International Development

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Illusion or Opportunity Civil Society and the Quest for Social Change Fernwood Publishing	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
In Defense of Small Producers The Story of CLAC Fernwood Publishing	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
Is This the End of the Liberal International Order? The Munk Debate on Geopolitics House of Anansi Press	Be it resolved, the liberal international order is over… Since the end of World War II, global affairs have been shaped by three broad trends: the increasing free movement of people and …	Fareed Zakaria; Niall Ferguson; Rudyard Griffiths	106	2017	View
Islamophobia and the Question of Muslim Identity The Politics of Difference and Solidarity Fernwood Publishing	This book is a critical analysis of a Muslim group in Canada that has been working to challenge Islamophobia in their community. An important part of their anti-racist work involves dealing with …	Evelyn Leslie Hamdon	110	2010	View
Man at the Airport How Social Media Saved My Life: One Syrian's Story twp	Man at the Airport explores what it means to be a Syrian, an “illegal” and a refugee. More broadly, it examines the power of social media to amplify individual voices and facilitate …	Hassan Al Kontar	232	2021	View
NEW! My Mother, My Translator Véhicule Press	In 2008, Jaspreet Singh made a pact with his mother. He would gladly give her the go-ahead to publish her significantly altered translation of a story from his …	Jaspreet Singh	280	2021	View
NEW! NOlympians Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo & Beyond Fernwood Publishing	NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining …	Jules Boykoff	208	2020	View
Peasants and the Art of Farming A Chayanovian Manifesto Fernwood Publishing	This book focuses on the structure and dynamics of peasant farms and the historically highly variable relations that govern the processes of labour and production within the peasant farms. Jan …	Jan Douwe van der Ploeg	167	2013	View
Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies Fernwood Publishing	In Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements, Marc Edelman and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. offer a state-of-the-art review of scholarship on transnational agrarian movements, a synthetic …	Marc Edelman; Saturnino M. Borras Jr.	191	2016	View
Resilient Agriculture Cultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate New Society Publishers	Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to the productivity and profitability of agriculture in North America. More variable weather, drought and flooding create the most obvious …	Laura Lengnick	370	2015	View
NEW! Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition Cultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate New Society Publishers	Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of food. CLIMATE CHANGE PRESENTS an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. …	Laura Lengnick	368	2022	View
Revolution at Point Zero Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle Between The Lines	Written between 1974 and 2012, Revolution at Point Zero collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this …	Silvia Federici	265	2020	View
Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction Baraka Books	“… essential reading.” Edward S. Herman An accepted narrative holds that horrible Rwandan Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly a million Tutsis after a …	Robin Philpot	276	2013	View
Slouching Towards Sirte NATO's War on Libya and Africa Baraka Books	NATO’s war in Libya was proclaimed as a humanitarian intervention—bombing in the name of “saving lives.” Attempts at diplomacy were stifled. Peace talks were subverted. …	Maximilian C. Forte	344	2012	View
Speculative Harvests Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies Financialization, Food, and Agriculture Fernwood Publishing	In Speculative Harvests, Clapp and Isakson investigate the evolving relationship between the agrifood and financial sectors, paying particular attention to how the contemporary process of …	Jennifer Clapp; S. Ryan Isakson	196	2018	View
Telling Tales Living the Effects of Public Policy Fernwood Publishing	This book documents how the political, economic and social policy changes of the last decade of the twentieth century helped and harmed different segments of Canadian society. The chapters are …	Kate Bezanson; Sheila Neysmith	232	2005	View