Development Studies – December 2013 to July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 10, 2015|Development Studies|

First world hunger revisited : food charity or the right to food? / edited by Graham Riches and Tiina Silvasti. Migration and care labour : theory, policy and politics / edited by Bridget Anderson, Isabel Shutes. [e-book via Dawsonera] Locating right to the city in the global south / edited by Tony Roshan Samara, Shenjing He and Guo Chen. The politics of inclusive development : interrogating the evidence / edited

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Development Studies – July and August 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 13, 2014|Development Studies|0 comments

Romancing the wild: cultural dimensions of ecotourism / by Robert Fletcher. Crisis and migration: critical perspectives / Anna Lindley [E-book]. Aid on the edge of chaos: rethinking international cooperation in a complex world / Ben Ramalingam. Humanitarian crises and migration: causes, consequences and responses / edited by Susan F. Martin, Sanjula Weerasinghe and Abbie Taylor. Methodological challenges and new approaches to research in international development / edited by Laura Camfield. New

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Development Studies – September 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|Development Studies|0 comments

Rural social movements in Latin America : organizing for sustainable livelihoods / edited by Carmen Diana Deere and Frederick S. Royce. Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts / Saleem H. Ali. Treasures of the earth : need, greed, and a sustainable future / Saleem H. Ali. Different rainbows / edited by Peter Drucker. Aid, NGOs and the realities of women’s lives : a perfect storm / Tina Wallace Beyond

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South Asia – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 19, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Architecture and nationalism in Sri Lanka : the trouser under the cloth / Anoma Pieris. Civil society and democratization in India : institutions, ideologies and interests / Sarbeswar Sahoo. Displacement and resettlement in India : the human cost of development / Hari Mohan Mathur India in South Asia : domestic identity politics and foreign policy from Nehru to the BJP / Sinderpal Singh. India’s rights revolution : has it worked

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Development Studies – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 15, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Meeting the challenge of financing water and sanitation : tools and approaches. Ogata-mura : sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village / Donald C. Wood. [e-book from ebrary] Pathways to industrialization in the twenty-first century : new challenges and emerging paradigms / edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé, and Ludovico Alcorta. Water governance in OECD countries : a multi-level approach. Water, democracy and neoliberalism in india :

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China and Inner Asia – May to June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 11, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Literary remains : death, trauma, and Lu Xun’s refusal to mourn / Eileen Cheng. Capitalizing China / edited by Joseph P.H. Fan and Randall Morck. Rainbow body : the life and realization of a Tibetan yogin, Togden Ugyen Tendzin / Chögyal Namkhai Norbu ; translated and annotated by Adriano Clemente. Youth culture in China : from Red Guards to netizens / Paul Clark. Chinese complaint systems : natural resistance /

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South Asia – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 7, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Sri Lanka and the Kandy Esala Perahera : discovering the spirit of Buddah in the land of elephants / Michael Sarnacki. The great Indian phonebook : how the mass mobile changes business, politics and daily life / Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron. Beyond Swat : history, society and economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier / edited by Magnus Marsden, Benjamin Hopkins. Contesting nation : gendered violence in South Asia : notes on the postcolonial present / edited by Angana P. Chatterji and Lubna Nazir Chaudhry. Coins of Jahangir : creations of a

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Development Studies – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 5, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Every nation for itself : winners and losers in a G-Zero world / Ian Bremmer. Crisis, capital flows and FDI in emerging Asia / Ramkishen S. Rajan with Sasidaran Gopalan, Rabin Hattari. From iron rice bowl to informalization: markets, workers, and the state in a changing China / [edited by] Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ching Kwan Lee, and Mary E. Gallagher.[Available as an e-book via ebrary] Modalities of change : the interface

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Development Studies – September and October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 28, 2012|Development Studies|0 comments

 e-books Coming climate crisis?  : consider the past, beware the big fix / Claire L. Parkinson. Available from Dawsonera. Abortion in Asia local dilemmas, global politics / edited by Andrea Whittaker. Available from Dawsonera. United in discontent : local responses to cosmopolitanism and globalization / edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos and Elisabeth Kirtsoglou. Available from Dawsonera. e-book and print Ethics for disaster / Naomi Zack. [Also available as an e-book from

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Development Studies – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 28, 2012|Development Studies|0 comments

‘Good health at low cost’ 25 years on : what makes a successful health care system? / editors: Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee and Anne Mills. Environmental impact / editors, C.A. Brebbia, T.-S. Chon. Provocations for Development / Robert Chambers Representations of global poverty : aid, development and international NGOs / Nandita Dogra.