BOOKS

Gender Analysis in Development Planning: A Case Book
Aruna Rao, Mary B. Anderson, and Catherine A. Overholt, editors

These practical cases studies from India provide innovative management strategies, as well as planning and evaluation techniques, sensitive to gender issues. The cases are open-ended,    More >

Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism
Marc Lee Raphael, with an introduction by Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler

The preeminent American rabbi during four decades, Abba Hillel Silver was one of the earliest great liberal Jewish activists and perhaps the most widely sought after Jewish speaker in    More >

Ivoirien Capitalism: African Entrepreneurs in Cote d'Ivoire
John Rapley

Though studies of capitalism in Africa traditionally focus on the activities of foreign investment, in Cote d'Ivoire capitalist development has been largely the work of a domestic class    More >

Globalization and Inequality: Neoliberalism's Downward Spiral
John Rapley

Has the far-reaching experiment in creating a new world order along neoliberal lines succeeded? John Rapley answers with an emphatic no, contending that the rosy picture painted by    More >

Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third World, 3rd Edition
John Rapley

This accessible text provides both an assessment of the current state of development theory and an extensive survey of the impact of evolving policies and practices throughout the developing    More >

Liberating Masculinities
Kopano Ratele

Covering a range of topics ranging from clothes to violent death, and from a better sexual life to tradition, and from race and feminism, Liberating Masculinities presents ways to understand    More >

Female Militants in South Asia: Fighters and Facilitators
Ayesha Ray

Though often portrayed as lacking agency, women in South Asia, in considerable numbers, participate actively in the insurgencies that plague the region—taking up arms alongside men or    More >

Shifting Burdens: Gender and Agrarian Change under Neoliberalism
Shahra Razavi, editor

The authors of Shifting Burdens explore the often overlooked gender-related effects of the neoliberal policy shifts in rural development that have reduced the role of government and switched    More >

The Fabric of Dissent: Public Intellectuals in South Africa
Vasu Reddy, Narnia Bohler-Muller, Gregory Houston, Maxi Schoeman, and Heather Thuynsma, editors

What are public intellectuals? What is their role in social, cultural, political, and academic contexts? What compels them to put forward their ideas? The rich tapestry created in The Fabric    More >

Quality of Life and Wellbeing in South Africa
Vasu Reddy, Narnia Bohler-Muller, Zitha Mokomane, and Crain Soudien, editors

In this latest entry in HSRC's State of the Nation series, the authors focus on fresh perspectives on notions of the quality of life and wellbeing in South Africa. Their work reflects    More >

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