Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how 'other' cultures encounter 'the West', economics has been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been criticised for their simplistic treatment of...

Intro -- About the editor -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- 1 Public ambiguity and the multiple meanings of corporatization -- State of the debate -- Corporatization in historical perspective -- Neoliberal corporatization...

Front cover -- critique influence change -- About the author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the critique influence change edition -- Violence, the secret of capitalist patriarchy -- What is different today? -- References -- Introduction -- 1 What is Feminism? --...

The difficult economic climate in Europe and the United States since the financial crisis is set to continue as the New Normal, despite frantic efforts to stimulate growth. The long phase of expansion that lasted from the 1980s until 2008 was driven by easy money, cheap imports and confidence -...

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers a fresh, compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This essential new critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and...

Part I: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 1: Unleashing Potential: The Transformative Power of Financial Inclusion in Fostering Sustainable Rural Development -- Part II: Food Insecurity, Resilience and Health -- Chapter 2: The Discouraged Borrower Syndrome and Rural Household Food Insecurity:...