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  • Integral Kumusha
    The world is in crisis and in need of an economic and political regeneration–what is termed in this book “policonomy”. Such a GENEA-tic transformation calls for an awakening of integral consciousness at all levels. For this to be realized the authors posit that “southern” nature and community i.e. integral kumusha should locally lead the regeneration, with “eastern” Culture and...
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    112,85 €

  • Transnational Return and Social Change
    Return has long been considered the end of a migration cycle. Today, returnees’ continued transnational ties, practices and resources have become increasingly visible. ’Transnational Return and Social Change’ pays tribute to the meso-level impacts that follow the practices and resources migrant returnees mobilize across borders, influencing communities, organizations, social ne...
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    180,39 €

  • Epidemics and the Health of African Nations
    MISTRA
    News footage of disease in Africa is a familiar sight. Yet these outbreaks are often presented out of context, with no reference to the conditions that have triggered them. MISTRA’s new book, Epidemics and the Health of African Nations, aims to redress that. Researchers and practitioners from within the continent explore why Africa is so vulnerable to disease, and show how this...
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    97,90 €

  • A Social History of Cuba’s Protestants
    James A. Baer / James ABaer
    A Social History of Cuba’s Protestants: God and the Nation presents a religious and social history of Cuba, focusing on the Presbyterian and other Protestant churches, to show the continuity of ties between US and Cuban churches before and after the revolution in 1959. By examining the history of Cuba’s Protestants as agents of social change within Cuba and as partners with US ...
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    128,82 €

  • World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined
    In a time of turmoil in international economic law, experts from 10 countries suggest ideas for a new and progressive trade and investment regime in ’World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined’ that would help sustain growth, facilitate development and ensure that gains are shared and losses compensated. ...
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    180,09 €

  • Digital Diasporas
    Radhika Gajjala
    When we work or play through digital technologies - we also live in them. Communities form, conversations and social movements emerge spontaneously and through careful offline planning. While we have used disembodied communication and transportation technologies in the past - and still do - we have never before actually synchronously inhabited these communicative spaces, routes...
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    135,87 €

  • Digital Diasporas
    Radhika Gajjala
    When we work or play through digital technologies - we also live in them. Communities form, conversations and social movements emerge spontaneously and through careful offline planning. While we have used disembodied communication and transportation technologies in the past - and still do - we have never before actually synchronously inhabited these communicative spaces, routes...
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    44,48 €

  • Zimbabwe Will Never be a Colony Again!
    Munoda Mararike
    This is a thought-provoking original book, based on a wealth of empirical case studies of how Zimbabwe experienced illegal economic sanctions. It is a study of how the humanly constructed obstructions – from external remittances/finance flows into the country to finance embargos or total financial blockages – are deliberately created by so-called ‘powerful’ governments to deal ...
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    61,98 €

  • Strategic Marketing for Social Enterprises in Developing Nations
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    196,80 €

  • Social Protests in Colombia
    Mauricio Archila Neira / Camilo Ordoñez-Zambrano
    Social Protests in Colombia: A History, 1958-1990 examines social mobilization in Colombia through a variety of lenses in an interdisciplinary approach. Mauricio Archila-Neira incorporates theories from diverse social sciences including subaltern studies and postcolonial approaches to open up an intergenerational dialogue about political transformation and social change. Archil...
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    162,82 €

  • The Sustainability Ethic in the Management of the Physical, Infrastructural and Natural Resources of Zimbabwe
    Innocent Chirisa
    Humanity has extensively exploited natural and physical resources, since the Industrial Revolution in Europe. A geological era, now called the Anthropocene, has been coined in environmental and developmental circles, to mark the increased domination of humanity on Earth and its resources. Today, the ecological footprint on the fragile planet continues to increase. Mass industri...
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    141,21 €

  • The State of Open Data
    It’s been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse. As the open data movement ent...
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    111,78 €

  • Management by Seclusion
    Glynn Cochrane
    50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incomes stimulated by Bank loans processed by deskbound Washington staff, trickling down to the poorest. Instead, child poverty and homelessness are on the increase everywhere. In this book, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glyn...
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    38,29 €

  • Management by Seclusion
    Glynn Cochrane
    50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incomes stimulated by Bank loans processed by deskbound Washington staff, trickling down to the poorest. Instead, child poverty and homelessness are on the increase everywhere. In this book, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glyn...
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    203,92 €

  • Agricultural Reform in Rwanda
    Chris Huggins
    International observers have lauded Rwanda as an example of an African country taking control of its own development trajectory, and as a market-friendly destination for investment. A key component of this narrative has been an ambitious programme of agricultural reform, involving private firms, NGOs, and international charities. The Rwandan government claims these reforms have...
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    39,47 €

  • African Markets and the Utu-Ubuntu Business Model
    Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
    The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows ...
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    39,70 €

  • Rethinking and Unthinking Development
    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,...
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    184,08 €

  • Playing the Marginality Game
    Anita Schroven
    In Guinea, situated in the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics, through history and contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generation-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides. Simultaneously, administrative reform and national unrest lead to the creative re-combination of...
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    184,35 €

  • Social Work Practice in Africa
    The importance of integrating indigenous knowledge systems into mainstream social work and ensuring context-specific, culturally relevant practice has long been emphasised in Africa and the Global South. This book, based on empirical research, presents a selection of indigenous and innovative models and approaches of problem solving that will inspire social work practice and ed...
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    59,63 €

  • Exploring the Dynamics of Consumerism in Developing Nations
    Ayantunji Gbadamosi
    As developing nations increase their consumption rate, their relevance in the global marketplace grows. Existing assumptions and postulations about consumer consumption in various societies are being displaced largely due to the dynamic nature of the market. However, research has not been adequately devoted to explore the developments in consumer behavior in developing nations,...
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    295,48 €

  • Exploring the Dynamics of Consumerism in Developing Nations
    Ayantunji Gbadamosi
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    223,10 €

  • Making the New Middle East
    Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, from the Iranian Green Movement and the Arab Spring uprisings to Turkey's March for Justice and the ongoing struggle in Palestine. Although expectations raised by the Arab Spring were largely disappointed and protests that toppled entrenched rulers unleas...
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    113,46 €

  • Democratic Engineering in Rwanda and Burundi
    Jean-Marie Kagabo
    In Democratic Engineering in Rwanda and Burundi the author argues that a democratic model which is suitable for single-cultural societies may not be applicable in multicultural societies; he illustrates that the liberal and socialist theories have not addressed the issue of national minorities which threatens peace and stability in most African countries. The author investigate...
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    98,11 €

  • Challenges and Opportunities for Inclusive Development in Ethiopia
    As part of its on-going public dialogue program on progress in Ethiopia’s development and public policy the Forum for Social Studies is undertaking a project of research and public dialogue on a number of selected topics on the theme of 'Prospects and Challenges for Inclusive and Participatory Development in Ethiopia'. The aim is to enable researchers and professionals ...
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    80,83 €

  • Migration, Remittances and Household Socio-Economic Wellbeing
    Asnake Kefale / Zerihun Mohammed
    In recent years, a large number of Ethiopians are travelling to various countries as labour migrants. The Republic of South Africa and the oil-rich Gulf countries have emerged as major destinations for many documented as well as undocumented Ethiopian labour migrants. The majority of the migrants send a substantial amounts of money back to the country for different purposes. Ou...
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    40,86 €

  • Multi-Level Governance in Developing Economies
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    196,53 €

  • Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines
    Arnisson Andre Ortega / Arnisson Ortega
    Amidst the recent global financial crisis and housing busts in various countries, the Philippines’ booming housing industry has been heralded as 'Southeast Asia’s hottest real estate hub' and the saving grace of a supposedly resilient Philippine economy. This growth has been fueled by demand from balikbayan (returnee) Overseas Filipinos and has facilitated the rise of gated sub...
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    58,00 €

  • A Gender Perspective of Municipal Solid Waste Generation and Management in the City of Bamenda, Cameroon
    Akum Hedwig Kien
    The management of urban waste constitutes one of the major environmental challenges facing African cities in general and Cameroon in particular. Unprecedented population growth and changes in consumption patterns and lifestyles have led to increased waste generation. Municipal solid waste management efforts lag behind the rate of waste generation with attendant environmental an...
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    70,77 €

  • The Education of Children Entangled in Khat Trade in Ethiopia
    Girma Negash
    In Ethiopia, khat cultivation is expanding aggressively in recent years. Regions that were formerly known for coffee production have become major khat producing areas. In Equal proportion, the habit of khat chewing is expanding at an alarming rate among different social groups irrespective of gender, age, religion and ethnic background. Khat has also become one of the leading e...
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    30,72 €

  • Social Stakes of Privatizations in Cameroon
    Hermann-Habib Kibangou
    The devaluation of the CFA franc and the early 90s mark the second wave of privatizations recommended by international financial institutions. The transition from a system of ''social goals'' to that of private capital becomes more and more evident. From the peoples’ point of view, the ongoing reforms imposed from outside often do not take into account the specific situation of...
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    19,43 €


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