International Development

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Guatemala: They Flattened Our Milpa
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Guatemala: They Flattened Our Milpa

From: Tiny Engines of Abundance

Chapter 4 examines Guatemala during the mid-20th century, as various governments sought to “modernize” Mayan traditional milpa agriculture, resulting in a genocide directed at Mayan … 23 $2.30 Add
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Harvest

Harvest

Part II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada

From: Good Crop / Bad Crop

Chapter 8 explores the future of agriculture, industrial farming and its alternatives, grassroots community organizing and political mobilization, resistance to industrial agriculture, the … 10 $1.00 Add
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Heroes

Heroes

From: Man at the Airport

This chapter covers the author’s attempts to seek refuge in Canada. 11 $1.10 Add
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Historical Forms of the Food Regime

Historical Forms of the Food Regime

From: Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions

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Historical/Political Context

Historical/Political Context

From the Thirteen Colonies to the Early Obama Era

From: Cuba-U.S. Relations

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Honduras

Honduras

From: Exile

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Hong Kong: Century of Humiliation
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Hong Kong: Century of Humiliation

Part I: One China, One System

From: China Unbound

Chapter 2 draws on the author Joanna Chiu’s experience reporting on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and its struggles to counteract both the shadowy forms of influence by the … 39 $3.90 Add
Hot Mess

Hot Mess

Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency

No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our wellbeing: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal. The summer after giving birth, Sarah Marie Wiebe and her … 198 View
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House
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House

From: My Mother, My Translator

Discusses Singh’s mother’s family home, its importance to her, its loss, and her return. 13 $1.30 Add
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Hum
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Hum

From: My Mother, My Translator

Further explores Partition and the unease with which it was talked about. Singh recounts his grandfather’s stories, comparing them with his mother’s, plotting his lineage of storytellers. 19 $1.90 Add
Human Development

Human Development

Lessons from the Cuban Revolution

Capitalism is a system in crisis. In the context of an urgent need for an alternative system, Cuba provides valuable lessons. The Cuban Revolution’s unique features have allowed it to … 135 View
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Humanitarianism and the Invention of Emergency

Humanitarianism and the Invention of Emergency

From: Slouching Towards Sirte

In Chapter 5, Forte asks the reader to consider what the alternatives were to foreign intervention. He does this by criticizing popular myths that worked to legitimize military intervention and … 30 $3.00 Add
Hungry For Change

Hungry For Change

Farmers, Food Justice and The Agrarian Question

Hunger and obesity sit side by side in the world today because a food system dominated by money, markets and profits allows those with money to obtain above and beyond their needs while those … 200 View
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Ian Bremmer in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

Ian Bremmer in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

June 3, 2020

From: The World After Covid

Ian Bremmer and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and Black American experiences, future international impacts of the pandemic, technology and authoritarianism, economic futures, globalization, … 11 $1.10 Add
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Identity Crisis
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Identity Crisis

The Politics of False Concreteness

From: The Socialist Register 2022

Samir Gandesha examines what he identifies as ‘a fragmentation of the universalism that had historically underwritten the struggle for socialism’, leading to a what he terms a … 18 $1.80 Add