Bøger i Critique Influence Change serien

A landmark work that continues to exert a profound influence on discussions about development and security.

A classic collection on the fluid nature of culture and identity from some of the world's greatest post-colonial thinkers.

Portraying the ways in which the world's social majorities are now escaping from the monoculture of a single global civilization, this text explores the regeneration of their cultural and natural spaces and their struggle against the rigid concepts of modernity.

Albert's economic replacement for capitalism, -'Parecon'- has already become widely known. Here he goes further offering insights about how whole areas of life might be transformed in a new society.

After half a century of disappointed hopes, where do developing countries go from here? In this volume, two economists refute some of the main myths of free market globalization in trenchant fashion. introducing the alternative economic policies that can be and have been successfully pursued.

A landmark work in the history of eurocentrism by one of Britain's most distinguished left-wing historians

In his trademark polemical style, Maxime Rodinson examines the complexities of political Islam and Marxist ideology and their implications for Arab nationalism.

The first English-language collection of essays and demands, arising from and written by the most prominent members of the first and second World Social Forums.

In this provocative book S. Sayyid analyses of the conditions that have made Islamic fundamentalism possible.

A key work on the nature of contemporary capitalism by one of the most influential living writers on the Left.

'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which "capitalist productive labour" can be built up and exploited.'First published in 1986, Maria Mies's progressive book was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory, and it remains a major contribution to development theory and practice today.Tracing the social origins of the sexual division of labour, it offers a history of the related processes of colonization and 'housewifization' and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labour. Mies's theory of capitalist patriarchy has become even more relevant today.This new edition includes a substantial new introduction in which she both applies her theory to the new globalized world and answers her critics.