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Civilizing the State

By (author) John Restakis
Categories: Political economy

The liberal state is dead, long live the partner state

Across the world, the liberal nation state is on its knees. Rising inequality, deep political polarization, and the pervasive power of corporations ...

Africa.com

By (author) Jean-Louis Roy
Categories: Globalization

Two powerful forces converged to shift global development in the last three decades from the West to the East and Asia. These same forces now make Africa the “construction site of the century. ” Africa ...

La guerre par d'autres moyens

Sur fond de la montée en puissance de la Chine, du Brexit, des velléités protectionnistes un peu partout dans le monde, notamment aux États-Unis, et d’une économie toujours plus interdépendante, ...

The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers

By (author) Paul D. Earl
Categories: History of the Americas

For much of the 20th century, United Grain Growers was one of the major forces in Canadian agriculture. Founded in 1906, for much of its history UGG worked to give western farmers a “third way” between ...

Experts, sciences et sociétés

Fruit du travail de 19 chercheurs, cet ouvrage collectif présente le personnage social de l’expert, les usages sociopolitiques de son travail ainsi que les manières d’arbitrer ses prétentions dans ...

Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada

In step with rural development initiatives across Canada today, these fourteen case studies examine the shift toward sustainability-based planning as a key element of community development. They also ...

Disarming Conflict

“A masterpiece highly recommended to commanders-in-chief, diplomats, and peacemakers. ” – Ambassador Bethuel A Kiplagat

Wars fought over the past quarter century have been a spectacular failure. ...

“My Own Portrait in Writing”

By (author) Patrick Grant
Categories: Literary theory
Series: Cultural Dialectics

A theoretically informed interpretation of Van Gogh’s literary achievement that is without precedent.

Many have drawn on Van Gogh’s voluminous correspondence for insights into his art and personal ...

Imperialist Canada

By (author) Todd Gordon
Categories: Development studies

Imperialist Canada exposes Canada’s imperialist past and present, at home and across the globe. Todd Gordon interweaves histories of Indigenous dispossession in Canada with the cold facts of Canadian ...

RE: Reading the Postmodern

It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood ...