Описание: Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts. Consequently, political movements and nongovernmental organizations increasingly contest the risks that corporations pose to people and nature. Mining Capitalism examines the strategies through which corporations manage their relationships with these critics and adversaries.
By focusing on the conflict over the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea, Stuart Kirsch tells the story of a slow-moving environmental disaster and the international network of indigenous peoples, advocacy groups, and lawyers that sought to protect local rivers and rain forests. Along the way, he analyzes how corporations promote their interests by manipulating science and invoking the discourses of sustainability and social responsibility. Based on two decades of anthropological research, this book is comparative in scope, showing readers how similar dynamics operate in other industries around the world.
Автор: Vighi Fabio, Nuselovici Alexis, Ponzi Mauro Название: Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences ISBN: 0739188356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739188354 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 13811.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences uses the term "threshold" as a means to understand the relationship between Self and Other, as well as relationships between different cultures. The concept of "threshold" defines the relationship between inside and outside not in oppositional terms, but as complementaries. This book discusses the cultural and social "border areas" of modernity, which are to be understood not as "zones" in a territorial sense, but as "spaces in between" in which different languages and cultures operate. The essays in Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces identify the dimension in urban topographies and political spaces where we are able to locate paradigmatic experiences of thresholds. Because these spaces are characterized by contradictions, conflicts, and aporias, we propose to rethink those hermeneutic categories that imply a sharp opposition between inside and outside. This means that the theoretical definition of threshold put forward in these essays-whether applied to history, philosophy, law, art, or cultural studies-embodies new juridical and political stances.
Автор: Seligson, Mitchell A Название: The Gap Between Rich And Poor ISBN: 0367292459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367292454 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents empirical studies on the existence and causes of the gap between rich and poor nations. It will be especially useful in courses on Third World development, political economy, comparative politics, development economics, the sociology of development, and related topics.
Название: Closing the Gap Between Technology and Application ISBN: 0367017571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367017576 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This comprehensive study of five major areas of computer application in higher education presents the viewpoints of both purveyors and users of computer technology. The material is based on the EDUCOM 1977 Fall Conference. In the initial chapters of the book, Peter Roll and C. A, Conover offer a general perspective on the use of computing in higher education, noting that the use of small machines in a distributed fashion is changing the organization and application of computers on campus today. In succeeding chapters, the highlighted areas—office automation, distributed academic computing, distributed administrative computing, instructional systems, and information resources—are each examined with a three-part approach. First, technical issues related to the specific area are presented, then administrative issues are explored, and finally a reaction and overview are provided. The contributors recognize the gap that exists between the potential of computer technology for higher education and the reality of current applications; they all identify specific problems in their areas and suggest approaches to solving those problems. The concluding chapter addresses the technology transfer process in colleges and universities. Donald Smith advances the theory that the compatability of new technologies in distributed computing with the traditional distributed nature of higher education may well contribute to the rapid and effective use of computers in higher education.
Название: Closing The Gap Between Technology And Application ISBN: 0367167441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367167448 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents analyses, from three points of view, of the use of computing technology in higher education. It considers application areas including office automation, distributed academic computing, distributed administrative computing, instructional systems, and information resources.
Автор: Belton, Padraig Название: Why doesn`t capital flow from rich to poor countries? ISBN: 1912128438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912128433 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 995.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Because the potential returns appear to be greater in poorer countries than in the developed world, modern economic theory implies that rich countries should continually invest in poor countries until returns balance out. But this doesn`t happen - and economist Robert E. Lucas Jr. asked why in his ground-breaking 1990 article on what has become known as the Lucas paradox.
Автор: Wolfgang Glatzer Название: Rich and Poor ISBN: 9401039542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401039543 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is concerned with the question of inequality - which points to a major structural problem in intra-national and inter-national respect.
Автор: Reiman, Jeffrey , Leighton, Paul Название: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison ISBN: 0367231786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367231781 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 19906.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book tells readers that much of what goes on in the criminal justice system violates citizens` sense of basic fairness. Data shows that the criminal justice system does not function in the way it says it does nor in the way that readers believe it should.
Автор: Reiman, Jeffrey , Leighton, Paul Название: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison ISBN: 0367231794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367231798 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5358.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book tells readers that much of what goes on in the criminal justice system violates citizens` sense of basic fairness. Data shows that the criminal justice system does not function in the way it says it does nor in the way that readers believe it should.
Автор: Gauhar, Altaf Название: The Rich And The Poor ISBN: 0367295512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367295516 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 18374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is about proceedings from the Third World to the South-South Conference, held in Beijing in April 1983, on strategies of development, negotiations and cooperation pursued by developing countries in the last thirty years. It discusses the principal elements in the global economic crisis.
Автор: Reiman, Jeffrey Leighton, Paul (eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Usa) Название: Rich get richer and the poor get prison ISBN: 1032437529 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032437521 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5051.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Gauhar, Altaf Название: The Rich And The Poor ISBN: 036731097X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367310974 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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