Zed Books imprint: 608 books
by Iman Hashim, Doctor Dorte Thorsen
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances of children's voluntary migration and their experiences of it. Their...
Bread, Freedom, Social Justice
Workers and the Egyptian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Accounts of the Arab Spring often focus on the role of youth coalitions, the use of social media, and the tactics of the Tahrir Square occupation. This authoritative and original book argues that collective action by organised workers played a fundamental role in the Egyptian revolution, which erupted...
Development and the African Diaspora
Place and the Politics of Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
There has been much recent celebration of the success of African 'civil society' in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora. Against the background of such celebrations, this innovative book sheds light on the diasporic networks - 'home associations' - whose economic contributions...
Poverty and Inequality in Middle Income Countries
Policy Achievements, Political Obstacles
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Explores new, and still largely unexamined, trends in global poverty dynamics.
The contributors include new and up-and-coming scholars from the middle income countries covered by the book.
Points to new and innovative strategies for development and poverty reduction.
Common Ground
The Sharing of Land and Landscapes for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Common Ground explores the shifting relationship between human society and the landscapes that bear it. Examining the changing understandings of the natural world and its management and exploitation, environmental activist Mark Everard presents solutions in the nature of ecosystem services. Notwithstanding...
The Mediated City
The News in a Post-Industrial Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Original: The first book to look empirically at a city and traces its patterns of news circulation.
Holistic approach: includes interviews with a range of local mediators, focus groups, a survey of a representative sample of the population and a content analysis of one week’s news output from various media.
Looks at mainstream and local/alternative media.
Environment and Citizenship
Integrating Justice, Responsibility and Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Citizenship and the environment are hotly debated, as climate change places more responsibility on individuals and institutions in shaping policy. Using new evidence and cases from across the globe, Environment and Citizenship explores the new vocabulary of ecological citizenship and examines how...
Afghan Women
Identity and Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Through years of Taliban oppression, during the US-led invasion and the current insurgency, women in Afghanistan have played a hugely symbolic role. This book looks at how women have fought repression and challenged stereotypes, both within Afghanistan and in diasporas in Iran, Pakistan, the US and...
Global Revolt
A Guide to the Movements against Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
'Don't Owe! Won't Pay!', 'Get Rid of them All!', 'No Patents on Life!', 'Food Sovereignty', 'Another World is Possible!' ... The struggles against corporate power and the institutions of globalization grow more courageous and confident year by year.
Millions of people have already become active...
Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa
Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Democratic institutional forms and processes are increasingly widespread in Africa as dictatorial regimes have been forced to give way as a result of popular mobilization and external donor pressure. However the premises of the African scholars whose empirical research and analytical explorations...
by Pénélope Larzillière
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
In Jordan, between censorship, repression and election rigging, political activism is limited – despite the democratic opening glimpsed in 1989. In this important new book, Pénélope Larzillière charts the path of longstanding activists in Jordan and shows how opposition movements there have shifted...
East Timor
A Nation's Bitter Dawn
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Few new nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that endured by Asia's youngest country, East Timor. Born amid the flames, pillage and mayhem that surrounded Indonesia 's reluctant withdrawal in 1999, it has been struggling for years to rebuild itself from the ashes. The author, one of a handful...
by Alice Hills
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
How and why does order emerge after conflict? What does it mean in the context of the twenty-first century post-colonial city? From Kabul, Kigali and Kinshasa to Baghdad and Basra, people, abandoned by the state, make their own rules.With security increasingly ghettoised, survival becomes a matter...
Warlord Democrats in Africa
Ex-Military Leaders and Electoral Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Post-war democratization has been identified as a crucial mechanism to build peace in war-ridden societies, supposedly allowing belligerents to compete through ballots rather than bullets. A byproduct of this process, however, is that military leaders often become an integral part of the new democratic...