Books for Change
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There is conclusive evidence that development-induced displacement has an adverse impact upon affected individuals and communities. It causes profound disruptions in people's economic and social life loss of assets and resources, deterioration in kinship networks, social and food security. Displacees are stripped not only of their most sustaining social relationships, but also of the social roles that provide them with culturally defined notions of how they ...
Responding to the need to take a fresh look at world history, hitherto dominated by Eurocentric ideologues and historians in their attempt to justify the nature and character of modern capitalism, Samir Amin looks in this book at the ancient world system and how it has influenced the development of the modern world. He also analyses the origin and nature of modern globalisation and the challenges it presents in achieving socialism.Amin examines the role played by ...
With his usual verve and sharpness Samir Amin examines the factors that brought about the 2008 financial collapse and explores the systemic crisis of capitalism after two decades of neoliberal globalisation. He lays bare the relationship between dominating oligopolies and the globalisation of the world economy. The current crisis, he argues, is a profound crisis of the capitalist system itself, bringing forward an era in which wars, and perhaps revolutions, will ...
The Indian Constitution as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantee to every person the right to life, liberty, security, dignity and the right to be free from slavery or servitude. However, a number of women are routinely tortured, mutilated, battered to death, burnt alive, bought and sold as sex slaves-only because they are women. The author explores precisely this spiralling violence within marriage and in the household. She examines how the ...
