Investigando juntas

Sonja Marzi, Rachel Pain, Jen Tarr

Este libro presenta una manera de coproducir conocimientos en una investigación cuando no podemos reunirnos en el mismo espacio geográfico. Detalla una metodología participativa audiovisual a distancia e híbrida, mediante la cual las mujeres comparten sus experiencias de desplazamiento, de género y...

The Community Builder's Journal

Peter Westoby, Dave Andrews, Howard Buckley, Rachael Donovan, Kirsty Leigh, Gerard Dowling, Richard Warner

Anthony Kelly

Designed as a yearlong guided workbook, The Community Builder’s Journal invites you to experiment with building community in your street, neighbourhood, workplace, or wherever life places you. Part reflective journal, part practical guide, this book offers weekly ideas, stories, questions, and invit...

Lessons from the Zapatistas

Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, Peter M Rosset, Henry Veltmeyer

Lessons from the Zapatistas is essential reading for anyone interested in liberation, democracy and radical social transformation. It tells the story of the Zapatista insurgency and its afterlives, tracing how an Indigenous uprising burst forth from southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle to stage the 21s...

Pathway to a Better Life in Haiti

Steven Werlin

Pathway to a Better Life in Haiti tells the powerful story of Fondasyon Kole Zepòl (Fonkoze), whose name means “shoulder-to-shoulder” in Haitian Creole, and their unwavering commitment to local women and families living in extreme poverty. This book offers a deeply human look into how Fonkoze mad...

10 Lessons in Localisation

Sinead Walsh

Many, if not most, international NGOs say they want to ‘localise’, to promote greater leadership and delivery by local and national actors. But are they serious and do they know how to do it? This book presents ten lessons on localisation from the author’s 25 year career to date, working in and o...

The Congress of the Disappeared

Bernardo Kucinski

Tom Gatehouse

‘They came from all corners of the country. At last the Brazil of the disappeared revealed itself.’ In Kucinski’s novella, the ghosts of those disappeared by Brazil’s military dictatorship come together and organize a congress. Together, these ghosts tell the story of what happened to them, refle...

Climate Change and Threatened Communities

Yancey Orr

A groundbreaking follow-up to the 2012 Climate Change and Threatened Communities book, this collection revisits the 15 original case studies, offering fresh insights from the authors on their research sites as they examine parallel developments in their academic fields over the past 13 years. Thr...

Untold Stories of Disablement and Displacement

Sukaina Dada

Untold Stories of Disablement and Displacement provides a compelling look at the authentic experiences of Syrian refugees with disabilities. Their stories of migration and disability are often ignored in public discussions and academic research. These families were forced to leave their homes due to...

Young and Female

Sharada Srinivasan, Lu Pan, Aprilia Ambarwati

Women’s roles in sustaining and the revival of farming are indispensable. Based on research in Canada, China, India and Indonesia, the book offers a global perspective on young women’s pathways into farming. It responds directly to concerns about the generational sustainability of smallholder farmin...

Development and Disasters

James Lewis, Ilan Kelman

Good development could − and should − be the driving force for averting disasters by reducing vulnerability. But conversely, in many cases, development itself becomes a major cause of vulnerability and disasters. This new edition describes the complex relationship between disasters and developmen...