Outputs (165)

The global footloose proletariat and the financial crisis: reflections on the contradictions of export-oriented industrialisation in India (2009)
Digital Artefact
Mezzadri, A. (2009). The global footloose proletariat and the financial crisis: reflections on the contradictions of export-oriented industrialisation in India. [Global Labour Column. no.5]

Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India (2009)
Book
Raman, R. (2009). Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203869819

This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focus... Read More about Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India.

The North-South Divide in Everyday Life: Somali Londoners Sending Money “Home” (2009)
Journal Article
Lindley, A. (2009). The North-South Divide in Everyday Life: Somali Londoners Sending Money “Home”. Bildhaan (St. Paul, Minn.), 9(9),

Children’s participation in community-based disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change (2009)
Journal Article
Tanner, T., Garcia, M., Lazcano, J., Molina, F., Molina, G., Rodríguez, G., Tribunalo, B., & Seballos, F. (2009). Children’s participation in community-based disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change. PLA notes, 60, 54-64

As an emerging field, reflection and learning on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) are crucial. However, there is a danger that a focus on ‘the community’ fails to look within and understand the comm... Read More about Children’s participation in community-based disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change.

Child-friendly participatory research tools (2009)
Journal Article
Molina, F., Molina, G., Tanner, T., & Seballos, F. (2009). Child-friendly participatory research tools. PLA notes, 60, 160-166

Tips for trainers: Field-based action research on community-based adaptation to climate change needs to engage with all different sections of communities. Children form a significant group that is often overlooked by research and practice at communit... Read More about Child-friendly participatory research tools.

Review of Cohen, D., "Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society" (2009)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2009). Review of Cohen, D., "Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society". Journal of Economics, 98(3), 261-266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-009-0098-3

Colonisation, Securitised Development and the Crisis of Civic Identity in Sri Lanka (2009)
Book Chapter
Rampton, D. (2009). Colonisation, Securitised Development and the Crisis of Civic Identity in Sri Lanka. In A. Pararajasingham (Ed.), Sri Lanka: 60 Years of 'Independence' and Beyond (329-359). Centre for Just Peace and Democracy

From Windfall to Curse? Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present (2009)
Book
Di John, J. (2009). From Windfall to Curse? Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present. Penn State University Press. https://doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv14gp29g

Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her... Read More about From Windfall to Curse? Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present.

Empire, State and Accumulation on a World Scale in Marx’s Capital (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pradella, L. (2009, November). Empire, State and Accumulation on a World Scale in Marx’s Capital. Paper presented at Sixth Historical Materialism Annual Conference, SOAS, London

The Concept, Causes and Consequences of Failed States: A Critical Review of the Literature and Agenda for Research with Specific Reference to Sub-Saharan Africa (2009)
Journal Article
Di John, J. The Concept, Causes and Consequences of Failed States: A Critical Review of the Literature and Agenda for Research with Specific Reference to Sub-Saharan Africa. The European Journal of Development Research, 22(1), 10-30. https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2009.44

This article provides a critical review of recent literature that has attempted to define what a ‘failed state’ is and explains why such states emerge. It is argued that aggregate indices of ‘failure’ are misleading due to the wide variations of capa... Read More about The Concept, Causes and Consequences of Failed States: A Critical Review of the Literature and Agenda for Research with Specific Reference to Sub-Saharan Africa.