Development Crises and Alternative Visions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Development Crises and Alternative Visions write by Gita Sen. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Development Crises and Alternative Visions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.
Development, Crises, and Alternative Vision
Development, Crises, and Alternative Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Development, Crises, and Alternative Vision write by Gita Sen. This book was released on 1986. Development, Crises, and Alternative Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Globalizing Women
Globalizing Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalizing Women write by Valentine M. Moghadam. This book was released on 2005-02-16. Globalizing Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Victoria Schuck award given by the American Political Science Association and an Honorable Mention in the Distinguished Book Award given by the Political Economy of World Systems section of the American Sociological Association Globalization may offer modern feminism its greatest opportunity and greatest challenge. Allowing communication and information exchange while also exacerbating economic and social inequalities, globalization has fostered the growth of transnational feminist networks (TFNs). These groups have used the Internet to build coalitions, lobby governments, and advance the goals of feminism. Globalizing Women explains how the negative and positive aspects of globalization have helped to create transnational networks of activists and organizations with common agendas. Sociologist Valentine M. Moghadam discusses six such feminist networks to analyze the organization, objectives, programs, and outcomes of these groups in their effort to improve conditions for women throughout the world. Moghadam also examines how "globalizing women" are responding to and resisting growing inequalities, the exploitation of female labor, and patriarchal fundamentalisms. This book is an important addition to literature exploring feminism as well as to the broader discussion of the impact of transnational social movements and organizations in the globalized world.
Cultivating Crisis
Cultivating Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultivating Crisis write by Douglas L. Murray. This book was released on 2010-07-05. Cultivating Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since World War II, the Green Revolution has boosted agricultural production in Latin America and other parts of the Third World, with money, technical assistance, and other forms of aid from United States development agencies. But the Green Revolution came at a high price—massive pesticide dependence that has caused serious socioeconomic and public health problems and widespread environmental damage. In this study, Douglas Murray draws on ten years of field research to tell the stories of international development strategies, pesticide problems, and agrarian change in Latin America. Interwoven with his considerations of economic and geopolitical dimensions are the human consequences for individual farmers and rural communities. This highly interdisciplinary study, integrating the perspectives of sociology, ecology, economics, political science, and public health, adds an important voice to the debate on opportunities for and obstacles to more lasting and sustainable development in the Third World. It will be of interest to a wide audience in the social and environmental sciences.
The Global Development Crisis
The Global Development Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Global Development Crisis write by Benjamin Selwyn. This book was released on 2014-02-07. The Global Development Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The central paradox of the contemporary world is the simultaneous presence of wealth on an unprecedented scale, and mass poverty. Liberal theory explains the relationship between capitalism and poverty as one based around the dichotomy of inclusion (into capitalism) vs exclusion (from capitalism). Within this discourse, the global capitalist system is portrayed as a sphere of economic dynamism and as a source of developmental opportunities for less developed countries and their populations. Development policy should, therefore, seek to integrate the poor into the global capitalist system. The Global Development Crisis challenges this way of thinking. Through an interrogation of some of the most important political economists of the last two centuries Friedrich List, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Schumpeter, Alexander Gerschenkron, Karl Polanyi and Amarta Sen, Selwyn argues that class relations are the central cause of poverty and inequality, within and between countries. In contrast to much development thinking, which portrays ‘the poor’ as reliant upon benign assistance, this book advocates the concept of labour-centred development. Here ‘the poor’ are the global labouring classes, and their own collective actions and struggles constitute the basis of an alternative form of non-elitist, bottom-up human development.
