This academic review of more than 200 articles, books and reports sheds light to why and
how do communities resist mining and how do their forms of resistance change over time …

Critical management studies (CMS) offers a range of alternatives to mainstream
management theory with a view to radically transforming management practice. The …

Anthropology of education is regarded as a relatively new sub discipline combining theory
and methods of anthropological and ethnographic studies with those of pedagogy and …

In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and
performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital …

A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences. In
The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per …

Governance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in contemporary political
science. It is, however, often used to mean a variety of different things. This book helps to …

The project behind this book started shortly after Gender and Nation (1997, Sage) was
published, although it took quite a few years before it was crystallized into this format. In a …

Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in
the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower …

The term'natural disaster'is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes,
hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase'natural disaster'suggests an uncritical acceptance …

What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker
draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation's Denver headquarters and …