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  • Brazil's Long Revolution

    Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement

    Economic crises in the Global North and South are forcing activists to think about alternatives. Neoliberal economic policies and austerity measures have been debated and implemented around the globe. Author Anthony Pahnke argues that activists should look to the Global South and Brazil for inspiration.Brazil’s Long Revolution shows how the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (the ... Read more

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  • From "Climate-Smart" to "Climate-Just Agriculture”

    International Institutions and Challenging False Solutions to our Ongoing Climate Crisis

    Series series Bridges to Another World
    Combining innovative social theory with ongoing policy discussions on climate change, this book analyzes past and present efforts at challenging global poverty through reforming the dynamics of worldwide agricultural production.Focusing on the efforts of the World Bank and CGIAR research centers, particularly through research and projects that have been launched by the International Maize and ... Read more

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  • Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change

    Food Sovereignty Movements and Alliance Making in the United States

    Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change analyzes an unusual development in social movement studies and food politics more generally: the formation of an interracial alliance of farmers and farm workers who together demand transformative changes to U.S. agriculture by calling for food sovereignty. Such an alliance, as Anthony R. Pahnke shows, is unusual given how social movement alliances in the ... Read more

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  • Agrarian Crisis in the United States

    Pathways for Reform

    From fragile, corporate-controlled supply chains breaking down, to millions of already hyper-exploited farmworkers risking their lives in the fields without basic personal protective equipment, the COVID-19 pandemic made it painfully obvious that US agriculture does not work.Agrarian Crisis in the United States: Pathways for Reform situates the many food system problems that the COVID-19 pandemic ... Read more

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  • The Promise of New Agricultural Markets

    Addressing Contemporary Challenges in Domestic and International Agricultural Policy

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the nature of challenges facing agriculture, emphasizing the need to rethink how markets are organized in food production. Describing markets as institutions, Anthony Pahnke investigates the meaning and nature of the dynamic overlap of politics with production. He explores how past policies in the US and Europe concerning food production can be updated to meet the various ... Read more

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  • Brazil in Twenty-First Century Popular Media

    Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on the World Stage

    This volume examines some of the ways that Brazil has been represented and seeks to represent itself in popular media. It looks at social inequalities, racial divisions, and legacies of political restructuring as it illuminates the challenges and opportunities that the nation faces at present and going into preparations for and recovery from the upcoming mega events, both the 2014 World Cup and ... Read more

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  • Brazilian Agrarian Social Movements

    Contradictions between impressive levels of economic growth and the persistence of poverty and inequality are perhaps nowhere more evident than in rural Brazil. While Brazil might appear to be an example of the potential harmony between large-scale, export-oriented agribusiness and small-scale family farming, high levels of rural resistance contradict this vision. In this volume, individual ... Read more

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    Indigenous Peoples in Canada are continuing to assert their right to self-determination in this era of reconciliation. While dozens of Indigenous communities have signed varying forms of self-government agreements with the federal government, Indigenous Nations still face many obstacles along the path to true self-determination.As a former Chief of Siksika Nation in southern Alberta, Leroy Wolf ... Read more

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    The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance

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  • Megacity Malaise

    Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto

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