Zed Books: 608 books
The Rise of the BRICS in Africa
The Geopolitics of South-South Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
A little over a decade ago Africa was being spoken of in the media as the 'lost' or 'hopeless' continent. Now it has some of the fastest growing economies in the world, largely because of the impact of the BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In this first book to be written about...
Cooperatives Confront Capitalism
Challenging the Neoliberal Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.
Through case studies spanning the US, Latin America and Europe, including valuable new work on the previously...
Where Are The Unions?
Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
First book to compare the anti-neoliberal uprisings in Latin America (‘Turn to the Left’), the Middle East and North Africa (‘Arab Spring’), and Europe (anti-austerity movements).
Interdisciplinary approach: contributors are activists, journalists and academics; historians, sociologists,...
Crisis and Critique
A Brief History of Media Participation in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Throughout history, innovations in media have had a profound impact on protest and dissent. But while these recent developments in social media have been the subject of intense scholarly attention, there has been little consideration of the wider historical role of media technologies in protest. Drawing...
by Bjorn Hettne
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
This book is a concise and accessible introduction to development thinking, contemporary development theory and practice and - a critical analysis of the values that lie behind them. Hettne argues that schools of development thinking should be historically contextualized, not presented as evolving...
The Development Dictionary
A Guide to Knowledge as Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Essential critical reference which reviews key concepts in short essays.
Each essay reviews one concept from a historical, anthropological, sociological and political point of view, highlighting its particular bias.
Edited by Professor Wolfgang Sachs, leading critical development...
Bolivia
Processes of Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Since Evo Morales was elected president in 2006 as leader of the MAS, the first social movement to achieve political power in Latin America, Bolivia has seen radical changes and continues to generate huge interest worldwide. In this revealing new book, Crabtree and Chaplin show how ordinary people...
Reclaiming Development
An Alternative Economic Policy Manual
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
There is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Reclaiming Development was published in 2004. Many of the same driving assumptions - monetarism and globalization - remain within the international development policy establishment. Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel confront this...
The Global Women's Movement
Origins, Issues and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The spread and consolidation of the women's movement in North and South over the past thirty years looks set to shape the course of social progress over the next generation. Peggy Antrobus draws on her long experience of feminist activism to set women's movements in their changing national and global context.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Ours is an era when human genes can be copied and patented. From genetically modified foods to digital piracy, the concept of intellectual property (IP) and the laws upholding it play a foundational role in our society, but its political and ideological dimensions have rarely been understood outside...
Spoiling Tibet
China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
The mineral-rich mountains of Tibet so far have been largely untouched by China’s growing economy. Nor has Beijing been able to settle Tibet with politically reliable peasant Chinese. That is all about to change as China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, from 2011 to 2015, calls for massive investment in...
The New Imperial Order
Indigenous Responses to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This important book discusses the political economy of world order and the basic ideological and ontological grounds upon which the emergent global order is based. Starting from a Maori perspective it examines the development of international law and the world order of nation states. In engaging with...
Food versus Fuel
An Informed Introduction to Biofuels
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Food versus Fuel presents a high-level introduction to the science and economics behind a well-worn debate, that will debunk myths and provide quality facts and figures for academics and practitioners in development studies, environment studies, and agricultural studies. Compiled by an internationally...
Business, Politics, and the State in Africa
Challenging the Orthodoxies on Growth and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
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. Commentators are beginning to ask whether emerging from Africa is a new generation of 'lion' economies to challenge the East Asian 'tigers'?...