Zed Books: 608 books
Global Citizens
Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The dawn of the twenty-first century has been accompanied by an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic order. Dramatic events such as the protests from Seattle to Genoa, have captured media headlines. But media headlines leave key questions unanswered,...
A Radical History of Development Studies
Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In this book some of the leading thinkers in development studies trace the history of their multi-disciplinary subject from the late colonial period and its establishment during decolonization all the way through to its contemporary concerns with poverty reduction. They present a critical genealogy...
Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers
New Partners or Old Patterns?
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation. This expert,...
Crude Interventions
The United States, Oil and the New World (Dis)Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
At the beginning of the 21st century, a new world disorder is emerging in which battles over resources are playing an increasingly prominent role. The importance of oil to this picture is underscored by the unilateral and militaristic foreign policy of the world's largest power in its attempt to secure...
Africa's Informal Workers
Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on...
Contested Powers
The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
In the global North the commoditization of creativity and knowledge under the banner of a creative economy is being posed as the post-industrial answer to dependency on labour and natural resources. Not only does it promise a more stable and sustainable future, but an economy focused on intellectual...
Fractured Cities
Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡n in Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, Nicaragua and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope...
Economies of Recycling
The Global Transformation of Materials, Values and Social Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised 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...
by Eiman Zein-Elabdin, Christine Sylvester, Nitasha Kaul
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalisation, transnational flows of capital and workers and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume centre stage in debates about contemporary...
The Dictionary of Alternatives
Utopianism and Organization
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern...
Bahrain's Uprising
Resistance and Repression in the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Amid the extensive coverage of the Arab uprisings, the Gulf state of Bahrain has been almost forgotten. Fusing historical and contemporary analysis, Bahrain’s Uprising seeks to fill this gap, examining the ongoing protests and state repression that continues today.
Drawing on powerful...
Kyoto2
How to Manage the Global Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change, has failed. We urgently need a new course of action. In Kyoto2 the author presents us with a strikingly original new solution. Using a system of finite production rights for greenhouse gases, which...
Feminism is Queer
The Intimate Connection between Queer and Feminist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Provides a comprehensive introduction to gender and queer theory, and presents complex theories and concepts in a way which remains accessible to undergraduates.
This new edition engages with the most recent developments within feminism/queer theory, many of which are highly topical (trans issues, online communities etc).
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
This pioneering collection explores the ways in which positive, pleasure-focused approaches to sexuality can empower women. Gender and development has tended to engage with sexuality only in relation to violence and ill-health. Although this has been hugely important in challenging violence against...