Drawing on case studies of organized violence-ranging from territorial wars and colonial conquests to non-state variants such as organized crime-this record offers a general theory to account for the use of force in both the state and civil sectors of society. Challenging the popular views that the dominant forms of violence are due to failings of human nature, this volume suggests that the laws and institutions favoring an approach to property rights...

Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes's Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978.

#FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business, the ruling elite and the liberation movement. The 2015 revolt links to national and international youth struggles of the recent past and is informed by black...

In A Theory of Imperialism, the economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of the origins and mechanics of capitalism that sounds an alarm about its ongoing viability. Their theory centers on trade between the core economies of the global North and the tropical and subtropical countries of the global South and considers how the demand for commodities (such as agricultural products and oil) from the South has perpetuated and solidified...

"Supimos cómo enfrentar el peligro para ganar nuestra libertad, sabremos cómo enfrentar a la muerte para mantenerla." Toussaint L'Ouverture fue el líder de la Revolución haitiana del pasado siglo xviii, en la que los esclavos se rebelaron contra sus amos y establecieron la primera república negra. En esta colección de sus escritos y discursos, el expolítico haitiano Jean-Bertrand Aristide demuestra la profunda contribución de L'Ouverture...

Décoloniser la décolonisation québécoise Résumé L'œil du maître interroge le mythe du maître chez nous qui définit les luttes souverainistes au Québec, la relation au territoire et aux Premières Nations. Contre la conquête, la domination, la surveillance, Dalie Giroux revendique une autre idée de l'indépendance, à rebours de la violence fondatrice de l'État. Elle évoque le rendez-vous manqué avec un passé-futur décolonial du...

Guardians of Eden Manual I extracted from Vol. II of God's Country, a guide to identifying what is wrong in the chiefdoms and the country and putting it right. It is a practical manual, a legal, policy and organizational aid to the future, a reference site for the chiefdoms to maintain their ecosocial sovereignty.

Unshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were preyed upon by European colonialism and Westernisation. However, the author's fieldwork for this book uncovered evidence of the resilience of Africa's endogenous...

El trabajo de las autoras analiza cómo se constituyó la economía colonial basada en la minería y la agricultura; y cómo la conformación del sistema comercial quedó establecido por la Corona española. La nueva estructura económica resultó de la amalgama de ciertas instituciones de la economía indígena y de la economía española, e implicó la necesaria introducción de la tecnología, flora y fauna provenientes de Europa.

El relato de uno de los episodios más oscuros de la historia de las potencias occidentales, cuyos ecos resuenan hoy en día con la reivindicación de disculpas y la revisión del pasado. El relato de uno de los episodios más oscuros de la historia de las potencias occidentales, cuyos ecos resuenan hoy en día con la reivindicación de disculpas y la revisión del pasado. Este libro analiza qué representó el colonialismo para las poblaciones...