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The West Indians of Costa Rica
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ISBN: 128285917X 9786612859175 0773569057 9780773569058 0773521623 9780773521629 6612859172 Year: 2001 Publisher: Montreal, Que. McGill-Queen's University Press

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Harpelle focuses on Caribbean migrants and their adaptation to life in a Hispanic society, particularly in Limón, where cultures and economies often clashed. Dealing with such issues as Garveyism, Afro-Christian religious beliefs, and class divisions within the West Indian community, The West Indians of Costa Rica sheds light on a community that has been ignored by most historians and on events that define the parameters of the modern Afro-Costa Rican identity, revealing the complexity of a community in transition. Harpelle shows that the men and women who ventured to Costa Rica in search of opportunities in the banana industry arrived as West Indian sojourners but became Afro-Costa Ricans. The West Indians of Costa Rica is a story about choices: who made them, when, how, and what the consequences were.


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Long-term solutions for a short-term world
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ISBN: 1554583535 1282166905 9786613809971 1554582415 9781554582419 9781282166905 6613809977 1554582237 9781554582235 9781554582235 1554582237 Year: 2011 Publisher: [Waterloo, Ont.] Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World demonstrates the complexity of the challenges that poor countries face and introduces the readers to the concept and impact of participatory research for development. Participatory research requires researchers to work with communities, governments, and other relevant actors to deal with common problems. Finding solutions requires participants to reflect critically on the cultural, economic, historical, political, and social contexts within which the issue under investigation exists. The book contains a collection of essays from development researchers and professionals, each of whom is an activist who has made significant contributions to the struggles of the poor in their own societies. Essays are presented as case studies and, in each, the contributor explains the specific development problem, the paths followed to solve the problem, lessons learned as a result of the research, and the development challenges on the horizon in his field of research.


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IDRC
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ISBN: 1554587573 1282232924 9786613810663 1554583160 9781554583164 9781554583010 1554583012 Year: 2010 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. Wilfred Laurier University Press

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The book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing South-research proposed and undertaken by Southern researchers-and how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively small budget. The IDRC is much better known in the developing South than in Canada; in many of the roughly 150 countries in which it has provided research funding it has contributed to creating a very positive image of Canada. The centre's arms-length relationship with Canadian government assistance provides it with enormous f

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