Development Studies
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Gender Equality and Inequality in Rural India: Blessed with a Son
C. VlassoffCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99As India strives to improve overall social and economic conditions and gender relations through policies such as the abolishment of dowry, increasi...
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Assessing Dynamics of Democratisation: Transformative Politics, New Institutions, and the Case of Indonesia
O. TörnquistCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The book summarises the critique of these approaches, suggests a comprehensive alternative framework, and shows how the alternative works in realit...
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Transnational Lives in China: Expatriates in a Globalizing City
A. LehmannCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Increasing numbers of people from Western nations are leaving home to work within the developing economies of Asia. Here, Angela Lehmann explores a...
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European Union Civil Society Policy and Turkey: A Bridge Too Far?
O. ZihniogluCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Drawing on interviews with Civil Society organizations and in conjunction with an examination of EU Civil Society Policy and the legal and institut...
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Contesting the Nigerian State: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99In public choice theory, the received wisdom has long been that self-organization is an impediment to collective action, whether via the tragedy of...
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State Failure
A. TaylorCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Andrew Taylor provides an overview of the origins, evolution, and impact of state failure since the 1990s. Avoiding quickly outdated country-based ...
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Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art of Active Resistance
M. BranaganCurrent price €137.69Original price €152.99Militarism is the elephant in the room of global warming. Of all government sectors, 'Defence' has the highest carbon footprint and expenditure, ye...
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Under Development: Gender
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. ...
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NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies
Carolijn TerwindtCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Over the past decade, international human rights organizations and think tanks have expressed a growing concern that the space of civil society org...
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A Journey into Women''s Studies: Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The present book is a journey of many women across the world who have struggled to give women's studies visibility. Drawing upon the contributors' ...
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Eurasian Borderlands: Spatializing Borders in the Aftermath of State Collapse
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €119.69Original price €132.99This book examines changing and emerging state and state-like borders in the post-Soviet space in the decades following state collapse. This book...
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The Fight for the Right to Food: Lessons Learned
C. GolayCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book documents and analyzes the experiences of the UN's first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. It highlights the conceptual advances i...
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Communicating Gender and Advocating Accountability in Global Development
Karin WilkinsCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Case studies of micro-enterprise, girls' education, and population programs suggest that our discourse limits our potential to conceive of developm...
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The Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response
Sphere AssociationCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Current price €20.69Original price €22.99Save 10% -
Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young ...
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The Limits to Capital in Spain: Crisis and Revolt in the European South
G. CharnockCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Spain is at the epicentre of a crisis that threatens the future of the Eurozone. This book explains the deep historical and structural roots of the...
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The Political Economy of the Egyptian Revolution: Mubarak, Economic Reforms and Failed Hegemony
R. RoccuCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99While the 2011 Egyptian revolution has already become the subject of much debate, the roots of the socio-economic context which made the revolution...
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Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community and Clubs
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to e...
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Child Sponsorship: Exploring Pathways to a Brighter Future
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book reviews the remarkable growth, diversity and challenges of child sponsorship. It features the latest progress in child sponsorship practi...
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Mobilizing Zanzibari Women: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa
C. DeckerCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99The experiences of African women in the era before independence remain a woefully understudied facet of African history. This innovative and carefu...
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Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. The work provides ...
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Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99This book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. The work provides ...
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Nigerian Cultural History and Challenges of Postcolonial Development
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99An inspiring editorial analysis and interpretation of aspects of Nigerian history, culture, and politics, from mankind's archaeological past to eth...
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