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The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America
The author contests older concepts of autonomy as either revolutionary or ineffective vis-à-vis the state. Looking at four prominent Latin American movements, she defines autonomy …
Global Matters for Non-Governmental Public Action
Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed empirical research around the themes of …
Development beyond Politics
Is 'development' the answer for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for perpetuating inequality? Moving beyond an increasingly entrenched debate about the role of …
Development and Politics from Below
Religion is playing an increasingly central role in African political and developmental life. This book offers an empirical and theoretical reflection on the relationships between …
Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam
This book brings a fresh, original approach to understand social action in China and Vietnam through the conceptual lens of informal environmental and health networks. It shows how …
Creating Community Cohesion
Using approaches from sociology, media and religious studies, David Herbert compares recent public controversies involving or implicating religion in the UK (England and Northern …
Faith in the Time of AIDS
This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader …
NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies
Over the past decade, international human rights organizations and think tanks have expressed a growing concern that the space of civil society organizations around the world is …
Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity
Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a distinctive environmentalism, …
The Challenge of Transition
This book explores the transformation of employment relations, the rise of worker protest and the reform of trade union practice to ask how successfully the state-socialist trade …
Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China
This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy. The book highlights the tensions present between China’s efforts to …
Pentecostalism and Development
Development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question and explore the practical …