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· Contrairement à beaucoup de livres parus sur la pandémie, cet ouvrage s'appuie sur une réflexion collective, à froid, orientée vers les relations internationales dans l'après-Covid plutt que limitée au moment pandémique.
· Une dimension pluridisciplinaire orientée vers des solutions pragmatiques, progressistes et fondées sur les sciences sociales.
· Ouvrage issu d'un collectif des quatre universités montréalaises
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In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation.
Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change that are generating mass dispossession worldwide....
343) Covid-19 mon ami
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Au-delà de l'implacable Covid-19, qui continue de faucher des vies modestes, d'autres catastrophes s'invitent également dans la danse, comme les inondations, les cyclones et la sécheresse… Des phénomènes qui ébranlent l'humanité et remettent en question la suprématie des puissances mondiales. Alors que ces épreuves s'accumulent, il est crucial de prendre conscience de l'impact dévastateur de ces forces déchaînées et de trouver des solutions...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Schwartz's book "Inevitable Surprises" shows that most of the "surprises" that will hit the economic world in the next 25 years are actually predictable and inevitable. In his book, the author explains how every savvy businessperson should be aware of these changes and their driving forces, as they will provide commercial opportunities, as well as pitfalls that they can plan to avoid. This summary will...
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In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched, by the masters of capital to maintain and even, enhance the features of a dog-eat-dog society, to the unprecedented mobilization of millions of people, against neoliberal capitalism, racism, and...
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A study of Botswana's dual face of prosperity and poverty and that relates to its land use policies.
Transformations on the Ground considers the ways in which power in all its forms-local, international, legal, familial-affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use. In Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. On a local...
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This publication highlights key transport issues in the Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and sets out ADB's planned 2021—2025 transport sector operations in the region. These operations, based on domestic and regional sector priorities and ADB's Strategy 2030, aim to help countries prepare for and respond to shocks, deliver sustainable services, and promote inclusive growth. The publication covers maritime,...
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More than ever, people are longing for deep and meaningful change. Another world is not only possible; it is essential. Yet despite our creative and determined efforts to attain social justice and ecological sustainability, our global crises continue to deepen. In Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi, best-selling author Mark Boyle argues that our political and economic system has brought us to the brink of climate catastrophe, ransacking ecosystems...
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Why is it that multinational drug companies hide or falsify unfavorable results? Why do automakers knowingly sell us unsafe cars? Why is big business allowed to poison our environment-and us? Why is our food so unhealthy, with obesity growing at such an alarming rate? Why are we working such long hours and enjoying life less? This timely and important book places the blame for much of what ails contemporary society squarely on one institution: the...
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'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision' - Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The word smuggler often unleashes a simplified, negative image painted by the media and the authorities. Such state-centric perspectives hide many social, political and economic relations generated by smuggling. This book looks at the practice through the eyes of the smugglers, revealing how their work can be productive, subversive and deeply sociopolitical.
By tracing the...
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The must-read summary of Kenichi Ohmae's book: "The Invisible Continent: Four Strategic Imperatives of the New Economy".
This complete summary of the ideas from Jenichi Ohmae's book "The Invisible Continent" shows that the discovery of a new continent has always created substantial opportunities to create wealth. According to Ohmae, the same opportunities are arising today, not because of the discovery of a new physical continent but due to the emergence...
352) Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters
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Emanuel Deutschmann is assistant professor of sociological theory at the University of Flensburg and an associate at the European University Institute's Migration Policy Centre. Twitter @edeutschma
A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication
Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it really a...
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The must-read summary of Thomas Friedman's book: "The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization".
This complete summary of the ideas from Thomas Friedman's book "The Lexus and the Olive" shows that globalisation is a fundamentally new and better way to do business. As such, a new and brighter era of globalisation is just in the process of beginning as all the major marketplaces evolve towards becoming global markets. Thomas Friedman...
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A central figure for anti-authoritarian Marxists and radicals who see the working class as an autonomous force, capable of acting independently and not simply reacting to the depredations of capitalism, Harry Cleaver brings this vision up to date, interpreting capitalism's latest crises and demonstrating how ordinary people can, and do, rupture the smooth functioning of the system that exploits them.
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Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here reveal the range and depth of her thinking, with Taylor tackling the rising popularity of socialism, the problem of automation, the politics of listening, the possibility of rights for the natural and non-human world, the future of the university, the temporal...
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Politicians want cheap votes or cheap labor. Church leaders want pew-fillers and collection plate donors. Social justice militants, working with corporate America, want to silence free speech they deem hateful, while raking in tens of millions of dollars promoting mass, uncontrolled immigration both legal and illegal. Malkin names names: from Pope Francis to George Clooney, from George Soros to the Koch brothers, from Jack Dorsey to Tim Cook and Mark...
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From central bankers, corporate billionaires, and corrupted government officials, global elites have been organizing a historic war on humanity under a trans-humanist, scientific dictatorship. Alex Jones was the first major figure to expose the World Economic Forum's agenda. He has dedicated the last 30 years of his life to studying The Great Reset, conducting tens of thousands of interviews with top-level scientists, politicians, and military officials...
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Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and orderliness, street sex workers face stigma, racism, and ignorance. Their human rights are ignored, and some even lose their lives. Ferris aims to reveal the cultural dimensions of this discrimination through literary and art-critical theory, legal and sociological research, and activist intervention....
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The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity's indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.
In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen breathes new life into the discussion around global modernity, bringing an anthropologist's approach to bear on the three interrelated crises of environment, economy and identity. He argues...
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Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy gathers evidence that details the dangers of corporate and individual billionaire philanthropic "developments" in agricultural technology, food, knowledge, and global health systems. Such philanthropy allows a select elite few to manipulate information and policy for their own profit, thus undermining democracies and communities globally. Over the last 30 years philanthrocapitalism has emerged as a...
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