The Village Against The World

Author : Dan Hancox
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781682984
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village Against the World written by Dan Hancox and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred kilometers from Seville lies the small village of Marinaleda, which for the last thirty-five years has been the center of a tireless struggle to create a living utopia. Today, Marinaleda is a place where the farms and the processing plants are collectively owned and provide work for everyone who wants it. As Spain's crisis becomes ever more desperate, Marinaleda also suffers from the international downturn. Can the village retain its utopian vision? Can the iconic mayor Sánchez Gordillo hold on to the dream against the depredations of the world beyond his village?

Author : S. Ann Dunham
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392615
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surviving against the Odds written by S. Ann Dunham and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Barack Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having the opportunity to revise her dissertation for publication, as she had planned. Dunham’s dissertation adviser Alice G. Dewey and her fellow graduate student Nancy I. Cooper undertook the revisions at the request of Dunham’s daughter, Maya Soetoro-Ng. The result is Surviving against the Odds, a book based on Dunham’s research over a period of fourteen years among the rural metalworkers of Java, the island home to nearly half Indonesia’s population. Surviving against the Odds reflects Dunham’s commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem solving; and her impressive command of history, economic data, and development policy. Along with photographs of Dunham, the book includes many pictures taken by her in Indonesia. After Dunham married Lolo Soetoro in 1967, she and her six-year-old son, Barack Obama, moved from Hawai‘i to Soetoro’s home in Jakarta, where Maya Soetoro was born three years later. Barack returned to Hawai‘i to attend school in 1971. Dedicated to Dunham’s mother Madelyn, her adviser Alice, and “Barack and Maya, who seldom complained when their mother was in the field,” Surviving against the Odds centers on the metalworking industries in the Javanese village of Kajar. Focusing attention on the small rural industries overlooked by many scholars, Dunham argued that wet-rice cultivation was not the only viable economic activity in rural Southeast Asia. Surviving against the Odds includes a preface by the editors, Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper, and a foreword by her daughter Maya Soetoro-Ng, each of which discusses Dunham and her career. In his afterword, the anthropologist and Indonesianist Robert W. Hefner explores the content of Surviving against the Odds, its relation to anthropology when it was researched and written, and its continuing relevance today.

Author : Maria Mies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876756826
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village and the World written by Maria Mies and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In retrospect, my life appears to me like a meandering river which started out as a small stream in the mountains of the volcanic Eifel. The stream eventually collected more waters, grew broader and broader, and branched out into a huge network that now encompasses the whole world. In this autobiography Maria Mies packs in seventy-seven years of life: from the small German village of her childhood, to the world of the Indian subcontinent. Sociologist and womens studies researcher, scholar, ecofeminist, and international activist against violence against women and exploitation through globalisation, Maria Mies is one of the worlds original thinkers. Her achievements include developing groundbreaking praxis and theory around the concept of "housewifisation", the violence of colonisation and profound writings about ecofeminism. She fights the Multilateral Agreement of Investment, she fights the General Agreement on Trade in Services, she fights against the patenting of life and tackles reproductive and genetic engineering as well as food security, but she never gives up hope that there is an alternative to present day injustice and exploitation; that "the good life" is possible. And Maria never forgets her origins: Despite all my travels around the world, I have never forgotten where I came from: from a peasant family in a small village. This not only helped me keep my feet on the ground, but also protected me from excessive romanticism and quixotic idealism. I know that the food doesnt come from the supermarket but from the soil.

Author : David J. Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780713668803
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If the World Were a Village written by David J. Smith and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the new paperback edition of a beautiful and unique book, which explains facts about the world's population in a simple and fascinating way. Instead of unimaginable billions, it presents the whole world as a village of just 100 people. We soon find out that 22 speak a Chinese dialect and that 17 cannot read or write. We also discover the people's religions, their education, their standard of living, and much much more… This book provokes thought and elicits questions. It cannot fail to inspire children's interest in world geography, citizenship and different customs and cultures, whether they read it at home or at school.

Author : Igorʹ Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Preaching and Practice of the Chinese Leaders written by Igorʹ Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick George Bailey
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gifts and Poison written by Frederick George Bailey and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1971 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Change in Eastern Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Downing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film & Politics in the Third World written by John Downing and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only anthology of its kind in English, this book offers crucial treatments of the best-known individuals and leading national cinemas from all over the Third World. Contributing chapters range from analyses of a number of critical single films and interviews with well-known directors to studies of national film industries to political/aesthetic manifestos. Film & Politics examines media politics from West Africa to North America, with stops in Morocco, Algeria, Iran, Turkey, India, China, the Philippines, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, and Cuba along the way. -- Publisher description.

Author : William Hubert Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French-speaking Africa written by William Hubert Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Technical World Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: