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Julian Cribb, Author | Oakland [United States of America (USA)] : University of California Press | 2010Julian Cribb lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's assessment describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of [...]
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Harold G. Marcus, Author | Oakland [United States of America (USA)] : University of California Press | 2002In this eminently readable, concise history of Ethiopia, Harold Marcus surveys the evolution of the oldest African nation from prehistory to the present. For the updated edition, Marcus has written a new preface, two new chapters, and an epilogu[...]
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Peter Redfield, Author | Oakland [United States of America (USA)] : University of California Press | 2013Life in Crisis tells the story of Médecins Sans Frontières and its effort to “save lives” on a global scale. Begun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution with a reputation for outsp[...]
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Ruben Andersson, Author | Oakland [United States of America (USA)] : University of California Press | 2019No Go World outlines how economies of risks and politics of fear are firmly entangled – with dramatic consequences for many, including those contained in the buffer zones around rich Western nations and the expendable intermediaries bearing the [...]
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Paul Farmer, Author | Oakland [United States of America (USA)] : University of California Press | California series in public anthropology | 2003This book uses harrowing stories of life and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. The author, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues th[...]
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Megan A. Carney, Author | Oakland [United States of America (USA)] : University of California Press | 2015Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in women’s experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As women grapple with the p[...]
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"Honduras is violent." The author situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuances chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas - violence, alcohol, and the export processing indu[...]
