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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.

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.

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.

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.

The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding: International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process (2009)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., & Walton, O. (2009). The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding: International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 3(3), 303-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502970903086693

This essay explores international engagement in the Sri Lankan peace process between 2002 and 2008. The internationalization of peacebuilding in Sri Lanka is analysed as part of a broader international shift towards a model of ‘liberal peacebuilding’... Read More about The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding: International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process.

Children and Disaster Risk Reduction: Taking stock and moving forward (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper
Back, E., Cameron, C., & Tanner, T. Children and Disaster Risk Reduction: Taking stock and moving forward. Brighton

This report reviews child-focused and child-led disaster risk reduction approaches and techniques. It documents a number of case studies across a range of interventions, dividing these into three main areas: Knowledge, Voice and Action. It makes some... Read More about Children and Disaster Risk Reduction: Taking stock and moving forward.

Women Workers and perceptions of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, India (2009)
Journal Article
Khera, R., & Nayak, N. (2009). Women Workers and perceptions of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, India. Economic and political weekly, 44(43), 49-57

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which
entitles rural households to 100 days of casual
employment on public works at the statutory minimum
wage, contains special provisions to ensure full
participation of women. This paper, based... Read More about Women Workers and perceptions of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, India.

Crisis of Neoliberalism or Crisis in Neoliberalism (2009)
Book Chapter
Saad Filho, A. (2009). Crisis of Neoliberalism or Crisis in Neoliberalism. In L. Panitch, G. Albo, & V. Chibber (Eds.), Socialist register 2011 : the crisis this time (242-259). Merlin Press