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Download or read book Lokayan Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Regional Modernities by : K. Sivaramakrishnan
Download or read book Regional Modernities written by K. Sivaramakrishnan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar papers.
Book Synopsis The Angry Earth by : Anthony Oliver-Smith
Download or read book The Angry Earth written by Anthony Oliver-Smith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Mortgaging the Earth by : Bruce Rich
Download or read book Mortgaging the Earth written by Bruce Rich and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank is the single biggest source of finance for international development, and its policies have a critical impact on the future of more than 110 borrowing countries. In this dramatic and lively new critique, Bruce Rich, internationally known expert on the environment and the World Bank, analyzes how the Bank has become a seemingly unstoppable and often destructive environmental and political force. The author chronicles the life-and-death impact of Bank-funded projects around the world: huge dams that have forced the resettlement of millions of the poorest people on earth, road building and jungle colonization schemes in Brazil, Indonesia, and Africa that have left vast deforestation and social conflict in their wake, and much more. Rich also recounts the bold grassroots campaigns of nongovernmental groups seeking alternatives to Bank-style development. Confidential internal Bank documents expose chronic misrepresentations by Bank management to its donor nations and to the public. Rich reveals how senior officials continue to push money into projects with disastrous ecological and human rights consequences, despite early and persistent protests of Bank staff. He shows how repeatedly and without political accountability the Bank has increased its support for regimes that torture and murder their subjects, from Ceaucescu's Romania to Suharto's Indonesia. Mortgaging the Earth explains the so-called pressure to lend that emerges as a leitmotif in the Bank's fifty-year history and shows how this institutional dynamic has taken on a damaging life of its own. Rich traces the history of the Bank, from its inception at Bretton Woods, where it was conceived as a way to funnelreconstruction loans for war-torn Europe, through the surreally top-down tenure of Robert McNamara to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. At Rio, governments poured billions of dollars more into the Bank to save our global environment - while the Bank financed new ecological disasters. The World Bank, Rich demonstrates in a provocative history of development from Descartes to Max Weber to Chico Mendes, is a crucible of the goals of the modern age, goals that in the very moment of their worldwide triumph have become problematic. He shows how the Bank's dilemmas mirror our global civilization's crisis of values and gives expert prescription for reform. Mortgaging the Earth makes disturbingly clear why every American should be concerned about the World Bank, as a critical arena where the global politics of technology, development, and the environment are played out on a small planet, one where the stakes are increasingly for keeps.
Book Synopsis Privileging the Privileged by : Sharada J. Schaffter
Download or read book Privileging the Privileged written by Sharada J. Schaffter and published by Bibliophile South Asia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Ecology written by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the public's hope of effective action by governments on environmental issues lies a complex terrain of conceptual confusion, conflicts of interest and philosophical dispute. This is why some of the world's leading environmental thinkers have come together in this volume to probe critically the new language being developed by environmental professionals. They examine the contradictions inherent in the fashionable notion of sustainable development. They explore the emerging conflicts over the distribution of environmental risks between North and South. And they warn that 'global ecology' seen in a managerial perspective, may degenerate into an effor to redesign and manage Nature in order to keep economic growth going in the face of a rising tide of resource plunder and pollution. This book seeks to launch a critical debate in order to clarify the issues involves and what might constitute appropriate action.
Download or read book Social Movements written by Savyasaachi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attempts to show the emerging contours of ‘transformative action’ in social movements across South Asia. It argues that these contours have been shaped by contestations over questions of equity, justice and well-being on the one hand, and the nature and scope of new and classical social movements on the other. This is manifest in diverse modes through people’s struggles, protest and dissent. The authors examine a variety of themes that have determined the course of the politics of transformative struggles. They critique neoliberalism, ‘primitive’ accumulation, money, class inequalities, as well as aspects of capital–labour conflict. They highlight the contributions of movements by women, dalit and marginalized communities; peace movements; and environmental and agrarian struggles. The volume also appraises the role of internet in grassroots mobilizations and that of civil society networks in the making of participatory democracy. It further argues that the predicaments of cultural, ethnic, national, regional, and linguistic identities are not divorced from capital–labour conflicts. The book will serve as essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, social movements, politics, gender and feminist studies, labour studies, and the informed general reader.
Author :Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science Publisher :Psychology Press ISBN 13 :9780415240109 Total Pages :646 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (41 download)
Book Synopsis International Bibliography of Political Science by : Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Download or read book International Bibliography of Political Science written by Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge on the social sciences.
Book Synopsis Government-NGO Relations in Asia by : Noeleen Heyzer
Download or read book Government-NGO Relations in Asia written by Noeleen Heyzer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-01-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in Asia face critical development challenges. This volume examines ways to improve the policy environment for NGOs in Asia so that they may contribute more effectively to the development process. The contributors identify the main factors which influence the policy environment for NGOs, characterize and compare the political space for NGOs, examine the roles that governments and international development agencies can play in supporting NGOs, and propose possible strategies and policy guidelines for improving government-NGO relations in Asia.
Author :British Library of Political and Economic Science Publisher :Psychology Press ISBN 13 :9780415074575 Total Pages :704 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (745 download)
Book Synopsis International Bibliography of the Social Sciences by : British Library of Political and Economic Science
Download or read book International Bibliography of the Social Sciences written by British Library of Political and Economic Science and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehenisve knowledge of the social sciences.
Book Synopsis Restructuring Development Theories and Policies by : M. Shamsul Haque
Download or read book Restructuring Development Theories and Policies written by M. Shamsul Haque and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-09-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains and critiques current theories of political development.
Book Synopsis Eliminating Human Poverty by : Santosh Mehrotra
Download or read book Eliminating Human Poverty written by Santosh Mehrotra and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the provision of basic social services - in particular, access to education, health and water supplies - as the central building blocks of any human development strategy. The authors concentrate on how these basic social services can be financed and delivered more effectively to achieve the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals. Their analysis, which departs from the dominant macro-economic paradigm, deploys the results of broad-ranging research they led at UNICEF and UNDP, investigating the record on basic social services of some 30 developing countries. In seeking to learn from these new data, they develop an analytical argument around two potential synergies: at the macro level, between poverty reduction, human development and economic growth, and at the micro level, between interventions to provide basic social services. Policymakers, they argue, can integrate macro-economic and social policy. Fiscal, monetary, and other macro-economic policies can be compatible with social sector requirements. They make the case that policymakers have more flexibility than is usually presented by orthodox writers and international financial institutions, and that if policymakers engaged in alternative macro-economic and growth-oriented policies, this could lead to the expansion of human capabilities and the fulfillment of human rights. This book explores some of these policy options. The book also argues that more than just additional aid is needed. Specific strategic shifts in the areas of aid policy, decentralized governance, health and education policy and the private-public mix in service provision are a prerequisite to achieve the goals of human development. The combination of governance reforms and fiscal and macro-economic policies outlined in this book can eliminate human poverty in the span of a generation.
Download or read book Politics written by Virginie Mamadouh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depending on the breadth or narrowness of the understanding of politics and the political, "politics" in human geography is defined as either the operation of power in all social relations or the workings of power directed to or by the state. This volume avoids the two extremes by acknowledging the transformation of approaches to the political in human geography over the past few decades but also by highlighting the continued importance of the more traditional state-based conception of politics. The selected articles are clustered around six themes: new agendas in political geography, state territoriality, international relations and globalization, internal territorial organisation and geographical scale, social movements and electoral participation, and identities and citizenship.
Author :Compiled by the British Library of Polit Publisher :Psychology Press ISBN 13 :9780415240116 Total Pages :680 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (41 download)
Book Synopsis Ibss: Sociology: 1999 by : Compiled by the British Library of Polit
Download or read book Ibss: Sociology: 1999 written by Compiled by the British Library of Polit and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge on the social sciences.
Book Synopsis Alternatives Unincorporated by : George Zachariah
Download or read book Alternatives Unincorporated written by George Zachariah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The victims of environmental destruction are often sidelined in eco-theology and environmental discourse. Movements for ecological justice fail to take into account the voice of those at the grassroots. 'Alternatives Unincorporated' presents an environmental ethics that begins with those on the margins. Using the key example of the Narmada Dam in India and the popular resistance movement which built up against the project, the book examines the collective action of subaltern communities in caring for their local environment. The book frames these movements as theological texts that inform a life-affirming earth ethics. The aim of the book is to challenge prevailing social and ecological dynamics and to affirm the interconnectedness of social justice and environmental action.
Book Synopsis Waging Peace, Building a World in which Life Matters by : Lalrinawmi Ralte
Download or read book Waging Peace, Building a World in which Life Matters written by Lalrinawmi Ralte and published by ISPCK. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Festschrift in honour of Gabriele Dietrich of Tamil Nadu Theological Seminary, social activist and feminist; contributed articles on diverse aspects predominantly on social status of women and feminism in India.
Download or read book Knowledge written by Nico Stehr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing investment in scientific knowledge, in its production, distribution and reproduction, is acquiring greater social significance. Everything that is regarded as knowledge in society has become a legitimate subject matter for academic investigations from various disciplines and for practitioners.