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80:20
An education resource by an international groups of authors to provide an accessible overview of development and human rights issues
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A glance in the rear view mirror
An introductory guide to the neo-liberal ideology of the global 1%. Perfect for those of us without economics degrees.
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A revolutionary for our time
Rodney’s immensely creative and original use of Marxism was both a challenge to radical understandings of development and colonialisation but also faithful to a certain framework of analysis in the period he lived.
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Accelerating the globalization of america
Information technology (IT) was key to the superior overall macroeconomic performance of the United States in the 1990s—high productivity, high growth, low inflation, and low unemployment. But IT also played a role in increasing earnings dispersion in the labor market—greatly rewarding workers wi...
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Adicto a la guerra
A hard-hitting illustrated expose of the world's most powerful and destructive military.
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African struggles today
This groundbreaking analysis examines the gains, contradictions, and frustrations of twenty-first century prodemocracy struggles across Southern Africa
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After europe
A impassioned defense of the European Union and a concise analysis of its present challenges and futureIn this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union—and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the ris...
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After fukushima
In an era of catastrophes natural and man-made, a great French philosopher ponders human responsibility. Exclusive to this English edition are two interviews with the author.
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Against empire
Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how the conversion to a global economy is a victo...
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All politics is global
Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But in All Politics Is Global, Daniel Drezner ar...
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Asia's new multilateralism
Traditionally, stability in Asia has relied on America's bilateral alliances with Japan, Australia, and the Republic of Korea. Yet in recent years, emergent and more active multilateral forumssuch as the Six-Party Talks on North Korea and the East Asia Summithave taken precedence, engendering b...
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Aspiring to be global
This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. It explores the contingencies and tensions in the creation of a ‘global village’ and reveals ambivalent struggles inher...
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Azadi
From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and pressing dispatch from the heart of the crowd and the solitude of the writer’s desk.
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Bananeras
Women banana workersbananerasare waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing.
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Because we say so
Concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global crisis, from cyberwar and surveillance to the increasing urgency of climate change.
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Becoming inclusive
This book explores the need for leaders to foster inclusion in diverse environments. Drawing from Dr. Helen Fagan's personal journey, the book examines systemic bias and offers strategies for leaders to overcome personal barriers. It emphasizes transforming mindsets from tribal to global to addre...
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Blood of extraction
Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a r...
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Border and rule
An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.
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Border patrol nation
Fast-paced frontline reporting and analysis on the militaristic spread of US Border Patrol and the long-term consequences for free society.
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Brics
A critical examination of the contradictory rise to power of emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
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Broken solidarities
Felix Anderl’s book is a stimulating analysis of the decline of social movements against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule. Reflecting on the transnational mobilizations of the 1990s, the book examines activists’ struggles to sustain their momentum. It shows how the ...
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Building global labor solidarity in a time of accelerating globalization
Uniting the global North and South in the struggle for a more just world for all workers.
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Canada alone
With the MAGA power back in the White House, the West will likely fracture under the stresses of a reinvigorated America First policy and the abandonment of American global leadership. This would leave Canadians all alone in North America with an increasingly dysfunctional United States.
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Canada and the challenges of international development and globalization
A multi-disciplinary and multi-voiced undergraduate textbook linking international development and international studies in a context of globalization, extending to trade, investment, immigration, peacekeeping and combat military interventions, international organizations and people-to-people links.
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Child labour in the global human rights regime
Child Labour in the Global Human Rights Regime is about children’s rights, labour and slavery in modern and modernizing societies in the context of what has been summarized as a well-established and increasingly sophisticated framework of treaties, institutions, networks and ambitious standards w...
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China – central and eastern europe cross-cultural dialogue
?The spiral of global dependency created by China calls for a comparative approach that draws upon local perspectives in every region of the world. The contributors to this volume analyze the similarities and relations between China and Central and Eastern European countries. These articles demon...
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Collaborative projects
Projects’ shape nearly every aspect of our lives, and yet this concept is rarely examined. This book changes that.
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Common goods
In the face of globalized ecological and economic crisis, what role does political theology play in formulating the shared good and the sharing of goods? This remarkable collection of essays by philosophers, theologians and religion scholars together rethinks the common, experimentally assemblin...
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Competition in world politics
The “return of great power competition” among (among others) the United States, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. This cutting-edge edited collection offers a fresh account of competition in world politics, looking beyond its military dimensions to questions...
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Constructing realities
Considering recent developments and ongoing processes such as globalisation, immigration and multiculturalism, this book critically examines contemporary theoretical narratives around English national identity as mediated by place and experience.
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Contestatory and creative poetics for a time of climate catastrophe
This volume is a collaborative work of ficto-critical ecopolitics written by two Australian scholar-poets based in the Western Australian Wheatlands (John Kinsella) and Germany’s south-western Württemberg (Russell West-Pavlov).
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Contested home
Through ethnographic research with asylum-seekers at a church-based refugee program in Basel, Switzerland, Katherine Kunz explores the role of government, church, volunteers, and refugees in defining belonging.
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Creative resistance
During the uprisings of the Arab Spring, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of sociopolitical conditions. This comprehensive study of political humor in the uprisings explores the varieties and functions of humor as a creative t...
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Crises and popular dissent
A timely and updated second edition, this version of Crises and Popular Dissent moves on from a focus on the causes of populism to a wider analysis of the global struggle between liberal democracy and authoritarianism, including the continuing impact of populism.
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Crisis of capitalism
Taking capitalism as a world system for his starting point, Vasapollo illustrates our economic system's contradictions and tendency toward crisis.
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Crusading for globalization
The first book to shed light on what caused corporate executives to pursue a pro-globalization agenda over the last eight decadesCrusading for Globalization tells the story of an extraordinarily influential group of business executives at the helms of the largest US multinational corporations and...
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Dark commerce
A comprehensive look at the world of illicit tradeIn the past three decades, technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in legitimate and illegal economies. The most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and operate as if on steroids, tied to computers ...
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Darkness by design
An exposé of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, ...
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Deglobalization
Edward Ashbee guides the reader through the intricate web of processes and forces of globalization that have shaped the world’s politics and economics over the last 40 years. This is an invaluable overview of one of the most important phenomena of our age.
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Democracy and prosperity
A groundbreaking historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each otherIt is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism. Torben Iversen and David Soskice arg...
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Democratic and authoritarian political systems in 21st century world society
This book defines structural core characteristics of modern policy, such as the political inclusion of everyone as a reaction to individualism; the complexity of polities arising from internal differentiation; and the increasing political decision-making handed to experts and autonomous organizat...
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This issue discusses theoretical and artistic investigations of citizen engagement, digital citizenship, and grassroots information politics. Articles reflect on the role of the digital citizen.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This issue of Digital Culture & Society addresses the ideological and political aspects of metadata practices within image collections from an interdisciplinary perspective. The overall aim is to consider the implications, tensions, and challenges involved in the creation of metadata in terms...
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This double issue addresses the complex thematic field of the dialectics of play and labor. It takes a closer look at the problem of play and work from two overlapping perspectives: laborious play and playful work.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
Digital Culture & Society is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for inquiries into digital media theory, methodologies, and socio-technologica...
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This double issue addresses the complex thematic field of play and labor dialectics. The articles take a closer look at the problem of play and work from two overlapping perspectives: laborious play and playful work.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
»Digital Culture & Society« is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for critical analysis and inquiries into digital media theory and provides a...
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Drug war capitalism
Drug wars are good business.
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Dying for an iphone
A harrowing look at the lives and struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers confronting the Apple-Foxconn empire and the Chinese state.
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Early language learning in context
This book critically analyzes early school foreign language teaching policy and practice across six geographical contexts. Criticizing the worldwide trend for a focus on English, it argues for a broader perspective that values multilingualism and knowledge of regional and indigenous languages alo...
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