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Somebody in Charge: A Solution to Recessions?
By Pierre Lemieux. 2011
Latin American Foreign Policies: Between Ideology and Pragmatism
By Gian Gardini. 2011
In recent years several Latin American countries have adopted a more assertive and autonomous stance in their foreign policy. The…
growing rejection of neo-liberalism as an ideological dogma seems to have given space to more pragmatic stances in favour of national interests.State, Economy, and Society in Post-Military Nigeria
By Said Adejumobi. 2011
This book analyzes how neo-liberal state economic policies and political reforms have impacted on state-society relations, economic and class configurations,…
social composition of power, social welfare and cohesion in post-military Nigeria; and points to key policy recommendations that may be crucial in redirecting the future of the country.The Practice of Public Diplomacy
By William A. Rugh. 2011
The conduct of public diplomacy is carried out as much abroad, by Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) stationed at U. S.…
embassies, as it is in Washington. This book focuses on what FSOs do in actual practice in field operations.Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era
By Heather Gautney. 2010
This study looks at the ongoing efforts of the Alternative Global Movement and World Social Forum to reconcile contests over…
political organization among three of the most prominent groups on the contemporary left - social and liberal democratic NGOs, anti-authoritarian (anarchist) social movements, and political parties.River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads
By Claudia J. Carr. 2017
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2. 5 license. This book offers a devastating look at deeply…
flawed development processes driven by international finance, African governments and the global consulting industry. It examines major river basin development underway in the semi-arid borderlands of Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan and its disastrous human rights consequences for a half-million indigenous people. The volume traces the historical origins of Gibe III megadam construction along the Omo River in Ethiopia--in turn, enabling irrigation for commercial-scale agricultural development and causing radical reduction of downstream Omo and (Kenya's) Lake Turkana waters. Presenting case studies of indigenous Dasanech and northernmost Turkana livelihood systems and Gibe III linked impacts on them, the author predicts agropastoral and fishing economic collapse, region-wide hunger with exposure to disease epidemics, irreversible natural resource destruction and cross-border interethnic armed conflict spilling into South Sudan. The book identifies fundamental failings of government and development bank impact assessments, including their distortion or omission of mandated transboundary assessment, cumulative effects of the Gibe III dam and its linked Ethiopia-Kenya energy transmission 'highway' project, key hydrologic and human ecological characteristics, major earthquake threat in the dam region and widespread expropriation and political repression. Violations of internationally recognized human rights, especially by the Ethiopian government but also the Kenyan government, are extensive and on the increase--with collaboration by the development banks, in breach of their own internal operational procedures. A policy crossroads has now emerged. The author presents the alternative to the present looming catastrophe--consideration of development suspension in order to undertake genuinely independent transboundary assessment and a plan for continued development action within a human rights framework--forging a sustainable future for the indigenous peoples now directly threatened and for their respective eastern Africa states. Claudia Carr's book is a treasure of detailed information gathered over many years concerning river basin development of the Omo River in Ethiopia and its impact on the peoples of the lower Omo Basin and the Lake Turkana region in Kenya. It contains numerous maps, charts, and photographs not previously available to the public. The book is highly critical of the environmental and human rights implications of the Omo River hydropower projects on both the local ethnic communities in Ethiopia and on the downstream Turkana in Kenya. David Shinn Former Ambassador to Ethiopia and to Burkina Faso Adjust Professor of International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington D. C.The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament
By Juliet Lodge. 2010
The 2009 Elections to the European Parliamentlooks at the electionsin each of the 27 member states of the newly enlarged…
European Union, and is an assessment of the European Parliament in 2004-2009. It asks whether the elections were irrelevant and inconsequential. Thirty years after the first Euro elections in 1979, what efforts were made to mobilize the electorate? Was the European Commission's Communicating Europe strategy, which includedblogs, targeting young voters using digital media, and MEPs on Europarl TV, a waste of time? Did the Dutch and French negative referendums on a new EU constitution affect the results? The contributors to this volume examine the Euro elections in each member state, criticising some commonly held assumptions. Common themes and the overall results are analyzed, along with the role of the European Parliament's party groups, and that of the transnational party federations. "Can Pay Be Strategic?
By Jonathan Trevor. 2011
Can Pay Be Strategicprovides a timely insight into the challenges faced by leading organizations when attempting to deploy pay systems…
in the pursuit of strategic priorities. Based upon in-depth case study research, this book reveals a number of managerial obstacles to the effective management of contemporary pay systems and the dysfunctionalities and negative outcomes that are an organizational reality for many. Difficult to get right and easy to get wrong, are attempts to use pay strategically worth it? To this on-going and critical debate in the field, Jonathan Trevoroffers for both academics and practitioners a fresh perspective grounded in robust theory and relevant empirical research. "Workplace Conflict
By Maurizio Atzeni. 2010
Based on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this bookoffers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles…
in a radical perspective. Criticizing the use of injustice as the basis of mobilization, it argues that workers' collective resistance should be seen as a function of the development of solidarity. "Performing Gender at Work
By Elisabeth Kelan. 2009
Providing aaunique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work andaintroducing a creative and novel way of analyzing…
the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations. a"Racism and Education in the U.K. and the U.S.
By Mike Cole. 2011
Following the success of the widely acclaimed "Critical Race Theory and Education: a Marxist Response "(Palgrave, 2009), this new book…
byMike Cole extends Marxist analysis to include key concepts from the work of neo-Marxists Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser. Cole begins by addressing what is distinctive about a neo-Marxist analysis. He then provides his own broaddefinition of racism and examines the differences between schooling and education, while outlining some practical antiracist classroom strategies for use in the U. K. and the U. S. "The Political Economy of China’s Systemic Transformation
By Victoria Mantzopoulos, Raphael Shen. 2011
After three decades of reign, Mao left China a structurally rigid and functionally inefficient economy. The imperative for systemic transformation…
was self-evident. China has surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in the world. A statistical analysis of four countries indicates political stability and social calm helped gain the confidence of needed foreign investments. For China, it is foreign investment that has been fuelingits export growth which in turnis most instrumental in its development path. "The Future of United States, China, and Taiwan Relations
By Denny Roy, Cheng-Yi Lin. 2011
Relations across the Taiwan Strait were unstable for decades before May 2008. Several acknowledged "crises" raised the possibility of war…
between China and the US and/or Taiwan and at times political disputes wracked the US-Taiwan relationship. Nevertheless, the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) of 1979 helped maintain peace by deterring coercive actions by China against the island.World Orders, Development and Transformation
By Eunice N. Sahle. 2010
This book examines how hegemonic development ideas and practices emerged in the context of a changing world order post-1945. Moving…
beyond the concept of 'world orders', and arguing that development studies as a discipline is dominated by ahistorical, technocratic and assumed scientific perspectives, Eunice Sahle re-examines colonial concepts and practices that facilitate the reproduction of the North-South power divide, increasing human insecurity in the age of neoliberalism and securitization of development and security. In the process she provides a historicized understanding of development that draws on notions of power and ethics. Discussing multi-polarity in the light of the rise of China and Russia and China's increasing involvement in Africa, the emergence of the World Social Forum, global governance, the financial crisis and the impact of Barack Obama's presidency, the book engages with contemporary debates concerned with the transformation of the current world order. "Marxism and Education
By Peter E. Jones. 2011
Marxist thinking can offer a critical understanding of education in an international context. Jones tackles these issues from a variety…
of angles and perspectives, taking advantage of recent theoretical innovations in Marxist analysis as well as the personal experiences of educational practitioners with Marxist commitments. With a specific focus on pedagogical practices as cultural practices, this book combines detailed case studies of local situations with broad, critical overviews of global development and challenges. "A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education Context
By Danilo R. Streck. 2010
A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education Context is committed to what has become known as "perspective of…
the South:" understanding the South not as a geographical reference but as a vindication of the existence of ways of knowing and of living which struggle for their survival and for a legitimate place in a world where the respect for difference is balanced with the right for equality. The metaphor of the new social contract stands for the desire to envision another world, which paradoxically cannot but spring out of the entrails of the existing one. Could the same contract under which the colonial orders were erected serve as a tool for decolonizing relations, knowledge, and power? Consequently, what kind of education could effectively help structure a new social contract? These are some of the questions Streck addresses.Gulag Voices
By Jehanne M Gheith, Katherine R. Jolluck. 2011
In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral…
histories, rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women, members of the working class and intelligentsia, people who live in the major cities and those from the "provinces," and from an array of corrective hard labor camps and prisons across the former Soviet Union. Its aims are threefold: 1) to give a sense of the range of the Gulag experience and its consequences for Russian society; 2) to make the Gulag relevant to English-speaking readers by offering comparisons to historical catastrophes they are likely to know more about, such as the Holocaust; and 3) to discuss issues of oral history and memory in the cultural context of Soviet and post-Soviet society.Language, Hegemony and the European Union
By Glyn Williams, Gruffudd Williams. 2016
This book critically examines the European Union's "Unity in Diversity" mantra with regard to language. It uses a theoretical framework…
based on hegemony both as a system and as a relationship. Operating within sociolinguistics, the book replaces the notion of ideology in poststructuralist thought with that of hegemony. The authors argue that forging unity across language communities contradicts the tenets of classical liberal theory. Global neo-liberalism influences this orthodoxy, shifting the parameters of power and political control. Over nine chapters, the authors cover topics such as globalization and social change, justice, governance and education. The book will be of interest to sociolinguists, political scientists, sociologists, as well as scholars of language and globalization and European studies.Liberalism and Human Suffering
By Asma Abbas. 2010
This book investigates the sources and implications of our encounters with suffering in contemporary politics and culture, exploring the forces…
that determine how suffering matters. It counters liberalism's distorting domestications of human suffering, which are most acute in its politics of redress through justice, the law, representation and inclusion. Radically rethinking the subjectivity of sufferers and arguing that our experience of the world is not prior to or outside of justice, but constitutive of it, the book recuperates a materialist politics that emphasizes sensuous activity, reclaims representation, and honors "the labor of suffering. ""Elise Boulding: Writings on Peace Research, Peacemaking, and the Future
By J Russell Boulding. 2017
This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of her…
95th birthday. Known as the "matriarch" of the twentieth century peace research movement, she made significant contributions in the fields of peace education, future studies, feminism, and sociology of the family, and as a prominent leader in the peace movement and the Society of Friends. She taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1967 to 1978 and at Dartmouth College from 1978 to 1985, and was instrumental in the development of peace studies programs at both institutions. She was a co-founder of the International Peace Research Association (1964), the Consortium on Peace Research Education and Development (1970), and various peace and women's issues-related committees and working groups of the American Sociological Association and International Sociological Association.