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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Society Organisations, Governance and the Caribbean Community
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Civil Society Organisations, Governance and the Caribbean Community


Kristina Hinds


This book offers a unique analysis of the participatory spaces available for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Caribbean governance. It reveals the myriad ways in which the region’s CSOs have contributed to enriching Caribbean societies and to scaffolding Caribbean...

Parution : 2018-12-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China
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Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China


Sabrina Zajak


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 internationalize and accept claims to respect freedom of association rights, and its continuing...

Parution : 2017-01-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Participation and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century City
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Participation and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century City


J. Pearce


Debates on participatory tend to be abstract, with references to experiences in Athens over 2000 years ago. This book uses recent experience in participatory innovations at the city level to explore the practice of participation. Taking examples from Latin America and...

Parution : 2016-01-12
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  International NGO Engagement, Advocacy, Activism
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International NGO Engagement, Advocacy, Activism


Helen Yanacopulos


The world of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) has dramatically changed during the last two decades.The author critically analyses the engagement of INGOs within the contemporary international development landscape, enabling readers to further...

Parution : 2015-10-20
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America
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The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America


A. Dinerstein


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 as 'the art of organising hope': a tool for indigenous and non-indigenous movements to...

Parution : 2014-12-22
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies
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NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies


Kenneth A. Loparo


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 under pressure. This book examines the pressures experienced by NGOs in four partial...

Parution : 2014-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity
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Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity


B. Doherty , T. Doyle


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, which allows for the differences in context between regions and across the North-South...

Parution : 2013-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Creating Community Cohesion
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Creating Community Cohesion


D. Herbert


Using approaches from sociology, media and religious studies, David Herbert compares recent public controversies involving or implicating religion in the UK (England and Northern Ireland), the Netherlands and France.

Parution : 2013-09-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance
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Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance


D. Stone


Diane Stone addresses the network alliances or partnerships of international organisations with knowledge organisations and networks. Moving beyond more common studies of industrial public-private partnerships, she addresses how, and why, international organisations and...

Parution : 2013-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Non-Governmental Public Action and Social Justice
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Non-Governmental Public Action and Social Justice


J. Howell


This unique collection explores the different organizational forms, strategies and tactics that activists adopt. The authors examine how established trades unions struggle to reform, how non-governmental public actors negotiate various dilemmas, and the efforts of...

Parution : 2013-03-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Matters for Non-Governmental Public Action
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Global Matters for Non-Governmental Public Action


J. Howell


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 environmentalism, security, children's rights and more, the contributors explore the complex politics...

Parution : 2012-09-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Pentecostalism and Development
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Pentecostalism and Development


D. Freeman


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 impacts of religion by looking at the developmental consequences of Pentecostal Christianity in...

Parution : 2012-09-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam
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Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam


A. Wells-Dang


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 citizens in non-democratic states actively create informal pathways for advocacy and the...

Parution : 2012-07-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Development beyond Politics
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Development beyond Politics


Thomas Yarrow


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 NGOs, this book reveals the practices and social relations through which ideas of...

Parution : 2011-07-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Challenge of Transition
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The Challenge of Transition


Simon Clarke , Tim Pringle


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 unions have adapted to their new role of representing the rights and interests of workers.

Parution : 2010-11-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Development and Politics from Below
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Development and Politics from Below


B. Bompani , M. Frahm-Arp


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 religion, politics and development in Africa; the meanings of religion in non-Western...

Parution : 2010-07-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Counter-Terrorism, Aid and Civil Society
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Counter-Terrorism, Aid and Civil Society


J. Howell , J. Lind


The book critically examines the effects of the War on Terror on the relationships between civil society, security and aid. It argues that the War on Terror regime has greatly reshaped the field of development and it highlights the longer-lasting impacts of post-9/11...

Parution : 2009-09-29
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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