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Body Politics in Development
Zed Books |
July 15, 2009 |
176 pages
This book explores how activists around the world have organized to fight for their economic and social rights and well-being, to end violence against women and militarism, to promote sexual and reproductive rights, and to protect bodily integrity in the face of the new biotechnologies. Seeing the... More Info
$36.95
NGOization
Zed Books |
August 13, 2013 |
272 pages
The growth of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted on struggles for social and environmental justice?... More Info
Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure
Zed Books |
July 23, 2013 |
224 pages
This pioneering collection explores the ways in which women's sexual desires are experienced by them and how this experience effects women's empowerment. It shows that an exploration of pleasure can have a hugely positive impact for women at the personal, social and political levels. Traditional... More Info
The Great Eurozone Disaster
Zed Books |
April 9, 2013 |
224 pages
The last couple of years have seen the eurozone lurch from crisis to calamity. In The Great Eurozone Disaster, Heikki Patomäki dissects the current crisis, revealing its origins lie in the instability that has driven the process of financialization since the early 1970s. Furthermore, the public... More Info
$31.75
China and the Environment
Zed Books |
May 21, 2013 |
256 pages
The trajectory of China's growth is leading many environmentalists to ask how the state and its people really engaging with environmental issues? This book provides access to otherwise unknown stories of environmental activism and forms the first real-life account of China and its environmental... More Info
$36.95
Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?
Zed Books |
June 11, 2013 |
256 pages
Too often in conflict situations rape is referred to as a "weapon of war" - a term presented as self-explanatory. In this provocative book, Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings.
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$24.95
Zapatistas
Zed Books |
March 15, 2010 |
223 pages
In the early hours of January 1, 1994 a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants emerged from the highlands and jungle in the far southeast of Mexico and declared "ĄYa basta!" - "Enough!" - to 500 years of colonialism, racism, exploitation, oppression, and genocide.
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$35.95
Politics of Origin in Africa
Zed Books |
March 26, 2013 |
176 pages
In this revealing new book, Boas and Dunn explore the phenomenon of "autochthony" - literally meaning "son of the soil" - in African politics. In contemporary Africa, questions concerning origin are currently among the most crucial and contested issues in political life, directly relating to the... More Info
$36.95
Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy
Zed Books |
April 2, 2013 |
288 pages
Women have often been divided by intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity caste, amongst others. Their weapons of resistance have been the traditional weapons of the weak: hidden subversions and individualized struggles. This book explores the emergence of an alternative repertoire among... More Info
$35.95
Business, Politics and the State in Africa
Zed Books |
February 19, 2013 |
192 pages
In recent years Africa appears to have turned a corner economically. It is posting increased growth rates and is no longer the world's slowest growing region. This book goes behind the headlines to examine the conditions necessary not just for growth in Africa but for a wider business and economic... More Info
Gross Domestic Problem
Zed Books |
February 26, 2013 |
224 pages
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is arguably the most well-known statistic in the contemporary world. It drives government policy and sets priorities in a variety of vital social fields - from schooling to healthcare. Yet this it has come to be regarded by many as a "problem." Does our quality of life... More Info
Societies beyond Oil
Zed Books |
February 5, 2013 |
224 pages
This groundbreaking book, from a distinguished sociologist, examines the profound adjustments required to live in a world where oil is no longer an easily-available energy source. It considers what societies that are powering down would be like; what lessons can be learned from the past; will... More Info
Migration, Health and Inequality
Zed Books |
February 19, 2013 |
256 pages
This book highlights recent developments in global migration, human rights, and health. Looking at diverse health issues and a variety of forms of migration it exposes the factors contributing to the vulnerability of different mobile groups. Migration, Health and Inequality argues that we need to... More Info
$35.95
Gender and Social Protection in the Developing World
Zed Books |
February 26, 2013 |
256 pages
This book introduces a much-needed gender lens to debates around social protection. Millions of dollars are invested annually in social protection policies and programs addressing poverty and vulnerability in the developing world. Despite this, little attention has been paid to social protection's... More Info
$35.95
The Future of South-South Economic Relations
Zed Books |
February 19, 2013 |
256 pages
South-South economic relations are increasing, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. There will be more trade agreements, more economic and political alliances and an acknowledgement that the Global South has much to offer. These new economic relations have great potential - both... More Info
$36.95
New South Asian Feminisms
Zed Books |
January 22, 2013 |
240 pages
South Asian Feminism is in crisis. Under constant attack from right-wing nationalism and religious fundamentalism and co-opted by "NGOisation" and neoliberal state agendas, once autonomous and radical forms of feminist mobilization have been ideologically fragmented and replaced. It is time to... More Info
$40.95
Zimbabwe's Fast-Track Land Reform
Zed Books |
December 11, 2012 |
272 pages
A landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy.Providing new, in-depth empirical research, based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study carried out on the Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform, this book examines how processes such as land acquisition, allocation,... More Info
China's Urban Billion
Zed Books |
December 24, 2012 |
168 pages
By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a... More Info
$35.95
Media, Mobilization and Human Rights
Zed Books |
December 11, 2012 |
256 pages
What impact do mass media portrayals of atrocities have on activism? Media, Mobilization and Human Rights challenges the assumption that exposure to human rights violations in countries far away causes people to respond with activism to end atrocities. Turning a critical eye on existing... More Info
$27.95
Everyday Revolutions
Zed Books |
September 15, 2012 |
224 pages
In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization and value production are appearing. People are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization, creating an alternative way forward. In the West, this has been demonstrated by the recent and remarkable rise of... More Info
Anti-Porn
Zed Books |
September 15, 2012 |
208 pages
Anti-porn feminism is back. Countering the ongoing "pornification" of Western culture and society, anti-porn movements are powerfully re-emerging among a new generation of feminist activists in the UK and worldwide. Anti-Porn: The Resurgence of Anti-Porn Feminism examines the ways in which the new... More Info
Reclaiming Public Ownership
Zed Books |
September 15, 2012 |
192 pages
The last few years have seen the spectacular failure of market fundamentalism in Europe and the US. As the environmental limits and socially destructive tendencies of the current profit-driven economic model become daily more self-evident, there is a growing demand for a fairer economic... More Info
$29.95
Afghanistan
Zed Books |
December 13, 2013 |
255 pages
Widely portrayed as the "success of the war on terror," Afghanistan is now in crisis. Increasingly detached from the people it is meant to serve, and unable to manage the massive amounts of aid that it has sought, the administration in Kabul struggles to govern even the diminishing areas of the... More Info
Representing Jihad
Zed Books |
September 15, 2012 |
272 pages
The jihad has been at the center of the West's securitization discourse for more than a decade. Western theorists constantly use the jihadist as a discursive tool to further their neoliberal, military and market agendas, perpetuating massive gaps of understanding between "the West," Muslims and... More Info
Civil Society and the State in Left-led Latin America
Zed Books |
November 13, 2012 |
256 pages
Timely and unique, this innovative volume provides a critical examination of the role of civil society and its relation to the state throughout left-led Latin American. Featuring a broad range of case studies from across the region - from the Bolivian constitution to participative budgeting in... More Info
Economies of Recycling
Zed Books |
September 15, 2012 |
336 pages
For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralized way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this global trade has not yet been clearly identified... More Info
$31.00
Afghan Women
Zed Books |
August 15, 2007 |
176 pages
This book looks at how Afghan women have fought repression and challenged stereotypes, both within the country and in diasporas in Iran, Pakistan, the US and the UK. Covering topics from the Taliban and the impact of 9/11 to the role of NGOs and the growth of the opium economy, Rostami-Povey gets... More Info
$30.95
The Fate of Sudan
Zed Books |
September 15, 2012 |
384 pages
In 2005, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's most devastating civil wars and set the stage for the partition of Sudan, Africa's largest country. One of the most important peace agreements in African history, it has had decisive consequences for the entire Horn of Africa.... More Info
$29.95
Celebrity and the environment
Zed Books |
August 15, 2009 |
193 pages
Celebrities are lending their name to conservation causes, and conservation itself is growing its own stars to fight and speak for nature. In this timely and essential book, Dan Brockington argues that this alliance grows from the mutually supportive publicity celebrity and conservation causes... More Info
Sexuality in Muslim Contexts
Zed Books |
November 27, 2012 |
288 pages
The book explores women's resistance against the policing of sexuality in Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those who do not conform to sexual norms.
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$35.95
Unplanned Development(s)
Zed Books |
November 27, 2012 |
288 pages
Unplanned Development(s) offers a fascinating and fresh view into the realities of development planning. While to the outsider most development projects present themselves as thoroughly planned endeavors informed by structure, direction and intent, Jonathan Rigg exposes the truth of development... More Info
Thailand's Hidden Workforce
Zed Books |
June 15, 2012 |
208 pages
Millions of Burmese women migrate into Thailand each year to form the basis of the Thai agricultural and manufacturing workforce. Un-documented and unregulated, this army of migrant workers constitutes the ultimate "disposable" labor force, enduring grueling working conditions and much aggression... More Info
Africa and the War on Drugs
Zed Books |
November 13, 2012 |
192 pages
Nigerian drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western ships, crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's streets and the Bissau-Guinean state captured by narco-traffickers. These are some of the vivid images surrounding drugs in Africa which have alarmed... More Info
From Recipients to Donors
Zed Books |
September 15, 2012 |
288 pages
Foreign aid has seen enormous changes in the last decade. In the early millennium, it appeared that donor nations might succeed in combating partisan interests, and commit to a new era of coordinated policies and practices. However, the last few years have witnessed a number of challenges to this... More Info
Drug War Mexico
Zed Books |
June 15, 2012 |
256 pages
Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness, and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it... More Info
Border Walls
Zed Books |
August 15, 2012 |
224 pages
Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone have built an astonishing combined... More Info
Solidarity
Zed Books |
August 15, 2012 |
288 pages
In Solidarity, David Featherstone addresses a necessary and timely topic. Despite the frequency with which the word "solidarity" is invoked, it has in fact rarely been the subject of rigorous analysis. Instead, the forms that solidarities take are frequently taken as given. This book redresses this... More Info
The End of Conceit
Zed Books |
September 15, 2012 |
288 pages
In this radical new book, Patrick Chabal addresses the crucial issue of why the manner in which we in the West approach key political, social, and economic issues in today's globalized world - our traditional assumptions about "Western rationality" - is fatally constrained by an overly... More Info
$35.95
Race, Racism and Development
Zed Books |
November 27, 2012 |
320 pages
Race, Racism and Development is the first book to place constructions of race and racism at the center of a comprehensive analysis of the dominant discourses and practices of development. The author compares and contrasts two key theoretical approaches to race the postcolonial approach and a... More Info
The priest of Paraguay
Zed Books |
October 15, 2009 |
143 pages
Under the 60-year dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner's Colorado party, wealth and power became concentrated in the hands of a small few; until elections in 2008 broke the party's hold on the country. This book tells the story of how Fernando Lugo, a bishop from a deprived diocese, swept to... More Info
The myth of development
Zed Books |
September 15, 2010 |
163 pages
`This book is essential reading because of the originality of its point of view, the timeliness of its analysis and the startling propositions which it puts forward. Bristling with new ideas, the author provides us with an intelligent way into understanding better the world's present disorders.' Le... More Info
Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance
Zed Books |
December 13, 2013 |
Bolivia has experienced two decades of unprecedented popular resistance to the consequences of neoliberal policies, resulting in the resignation and flight of its president in October 2003. This unusual book uncovers the reasons and processes behind the rising opposition - mirrored in country after... More Info
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