This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do pol

This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do pol

Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and

In this elegant, highly readable book, Compagnon confronts the postmodern's co-optation of the modern by tracing paradoxical elements in the aesthetic of the ne

The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an in