International Development

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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
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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
Illusion or Opportunity

Illusion or Opportunity

Civil 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 … 142 View
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Imagine

Imagine

From: 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 … ; ; ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Imagining Nighttime Detroit
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Imagining Nighttime Detroit

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

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 … 24 $2.40 Add
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Imperialism, Globalization and Development

Imperialism, Globalization and Development

From: Critical Development Studies: An Introduction

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In Defense of Small Producers

In Defense of Small Producers

The 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 … 237 View
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In Patagonia I Dreamed in Punjabi
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In Patagonia I Dreamed in Punjabi

From: My Mother, My Translator

A poem about a bus ride to Ludhiana. 1 $0.10 Add
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In the Light of What We Don't Know
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In the Light of What We Don’t Know

From: My Mother, My Translator

Singh’s life in Calgary during the COVID-19 lockdowns. 13 $1.30 Add
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In the Space between Aboriginal Sovereignty and National Security
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In the Space between Aboriginal Sovereignty and National Security

Re-engaging Border Security and Mohawk Culture at Akwesasne

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

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 … 21 $2.10 Add