SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Guyana: Fragile Frontier
Guyana's environment is in danger of wholesale destruction. In the name of economic liberalization, this small, indebted country is promoting a dramatic escalation of logging, mining and other forms of extraction. In the 1990s, millions of hectares of rainforest have been leased to foreign companies...
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Faces of Latin America 2nd Edition
This work portrays Latin America's peoples in their fight for a brighter future. It explores the region's economic crisis and the desecration of the environment. The author shows how injustice and conflict in the countryside have unleashed an exodus to the slums that encircle the major cities. He an...
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NGOs, Civil Society and the State
Support for civil society has become a major concern for development agencies since the early 1990s. However, there has been some confusion about the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on civil society. Sometimes, the funding of NGOs has simply been rephrased as support for civil society....
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Religion in the Megacity
"Mega-cities" - sprawling urban centres - are now home to most Latin Americans. This work contrasts religion in two such cities - Sao Paulo in Brazil and Caracas in Venezuela. In Brazil, the Catholic Archdiocese of Sao Paulo, under Cardinal Arns and progressive Catholics, was a rallying point for re...
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Machos, Maricones, and Gays
Since the Cuban revolution in 1959, male homosexuality has been a controversial aspect of Cuban society. In this account of homosexual life, Ian Lumsden explores the treatment of male homosexuality under Castro within the framework of pre-revolution prejudices and preconceptions. This first-hand rep...
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NGOs and Governments
One of the key determinants of NGOs' contribution to development in general - and in articulating the concerns of the poor in particular - is their relationship with the state. NGOs have grown enormously in numbers over the past 20 years and have an ever-widening scope of work, to the extent that th...
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NGO Coordination at Field Level
The results of studying a number of co-ordination bodies worldwide are distilled here into suggestions for setting up a field-based NGO co-ordination mechanism. The handbook provides chapters on getting started, the first year, expanding and consolidating, financial security, regional and internatio...
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Direct Funding from a Southern Perspective
A number of studies have looked at the direct funding of southern NGOs by official governmental agencies. However, few have done so from a southern perspectives. The basis of Direct Funding from a Southern Perspective are the case studies of developing countries carried out by southern researchers a...
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Development and Social Diversity
Social diversity hinges on three universal human realities. First, that each individual is unique. Second, that individuals and their societies are inter-related and inter-dependent. And third, that societies and cultures are dynamic: change, whether rapid or gradual, affects different members of so...
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Development in States of War
In this collection Alex de Waal focuses on famine as a tool for violating human rights, while Francisco Alvarez Solis and Pauline Martin, writing about El Salvador, show how civilian organisations mobilised for peace in the midst of war. Lucy Bonnerjea addresses the needs of children who become sepa...