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Reclaiming Development Studies

Author : Murat Arsel

Publisher : Anthem Press

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 43,14 MB

Release : 2021-06-08

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 178527998X

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The mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly challenged from various fronts such as decoloniality, ‘global development’ and randomized control trials. The essays featured in this collection together argue for the need of the field to reclaim its critical political economy tradition. Building on the contributions of Ashwani Saith, the contributions touch upon many of the central questions of development studies centred around structural change, labour and inequality.



Reclaiming Development Studies Hb

Author : Murat Arsel

Publisher : Anthem Frontiers of Global Pol

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 48,80 MB

Release : 2021-06-08

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781785279966

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The mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly challenged from various fronts such as decoloniality, 'global development' and randomized control trials. The essays featured in this collection together argue for the need of the field to reclaim its critical political economy tradition. Building on the contributions of Ashwani Saith, the contributions touch upon many of the central questions of development studies centred around structural change, labour and inequality.



Reclaiming the Forest

Author : Åshild Kolås

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 212 pages

File Size : 49,46 MB

Release : 2015-04-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1782386319

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The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as “keepers of reindeer” as they engage in ethnic tourism and exchange experiences with their Ewenki neighbors in Russian Siberia. Though to some their future seems problematic, this book focuses on the present, challenging the pessimistic outlook, reviewing current issues, and describing the efforts of the Ewenki to reclaim their forest lifestyle and develop new forest livelihoods. Both academic and literary contributions balance the volume written by authors who are either indigenous to the region or have carried out fieldwork among the Aoluguya Ewenki since the late 1990s.



Rethinking and Unthinking Development

Author : Busani Mpofu

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 46,91 MB

Release : 2019-03-27

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1789201772

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Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.



Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods

Author : Wendy Harcourt

Publisher : Springer

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 33,27 MB

Release : 2012-04-26

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1137022345

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This volume highlights women's work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the current food, fuel and climate crises. It includes women's role in the green entrepreneurship, women's reproductive and productive work in the care economy, and a further examination of eco feminist debates.



The Dance of Nurture

Author : Penny Van Esterik

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 27,64 MB

Release : 2017-06-01

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 1785335634

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Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. Anthropology offers a powerful biocultural approach that examines how custom and culture interact to support nurturing practices. Our framework shows how the unique constitutions of mothers and infants regulate each other. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding into a holistic framework guided by the metaphor of dance. It includes a critique of efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.



Reclaiming the Discarded

Author : Kathleen M. Millar

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 222 pages

File Size : 41,7 MB

Release : 2018-01-19

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 082237207X

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In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal labor practice. Rather, the stories of catadores show how this work is inseparable from conceptions of the good life and from human struggles to realize these visions within precarious conditions of urban poverty. By approaching the work of catadores as highly generative, Millar calls into question the category of informality, common conceptions of garbage, and the continued normativity of wage labor. In so doing, she illuminates how waste lies at the heart of relations of inequality and projects of social transformation.



Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India

Author : Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Publisher : Anthem Press

Page : 333 pages

File Size : 22,43 MB

Release : 2018-02-22

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1783087498

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Over the past decade India has witnessed a number of land wars that have centred crucially on the often forcible transfer of land from small farmers or indigenous groups to private companies. Among these, the land war that erupted in Singur, West Bengal, in 2006, went on to make national headlines and become paradigmatic of many of the challenges and social conflicts that arise when a state-led policy of swiftly transferring land to private sector companies encounters resistance on the ground. Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India analyses the movement by Singur’s so-called unwilling farmers to retain and reclaim their farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the movement’s internal politics as well as on contentious issues rooted in everyday caste, class and gender relations.



Tuff City

Author : Nicholas T. Dines

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 364 pages

File Size : 10,97 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 0857452797

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During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city's cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city's historic centre through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include heritage, decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe's most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.



From Recovery to Catastrophe

Author : Ben Lieberman

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 31,4 MB

Release : 1998-09-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1789205883

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Historians of the stabilization phase of Weimar Germany tend to identify German recovery after the First World War with the struggle to revise reparations and control hyperinflation. Focusing primarily on economic aspects is not sufficient, however, the author argues; the financial burden of recovery was only one of several major causes of reaction against the republic. Drawing on material from major German cities, he is able to trace the emergence of strong local activism and of comprehensive and functional policies of recovery on the municipal level which enjoyed broad political backing. Ironically, these same programs that created consensus also contained the potential for destabilization: they unleashed intense debate over the needs of the consumersand the purpose and extent of public spending, and with that of government intervention more generally, which accelerated the fragmentation of bourgeois politics, leading to the final destruction of the Weimar Republic.