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Editorial

01/09/2009

2 pages long

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Measuring the impact of fair trade on development

01/08/2009

12 pages long

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This study of the impact of fair trade relies on new field data from coffee and banana co-operatives in Peru and Costa Rica, including a detailed assessment of its welfare effects by comparing FT farmers with non-FT farmers as a benchmark. Attention is focused on three major effects: (a) direct tangible impact of FT arrangements […]

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Redefining development for national security: implications for civil society

01/08/2009

6 pages long

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The effects of counter-terrorism legislation on civil-society organisations (CSOs) based in the South have received little attention in the wider literature. This article reports on the findings of a series of international workshops to examine the effects of such legislation, held in Lebanon, the Kyrgyz Republic, India, the Netherlands, the UK, and the USA. The […]

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Solidarity economy and recycling co-ops in Sao Paulo: micro-credit to alleviate poverty

01/08/2009

15 pages long

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Lack of working capital hinders collective commercialisation of recyclables. Social exclusion and bureaucratic constraints prevent recyclers from obtaining official bank loans. As they continue to depend on intermediaries, the cycle of poverty, dependency, and exclusion is perpetuated. The article discusses collective commercialisation and the micro-credit fund created among 30 recycling groups in the Brazilian city […]

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Ethical predicaments for anthropologists: the Peruvian case

01/08/2009

7 pages long

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This article discusses the ethical challenges posed to anthropologists working as experts in mining companies and in tourism. It proposes alternative solutions that are coherent with the ethical principles of their discipline. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Analysing social-change practice in the Peruvian Amazon through a feminist reading of participatory communication research

01/08/2009

11 pages long

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Analysing social-change practice in the Peruvian Amazon through a feminist reading of participatory communication research

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This article analyses the social-change practices of Minga Peru, an NGO in the Peruvian Amazon which promotes gender equality and reproductive health through radio broadcasts and community-based interventions. This analysis, grounded in participatory research methods, reveals a feminist and gender-equitable approach, allowing participants to take the role of leader rather than of passive research subject. […]

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Indigenous protest, social networks, and ethnic stereotyping: some insights from the Peruvian Amazon

01/08/2009

12 pages long

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This article examines the nature of social protest undertaken by an Amazonian indigenous organisation against international energy companies working in Peru. It analyses the response of Peruvian and international NGOs to the indigenous group’s activities and challenges certain stereotypes concerning the nature of indigenous collective action and perceptions of community. In particular, it focuses on […]

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On the road to Accra, via Canada and County Kerry

01/08/2009

7 pages long

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A workshop was convened in February 2008 to identify the role of civil-society organisations (CSOs) in the post-Paris Declaration aid agenda, prior to the High-Level Forum to review progress towards achieving aid harmonisation that was held in Accra in September 2008. The article presents concerns about the focus on the mechanisms rather than the purpose […]

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Development is a bag of cement’: the infrapolitics of participatory budgeting in the Andes

01/08/2009

10 pages long

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Reflecting on observations of participatory budget schemes in the Andean region of South America, this article argues that the statements and behaviour of those who take part in participatory budget meetings should be understood as a form of public performance which often differs significantly from the ‘backstage discourses’); of participants once they are no longer […]

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Editorial

01/08/2009

3 pages long

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