"The Routledge History of Poverty in Europe, c.1450-1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. By explori…
Introduction -- I. Rebooting India -- For whom the bell tolls - The fence eating the crop -- Existential debts -- It's all business, stupid! -- Is abundance possible? -- II. Siege within -- A wounded civilization -- India 1.0 -- India 2.0 -- Indians today -- Present-day India --…
Why are some people poor? Why does absolute poverty persist despite substantial economic growth? What types of late economic development or 'catch-up' capitalism are associated with different poverty outcomes? Global Poverty addresses these apparently simple questions and the ex…
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine is a people's tribunal in the spirit of the Tribunal on Vietnam that was set up by Bertrand Russell in the 1960s. This book contains a selection of the most vital evidence and testimonies presented at the London session.
"Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers, who embody China's most intractable problems of inequali…
The 2004 Hungarian paprika ban -- The 2008 foie gras boycott -- The 2010 red mud spill -- Neoliberalism, molecularization, and the shift to governance
Impact of COVID-19 on Brunei Darussalam economy / Gamini Premaratne, Aishath Shahudha Abdulla, and Farah Amer Hishamuddin -- Cambodia's response to COVID-19 and its socioeconomic dimensions / Júlia Garcia Puig -- COVID-19 and the economy: How Indonesia responded / Aris Ananta, W…
Introduction -- Dispatches from underground -- The public service of discretion -- Gendering the Central Telegraph Office -- Bodied telegraphy -- Unintended network -- Tapped wires -- Martial mercuries -- Voices on the wires -- Epilogue. "In the public imagination, Silicon Vall…
"Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effects on those workers and their communities, but its longterm effects continue to ripple through working-class culture. Economic re…
A "people's war" and the dawn an "American century" -- Containing communism, advancing "the American system" -- Affluence and angst : the politics and culture of Cold War America -- Through the looking glass : discontent and rebellion in the fifties -- Let us begin : the promise…
A call to explore and map the educatıonal challenges under neolıberalısm across the globe / Khalid Arar, Deniz Örücü and Jane Wilkinson -- Challenges of school principals and teachers in private schools : comparison of Turkısh and Palestenian cases / Deniz Örücü and Khalid Arar …
"Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18 to 34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy). Adopti…
Myanmar and the World - From Cox's Bazar to the Western Capitals -- From Pariah to Frontier Economy (1990-2015) -- Democracy's Victory and the Uncertainties of Governing -- Economic Reform: Finding Direction, Moving Forward -- Shifting Images of the Golden Land -- The Simple and…
"Who do you think of when you imagine a hedge fund manager? A greedy fraudster, a visionary entrepreneur, a wolf of Wall Street? These tropes capture the public imagination of a successful hedge fund manager. But behind the designer suits, helicopter commutes, and illicit pursui…
