1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464029303321

Autore

Fisher William F

Titolo

Another World is Possible [[electronic resource] ] : World Social Forum proposals for an alternative globalization

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Zed Books, 2015

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

critique influence change

Altri autori (Persone)

PonniahThomas

Disciplina

303.482

Soggetti

Economic development -- Citizen participation

Environmental responsibility

Globalization -- Social aspects

International economic relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; critique influence change; About the Editors; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword to the critique influence change Edition; Preface to the critique influence change Edition; Foreword to the First Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; Part I: The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction ; Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues ; Key Questions; Critical Issues; 1: External Debt: Abolish the Debt in Order to Free Development; Breaking the Infernal Cycle of Debt; Extra Resources to Finance Development; A New Development Strategy

New Rules of Financial Good Practice Further Indispensable Measures; Notes; 2: Africa/Brazil: Conference Synthesis; 3: Financial Capital: Controls on Finance Capital; Introduction; Restore Controls over Capital Flows to Nation-States; Promote Control of Capital Flows; Reinforce Control of Markets and Financial Actors; Reform the International Financial Institutions (IFIs); 4: International Trade: Conference Synthesis; Broad Consensus on Free Trade and the WTO; Proposals by Dot Keet, Africa Trade Network; Proposals on the WTO by Martin Khor, Third World Network

Proposals by Paul Nicholson, Via Campesina Proposals by Hector de la



Cueva, Alianza Social Continental; Proposal by Lori Wallach, Public Citizen; Final proposals by the panellists; 5: Transnational Corporations: Issues and Proposals; Summary Proposal; Corporations Have Too Much Power; Governments and Corporations are Intimately Intertwined; Sectors, Individual Corporations, Structural Power; Dialogue versus Confrontation; Corporate Responsibility versus Corporate Accountability versus Democratic Control over Corporations; Reform versus Banishment; 6: Labour

(i) A Strategic Perspective on the International Trade Union Movement for the Twenty-first Century Introduction; Perspective on Transformative Unionism - Values, Ethics, Beliefs and Traditions; Our Socio-Economic Outlook; Organizational Review and Restructuring; The Perspective for Africa and the South; Conclusion; (ii) A Global Strategy for Labour; Investor Protectionism; Capital's Gains; Global Class Politics; Trade Unions' Role; Conclusion; Notes; 7: A Solidarity Economy; (i) Resist and Build; Social, Solidarity-based Economics

Social, Solidarity-Based Economics and Development of Communities(ii) Conference Synthesis; Questions; Analyses; Proposals; Consensus and Differences of Opinion; Lead Participants; Part II: Access to Wealth and Sustainability ; Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues ; Key Questions; Critical Issues; 8: Environment and Sustainability; (i) The Living Democracy Movement: Alternatives to the Bankruptcy of Globalization; Bankruptcy of Globalization; Creating Alternatives to Corporate Globalization; Creative Resistance; The Living Democracy Movement; (ii) Conference Synthesis; Summary Document

9: Water - A Common Good: Conference Synthesis

Sommario/riassunto

The first English-language collection of essays and demands, arising from and written by the most prominent members of the first and second World Social Forums.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910730701003321

Titolo

Invisibility in African displacements : from structural marginalization to strategies of avoidance / / edited by Jesper Bjarnesen and Simon Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2020

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-78699-916-1

1-350-22552-5

1-78699-918-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Collana

Africa now

Disciplina

304.86

Soggetti

African diaspora

Marginality, Social - Africa

Marginality, Social - Europe

Gender studies: men

Africa Emigration and immigration

Europe Emigration and immigration

Africa Emigration and immigration Government policy

Europe Emigration and immigration Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, The Nordic Africa Institute."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. There's No Place Like Home -- 2. Settler Colonialism, Empire, Borders -- 3. Masculinity, Place, Intersectionality -- 4. Kansas, Bled: Land, History, Violence -- 5. Frontier, Family, Nation -- 6. Capitalism, Work, Respect -- 7. Looking Back, Going Forward.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage. Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic research across seven US states and the application of postcolonial, anti-racist, feminist and poststructuralist theories, Land, God, and Guns reveals how time-honoured rites of passage associated with taken-for-granted notions of manhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of a constellation of colonial



worldviews, capitalist logics, gender essentialisms, ethnocentric religious beliefs, jingoistic populism, racial animus, and embodied violence. A constellation that, within the US, upholds a heteropatriarchal and racist ordering of life that both privileges and ultimately damages its main proliferators ? white settler men. This is a detailed work that at once unravels rural white settler masculinity and the US state at their roots, whilst demonstrating why any analysis of the cultural production and social practice of masculinity in the United States must take into account the country's historical trajectories of imperialism, land dispossession, nation-state building, enslavement, extractive accumulation and valorisation of masculinist assertions of dominance."--

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557489303321

Autore

Chiang Long Y

Titolo

Materials Chemistry of Fullerenes, Graphenes, and Carbon Nanotubes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 p.)

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This Special Issue is intended as a platform for interactive material science articles with an emphasis on the preparation, functionalization chemistry, and characterization of nanocarbon compounds, as well as all aspects of physical properties of functionalized, conjugated, or hybrid nanocarbon materials, and their associated applications. Some recent advances in the field are here collected, providing new ideas for discussion of researchers working in this multidisciplinary scenario.