Böcker av Kathleen Staudt

A timely analysis of the disturbing murders that have taken the lives of nearly 400 Mexican women in El Paso's twin city.

This pioneering, timely study of civil society activism in Ciudad Juarez during the first decade of the twenty-first century captures the tenuous new alliances and discourses of resistance (augmented by social media) that have emerged in the face of escal

Culled from decades of firsthand observations, this text is a cross-regional analysis of border people and borderlands of the North and post-colonial South. Focusing on themes of trade, migration, and security, Staudt highlights the importance of states, their length of time since independence, and border bureaucrats' discretionary practices.

Identifies influences on the work of David Jones and explores the innovative qualities of his poetry.

Fronteras No Mas examines the range of officials, non-government organizations, networks and remaining organizational vacuums that span the U.S. - Mexico border. This 'institutional shroud' facilitates the growth of civil society, yet cross-border organizing remains a challenging and complex version of local politics.

In the aspiring global cities of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, people generate income and develop their housing informally on both sides of the US-Mexico border. This book analyzes women and men in low-and middle-income neighborhoods in the core and in the old and new peripheries of two cities that straddle an international border.

Global attention has focused on some remarkable transitions to democracy on different continents. Those transitions have often failed to improve the situation of women, and democratic practices have not included women in government. This title includes essays and a conclusion that show the upsurge of interest in women and development since 1990.

Considers the problems of development management in the context of political process. Focuses on bureaucratic politics and political relationships between people, their organizations and the state in development programmes and projects, particularly agricultural and health development programmes.