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The Fight for Ethical Fashion
From consumer boycotts and buycotts to social movement campaigns, examples of individual and collective actors forging political struggles on markets are manifold. The clothing market has been a privileged site for such contention, with global clothing brands and retailers being targets of consumer mobilization for the past 20 years. Labels and product lines now attest for the ethical quality of clothes, which has, in turn, given rise to ethical fashion. The Fight for Ethical Fashion unveils the actors and processes that have driven this market transformation through a detailed study of the Europe-wide coordinated campaign on workers’ rights in the global textile industry - the Clean Cloth...
Making Religion
Discursive approaches to the study of religion have received a lot of attention recently. Making Religion brings together leading theorists in the field who explore the theoretical and practical dimensions of the analysis of religious discourse. The volume provides an overview of current debates in the field, extends and improves upon contemporary theories and methodologies, and contributes to the discipline more broadly by flagging the importance of this emerging field of research. The combination of theoretical reflection and practical application of discourse analysis as a tool to study religion opens up new perspectives for future research. Contributors are: Helge Årsheim, Stephanie Garling, Adrian Hermann, Titus Hjelm, Mitsutoshi Horii, George Ioannides, Jay Johnston, Reiner Keller, Jens Köhrsen, Marcus Moberg, Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer, Leif-Hagen Seibert, Adrián Tovar Simoncic, Kocku von Stuckrad, Teemu Taira, and Frans Wijsen.
Migrant Workers in Western Europe and the United States
Migrant Workers in Western Europe and the United States discusses the state of job migration of Europeans and Americans. The geographical table showing the country of origin of the worker and the number of such workers are presented in the text. This table also provides a statistical record of the volume of people that migrated under the covered years. Such a table shows if there is a steady or fluctuating increase or decrease of migrant workers. The second chapter of the book discussed the historical background of the movement. Another section of the volume provides a discussion on the economics of immigration. Illegal migration is the focus of the fourth section of the text. The means of becoming an illegal migrant is covered in this section. The politics of migration of different countries are discussed in detail. There is also a section on the social conditions of the receiving countries. The book will provide useful information to sociologist, economist, students and researchers in the field of statistics.
Rich World, Poor World
This reissue, first published in 1978, confronts a whole range of international development issues: hunger, energy, supply, population growth, pollution, the state of the cities, nuclear proliferation. Geoffrey Lean explains the interdependent contemporary crises within developing nations and presents the facts behind them, alongside the practical solutions, new strategies and fresh thinking present in contemporary development thinking.
Thinking with the South
This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came out of the Berlin-based "co2libri" networking initiative, with longstanding collaborative partners based in the global South. "Co2libri" stands for "conceptual collaboration: living borderless research interaction". As an interdisciplinary and transregional oriented initiative, co2libri envisages a multicentric perspective that integrates neglected positions of Southern theory and praxis into the heart of academic conversations. Co2libri’s collaborative endeavor builds on long-standing active connections with partners in Africa, South and Southe...
Visions of Development
Visions of Development presents first-hand stories of groups and movements from many different religious and spiritual traditions that are working with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It provides unique insights into how people's beliefs and spirituality can help to inform not only what they perceive 'development' to be but also how they go about achieving it. Through real-life examples of courageous and innovative work, the stories challenge much of the theory and practice of mainstream development agencies while also showing how religious inspiration can be a force for radical and positive change.
Von der Makroökonomie zum Kleinbauern
Das Label «Fair Trade» bezieht sich heute auf den Kleinbauern und seinen beschränkten Warenkorb an tropischen Rohstoffen. Dahinter steht jedoch die Reduktion einer komplexen makroökonomischen Debatte auf ein schriftloses Symbol. Dieses Buch zeigt auf, wie sich die Idee eines gerechten Nord-Süd-Handels in der Dritte-Welt-Bewegung ins Gegenteil verkehrte. In den 1960er Jahren forderten Aktivisten die Industrialisierung der Entwicklungsländer und eine Öffnung der westlichen Absatzmärkte für sämtliche Produkte aus dem Süden. Doch ab Mitte der 1970er Jahre brachte die Wachstumskritik eine Umkehr dieser Forderungen. Die lokale kleinbäuerliche Landwirtschaft gilt seither als Gegenentwurf zum grenzenlosen Wirtschaftswachstum. Ab den 1980er Jahren verkauften professionelle NGOs einer breiten Spenderbasis die Idee der Solidarität zwischen Kleinbauern im In- und Ausland. So ergab sich eine «unheilige Allianz» zwischen der grünen Fair-Trade-Bewegung und den konservativen Nationalisten, die nun als gemeinsame politische Schnittmenge den westlichen Agrarprotektionismus unterstützten.
Switzerland and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Cold War, 1967-1979
In Switzerland and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Cold War, 1967-1979, Sabina Widmer analyses Swiss foreign policy in Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Somalia in the late 1960s and 1970s, at the crossroads of the global East-West confrontation and decolonisation. Focusing on the independence wars in Angola and Mozambique, the Angolan War and the Ogaden War as well as regime changes that brought Soviet-allied governments to power, this book sheds new light on Switzerland’s role in the Third World during the Cold War. Based on extensive multi-archival research, it exposes the limits of neutrality in North-South relations, reveals the growing marge de manoeuvre of small states during Détente, and highlights the role of non-state actors in the making of foreign policy.
Tiersmondismus in der Schweiz der 1960er und 1970er Jahre
Im Verlaufe der 1960er und 1970er Jahre haben zahlreiche Schweizerinnen und Schweizer die «Dritte Welt» entdeckt und zum Gegenstand ihres Interesses und ihres politischen Engagements gemacht. Breit verankert sowohl in reformkirchlichen als auch in studentischen Kreisen haben die Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten in den Organisationen der Solidaritätsbewegung gemeinsam auf eine individuelle, soziale und wirtschaftliche Erneuerung hingearbeitet. Im Bewusstsein, dass die «Unterentwicklung» des Südens ihr Gegenstück in der «Überentwicklung» des Nordens hatte, bildete die Herstellung globaler Gerechtigkeit das Ziel dieser Bewegung. Bewusstseinsbildung und Aufklärung der eigenen Gesellschaft...
