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Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian
studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary
insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand
agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It
highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by
theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation. The
Handbook presents critical analyses of, and examines controversies
about, historical and contemporary social structures and processes
in agrarian and rural settings from a wide range of perspectives.
Chapters explore the origins of critical agrarian studies, the
concepts underpinning the diverse theoretical approaches to the
field, and the strengths and weaknesses of different methodologies
used within the field. Finally, it illuminates debates around the
topic and trajectories for future research and development. This
will be a vital resource for graduate students, scholars and
activists interested in critical agrarian studies. The analytical
and empirical insights will also be helpful to students of
environmental and development studies as well as agricultural and
development economics, human geography and socio-cultural
anthropology.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This collection of essays by leading and emergent critics of
twentieth-century fiction offers a wide-ranging and provocative
reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism.
Focusing on mid-century writing, the book identifies continuities
of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the
challenge to literary form presented by public and private
violence--that span the entire century. The book offers new
readings of such famous figures as Amis, Golding, Greene and Spark,
and reappraises the work of brilliant but less familiar
contemporaries including Ann Quin, Elizabeth Taylor and Storm
Jameson.
Find out how best to develop HIV prevention programs that work
Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV
Prevention Research Efforts is a must read for anyone interested in
developing prevention programs within high-risk urban environments.
Illustrative case studies, quality research, revealing personal
stories, and helpful tables and figures provide valuable insights
on innovative ways to partner in the prevention of the spread of
HIV in youths. Leading experts in the field offer practical
strategies to dissolve the distrust individuals in a community hold
for researchers not a part of that community, fostering an
effective collaboration to deal with problems. The book also
describes ways to go beyond the United States' model to reveal how
to replicate the same dynamic relationships in international
communities. Active participation with the community and families
has been found to be vital for the success of HIV/AIDS prevention
efforts. Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for
HIV Prevention Research Efforts solves the common problem of
forcing ineffective program models onto an unreceptive community.
Program developers get the necessary tools to develop relationships
and cultivate substantive input from those in the community to help
ensure better program results. The research here is up-to-date, and
the suggestions invaluable. Topics in Community Collaborative
Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV Prevention Research Efforts
include: the role of parenting in mental health and HIV risk
research findings about frequency of sexual intercourse among
adolescents racial socialization and family role in HIV knowledge
family influences on exposure to situations of sexual possibility
preadolescent risk behavior influence on parental monitoring
strategies for collaboration between community and academic HIV
prevention researchers involving urban parents as collaborators in
HIV prevention research motivatorsand barriersto participation of
minority families in a prevention program transferring a
university-led HIV prevention program to the community Trinidad and
Tobago HIV/AIDS prevention using a family-based program and much
more! Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV
Prevention Research Efforts is valuable reading for researchers,
program developers, community-based organizations, public
policy/advocacy organizations, community organizers, educators, and
students in the fields of social work, public health, public
administration, and community medicine.
Real-time PCR has established itself as a sensitive and specific
qualitative and quantitative technique that has become important to
all areas of microbiology. This invaluable book describes and
explains some of the more complex aspects of real-time PCR
presenting a background for the novice, a theoretical reference for
the experienced user, and useful discussions of future
developments. Chapters address the basics of PCR history,
oligonucleotide design, target preparation, standardisation,
quantification, various applications, and future challenges. The
final chapter is presented in the format of a roundtable discussion
providing an insightful, topical and interesting discourse with
contributions from over 30 authorities and experts on real-time
PCR. The editor and authors have produced an excellent book that
will be extremely useful for all microbiologists. It is a
recommended book for all microbiology laboratories.
The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late
2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness
investments around the world. This phenomenon became known as the
"global land grab", and sparked vibrant debates among social
movements, NGOs, international development agencies and various
government agencies and academics worldwide. This book addresses
four key areas that are moving the debate "beyond land grabs".
These include the role of contract farming and differentiation
among farm workers in the consolidation of farmland; the broader
forms of dispossession and mechanisms of control and value grabbing
beyond "classic" land grabs for agricultural production; discourses
about, and responses to, Chinese agribusiness investments abroad;
and the relationship between financialization and land grabbing.
The chapters in this edited volume propose new directions to deepen
and even transform the research agenda on land struggles and
agro-industrial restructuring around the world. This book will be
of great interest to scholars and researchers interested in
development studies, agrarian changes and land struggles. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the journal, Globalizations.
The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late
2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness
investments around the world. This phenomenon became known as the
"global land grab", and sparked vibrant debates among social
movements, NGOs, international development agencies and various
government agencies and academics worldwide. This book addresses
four key areas that are moving the debate "beyond land grabs".
These include the role of contract farming and differentiation
among farm workers in the consolidation of farmland; the broader
forms of dispossession and mechanisms of control and value grabbing
beyond "classic" land grabs for agricultural production; discourses
about, and responses to, Chinese agribusiness investments abroad;
and the relationship between financialization and land grabbing.
The chapters in this edited volume propose new directions to deepen
and even transform the research agenda on land struggles and
agro-industrial restructuring around the world. This book will be
of great interest to scholars and researchers interested in
development studies, agrarian changes and land struggles. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the journal, Globalizations.
Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture,
this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian
extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory
extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.
The concept goes beyond the more apparent features of monocultures
and raw material exports to examine the inherent logic and
underlying workings of a model based on the appropriation of an
ever-growing range of commodified and non-commodified human and
non-human nature in an extractivist fashion. Such a process erodes
the autonomy of resourcedependent working people, dispossesses the
rural poor, exhausts and expropriates nature, and concentrates
value in a few hands as a result of the unquenchable drive for
profit by big business. In many instances, such extractivist
dynamics are subsidized and/or directly supported by the state,
while also dependent on the unpaid, productive, and reproductive
labour of women, children, and elders, exacerbating unequal class,
gender, and generational relations. Rather than a one-size-fits-all
definition of agrarian extractivism, this collection points to the
diversity of extractivist features of corporate-led,
external-input-dependent plantation agriculture across distinct
socio-ecological formations in Latin America. This timely challenge
to the destructive dominant models of agricultural development will
interest scholars, activists, researchers, and students from across
the fields of critical development studies, rural studies,
environmental and sustainability studies, and Latin American
studies, among others.
Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture,
this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian
extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory
extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.
The concept goes beyond the more apparent features of monocultures
and raw material exports to examine the inherent logic and
underlying workings of a model based on the appropriation of an
ever-growing range of commodified and non-commodified human and
non-human nature in an extractivist fashion. Such a process erodes
the autonomy of resourcedependent working people, dispossesses the
rural poor, exhausts and expropriates nature, and concentrates
value in a few hands as a result of the unquenchable drive for
profit by big business. In many instances, such extractivist
dynamics are subsidized and/or directly supported by the state,
while also dependent on the unpaid, productive, and reproductive
labour of women, children, and elders, exacerbating unequal class,
gender, and generational relations. Rather than a one-size-fits-all
definition of agrarian extractivism, this collection points to the
diversity of extractivist features of corporate-led,
external-input-dependent plantation agriculture across distinct
socio-ecological formations in Latin America. This timely challenge
to the destructive dominant models of agricultural development will
interest scholars, activists, researchers, and students from across
the fields of critical development studies, rural studies,
environmental and sustainability studies, and Latin American
studies, among others.
This book highlights the emerging research and policy development
efforts to address child and adolescent behavioral health in
Sub-Saharan Africa, where mental health policy is at an early stage
and in need of context-specific attention to its successes and
shortcomings. A diverse range of researchers, with expertise on
relevant policy in both the region as a whole and country-specific
contexts, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa,
and Uganda, outline theoretically informed, culturally appropriate,
evidence-based, and youth- and family-focused service models. The
first work of its kind with an exclusive focus on the understudied
region of Sub-Saharan Africa, this text: Provides an overview of
the current state of child and adolescent behavioral health in the
region Evaluates empirical work on risk and protective factors
influencing behavioral outcomes Highlights emerging intervention
research and dialogue on what works to improve child and adolescent
behavioral health Offers insight and strategies on how to advance
child and adolescent behavioral health in policy, research, and
practice Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards
Evidence Generation and Policy Development is a unique reference
that offers guidance for current and future policy-makers,
researchers, practitioners, and students as they seek to invest and
engage in the healthy development of a future generation.
The economic and political rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, China, and South Africa) and Middle-Income Countries (MICs)
have important implications for global agrarian
transformation.These emerging economies are undergoing profound
changes as key sites of the production, circulation, and
consumption of agricultural commodities; hosts to abundant cheap
labour and natural resources; and home to growing numbers of both
poor but also, increasingly, affluent consumers. Separately and
together these countries are shaping international development
agendas both as partners in and potential alternatives to the
development paradigms promoted by the established hubs of global
capital in the North Atlantic and by dominant international
financial institutions. Collectively, the chapters in this book
show the significance of BRICS countries in reshaping agro-food
systems at the national and regional level as well as their global
significance. As they export their own farming and production
systems across different contexts, though, the outcomes are
contingent and success is not assured. At the same time, BRICS may
represent a continuation rather than an alternative to the
development paradigms of the Global North. The chapters were
originally published in a special issue of Third World Thematics: A
TWQ Journal.
This book highlights the emerging research and policy development
efforts to address child and adolescent behavioral health in
Sub-Saharan Africa, where mental health policy is at an early stage
and in need of context-specific attention to its successes and
shortcomings. A diverse range of researchers, with expertise on
relevant policy in both the region as a whole and country-specific
contexts, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa,
and Uganda, outline theoretically informed, culturally appropriate,
evidence-based, and youth- and family-focused service models. The
first work of its kind with an exclusive focus on the understudied
region of Sub-Saharan Africa, this text: Provides an overview of
the current state of child and adolescent behavioral health in the
region Evaluates empirical work on risk and protective factors
influencing behavioral outcomes Highlights emerging intervention
research and dialogue on what works to improve child and adolescent
behavioral health Offers insight and strategies on how to advance
child and adolescent behavioral health in policy, research, and
practice Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards
Evidence Generation and Policy Development is a unique reference
that offers guidance for current and future policy-makers,
researchers, practitioners, and students as they seek to invest and
engage in the healthy development of a future generation.
Around the world, plantation economies are on the rise. Increasing
concerns over food, energy and financial security, combined with a
geopolitical restructuring of the global agro-food system, have
resulted in a rush to secure control over resources. New actors and
forms of capital penetration have entered the countryside,
transforming the forms and relations of production, property and
power. Soybeans, with industrial inputs upstream and storage,
processing and transportation downstream, have become a
quintessential agro-industrial "flex crop," used as feed, food,
fuel and industrial materials, but the very extractive character of
the soy complex has severe implications for society, the economy
and the environment. The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism
analyzes how the Bolivian countryside is transformed by the
development and expansion of the soy complex and reveals the
extractive dynamics of capitalist industrial agriculture, while
also challenging dominant discourses legitimating this model as a
means to achieve inclusive and sustainable rural development. Ben
McKay finds that within the context of Bolivia's first Indigenous
president, Evo Morales, and the Movement Towards Socialism,
fundamental contradictions abound.
The economic and political rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, China, and South Africa) and Middle-Income Countries (MICs)
have important implications for global agrarian
transformation.These emerging economies are undergoing profound
changes as key sites of the production, circulation, and
consumption of agricultural commodities; hosts to abundant cheap
labour and natural resources; and home to growing numbers of both
poor but also, increasingly, affluent consumers. Separately and
together these countries are shaping international development
agendas both as partners in and potential alternatives to the
development paradigms promoted by the established hubs of global
capital in the North Atlantic and by dominant international
financial institutions. Collectively, the chapters in this book
show the significance of BRICS countries in reshaping agro-food
systems at the national and regional level as well as their global
significance. As they export their own farming and production
systems across different contexts, though, the outcomes are
contingent and success is not assured. At the same time, BRICS may
represent a continuation rather than an alternative to the
development paradigms of the Global North. The chapters were
originally published in a special issue of Third World Thematics: A
TWQ Journal.
This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative
reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism.
The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national
identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form
presented by public and private violence - that span the entire
century.
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