cultures and bridging national boundaries. The effects of this global networking are vast. This book is the first to stand back and explore the impact. Families living outside of their original national boundaries have had, and continue to have, a profound influence over the flow of people, goods, money and information. More in-depth perspectives reveal how immigrants face troubling issues of cultural identity, economic change, political uncertainty and social... Migrant networks, in the form of families, associational ties and social organizations, stretch across the globe, connecting cultures and bridging ... |
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708,33 zł |
Mining and Social Transformation in Africa: Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production
ISBN: 9780415709729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the booming international market for minerals. Spurred by the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have been engaged in a massive search for alternative livelihoods, one of the most lucrative being artisanal mining. While a burgeoning literature is acknowledging the spread of artisanal mining, this book is the first to probe its societal impact and potential for extending economic opportunity and participatory forms of democracy....
After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the booming...
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262,29 zł |
Farewell to Farms: De-Agrarianisation and Employment in Africa
ISBN: 9781138335509 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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550,92 zł |
Farewell to Farms: De-Agrarianisation and Employment in Africa
ISBN: 9781138335530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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173,09 zł |
Mining and African Urbanisation: Population, Settlement and Welfare Trajectories
ISBN: 9781138383289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Juxtaposing literatures on urbanisation and mining at a time when small-scale artisanal as well as large-scale mining operations are transforming many African economies, this book focuses on the interplay of Sub-Saharan Africa mining and urbanisation in the context of global shifts in capital and labour flows. Classically, urbanisation has been identified with industrial expansion, but mining is a distinct subset of industrial activity, involving artisanal and large-scale mining. Case studies of a wide variety of countries with long historical experience of large-scale mining (South...
Juxtaposing literatures on urbanisation and mining at a time when small-scale artisanal as well as large-scale mining operations are transforming many...
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251,80 zł |
African Agriculture and The World Bank: Development or Impoverishment?
ISBN: 9789171066084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. African smallholder family farming, the backbone of the continental economy throughout the colonial and early post-colonial period, has been destabilized and eroded over the past thirty years. Despite the World Bank 's poverty alleviation concerns, agrarian livelihoods continue to unravel under the impact of economic liberalization and global value chains. Can African smallholders bounce back and compete? The World Development Report 2008 argues they can and must. How realistic is this given the history of World Bank conditionality in Africa? This essay explores the productivity and welfare...
African smallholder family farming, the backbone of the continental economy throughout the colonial and early post-colonial period, has been destabili...
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66,68 zł |