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  • Rabies in the Streets
    Deborah Nadal
    Explores the relationship between people, street animals, and rabies in urban India. Incorporates epidemiological goals within anthropological frameworks to investigate the ways in which people come into contact with animals and create favorable conditions for the rabies virus to flourish. ...
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    57,26 €

  • Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa
    In Africa, people striving to live and survive under the complex relationship between development and subsistence have been directly or indirectly feeling influences of globalisation. As Africa’s involvement in globalisation deepens, social phenomena are apparently synchronizing or becoming more similar to those in the rest of the world, but they are not homogenised with them, ...
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    81,39 €

  • Development Induced Displacements in Zimbabwe
    for Conflict CCMT
    Rural communities, particularly in developing countries, face perpetual risks of being displaced by infrastructure development projects (e.g. dams, roads, transmission lines), urban development and expansion projects, or large-scale commercial projects (e.g. mining, timber and agriculture). Development-induced displacements may lead to loss of land, livelihoods, shelter, proper...
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    39,70 €

  • The Transformation of Capacity in International Development
    Avideh K Mayville / Avideh K. Mayville
    'The Transformation of Capacity in International Development' exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approaches to development, the international management of global security threats and su...
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    57,37 €

  • Marx in the Field
    Alessandra Mezzadri
    Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ’to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be ad...
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    180,18 €

  • Entrepreneurs and SMEs in Rwanda
    David L. Poole
    Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have become the darlings of neoliberal development thinking, with the received wisdom being that such enterprises hold the key to the economic transformation of low-income countries. This thinking has profoundly influenced development policy in Rwanda, but has singularly failed to deliver the much anticipated emergence...
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    154,27 €

  • The Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria
    Benjamin Maiangwa
    This book explores the contested notions of territory and belonging in Nigeria, most especially among the Fulani and other ethnic groups in Kaduna. The book argues that these controversies center around Indigenous, nomadic, and autochthonous claims of belonging. The author identifies these differing notions of belonging as a major condition of violent conflicts in Kaduna and ac...
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    129,38 €

  • China in Ethiopia
    Aaron Tesfaye
    Examines China’s involvement in Ethiopia as the latter embarks on modernization and economic development. ...
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    41,01 €

  • Securing Land Rights
    Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa
    Securing land rights takes up themes at the centre of socio-political debates throughout the African continent. These relate to national struggles over access to land, land distribution, land rights and security of tenure. Land in much of rural Africa is communally held, a system that provides security of livelihood and a social safety net, but is not immune to appropriation by...
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    70,44 €

  • Sgorio am Ryddid! Pêl-droed a’r Daith i Annibyniaeth
    Math Pry
    Cyfrol difyr am sut mae pel-droed yn ac wedi effeithio ar mudiadau gwledydd am annibyniaeth. Mae’r llyfr yn edrych ar fudiadau presennol a gorffennol dros ledled y byd. ...
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    21,87 €

  • Social Entrepreneurs & Change Makers
    Bose Creative Publishers
    Most often, the project started with one man, or one woman, and then the idea attracted more volunteers. We have in this book an NGO which got established in 1976 by a Swiss pilot, and one that got established in 2020 in response to the pandemic and the plight of daily wage workers in India. The range of social enterprises presented in this book, are from Europe, India, US and ...
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    7,56 €

  • The Future of Africa
    John W. Forje / John WForje
    This provocative book on The Future of Africa addresses fundamental genealogical developmental challenges of vital concern to Africa's transformation is premised on the orientation that the continent's future is up to Africans, cognizant of the fact that Africans cohabit the same diversified and inter-connected planet with others. The issues addressed include: political...
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    77,38 €

  • Developing Countries and Technology Inclusion in the 21st Century Information Society
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    203,13 €

  • Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa
    Samantha Page
    This open access book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It shows how these frameworks have been applied in a practical sense in Africa to investigate sexual cultural practices and their link with HIV/AIDS. The author provides an overview of both the field of study and the methods used during f...
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    77,36 €

  • Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa
    Samantha Page
    This open access book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It shows how these frameworks have been applied in a practical sense in Africa to investigate sexual cultural practices and their link with HIV/AIDS. The author provides an overview of both the field of study and the methods used during f...
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    62,99 €

  • Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?
    Jeffrey Williamson / Luis Bértola
    This book brings together a range of ideas and theories to arrive at a deeper understanding of inequality in Latin America and its complex realities. To so, it addresses questions such as: What are the origins of inequality in Latin America? How can we create societies that are more equal in terms of income distribution, gender equality and opportunities? How can we remedy the ...
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    82,19 €

  • Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?
    Jeffrey Williamson / Luis Bértola
    This book brings together a range of ideas and theories to arrive at a deeper understanding of inequality in Latin America and its complex realities. To so, it addresses questions such as: What are the origins of inequality in Latin America? How can we create societies that are more equal in terms of income distribution, gender equality and opportunities? How can we remedy the ...
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    96,55 €

  • Technologies for Development
    Jean-Claude Bolay / Samira Najih Besson / Silvia Hostettler
    This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action...
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    77,97 €

  • Technologies for Development
    Jean-Claude Bolay / Samira Najih Besson / Silvia Hostettler
    This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action...
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    63,61 €

  • A Region in Revolt
    Jade Saab
    A wave of mass protest movements has spread across North Africa and West Asia, including Sudan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran. The mass protests have much in common, from opposing authoritarian regimes and worsening economic situations to demanding radical changes in social relations. Despite their similarities, each protest movement operates under different conditions that c...
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    23,49 €

  • Perspectives on ICT4D and Socio-Economic Growth Opportunities in Developing Countries
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    216,84 €

  • Innovation Management and Growth in Emerging Economies
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    216,06 €

  • Advances in Women’s Empowerment
    What progress has been made to achieve SDG5? Bridging the academic and policymaking spaces, this edited collection offers a critical insight and evaluation of the public policies targeted at improving the condition of women living in developing countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America. ...
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    142,89 €

  • Malawi
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    128,34 €

  • In the Absence of the Gift
    Anders Emil Rasmussen
    By adopting ideas like "development," members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives "What about me?" This detailed e...
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    44,73 €

  • From Plough to Entrepreneurship
    Vusumuzi R. Kumalo / Vusumuzi RKumalo
    From Plough to Entrepreneurship is motivated largely by the fact that Africans were deprived of economic and political autonomy by white government in South Africa. This marginalisation lies in the complex and interconnected processes of displacement and dispossession by which Africans were first dispossessed of their own land; then deprived of independent productive opportunit...
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    49,77 €

  • In Someone Else’s Country
    Trenita Brookshire Childers
    In this groundbreaking work, Trenita Childers explores the enduring system of racial profiling in the Dominican Republic, where Dominicans of Haitian descent are denied full citizenship in the only country they have ever known. As birthright citizens, they now wonder why they are treated like they are 'in someone else’s country.' Childers describes how nations like the Dominica...
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    115,35 €

  • In Someone Else’s Country
    Trenita Brookshire Childers
    In this groundbreaking work, Trenita Childers explores the enduring system of racial profiling in the Dominican Republic, where Dominicans of Haitian descent are denied full citizenship in the only country they have ever known. As birthright citizens, they now wonder why they are treated like they are 'in someone else’s country.' Childers describes how nations like the Dominica...
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    43,40 €

  • SDG7 - Ensure Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable, and Modern Energy
    Charles Nhemachena / Godwell Nhamo
    SDG7 visualizes a world in which energy is universally accessible, efficient and renewable in order to create sustainable, inclusive and resilient communities. This book explores the implementation challenges of SDG7, offers potential solutions, and maps out a way in which global energy systems might be transformed. ...
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    84,46 €

  • Securitising Monstrous Bottoms in the Age of Posthuman Carnivalesque?
    Placing security studies in the context of contemporary discourses about the “colonial comeback” and posthumanism, this book postulates the notion of staticide which avers that the effacement of African state sovereignty is crucial for the security of the oncoming empire. Understood in the light of posthumanism, antihumanism, animism, postanthropocentrism and transhumanism; Afr...
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    62,86 €


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