Development studies

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Subsistence Citizenship

PART I: The Frames of Subsistence in Singida: Cosmology, Ethnography, History

Chapter 1 Hunger in Relief: Village Life and Livelihood

Chapter 2 The Unpredictable Grace of the Sun:

As the political terrain continues to change, people organize, communicate, and participate in different ways than they used to. Social Change and Creative Activism in the 21st Century shows social activism has got a creative new edge that is blurring the boundaries between artist and activist, and pop, prank, and protest. Harrebye explores how the artistic activist is pushing the boundaries of the known repertoire of resistance and dialogue by not only demonstrating against the status quo bu

Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, and has researched in East Africa on social efforts to secure well-being in the face of poverty, disease, conflict, and rapid change. Her publications deal with the management of misfortune, legacies of violence, and transformations in relations of gender and generations.

Develop deeper cultural intelligence to thrive in a globalized world.

Cultural DNA is a thought provoking book for successful engagement with cultures around the world. Written by Gurnek Bains, founder and chairman of a global business psychology consultancy, this book guides leaders through the essential soft skills required to get under the skin and engage an increasingly connected  world.

Presenting ground br

Cristofer Scarboro is Professor of History at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is author of The Late Socialist Good Life in Bulgaria: Living and Meaning in a Permanent Present Tense.

Diana Mincytė is Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York–New York City College of Technology.

Zsuzsa Gille is Professor of Sociology and Director of Global Studies at the University of Illinois at Urba

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1 The Global Development Crisis 1

2 Friedrich List and the Foundations of Statist Political Economy 29

3 Karl Marx, Class Struggle and Social Development 53

4 Trotsky, Gerschenkron and the Clash of Marxism and Statist Political Economy 76

5 Creative Destruction and Global Inequality: From M

Behind India's high recent growth rates lies a story of societal conflict that is scarcely talked about. Across its villages and production sites, state institutions and civil society organisations, the dominant and less well-off sections of society are engaged in antagonistic relations that determine the material conditions of one quarter of the world's 'poor'. Increasingly mobile and often with several jobs in multiple locations, India's 'classes of labour' are highly segmented but far from

Der rasante politische, soziale und wirtschaftliche Wandel, dem die Entwicklungsländer unterworfen sind, ist Gegenstand der Entwicklungspolitik. In diesem Werk werden drei zentrale Aspekte beleuchet:
1.) Die Theorien, die Entwicklung zu erklären versuchen, 2.) die Probleme, die als globale Herausforderungen von der Weltgemeinschaft bearbeitet werden müssen und 3.) die Entwicklungsstrategien, die zur Lösung der Probleme beitragen sollen.
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Santosh Jagtap holds an M.Des. degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Ph.D. from the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is an associate professor in the Department of Design at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has previously worked at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Lund University in Sweden, and Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. Santosh has received awards for his papers in international conferen