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Exploring the intersection of Marxism and development, this book looks at Marx’s original conception of capitalist development and his later engagement with under-developed Russia.
This book provides a diverse contextualization of Popper’s critical rationalism concerning knowledge and his generalized attitude of criticism on appropriate social and political reforms in contemporary Africa.
The final cluster, Routes, places Pasifika theologies upon the waters so that they may navigate and voyage.The ‘amanaki (hope) of this work is in keeping talanoa (dialogue)... Læs mere
This book explores how and why the labor practices of the world’s largest employer, supermarket giant Walmart, were contested by unions and government regulators as it expanded to Latin America starting in the 1990s.
The chapters in the second section bring to view everyday pedagogies whereby myriad knowledges, performances, practices, and competencies may function to militarize children’s lives, including in but not limited to advanced (post)industrial societies of the global North.
This book argues that capitalism has practically failed to deliver the long-desired economic transformation and inclusive development in postcolonial... Læs mere
This book focuses on marginal actors in the global order. It is because of the increasingly decentred nature of global order, that marginal actors and their relations, tactics, strategies and approaches matter for global order as they matter for these actors.
This book examines how the Calais Jungle posed and addressed the European Question. Here, the book explores how a ‘right to the jungle’ was generated via relations between refugees, aid workers and material objects—constituting the Jungle as a space of representation.
This book focuses on ethnic journalism in the Global South, approaching it from two angles: as a professional area and as a social mission.
This book, written decades into the HIV epidemic, reflects critically on the idea that the socially excluded populations often focused on in HIV research are in fact difficult to access and reach.
This topical book sheds light on immigrants’ subjective well-being by analysing the main factors associated with self-reported life... Læs mere
Using the case study of Brazil’s economic development, it is shown how development fails because policies Brazil and other low to middle-income countries promote do not overcome the main obstacle to development - rent.