Zed Books: 608 books
Thirsty Planet
Strategies for Sustainable Water Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
By the year 2025 nearly 2 billion people will live in regions experiencing absolute water scarcity. In the face of this emerging crisis, how should the planet's water be used and managed? Current international policy sees nature competing with human uses of water. Hunt takes issue with this perspective....
Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa
The Impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian Investments
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
The subject of food security and land issues in Africa has become one of increased importance and contention over recent years. In particular, the focus has shifted to the role new global South donors - especially India, China and Brazil - are playing in shaping African agriculture through their increased...
Redefining Genocide
Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
A provocative re-thinking of how genocide should be defined that will be essential reading for all students and scholars of genocide studies
Covers a number of highly controversial case studies, including Palestine and Alberta’s Tar Sands
Links genocide to highly topical issues...
by Camilla Toulmin
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Climate change is a major challenge for us all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat. This book outlines current thinking and evidence and the impact such change will have on Africa's development prospects. Global warming above the level of two degrees Celsius would be enormously...
Capitalism
A Structural Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence. Drawing on a number of fascinating case...
Reclaiming the Land
The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Rural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis of dispossessed peasants and unemployed...
From Recipients to Donors
Emerging Powers and the Changing Development Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
From Recipients to Donors examines the emergence, or re-emergence, of a large number of nations as partners and donors in international development, from global powers such as Brazil, China and India, to Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia, to former socialist states such as Poland and Russia. The impact...
Power Shift
On the New Global Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
• A sophisticated interpretation of geopolitics from a progressive perspective, which doesn’t currently exist, and offers a critique of mainstream thinking
• Richard Falk is a big name, as an author, UN official, media participant, he has an existing high reputation and following
•...
Spaces of Aid
How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they’ve signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while...
Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa
Development without Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The first book length work to highlight the relationship between development aid and authoritarian politics in contemporary Africa
Features a variety of case studies by a roster of high-profile academic contributors, including David Anderson, Nicholas Van de Walle and Rita Abrahamsen
Controversially...
The Future of African Peace Operations
From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
With the AU’s African Standby Force due to become fully operational in 2015, this book will be highly topical
The first book to provide a comprehensive overview of peacekeeping operations in Africa
Includes some very high-profile case studies, including the operations against...
Development and Sustainability
The Challenge of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
While the need for effective action toward a greener and socially inclusive economy has long been evident, health promotion in the context of sustainable development has faltered. Arguing that human health is the key factor to sustainable development, Development and Sustainability promotes a fresh,...
Agricultural Reform in Rwanda
Authoritarianism, Markets and Zones of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The first in-depth study of agricultural reform in Rwanda
Based on extensive, unique in-country fieldwork, including over 300 interviews
Author has accumulated a wide range of professional experience in the region, including as a researcher for Human Rights Watch and a consultant for USAID.
Rwanda is a very contentious and high-profile country both amongst those studying Africa and policymakers
by Martin Scott
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance...