International Development
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From ![]() NEW! Hong Kong: Century of HumiliationPart 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 … | Joanna Chiu | 39 | 2021 | $3.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! HouseFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Discusses Singh’s mother’s family home, its importance to her, its loss, and her return. | Jaspreet Singh | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! HumFrom: 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. | Jaspreet Singh | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
![]() Human DevelopmentLessons 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 … | Henry Veltmeyer | 135 | 2014 | View |
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From ![]() Humanitarianism and the Invention of EmergencyFrom: 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 … | Maximilian C. Forte | 30 | 2012 | $3.00 Add |
![]() Hungry For ChangeFarmers, 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 … | A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi | 200 | 2013 | View |
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From ![]() Ian Bremmer in Conversation with Rudyard GriffithsJune 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, … | Rudyard Griffiths | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Identity CrisisThe Politics of False Concreteness |
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 … | Samir Gandesha | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
![]() Illusion or OpportunityCivil Society and the Quest for Social Change |
The failure of development strategies in the past few decades has given rise to a worldwide movement in the direction of “another development.” This is a form of development that is … | Henry Veltmeyer | 142 | 2007 | View |
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From ![]() ImagineFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter outlines the HANDY study, which identifies the factors that precipitate societal collapse, and asks whether we are headed for such a collapse. This chapter also imagines a … | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Imagining Nighttime Detroit |
In this essay, Darroch reflects upon the border cities of Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, which lend themselves to studying urban nighttime as both practiced and imagined across the … | Michael Darroch | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() Imperialism, Globalization and Development |
Henry Veltmeyer; Raúl Delgado Wise | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add | |
![]() In Defense of Small ProducersThe Story of CLAC |
In an international geopolitical panorama where Northern countries are increasingly in crisis and where the most interesting alternatives to sustainable development are coming from the South, the … | Marco Coscione | 237 | 2014 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! In Patagonia I Dreamed in PunjabiFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
A poem about a bus ride to Ludhiana. | Jaspreet Singh | 1 | 2021 | $0.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! In the Light of What We Don’t KnowFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Singh’s life in Calgary during the COVID-19 lockdowns. | Jaspreet Singh | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! In the Space between Aboriginal Sovereignty and National SecurityRe-engaging Border Security and Mohawk Culture at Akwesasne |
This chapter considers the contributions of local leaders and communities to the ways that borderlands become “secured,” not only in the literal sense of security measures but also in … | Laetitia Rouvière | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |















