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  • ¿Quién gobierna a los excluidos?
    Alex Diamond / Alfonso (trad.) Conde
    Durante décadas, el campo colombiano se vio sacudido por la violencia interna entre la guerrilla de las farc, el Ejército y los paramilitares. Los titulares de prensa, sin embargo, rara vez lograban capturar lo que esto significaba para la gente del común que intentaba forjarse una vida en sus remotos hogares, ni tampoco la forma en que sus vidas incidían en los esfuerzos por c...
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    24,44 €

  • The Latin American Peasant
    Andrew Pearse
    First Published 1975, The Latin American Peasant is not a historian’s book, the presentation is rather sociological. The concept peasant, taken as equivalent of the word campesino or campones, does have both historical and geographical reality in the Latin American context. ...
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    56,76 €

  • An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development
    Norman Long
    All too often economic aspects of development have been stressed without due regard to the sociological dimension. In this book, originally published in 1977, Norman Long uses empirical studies by sociologists and social anthropologists as a focus for his discussions of general theoretical and methodological issues. ...
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    154,48 €

  • La historia oculta de la comunidad ecológica
    Alejandro Garrós Darquier / Jorge Braña Segura
    Comunidad, ecología, historia chilena contemporánea, desafíos de quienes quieren habitar un mundo distinto y cahuines que fluctúan entre lo gracioso y lo escandaloso se dan la mano en este libro. A partir de vivencias en la Comunidad Ecológica de Peñalolén, el libro relata alrededor de 50 anécdotas queinvolucran a personajes que son generalmente de amplio conocimiento público, ...
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    16,12 €

  • I Tell It Like It Is! (Volume 1 of 3)
    Kuhn
    Volume One chronicles John Kuhn’s journey from a hay-allergic farmer’s son, born on the same day as Harry Potter and being gently guided by God to be a Writer. Yet, John was also born on the same day as his dairy farmer grandfather, Fritz Kuhn, who loved to take him gopher hunting, just like the movie, Caddyshack! Fresh new Author John Kuhn will take you on a detailed, unvarnis...
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    15,50 €

  • Family and Work in Rural Societies
    Norman Long
    Drawing on data from rural communities both within and outside Europe, the contributors to this volume, originally published in 1984, examine the character and significance of non-wage forms of labour - for example unpaid household agricultural and domestic work and inter-household or community-level labour exchanges. ...
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    154,48 €

  • Inequality at the Urban-Rural Nexus
    Alexander R. Thomas / Gregory M. Fulkerson / Kirsten Kemmerer
    This book examines the systemic and structural nature of social inequalities, focusing on how the urban-rural divide intersects with race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality to shape identities and access to opportunities.It offers valuable insights for sociologists and scholars of inequality seeking to broaden the scope of current research. Ultimately, the authors argue t...
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    141,29 €

  • Tribal Knowledge Systems
    This book delineates tribal knowledge systems and their multidisciplinary nature. It describes the science behind tribal art and architecture, medicinal and healing systems, agriculture, human-nature coherence etc. It highlights the importance of preservation and promotion of these knowledge systems to create a sustainable world. ...
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    267,68 €

  • Degraded Heartland
    Maria Farland
    What happens when rural America—long romanticized in pastoral literature—becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland’s Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US literary antipastoral, a mode that exposes the stark realities of rural poverty and ecological devastation while highlighting the jagged process of modernization in the country...
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    41,08 €

  • Communities on the Margin
    Saiyed Nadeemul Hasnain
    This book probes into the marginalized communities of the Indian society through historical and contemporary societal perspectives. ...
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    75,72 €

  • Americans Against the City
    Steven Conn / Natalia Rogova
    ENGIt is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where ""big government"" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the ""anti-urban impulse."" In response,...
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    41,82 €

  • Social Suffering and Healing among Migrant Labourers
    Sangeeta Yadav
    The book uncovers the nuances of the lives of unskilled migrant labourers in India. The qualitative approach, social constructivist paradigm and ethnographic fieldwork supporting the narratives will not only help readers understand the experiences of the migrant communities but will also facilitate a bond of empathy with them. ...
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    268,54 €

  • Toilet Adoption in Rural India
    Gyan Mudra / Indranil De / Saswata Biswas
    This book examines sanitation and toilet access across rural India, focusing on psychological, socio-cultural, infrastructural, and normative barriers to the initiative of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). It also studies the implications of variations in caste, religion, and geography on toilet usage across Indian states. ...
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    82,84 €

  • Issues and Challenges of the American Rural South
    Issues and Challenges of the American Rural South provides students with carefully selected readings that help them understand the unique social problems faced by inhabitants of the southern region of the United States.Part I of the text features readings related to poverty issues in the South and their impact on marginalized individuals and groups. Part II examines health disp...
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    163,61 €

  • Rural Development in Iran, 1960-2020
    Mostafa Azkia
    This book is an authoritative account of rural development in Iran, spanning sixty years and two distinct political regimes. This comprehensive assessment from Iran’s foremost rural sociologist will be an important read for researchers and professionals working on rural development and sociology in the Middle East. ...
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    267,69 €

  • Resettlement with People First
    This book puts forward powerful counterfactual case studies to assess what problems real-world development projects would likely have avoided if the project had followed a higher standard, such as the World Commission on Dams policy framework. For academic researchers, development practitioners, and policy makers. ...
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    82,57 €

  • Grassroots Development Initiatives in India
    Sampat Kale
    This book examines how the voluntary organisations engaged with development programmes work with the approach of conscientisation to empower Adivasis. ...
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    82,93 €

  • Crime, Peoples and Places
    Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across nineteen countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimization, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices. ...
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    267,22 €

  • The Farmers of Old England
    Eric Kerridge
    Originally published in 1973, this book tells the story of the English countryside and its inhabitants between 1560 and 1760; the time when British agriculture became the wonder and envy of the world. ...
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    53,21 €

  • Representaciones sociales, turismo y posconflicto en Colombia - Un estudio de caso en la subregión sur del Tolima
    Camilo Fernando Calderón Suaza / Erick Fernando Aristizábal Rodríguez / Lizeth Paola Romero Muñetón
    Este libro nace como producto de los resultados de investigación generados a través de las voces comunitarias del sur del Tolima, una subregión que alguna vez estuvo marcada por el conflicto armado, pero que hoy busca alternativas económicas y sociales para superar las consecuencias de la guerra. En ese sentido, a través de la actividad turística, con justicia social, las comun...
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    17,16 €

  • Fundamentals of Rural Development
    Bikram Keshari Pattanaik
    The book expounds on the functioning of rural development as well as the practical problems encountered in the formulation of rural development policies and programs. It will be useful to undergraduate and post graduate students, researchers, teachers of development studies, economics, sociology, political science, and public administration. ...
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    266,57 €

  • Groundwater Politics
    Sally Babidge
    The mining industry is an expanding socio-ecological and political problem worldwide, not least in Atacameño-Likanantay (Indigenous) territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama, Chile. Groundwater Politics addresses the social, technical and political conditions it calls ’advanced extractivism’ to reveal how groundwater extraction sustains both ecological damage and mining ...
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    184,24 €

  • Sentient Ecologies
    Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While the field of sentient landscapes has gained critical attention, the literature rarely seems to question the intentionality of ...
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    26,35 €

  • Poverty and Social Inequality in Wales
    Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality and poverty in Wales, discussing such aspects as the distribution of income and wealth, the housing situation, the functioning of the NHS and urban deprivation. ...
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    55,50 €

  • Saol Corrach
    Séamus Ó Grianna
    IARSCRÍBHINNRereading Saol Corrach I am struck not so much by the detail of the narrative as by the role of a writer like Ó Grianna in forming the consciousness of his readers. His language is free-flowing and personal, yet the repetition of phrases and expressions creates a continual series of fasteners linking present narrative to the words of parents and grandparents, and be...
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    18,39 €

  • Gentle Places and Simple Things
    Kevin Danaher
    ’If the four-leafed shamrock was lucky, the hungry grass who quite the opposite, and very unlucky he who trod on it.’ In point of fact if you trod on the hungry grass you almost expired of hunger -- for this is where some poor wretch died of starvation in the famine days. The hungry grass is still remembered in Ireland, like the stories of highwaymen and travelling people, of s...
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    18,86 €

  • China’s Social Credit
    Huang Xiaoye / Zhai Xuewei
    This book analyzes credit crisis issues in China from the aspect of individuals, enterprises, and government through investigations of six Chinese urban and rural areas. ...
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    77,39 €

  • Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf
    David Seddon / Fraser Sugden / Mark Tilzey
    Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolf’s celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, this book offers a much-needed critical assessment and update of Wolf’s contribution to the study of the peasantry. ...
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    77,34 €

  • Health Beyond Medicine
    Anoop Saraya / Vikas Bajpai
    This book integrates the concept of healthcare with social determinants such as caste, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity. It traces the history of health services and also discusses the landmark report of the Bhore committee, which laid the foundations of healthcare in independent India. ...
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    254,17 €

  • 17 de mayo. El otro Uchuraccay
    Comunidad de Huaynacancha / José Luis Torres Vitolas
    La madrugada del 17 de mayo de 1983, los terroristas de Sendero Luminoso entraron a nuestro pueblo. Como luciérnagas se movían con sus antorchas, avanzando rápido hacia nosotros, papá. Nos mataron de la forma más cruel que jamás habíamos visto. A mujeres, a niños pequeñitos, como despojos, los dejaron en la falda del cerro Sangaqasa.Con conocimiento de lo que habían hecho con n...
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    29,64 €


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