Archive for June 2017
Book Review of Bina Agarwal’s Gender Challenges
An activist scholar and former President of the International Association for Feminist Economics, Bina Agarwal is best known for her (1994) monumental A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia.
Read MoreBook Review of Jan Breman’s Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market
This is a book of impressive scope. It tells the story of coffee cultivation on Java under Dutch colonialism from its beginnings in the early 1600s through to the end of the notorious Cultivation System in the late 1800s.
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