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Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective by Philip McMichael 9781071903506
Booksplease Price: £119.26Development and Social Change explores the historical, socio-political, and ecological aspects of development. The Eighth Edition critically engages with the concept of development, tracing its roots... -
Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective Philip McMichael (Cornell University, USA) 9781544305363
Booksplease Price: £114.27Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective explains how development thinking and practice have shaped our world. It introduces students to four interconnected projects, and how their... -
Food and Agrarian Orders in the World-Economy by Philip D. McMichael 9780275949662
Booksplease Price: £35.83The emergence of a world economy depends on the reorganization of agriculture and food systems to provision the work force and the industries associated with the division of labor. This work... -
Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions by Philip D. McMichael 9781853398797
Booksplease Price: £13.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853398797Author Philip McMichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Practical Action... -
Recognition and Redistribution: Beyond International Development by Heloise Weber
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This is an innovative and insightful approach to the global politics of development. The authors challenge conventional perspectives of, and approaches to, development and offer alternative accounts... -
The Politics of Food Sovereignty: Concept, Practice and Social Movements Annie Shattuck (Food First, California, USA) 9780367139292
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Food sovereignty has been a fundamentally contested concept in global agrarian discourse over the last two decades, as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement, and an... -
Settlers and the Agrarian Question: Capitalism in Colonial Australia by Philip D. McMichael 9780521523165
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book traces the formation of Australian colonial society and economy within the context of the changing fortunes of British hegemony in the nineteenth-century world economy. Australia's... -
Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change by Philip D. McMichael
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81At a time when the development promise is increasingly in question, with dwindling social gains, the vision of modernity is losing its legitimacy and coherence. This moment is observable through the... -
Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350 by Janet L. Abu Lughod 9780195067743
RRP: £39.49Booksplease Price: £31.34In this important study, Janet Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution and provides a new paradigm for understanding the evolution of world systems by... -
Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty: Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 2 Marc Edelman 9781138122765
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide... -
Finance or Food?: The Role of Cultures, Values, and Ethics in Land Use Negotiations by Hilde Bjorkhaug 9781487522476
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Exploring the ways in which culture, systems of value, and ethics impact agriculture, this volume addresses contemporary land questions and conditions for agricultural land management. Throughout,... -
The Struggle for Food Sovereignty: Alternative Development and the Renewal of Peasant Societies Today Remy Herrera 9780745335940
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.04The world's food system is broken, and today's peasant societies are at a crossroads. This collection explores the multiplicity of problems faced by global family agricultures in the current... -
Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies by Saturnino M. Borras 9780415591775
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, provoking a variety of reactions from rural... -
Global Governance in Question: Empire, Class and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South Relations Susanne Soederberg 9780745320694
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30Like many buzzwords, 'global governance' is as poorly understood as it is popular. In contrast to most mainstream accounts, this book examines global economic governance as an integral moment of... -
Where Shrimp Eat Better than People: Globalized Fisheries, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Asian Hunger by Wilma Dunaway 9789004522640
Booksplease Price: £102.21East, South and Southeast Asia are home to two-thirds of the world's hungry people, but they produce more than three-quarters of the world's fish and nearly half of other foods. Through integration... -
Peasants and Globalization: Political Economy, Agrarian Transformation and Development A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi 9780415588751
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £53.24In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population lived in cities. However, on a global scale, poverty overwhelmingly retains a rural face. This book assembles an... -
The Struggle for Development Benjamin Selwyn (University of Sussex) 9781509512799
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist... -
The Food Wars by Walden Bello 9781844673315
Booksplease Price: £17.80Violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices from 2006 to 2008, highlighted an intrinsic flaw in the modern system of world trade-one that poses a serious threat to... -
Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism: A Time of Reproductive Unrest by Madelaine Moore 9781526165985
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water. Presenting an incorporated comparison, it analyses the conjuncture following the 2007 financial... -
The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change by Saturnino M. Borras 9780415833783
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.38This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts... -
Environment and Food by Colin Sage 9780415363129
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54This timely book provides a thorough introduction to the inter-relationship of food and the environment. Its primary purpose is to bring to our attention the multiplicity of linkages and... -
Carbon by Kate Ervine 9781509501113
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Carbon is the political challenge of our time. While critical to supporting life on Earth, too much carbon threatens to destroy life as we know it, with rising sea levels, crippling droughts, and... -
Carbon Kate Ervine 9781509501120
Booksplease Price: £17.03Carbon is the political challenge of our time. While critical to supporting life on Earth, too much carbon threatens to destroy life as we know it, with rising sea levels, crippling droughts, and... -
Social Mobilization, Global Capitalism and Struggles over Food: A Comparative Study of Social Movements by Renata Motta 9781138358799
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This book explores the transformation of Brazil and Argentina into two of the world's largest producers of genetically modified (GM) crops. Systematically comparing their stories in order to explain... -
The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change J. Timmons Roberts (Brown University, Rhode Island, USA) 9781118735107
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £31.46This revised and updated second edition of The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the considerable success of a first edition that has been used around the world. It combines selected... -
Food Security in the Middle East by Zahra Babar 9781849043021
Booksplease Price: £23.93This volume comprises original, empirically- grounded chapters that collectively offer the most comprehensive study available to date on food security in the Middle East. The book starts with a... -
Development by Anthony Payne 9780745630670
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The concept of development has never been in greater need of analysis and clarification than in the present era. Just about everyone is 'for' development as an assumed 'good', yet few seem to have a... -
Development by Anthony Payne 9780745630687
Booksplease Price: £18.06The concept of development has never been in greater need of analysis and clarification than in the present era. Just about everyone is 'for' development as an assumed 'good', yet few seem to have a... -
The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto by Gustavo Esteva 9781447301097
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.29On January 20, 1949 US President Harry S. Truman officially opened the era of development. On that day, over one half of the people of the world were defined as "underdeveloped" and they have stayed... -
Breaking the WTO: How Emerging Powers Disrupted the Neoliberal Project by Kristen Hopewell
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The world economic order has been upended by the rise of the BRIC nations and the attendant decline of the United States' international influence. In Breaking the WTO, Kristen Hopewell provides a... -
Breaking the WTO: How Emerging Powers Disrupted the Neoliberal Project by Kristen Hopewell 9780804798662
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90The world economic order has been upended by the rise of the BRIC nations and the attendant decline of the United States' international influence. In Breaking the WTO, Kristen Hopewell provides a... -
Violent Environments by Nancy Lee Peluso
Booksplease Price: £28.18Do environmental problems and processes produce violence? Current U.S. policy about environmental conflict and scholarly work on environmental security assume direct causal links between population... -
The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto by Gustavo Esteva 9781447301080
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.29On January 20, 1949 US President Harry S. Truman officially opened the era of development. On that day, over one half of the people of the world were defined as "underdeveloped" and they have stayed... -
Land and Freedom: The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism by Leandro Vergara-Camus 9781780327426
Booksplease Price: £26.60The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against neoliberalism. But what have these movements... -
Food in a Changing Climate by Alana Mann
Booksplease Price: £20.88Our diets are going to change dramatically as global warming affects growing seasons and the availability of different foods around the world. Meanwhile, our foodways are among the biggest... -
The Handbook of Food Research by Warren Belasco 9781474283434
Booksplease Price: £42.58The last 20 years have seen a burgeoning of social scientific and historical research on food. The field has drawn in experts to investigate topics such as: the way globalisation affects the food ... -
Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-First Century: Theories, Debates, Realities and Policies by Julio Boltvinik 9781783608430
Booksplease Price: £31.52Peasants are a majority of the world's poor. Despite this, there has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty studies. Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-first... -
Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and its Consequences by Hugh Campbell 9781350120549
Booksplease Price: £112.13This open access book argues that the farm is a key player in the creation and stabilisation of political, economic and ecological power-particularly in colonised landscapes like New Zealand, America... -
Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming control Priscilla Claeys (University of Louvain, Belgium) 9781138793026
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, such as land grabbing, food prices volatility,... -
The Origins of COVID-19: China and Global Capitalism by Li Zhang
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.50A new strain of coronavirus emerged sometime in November 2019, and within weeks a cluster of patients began to be admitted to hospitals in Wuhan with severe pneumonia, most of them linked to the...