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...

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...

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...

Sustaining and Scaling Up Community Managed Water

Jeff Tan, Stephen M. Lyon, Attaullah Shah

Community-based water management (CBWM) remains the leading model for implementing and sustaining rural water supply services in low- and middle-income countries despite the lack of sustainability. Moreover, measures centred on providing external support to communities directly and through a wider p...

Backyard Bankers

Jeffrey Ashe, Kim Wilson

Discover the world of immigrant ‘money clubs’ in the US. Learn how groups of migrants and refugees creatively pool resources to first survive—putting food on the table—then thrive as they expand their businesses and invest in real estate. From modest set-ups in Iowa to intricate systems in Boston, g...

Voices of Activists and Academics

Vicky Johnson, Tessa Lewin, Andrew West

Over the past three decades, research and intervention processes have been left wanting by the lack of the substantive inclusion of children and young people, as well as the challenge of adultism − the ongoing and systematic disregard of many children and youth in decision-making. This book is in...