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  • Acces A L’Eau Pour Les Agricultrices Saheliennes. Enjeux Pour Une Democratie Inclusive
    This collective work was conducted within the context of the research project entitled 'Effectiveness of women’s economic rights: the case of access to water for agricultural use in Mauritania, Niger and Senegal'. Initiated by the African Network for Integrated Development (RADI) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), it aims to explain the origins, manifesta...
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    46,05 €

  • PEOPLE’S LIVELIHOOD IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
    PEILIN LI
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    118,04 €

  • Studies in Urbanormativity
    The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways...
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    157,91 €

  • New Lithuania in Old Hands
    Ida Harboe Knudsen
    ‘New Lithuania in Old Hands’ examines the impact Lithuania’s EU membership has had upon the country’s ageing small-scale farmers. ...
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    57,62 €

  • Global Villages
    ’Global Villages: Rural and Urban Transformations in Contemporary Bulgaria’ aims to broaden the study of globalization from urban to rural contexts, exploring its effects through case studies from postsocialist Bulgaria. ...
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    142,36 €

  • Prosperity’s Predicament
    Christina Kelley Gilmartin / Isabel Brown Crook
    This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China’s rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate and detailed research in a Sichuan village that Isabel Crook began in 1940, the book provides an unprecedented history of Chin...
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    160,34 €

  • Township Governance and Institutionalization in China
    Shukai Zhao
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    165,36 €

  • Asian Women from Different Perspectives
    VRahiminezhad &Kh Salehi ZArzjani
    With the entrance of women to different areas of academic, education, industry and even military forces, their status has changed in the society. That is why along with their maternal and motherhood roles, they have faced with social roles as well. These changes have persuaded scholars to start investigation over women’s problem with scientific outlook by avoiding bias observat...
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    21,37 €

  • Critical Rural Theory
    Alexander R. Thomas / Alexander RThomas / Brian Lowe / Greg Fulkerson
    Critical Rural Theory is an attempt to bring together the concepts of structure, space, and culture in order to explain the relationship between rural communities and urban society. The overarching theme revolves around the many ways-structural, spatial, and cultural-in which urban systems create and maintain a hegemonic relationship with rural areas and people. Central to thi...
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    63,98 €

  • African Pearls and Poisons
    Leo Louis Jacques
    'If you desire an exhilarating read of a family’s life during Idi Amin’s savage reign, then this book’s for you.' Doug Abraham, Writer & Columnist. 'The Jacques Family’s unique Safaris passed through some of the most beautiful - often life threatening - landscapes and situations on earth, and survived. Enjoy!' MacDonald Coleman, Author. 'Leo invites you into a world that has th...
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    27,36 €

  • Sex, Gender, Power in the Public House
    Michael Smith
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    25,10 €

  • Life in an English Village
    Maud F Davies
    Reprint of classic social history of Corsley, Wiltshire, first published 1909, reset and with new introduction about the life, work and death of the author, a pioneer sociologist. The book caused controversy when first published, because villagers whom she criticised without naming could identify themselves, and there were attempts to have it withdrawn. The furore may have cont...
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    24,08 €

  • Human Rights and the Third World
    Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World: 1. Whether al...
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    179,54 €

  • Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories
    Jill DeTemple
    Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of contemporary Latin America. Using historical, documentary, and ethnographic data collected over more than a decade as an aid worker and as a researcher in central Ecuador, Jill DeTemple examines the forces that have led to this entang...
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    57,24 €

  • Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan - Pioneer of Microcredit & Guru of Rural Development
    Nasim Yousaf
    Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan - Pioneer of Microcredit & Guru of Rural Development is a collection of ten articles and two poems on Dr. A.H. Khan - a world renowned social scientist and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Dr. Khan was a guru of rural development, pioneer of microfinance and recipient of many prestigious awards. He led the way in rural development and poverty alleviation. Dr. A...
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    25,04 €

  • Rural Cooperation. In The Cooperative Movement in Tanzania
    Francis Fanuel Lyimo
    ’No person, no country in the world, irrespective of its stage of development, is fully self-sufficient. Cooperation brings together peoples and nations and facilitates peaceful co-existence.’ So begins Rural Cooperation In The Cooperative Movement In Tanzania, what will undoubtedly be seen as a seminal work in the field. The author has lectured a course on Rural Cooperation in...
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    51,34 €

  • Gender and Plantation Labour in Africa. The Story of Tea Pluckers’ Struggles in Cameroon
    Piet Konings
    This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa. Such a study is the more opportune because most of the existing works on plantation labour in Africa seem to have either under-studied or even ignored the changing conceptions of gender on the continent in recent times. One of the book’s major concerns is to demonstrate that the introduction of ...
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    67,28 €

  • Blue Ridge Folklife
    Ted Olson
    An appreciation of the rich and distinctive folklife in one of the earliest settled regions in southern AppalachiaIn the years immediately preceding the founding of the American nation the Blue Ridge region, which stretches through large sections of Virginia and North Carolina and parts of surrounding states along the Appalachian chain, was the American frontier. In colonial ti...
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    50,23 €

  • Nothing to Tell
    Donna Gray
    Sitting at the kitchen tables of twelve women in their eighties who were born in or immigrated to Montana in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, between 1982 and 1988 oral historian Donna Gray conducted interviews that reveal a rich heritage. This collection of oral histories captures each woman’s unique voice, phrases, and accent, as she humbly shares her remarkabl...
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    16,32 €

  • New Lithuania in Old Hands
    Harboe Knudsen / Ida Harboe Knudsen
    ‘New Lithuania in Old Hands’ examines the impact Lithuania’s EU membership has had upon the country’s ageing small-scale farmers. ...
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    142,42 €

  • Organizing Rural China - Rural China Organizing
    During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world’s largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signaled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization, marketization and increased geographical mobility started tearing apart the...
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    141,54 €

  • From the Ground Up
    Aceh during the 2004 tsunami was a war-zone, with Indonesia’s military engaged in a major operation to crush a separatist rebellion that had been simmering since 1976. Even though the funds had been donated for tsunami relief, any real reconstruction of Aceh had to consider the impact of the conflict on the well-being of the population, as well as governance and administrative ...
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    41,05 €

  • ICTs for Advancing Rural Communities and Human Development
    Susheel Chhabra
    While technology has had a considerable impact on humanity’s progress, it can also fuel inequality and tension. Considerable opportunities exist for investigating the link between ICT design and individual and social development. ICTs for Advancing Rural Communities and Human Development: Addressing the Digital Divide reviews the important impact ICTs have on economic, social, ...
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    255,85 €

  • Tobacco Capitalism
    Peter Benson
    Tobacco Capitalism tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the backdrop of the antitobacco movement, the globalization and industrialization of agriculture, and intense debates over immigration, Peter Benson draws on years of field research to examine the moral and f...
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    49,84 €

  • Where There Is No Midwife
    Sarah Pinto
    ...a fascinating new ethnography on birth and infant death and the ways in which these twin events serve as sites for the construction of political subjectivity in areas of rural North India where multiple development projects and discourses converge, leaving in their wake both excess and lack...it provides provocative insights into some of the forces that set our globe offkilt...
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    44,10 €

  • SMALL TOWN / BIG CHURCH
    Van W. Brooks
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    8,87 €

  • Improving Health Sector Performance
    There is growing international evidence that the effectiveness of health services stems primarily from the extent to which the incentives facing providers and consumers are aligned with 'better health' objectives. Efficiency in health service provision requires that providers and consumers have incentives to use healthcare resources in ways that generate the maximum health gain...
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    66,47 €

  • Decentralisation and Spatial Rural Development Planning in Cameroon
    Emmanuel Neba Ndenecho
    Despite rapid urbanisation, Africa remains predominantly rural. This calls for decentralisation beyond the dominant concern by states and government with urban spaces. Rural areas, rural development and the future of rural settlements need to be understood and addressed in the context of the ongoing democratisation trends and the emergence and development of civil society. Stat...
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    75,43 €

  • Once Upon A Place
    Kenneth D. Tunnell
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    51,67 €

  • Cajones de la memoria
    María Eugenia Ulfe
    María Eugenia Ulfe expone en este libro es un estudio sobre las representaciones de la memoria histórica reciente en las obras de artistas populares ayacuchanos. Ellos caracterizan en sus objetos los testimonios y recuerdos de los trágicos años de violencia vividos en la sierra peruana durante las décadas de 1980 y 1990, así como sus desplazamientos forzados en búsqueda de salv...
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    16,91 €


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