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Baladi Women of Cairo: Playing with an Egg and a StoneEvelyn A. Early Traditional, urban Egyptian women—baladi women—extol themselves with the proverb, "A baladi woman can play with an egg and a stone without breaking the egg." Evelyn Early illustrates this and other expressions of baladi women's self-identity by observing and recording their everyday discourse and how these women—who consider themselves destitute yet More > | |
Crime and PlaceJohn E. Eck and David Weisburd, editors The key role of "places"—very small areas such as a street corner, an address, a building or street segment—in the study of crime is explored in 15 papers by criminologists. Particular emphasis is given to "hot spots" of criminality, the geographic distribution of crime places, and the new technology of computer mapping of crime.
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Design Against Crime: Crime Proofing Everyday ProductsPaul Ekblom, editor From bicycle stands configured to prevent theft to pharmaceutical packaging that thwarts counterfeiters, the authors fuse crime science and design practice to point the way forward for a new generation of crime-proofed objects used in everyday contexts.
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Africa’s Cause Must Triumph: The Collected Writings of A.P. MdaRobert Edgar and Luyanda ka Msumza, editors A founding member of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, A.P. Mda was known for his passionate advocacy of African nationalism and his support for armed struggle against apartheid in the 1950s. Many of his peers considered him the foremost intellectual and strategist of their generation.
Robert Edgar and Luyanda ka Msumza trace Mda's life from his early years through his three More > | ![]() |
Constructing a Democratic Developmental State in South Africa: Potentials and ChallengesOmano Edigheji, editor In this seminal collection, an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars draw on relevant conceptual models and compare experiences from other countries to show how South Africa could most successfully build a democratic developmental state. Macro- and microeconomic questions, as well as the institutional, governance, and social challenges facing South Africa are analyzed, as are the More > | ![]() |
Poststructuralism and International Relations: Bringing the Political Back InJenny Edkins Offering a sophisticated introduction to the major poststructuralist thinkers, this book shows how Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and Žižek expose the depoliticization found in conventional international relations theory.
Edkins argues that, contrary to the opinions of their detractors, the poststructuralists are concerned with the big questions of international politics: it is precisely More > | |
Sovereignty and SubjectivityJenny Edkins, Nalini Persram, and Véronique Pin-Fat, editors This provocative analysis of notions of subject and identity in international relations goes beyond discussions of identity politics to argue that sovereignty and subjectivity implicate each other, together constituting the political. The authors consider how specific pictures of the subject and of political space still capture our desires; they also examine the links those pictures have with More > | |
Africa’s New Global Politics: Regionalism in International RelationsRita Kiki Edozie and Moses Khisa The African Union's threat to lead African states' mass withdrawal from the International Criminal Court in 2008 marked just one of many encounters that demonstrate African leaders' growing confidence and activism in international relations. Rita Kiki Edozie and Moses Khisa explore the myriad ways in which the continent's diplomatic engagement and influence in the global arena has More > | ![]() |
Working Class Homosexuality in South African History: Voices from the ArchivesIain Edwards and Marc Epprecht The very existence of homosexual working-class men in South Africa has long-been suppressed—or worse. Iain Edwards and Marc Epprecht have recovered representative stories of these men who were previously deemed "outside of history."
Based on a previously unpublished primary source from the early twentieth century, as well as unique interviews with men remembering their lives in More > | ![]() |
Beyond the Magic Bullet: NGO Performance and Accountability in the Post–Cold War WorldMichael Edwards and David Hulme, editors Beyond the Magic Bullet offers a thorough assessment of the roles, performance, and accountability of NGOs and grassroots organizations in international development assistance. Drawing on case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the authors provide frameworks for assessing performance and accountability and offer experienced-based guidelines for improving both.
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