Introduction to
Third World Resource Directory 1994-1995

Content

Two cautionary statements are necessary at the outset. The first is that the nations and peoples of the so-called Third World should not be reduced to the problems or negative aspects of their societies that may be highlighted in the print and audiovisual materials in this directory. The complex richness of Rwanda, the editors realize, will not be found in the one 20-page pamphlet listed in this directory.

By the same token the historical relationship between Arabs and Israelis should not be reduced to the conflicts between them that are given so much attention by the authors, editors, and filmmakers whose works appear in the Third World Resource Directory. Readers are encouraged to complement the resource materials in this directory with print and audiovisual resources that demonstrate the strengths, the pride, and the resourcefulness of the peoples of Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

The second cautionary statement has to do with the term "Third World." While many activists and educators in and outside of the so-called Third World believe in the continued relevance of this admittedly flawed term, the concept is often popularly misunderstood to imply that people in Third World countries are third class citizens or that all inhabitants of Third World regions and nations are poor and powerless.

At this point in time there is no suitable or wholly accurate substitute for the term. Thus, we continue to use "Third World," but--we insist--in its original dynamic and positive sense of nations and peoples who are affirming their right to participate fully in the definition and development of world realities. For an expanded and enlightening discussion of the term "Third World" and related realities the editors highly recommend the Dictionary of Third World Terms by Ghanaian political scientist Kofi Buenor Hadjor (London: I. B. Tauris, 1992).

Format

1. front matter;
2. print and audiovisual resources on Third World regions and countries (part 1);
3. print and audiovisual resource materials grouped under thirty-nine topical headings (part 2);
4. directory listings for more than 2,300 international organizations, and
5. indexes to organizations, individuals (authors, filmmakers, etc.), titles, geographical areas, and subject areas.

Assigning books, periodicals, videotapes, and other resource materials to a particular regional, country, or topical category was in many cases made difficult by the rich complexity of the subject matter. A book, for instance, on indigenous communities fighting the construction of a World Bank-sponsored dam across the Yerala in India could be placed under any of a number of headings. Materials are listed in only one place in the Third World Resource Directory, thus the reader is advised to make full use of the indexes at the back of the directory--particularly the indexes to geographical and subject areas--to search for entries that overlap two or more categories.

The guide that follows gives indications of the way in which the editors made choices about how and where to place entries in the directory.

Part 1: Regions and Countries

Resource materials that are general in nature or that cover two or more countries in a region are grouped under regional or sub-regional headings in part 1. The eight regional headings are World, Third World, Africa, the Americas (South and North), Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, and Pacific and Oceania. In a few sub-regional categories (Central America, for example) resource materials of a general nature are presented before those that deal with speci fic countries in the region.

Resources were placed under geographical headings in part 1 rather than the topical headings in part 2 when their content was judged to be predominantly focused on the geographical region or country. An exception was made to this rule in the case of topical categories that contained a large number of resource materials; for example, agriculture, children, conflicts, development, human rights, and women. In cases such as these, the resources will be found in the regional and country sections of part 1 . A pamphlet on children in Brazil, then, appears under the country heading for Brazil. Here again the geographical and subject indexes will be the reader's best guide to resource materials that overlap a number of categories.

The first page of part 1 repeats the Contents guide to regions and countries in the directory.

Part 2: Topics

AGRICULTURE:

Food production, environmental farming, land use, land reform, genetic diversity, seeds, pesticides, agricultural issues relative to regions (e.g., Africa). Resources relative to an individual country will be found under that country heading. See also: AID, COMMODITIES, DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT, HUNGER, LABOR, TRADE, TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, and WOMEN.

AID:

Economic, food, development, electoral, and military assistance from any country to any other country or region. See also: AGRICULTURE, ARMAMENTS, BANKING AND FINANCE, DEBT, DEVELOPMENT, DRUGS, FOREIGN POLICY, HUMAN RIGHTS, INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AND OPERATIONS, MILITARIZATION, POPULATION, REFUGEES, and TRADE.

ARAB WORLD AND ITS PEOPLES:

Peoples who are linked by a common language--Arabic--and who live in the area extending from Iraq to Morocco. See also: COMMODITIES, CONFLICTS--ARAB-ISRAELI, CONFLICTS--GULF REGION, FOREIGN POLICY, HUMAN RIGHTS, LABOR, MASS MEDIA, PALESTINIANS, and RELIGIONS AND CHURCHES.

ARMAMENTS:

Weapons production and sales, arms control and disarmament, arms reductions, nuclear proliferation, weapons, and testing. However, this section does not include military aid nor arms assistance. See also: AID, PEACE, and MILITARIZATION.

BANKING AND FINANCE:

World financial system, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund. See also: AID, DEBT, DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, and RAINFORESTS.

CHILDREN AND YOUTH:

Children's rights, child labor, living conditions for children, the effects of war on children. Children's issues relative to a particular country will be found under that country heading.

COMMODITIES:

Products of agriculture or mining; for example, coffee, oil, tobacco, and sugar. See also: INDUSTRIES and LABOR.

CONFLICTS AND MILITARY INTERVENTION:

"Hidden" wars, broad conflicts, and military interventions by any country into another country or region. Entries are subdivided by regions. See also: FOREIGN POLICY, HUMAN RIGHTS, INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AND OPERATIONS, MILITARIZATION, PALESTINIANS, PEACE, and REFUGEES.

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:

Consumer movements and boycotts, hazardous exports and dumping. See also: TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, ENVIRONMENT, INDUSTRIES, and LABOR.

DEBT:

Third World debt, debt reduction, the debt crisis, structural adjustment, regional considerations. Entries are subdivided by regions. Issues around the debt of a particular country will be found under that country. See also: BANKING AND FINANCE, DEVELOPMENT.

DEMOCRATIZATION:

Elections and politics, regional and country-related resources, socialism. See also: AID, FOREIGN POLICY, and HUMAN RIGHTS.

DEVELOPMENT:

Development education, rural development, sustainable development, develop-ment policies and strategies, role of nongovernmental organizations, development and social change, development as it affects women, theories of development. Entries are subdivided by regions. See also: AGRICULTURE, AID, BANKING AND FINANCE, DEBT, ENVIRONMENT, INDIGE-NOUS POPULATIONS, RAINFORESTS, and SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.

DRUGS:

Illegal drug trade, use of drugs, drug war, relevant U.S. policies and assistance. Re-gions and individual countries are included. See also: AID, INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AND OPERATIONS, and MILITARIZATION.

EDUCATION:

Academic freedom in general, use of computers for education, educational issues in the Third World. See also: CHILDREN AND YOUTH and HUMAN RIGHTS.

ENVIRONMENT:

Environmental issues in general and relative to regions and to women. Environmental issues relative to a particular country will be found under that country heading. See also: DEVELOPMENT, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, RACISM, and RAINFORESTS.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Any country's foreign policy toward any other region or country, the New World Order, imperialism, the world powers. Entries are subdivided by region. See also: CONFLICTS AND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS, and HUMAN RIGHTS.

HEALTH:

AIDS, use of pharmaceutical products, health education programs, health- care, women's health, midwifery, health and social conditions, alternative healing. See also: WOMEN.

HUMAN RIGHTS:

Perspectives on, documents pertaining to, and theories of human rights, prisons, international human rights laws, human rights reports, human rights monitoring, human rights education, religious freedom, right to food, censorship, torture, genocide, and group violence. Entries are subdivided by regions with an additional subdivision for women and human rights. Materials on human rights issues in a particular country will be found under that country heading.

HUNGER:

Famine, food policies, food crisis and strategies, water. Pertinent materials relevant to a particular country will be found under that country heading. See also: AGRICULTURE, HUMAN RIGHTS, and MILITARIZATION.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES:

Indigenous law and politics, indigenous peoples and development, indigenous populations in the Americas. Entries are subdivided by regions. See also: DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT, and RAINFORESTS.

INDUSTRIES:

Manufacturing activity, including nuclear and other energy industries, automotive, oil, pharmaceutical and chemical, alumin-ium, electronics, mining, and railway industries. See also: COMMODITIES, LABOR, TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, and WOMEN.

INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AND OPERATIONS:

Covert operations, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the intelligence services of other countries. See also: CONFLICTS AND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS, FOREIGN POLICY, and LABOR.

LABOR:

International labor, international solidarity, trade unions, division of labor, labor rights, working conditions, women workers, free trade zones. Migrant workers, however, will be found under MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION. Labor in regions is included here; however, labor issues in a particular country will be found under that country. See also: MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION, and TRANS-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS.

MASS MEDIA:

Role and politics of the media, stereotypes, disinformation, war reporting, use of television, propaganda, history of cinema, communications. Press censorship and freedom of the press will be found under HUMAN RIGHTS.

MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION:

Migrant workers, background on and causes of migration. See also: REFUGEES.

MILITARIZATION:

Bases, influence of the military on a country's policies, arms race, relation of military to indigenous peoples and to repression, military governments, global security, military economy. See also: ARMAMENTS, CONFLICTS AND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS, and FOREIGN POLICY.

MINORITY POPULATIONS:

Linguistic, ethnic, or religious minorities. See also: INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS and RACISM.

PALESTINIANS:

The Palestinian people, the Palestine Liberation Organization. See also: CONFLICTS AND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS, and HUMAN RIGHTS.

PEACE:

Economic conversion, peace movements, nonviolence, actions against nuclear war. See also: ARMAMENTS, CONFLICTS AND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS, and MILITARIZATION.

POPULATION:

Population control policies, population studies. See also: HEALTH and WOMEN.

RACISM:

Apartheid and other forms of racial discrimination. See also: HUMAN RIGHTS and MINORITY POPULATIONS.

RAINFORESTS:

Rainforests throughout the world, trees. See also: DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT, and INDIGENOUS PEOPLES.

REFUGEES:

Broad refugee issues, women refugees, and refugees in particular regions. However, refugee issues pertinent to a particular country will be found under that country. See also: CONFLICTS AND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS, and MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION.

RELIGIONS AND CHURCHES:

Religious beliefs and activities, religious institutions, churches and politics, churches and social problems, Christianity, Protestantism, Catholicism, Islam, indigenous religions, the Christian Right, fundamentalism, liberation theology. Entries are subdivided by region.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:

Appropriate technology, technology gap between the South and the North, indigenous technologies, computer technology.

TOURISM:

Impact on Third World countries, tourism and prostitution, alternative types of travel. See also: ENVIRONMENT, and WOMEN.

TRADE:

Sanctions, embargoes, free trade, GATT, NAFTA.

TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS:

International business enterprises, global factory, maquiladoras. See also: COMMODITIES, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, INDUSTRIES, and LABOR.

WOMEN:

General conditions for women worldwide and regionally, reproductive rights, abortion. However, materials on women's issues pertinent to a particular country will be found under that country. See also: DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS, LABOR, and REFUGEES.

Access and Format Codes

The numerical access codes have been assigned in sequence. Resources in part 1 are numbered in the 1000 series; those in part 2 have been given numbers 2000 and above. The five indexes at the back of the directory use the numerical codes to guide users to individual entries throughout the book.

Each item has also been assigned a one-letter key to distinguish "print" [P] from "audiovisual" [A] resource materials. Within each resource category the entries are further defined as to their specific format--periodical, bibliography, videotape, audiotape, and so forth.

P Print Resources

GEN: a general-format book or pamphlet
BIB: printed materials that are bibliographical in nature (either all or in large part)
DIR: books or pamphlets that guide users to other resource materials on the subject
EDU: printed resources that are designed for use in educational settings
REF: reference books
PER: serial publications such as magazines, newsletters, and newspapers

A Audiovisual Resources

AUD: audiotapes (radio programs, music, etc.)
VIS: visual resources (films, videotapes, slideshows, etc.)

The print [P] and audiovisual [A] codes have been used in the five indexes in the directory in order to make it easy for users to distinguish printed materials from audiovisual resources in, for instance, the titles index.

Distributors

In a few cases organizations have closed since the production of resource materials included in this directory. This fact has been noted in the Directory of Organizations and in the index to organizations (p. 733).

See page 681 below for information on updates to the entries in the Directory of Organizations.

Prices and Rental Fees

We encourage readers to be sensitive to the limited resources of many of the nongovernmental organizations in this book. When requesting sample copies of literature or asking for information think about enclosing a donation to offset costs to the organization in materials, postage, and time.

Check all fees and conditions before renting any of the audiovisuals described in this directory. Inquire about the length of time that you are permitted to keep a rented film or video and about the availability of discounted rates for non-profit or community groups.

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