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1. Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform

   By George Meszaros

   Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform investigates how state and rural social movements are struggling for land reform against the background of a re-emergence of constitutional promises and projects in much of the developing world. By the early 1990s, as state driven was...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-47771-0 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

2. Small Town China: Rural Labour and Social Inclusion

   By Beatriz Carrillo Garcia

   This book, as a case study of small town China using Hongton County, Shanxi Province as its focus, suggests that outside the larger cities there may be alternative accounts of urban social change and the integration of rural migrant workers and that China's transformation may not necessarily result...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-60023-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Governance through Development: Poverty Reduction Strategies, International Law and the Disciplining of Third World States

   By Celine Tan

   Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-49554-7 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

4. Southern Africa Development Community Land Issues: A New, Sustainable Land Relations Policy

   Edited by Ben Chigara

   This book considers issues surrounding land ownership and land reform in the countries which comprise the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). The contributions to the book focus particularly on the possible impact of land issues on the sub-region's development and human security potential...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-58704-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. NGOs in India: The Challenges of Women's Empowerment and Accountability

   By Patrick Kilby

   By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000’s, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO accountability to these groups is an...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-54430-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. The State in India after Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   Edited by Akhil Gupta, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan

   This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-77553-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Adaptive Origins: Evolution and Human Development

   By Peter LaFrenière

   In this text, students are invited to rethink psychology by grounding it in the natural sciences with the understanding that evolutionary and developmental processes work together with culture to solve problems of human adaptation. These processes are cast as interdependent:...

   September 2010 | 978-0-8058-6012-2 | Hardback (Psychology Press)

8. Culture, Institutions, and Development: New Insights Into an Old Debate

   Edited by Jean-Philippe Platteau, Robert Peccoud

   Does culture matter? This question has taken on added significance since fundamentalist revivalism has recently gained ground in different parts of the world. The old controversy between Max Weber and Karl Marx, which centres around the extent to which cultural factors such as social norms and...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-58007-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Gender, Household and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam

   By Jayne Werner

   This book examines gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing on gender relations in the family and state since the onset of economic reform in 1986. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources (including surveys, interviews, and responses to film screenings), Jayne Werner demonstrates that...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-59019-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice

    Edited by Yash Ghai CBE, Jill Cottrell

    Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice is a comparative study, by leading researchers in the field of law and justice, of the imperatives and constraints of access to justice among a number of marginalized communities. A central feature of the rule of law is the equality of all before the...

    June 2010 | 978-0-415-58963-5 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)