The papers in this volume highlight in various ways the complex articulations of local processes and global forces in tropical forest struggles. Taken together, they show how social science research has come of age, moving beyond the crude 'tragedy of the commons' and 'prisoner's dilemma' approaches of the 1970s and early 1980s.
The papers in this volume highlight in various ways the complex articulations of local processes and global forces in tropical forest struggles. Taken...
The Politics of Possession investigates how struggles over access to resources and political power constitute property and authority recursively. Such dynamics are integral to state formation in societies characterized by normative and legal pluralism.
Includes some of the latest theoretical work on the dynamics of access and property and how they are joined to questions of power and authority
Explores how access to resources is often contested and rife with conflict, particularly in post-colonial and post-socialist countries
Offers a thought-provoking...
The Politics of Possession investigates how struggles over access to resources and political power constitute property and authority recursivel...
This collection explores the paradox of "flow" and "closure" through a series of case-studies in comparative perspective. The central theme of flow and closure is explored as well as sections on nationalism and transnationalism, and commodities and fantasi
This collection explores the paradox of "flow" and "closure" through a series of case-studies in comparative perspective. The central theme of flow an...
Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus.
Offers the first global, regionally diverse study of the -invisible economy- of care, including case studies from diverse regional contexts of Africa, Asia and Latin America Frames the debate on care and highlights policy experimentation and ideas currently in flux Includes new research and data on developing countries, showing how, where care options for the socially disadvantaged are limited, failing to socialize the costs of care...
Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus....
This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance.
Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governance
Offers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of global land acquisitions
Illuminates both the micro-processes of transaction and expropriation, as well as the broader structural forces at play in global land...
This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global...
Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful 'new beginnings' were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order.
Offers a new perspective on transition and justice in Africa transcending the institutional limits of transitional justice
Covers a wide range of situations, and presents a broad range of sites where past injustices are addressed
Examines cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' have been declared after...
Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful 'new beginnings' were declared after periods...
