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  • Human Rights for Children and Youth
    This volume, written by experts in the field across 3 different continents, explores the condition of childhood with a particular focus on the fundamental rights of children and young people and how this translates into living conditions in different socio-cultural realities. ...
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    174,54 €

  • Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies
    Dana L. Ott / Snejina Michailova
    Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies explores ideas of talent and talent management, and why it matters in the context of small advanced economies. Snejina Michailova and Dana L. Ott incorporate practitioner and consultant’s views to examine attracting, developing and retaining talent in small developed economies, globally. ...
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    143,29 €

  • In the Heat of Africa’s Underdevelopment
    John W. Forje / John WForje
    The ever growing disparity in living standards between the developed and developing polities constitutes a striking feature of life on Planet Earth. This publication is an attempt to highlight some of the factors dividing the worlds apart. A new North-South synergy is needed in creating a balanced world at peace with itself. As long as more than half-the population of the world...
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    59,16 €

  • Aspects of Real Estate Theory and Practice in Zimbabwe
    The subject of real estate is increasingly becoming important, especially in the countries of the developing world. States and governments realise that real estate is a corner stone of socio-economic development. Real estate development contributes immensely to the gross physical capital formation. Its formation, construction and ancillary sectors contribute to the employment, ...
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    81,11 €

  • SADC Gender Protocol 2019 Barometer
    Colleen Lowe Morna / Kubi Rama / Shamiso Chigorimbo
    Scoring another goal for gender equality, the 2019 Southern African Development Community (SADC) Gender Protocol Barometer breaks with past tradition in focusing solely on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Measuring 100 indicators across seven themes, the Barometer is the first civil society shadow report on SADC’s new SRHR Strategy Score Card, ranking countries based ...
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    95,36 €

  • Getting Africa Out of the Dungeon
    Peter Ateh-Afac Fossungu
    Using one of the continent’s supposed pathfinders, Cameroon as case-study, this book interrogates judiciary in Africa in three domains. First, as the third branch of government, second, as the acknowledged umpire of federalism, and, finally, as a means of reversing the institutionalization of in-human rights and injustice administration in Africa. While examining the roots and ...
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    49,68 €

  • Nhakanomics
    Daud Taranhike / Munyaradzi Mawere / Ronnie Lessem
    Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation is a radical departure from the commonly held belief that neo-liberal economics from the US and the West is universal, and is the only solution to underdevelopment and poverty throughout the world. Instead, the book teases out and theorises the intellectually rutted terrain of development st...
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    90,97 €

  • Integral Kumusha
    The world is in crisis and in need of an economic and political regeneration–what is termed in this book “policonomy”. Such a GENEA-tic transformation calls for an awakening of integral consciousness at all levels. For this to be realized the authors posit that “southern” nature and community i.e. integral kumusha should locally lead the regeneration, with “eastern” Culture and...
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    112,85 €

  • Transnational Return and Social Change
    Return has long been considered the end of a migration cycle. Today, returnees’ continued transnational ties, practices and resources have become increasingly visible. ’Transnational Return and Social Change’ pays tribute to the meso-level impacts that follow the practices and resources migrant returnees mobilize across borders, influencing communities, organizations, social ne...
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    180,39 €

  • Epidemics and the Health of African Nations
    MISTRA
    News footage of disease in Africa is a familiar sight. Yet these outbreaks are often presented out of context, with no reference to the conditions that have triggered them. MISTRA’s new book, Epidemics and the Health of African Nations, aims to redress that. Researchers and practitioners from within the continent explore why Africa is so vulnerable to disease, and show how this...
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    97,90 €

  • A Social History of Cuba’s Protestants
    James A. Baer / James ABaer
    A Social History of Cuba’s Protestants: God and the Nation presents a religious and social history of Cuba, focusing on the Presbyterian and other Protestant churches, to show the continuity of ties between US and Cuban churches before and after the revolution in 1959. By examining the history of Cuba’s Protestants as agents of social change within Cuba and as partners with US ...
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    128,82 €

  • World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined
    In a time of turmoil in international economic law, experts from 10 countries suggest ideas for a new and progressive trade and investment regime in ’World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined’ that would help sustain growth, facilitate development and ensure that gains are shared and losses compensated. ...
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    180,09 €

  • Digital Diasporas
    Radhika Gajjala
    When we work or play through digital technologies - we also live in them. Communities form, conversations and social movements emerge spontaneously and through careful offline planning. While we have used disembodied communication and transportation technologies in the past - and still do - we have never before actually synchronously inhabited these communicative spaces, routes...
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    135,87 €

  • Necroclimatism in a Spectral World (Dis)order?
    Highlighting the problematiques of working with a narrow version of greenhouse effects or global warming, this book posits the theory of necroclimatism that encompasses broader versions of greenhouse effects and global warming. Conceiving cultures, societies, moral sensibilities, epistemologies, polities, economies, legal systems and religions of the formerly colonised peoples ...
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    58,96 €

  • Zimbabwe Will Never be a Colony Again!
    Munoda Mararike
    This is a thought-provoking original book, based on a wealth of empirical case studies of how Zimbabwe experienced illegal economic sanctions. It is a study of how the humanly constructed obstructions – from external remittances/finance flows into the country to finance embargos or total financial blockages – are deliberately created by so-called ‘powerful’ governments to deal ...
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    61,98 €

  • Digital Diasporas
    Radhika Gajjala
    When we work or play through digital technologies - we also live in them. Communities form, conversations and social movements emerge spontaneously and through careful offline planning. While we have used disembodied communication and transportation technologies in the past - and still do - we have never before actually synchronously inhabited these communicative spaces, routes...
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    44,48 €

  • Strategic Marketing for Social Enterprises in Developing Nations
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    196,80 €

  • Social Protests in Colombia
    Mauricio Archila Neira / Camilo Ordoñez-Zambrano
    Social Protests in Colombia: A History, 1958-1990 examines social mobilization in Colombia through a variety of lenses in an interdisciplinary approach. Mauricio Archila-Neira incorporates theories from diverse social sciences including subaltern studies and postcolonial approaches to open up an intergenerational dialogue about political transformation and social change. Archil...
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    162,82 €

  • The Sustainability Ethic in the Management of the Physical, Infrastructural and Natural Resources of Zimbabwe
    Innocent Chirisa
    Humanity has extensively exploited natural and physical resources, since the Industrial Revolution in Europe. A geological era, now called the Anthropocene, has been coined in environmental and developmental circles, to mark the increased domination of humanity on Earth and its resources. Today, the ecological footprint on the fragile planet continues to increase. Mass industri...
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    141,21 €

  • The State of Open Data
    It’s been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse. As the open data movement ent...
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    111,78 €

  • Management by Seclusion
    Glynn Cochrane
    50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incomes stimulated by Bank loans processed by deskbound Washington staff, trickling down to the poorest. Instead, child poverty and homelessness are on the increase everywhere. In this book, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glyn...
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    203,92 €

  • Management by Seclusion
    Glynn Cochrane
    50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incomes stimulated by Bank loans processed by deskbound Washington staff, trickling down to the poorest. Instead, child poverty and homelessness are on the increase everywhere. In this book, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glyn...
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    38,29 €

  • Agricultural Reform in Rwanda
    Chris Huggins
    International observers have lauded Rwanda as an example of an African country taking control of its own development trajectory, and as a market-friendly destination for investment. A key component of this narrative has been an ambitious programme of agricultural reform, involving private firms, NGOs, and international charities. The Rwandan government claims these reforms have...
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    39,47 €

  • Education in Tanzania in the Era of Globalisation
    Education in Tanzania in the Era of Globalisation Challenges and Opportunities is a product of papers presented at a National Education Conference held in Dodoma, Tanzania in November 2016 and organised by the Aga Khan University-Institute for Educational Development, East Africa (AKU-IED-EA). At present, Tanzania’s development direction is guided by Vision 2025, which aims to ...
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    59,48 €

  • Food Security in Africa’s Secondary Cities
    Jonathan Crush / Lawrence Kazembe / Ndeyapo Nickanor
    This is the first research report to examine the nature and drivers of food insecurity in the northern Namibian towns of Oshakati, Ongwediva, and Ondangwa. As well as forming part of a new body of research on secondary urbanization and food security in Africa, the report makes systematic comparisons between the food security situation in this urban corridor and the much larger ...
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    35,31 €

  • African Markets and the Utu-Ubuntu Business Model
    Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
    The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows ...
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    39,70 €

  • Rethinking and Unthinking Development
    Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa's former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic,...
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    184,08 €

  • Playing the Marginality Game
    Anita Schroven
    In Guinea, situated in the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics, through history and contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generation-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides. Simultaneously, administrative reform and national unrest lead to the creative re-combination of...
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    184,35 €

  • Digitalization and the Field of African Studies
    Mirjam de Bruijn
    Urbanization in Africa also means rapid technological change. At the turn of the 21st century, mobile telephony appeared in urban Africa. Ten years later, it covered large parts of rural Africa and – thanks to the smartphone – became the main access to the internet. This development is part of technological transformations in digitalization that are supposed to bridge the urban...
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    31,58 €

  • Displacement, Elimination and Replacement of Indigenous People
    Colonial scholars have taken immense pleasure in portraying Africans as possessed by spirits but as lacking possession and ownership of their resources, including land. Erroneously deemed to be thoroughly spiritually possessed but lacking senses of material possession and ownership of resources, Africans have been consistently dispossessed and displaced from the era of enslavem...
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    49,45 €


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