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Political Change and Underdevelopment: A Critical Introduction to Third World Politics
ISBN: 9780333698037 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This clearly-written and comprehensive introductory text provides a critical review of the principal theoretical approaches to the study of Third World politics in the second half of the twentieth century. Arguments are illustrated by examples drawn from a wide and diverse range of regions and countries. All chapters have been extensively amended and updated for this substantially revised edition to include such developments as the debt crisis and democratisation, and a new chapter has been added on the impact of globalisation on the postcolonial world.
This clearly-written and comprehensive introductory text provides a critical review of the principal theoretical approaches to the study of Third Worl...
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Democratization in the Third World: Concrete Cases in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective
ISBN: 9780333717295 / Angielski / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democratization in the Third World addresses many current issues of development, democratization and civil society in countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America against the background of theoretical introductions and comparisons with the Swedish historical experience of democratisations. The authors, from seven different continents, examine civil society and its relation to the state throughout the world and assess prospects for sustainable democratization.
Democratization in the Third World addresses many current issues of development, democratization and civil society in countries in Asia, Africa and La...
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Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications: Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa
ISBN: 9780415501026 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin, including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines. The African Group of countries has been in the forefront of countries agitating in the World Trade Organization TRIPS Council for the extension of this special protection and of the multilateral register to industries which are of interest to developing countries, primarily agriculture. The so-called "extension...
The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product ...
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Feeding India: Livelihoods, Entitlements and Capabilities
ISBN: 9780415529679 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. Not only does India account for approximately one quarter of the world's under-nourished persons, it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic growth may not provide an assumed panacea to food security. This book takes on this challenge. It explains how India's chronic food security problem is a function of a distinctive interaction of economic, political and environmental processes. It contends that under-nutrition and hunger are lagging...
Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. Not o...
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Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World: A Regional Perspective
ISBN: 9780415776226 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World is the first book of its kind to synthesize global and regional issues, challenges, and practices related to cultural heritage and tourism, specifically in less-developed nations. The importance of preservation and management of cultural heritage has been realized as an increasing number of tourists are visiting heritage attractions. Although many of the issues and challenges developing countries face in terms of heritage management are quite different from those in the developed world, there is a lack of consolidated research... Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World is the first book of its kind to synthesize global and regional issues, challenges, ... |
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Social Capital in Developing Democracies: Nicaragua and Argentina Compared
ISBN: 9780521140843 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. Anderson s Social Capital in Developing Democracies explores the contribution of social capital to the process of democratization and the limits of that contribution. Anderson finds that in Nicaragua strong, positive, bridging social capital has enhanced democratization, while in Argentina the legacy of Peronism has created bonding and non-democratic social capital that perpetually undermines the development of democracy. Faced with the reality of an anti-democratic form of social...
Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. Anderson s Social Capital in Developin...
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Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society
ISBN: 9780521713771 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The remarkable story of Bangladesh, which is becoming of increasing interest to the international community.
The remarkable story of Bangladesh, which is becoming of increasing interest to the international community.
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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
ISBN: 9780691150451 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its... How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, A... |
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Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa
ISBN: 9780739176146 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa is organized into three sections or parts, the first focusing on the past and the history of development communication scholarship; the second analyzes theoretical issues, and finally a third section that looks at country cases. The first part provides several perspectives on the historical development of the field as it pertains to Africa. Some of these look at ideological, indigenous contributions, and the particular importance of gender issues. The second section provides a critique of development communication theory and provides a more...
Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa is organized into three sections or parts, the first focusing on the past and the history of developm...
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Disaster Management in Australia: Government Coordination in a Time of Crisis
ISBN: 9781138049123 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Selective Feeding Programmes
ISBN: 9780855980979 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive manual for use in treating different degrees of malnutrition in emergency situations, this book continues to be an important reference for emergency planners and field-workers.
A comprehensive manual for use in treating different degrees of malnutrition in emergency situations, this book continues to be an important reference...
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Food Scarcity and Famine: Assessment and Response
ISBN: 9780855981457 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a detailed guide to the accurate assessment of the nutritional needs of populations suffering from the effects of food scarcity and famine.
This is a detailed guide to the accurate assessment of the nutritional needs of populations suffering from the effects of food scarcity and famine.
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In the Shadow of Violence: Politics, Economics, and the Problems of Development
ISBN: 9781107684911 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations.
This book explains how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations.
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Making Globalisation
ISBN: 9781403948687 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new to the topic. It deals even-handedly with all the various dimensions of globalization--political, economic, social and cultural--and particularly draws attention to the role of people in processes of globalization. The book's historical dimension and its multicultural focus ensure that globalization is shown neither to be an inexorable process nor one that can be equated simply with Westernization.
This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new...
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Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage
ISBN: 9781405192811 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism.
Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politic...
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Social Change : Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present
ISBN: 9781612053288 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Stone Age to the Internet Age, this book tells the story of human sociocultural evolution. It describes the conditions under which hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists, agricultural states, and industrial capitalist societies formed, flourished, and declined. Drawing evidence from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, historical documents, statistics, and survey research, the authors trace the growth of human societies and their complexity, and they probe the conflicts in hierarchies both within and among societies. They also explain the macro-micro links that connect cultural...
From the Stone Age to the Internet Age, this book tells the story of human sociocultural evolution. It describes the conditions under which hunter-gat...
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Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
ISBN: 9781780323091 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury...
From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans, Chocolate Nations reveals the hard economic realities of our favourite sweet. This vivid and gripping exploration of the reasons behind farmer poverty includes the human stories of the producers and traders at the heart of the West African industry. Orla Ryan shows that only a tiny fraction of the cash we pay for a chocolate bar actually... Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of lux...
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Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability
ISBN: 9781842775554 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Development is a process, Amartya Sen famously noted, of 'expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy'. But freedoms depend upon on political and civil rights, or more properly a corpus of rights capable of removing such unfreedoms as tyranny, exclusion and neglect. Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability is the first study to seriously explore how the poor claim, contest and secure rights and how the rights of the powerful are deployed to defend their privileges and to control resources and access to power. Drawing upon exemplary case studies - spanning the globe from Mexico...
'Development is a process, Amartya Sen famously noted, of 'expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy'. But freedoms depend upon on political and c...
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Relationships for Aid
ISBN: 9781844072804 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International aid is about much more than money. The UN Millennium Development Goals and major events like Live 8 have focused the world spotlight on issues of poverty relief and aid like never before, but have not concentrated on the quality of relationships that can make aid succeed or fail. This book, authored by an internationally renowned group of aid practitioners, reveals the contradictions and challenges involved in forging these relationships. International development organizations combine the unbridled play of power and arrogant amnesia with serious and innovative efforts to create...
International aid is about much more than money. The UN Millennium Development Goals and major events like Live 8 have focused the world spotlight on ...
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Megacities: The Politics of Urban Exclusion and Violence in the Global South
ISBN: 9781848132962 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The so-called 'megacities' around the world are becoming the scene for deprivation and exclusion. This book examines world-wide trends in poverty and social exclusion, urban violence and politics, and links these to the challenges faced by policy-makers and practitioners in 'megacities' across the globe.
The so-called 'megacities' around the world are becoming the scene for deprivation and exclusion. This book examines world-wide trends in poverty and ...
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