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Mediating Sustainability: Growing Policy from the GrassrootsJutta Blauert and Simon Zadek, editors Focusing on efforts in Latin America aimed at achieving sustainable agricultural and rural development, the authors describe successful initiatives that seek to distill and articulate knowledge from the realm of practice in a manner than can influence the realm of policy.
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Mediation and Governance in Fragile Contexts: Small Steps to PeaceDekha Ibrahim Abdi and Simon J. A. Mason The result of a long collaboration between a Kenyan-Somali mediator and a Swiss scholar-practitioner, Mediation and Governance in Fragile Contexts introduces an innovative, practical approach to resolving an enduring issue: How can conflicts be resolved in polarized societies?
This approach breaks out of the insider/outsider dichotomy to develop a framework for achieving peace in the most More > | ![]() |
Meeting the Employment Challenge: Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico in the Global EconomyJanine Berg, Christoph Ernst, and Peter Auer Arguing that economic policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico favor markets over institutions and the international economy over the domestic to the detriment of the workforce in those countries Meeting the Employment Challenge presents extensive evidence in support of placing employment concerns at the center of economic and social policies.
The authors discuss the challenges the three More > | ![]() |
Men and Other Strange Myths: Poems and ArtHilary Tham Through birthright, travel, marriage, and work, Hilary Tham has experienced an extraordinary range of world cultures, all vibrantly reflected in her latest collection of poems.
Tham’s insights and unusual juxtapositions tell of the meetings of strangers, friends, and lovers; the clashes of differing religions and cultures; and the eternal conflict and misunderstanding between men and women, More > | |
Men and Substance Abuse: Narratives of Addiction and RecoveryJudith Grant Judith Grant explores the experiences of men who grapple with drug and alcohol abuse, illuminating the interplay between individual identity and social environment that shapes the processes of addiction and recovery.
Grant draws on the voices of the men themselves as she traces and analyzes their paths to both addiction and desistance. Documenting the full sweep of their journeys, she also More > | ![]() |
Men by WomenJanet Todd, editor | ![]() |
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian StoriesGhassan Kanafani, translated by Hilary Kilpatrick This collection of important stories by novelist, journalist, teacher, and Palestinian activist Ghassan Kanafani includes the stunning novella Men in the Sun (1962), the basis of the film The Deceived. Also in the volume are "The Land of Sad Oranges" (1958), "'If You Were a Horse . . .'" (1961), "A Hand in the Grave" (1962), "The Falcon" (1961), More > | ![]() |
Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered AnalysisSandra Whitworth Sandra Whitworth looks behind the rhetoric to investigate from a feminist perspective some of the realities of military intervention under the UN flag.
Whitworth contends that there is a fundamental contradiction between portrayals of peacekeeping as altruistic and benign and the militarized masculinity that underpins the group identity of soldiers. Examining evidence from Cambodia and Somalia, More > | ![]() |
Mercosur: Regional Integration, World MarketsRiordan Roett, editor This timely volume describes the origins of Mercosur, South America’s dynamic and successful regional integration project, as well as the issues still to be tackled regarding the trade bloc’s expansion, the challenges to its transition from a customs union to the “Common Market of the South,” and its relations with other trade groups and countries (particularly the European More > | |
Metaracism: Explaining the Persistence of Racial InequalityCarter A. Wilson The black/white gaps in income, education, and wealth are expanding. Prisons are crowded with black men. There is an increasing concentration of urban poverty. While individuals and communities reject biological determinism and find bigotry offensive, structural inequalities remain. Why? Addressing this fundamental question, Carter Wilson focuses on the elusive dynamics of contemporary More > | ![]() |