Zed Books: 608 books
by Susan Parnell, Doctor Edgar Pieterse
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The facts of Africa’s rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural...
China's Urban Billion
The Story behind the Biggest Migration in Human History
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
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...
China and the Environment
The Green Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. A serious water pollution incident occurs once every two-to-three days. China's breakneck growth causes great concern about its global environmental impacts, as others look to China as a source for possible future solutions to climate change....
Reclaiming Public Ownership
Making Space for Economic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The first comprehensive set of arguments and proposals for public ownership since the 1970s
A major contribution to left and progressive scholarship concerned with constructing an alternative economics
Useful for students across a whole range of social sciences
Governing under Stress
Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international comparative research project exploring the political economy of globalization. This inter-disciplinary team of scholars is focusing on the semi-periphery of world power. Whether defined in social, cultural, economic or simply spatial...
The Trouble with Capitalism
An Enquiry into the Causes of Global Economic Failure
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The recent collapse of the banking system and instability in the financial markets has dramatically shaken confidence in the global economic order. Is the current variant of 'free market' capitalism really sustainable? The Trouble With Capitalism - originally written, with remarkable prescience, in...
The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism
How the IMF has Undermined Public Health and the Fight Against AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
'The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism' explores the history of and current collision between two of the major global phenomena that have characterized the last 30 years: the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases of poverty and the ascendancy of neoliberal economic ideas. The book explains not only how...
The Global Food Economy
The Battle for the Future of Farming
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.
The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational...
by Valentine Moghadam, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah White
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The Women, Gender and Development Reader II is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration,...
International Migration
Globalization's Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Jonathon Moses makes moral, political and economic arguments in favor of the free mobility of human beings across national borders. Pointing to the importance of immigration to the sucess of many nations, he shows that Europe itself now faces a falling population, and has over the past fifty years...
Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa
From the Margins to the Centre
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning. While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship...
Societies beyond Oil
Oil Dregs and Social Futures
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
What would a de-carbonised society be like? What are the implications of a general de-globalisation for our social futures? How will our high-carbon patterns of life be restructured in a de-energized world? As global society gradually wakes up to the new reality of peak oil, these questions remain...
The Truth about Trade
The Real Impact of Liberalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Is it really true that the trade agreements pursued in the World Trade Organisation and through regional negotiations are vital for eliminating world poverty and achieving a sustainable future? Or is trade liberalization the villain of the piece? Clive George's provocative book examines the evidence,...
Geography of Power
Making Global Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
This work looks at how contemporary global economic policies are made: by which institutions, under what ideologies, and how they are enforced. The author reveals the central roles played by organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank in supervising the livelihoods of over 2.5 billion people....