Zed Books: 608 books
Iraqi Women
Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The war in Iraq has put the condition of Iraqi women firmly on the global agenda. For years, their lives have been framed by state oppression, economic sanctions and three wars. Now they must play a seminal role in reshaping their country's future for the twenty-first century. Nadje Al-Ali challenges...
The Crises of Multiculturalism
Racism in a Neoliberal Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism,...
Diasporas
Concepts, Intersections, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping...
Culture, Development and Social Theory
Towards an Integrated Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering'. The...
Blood Barrios
Dispatches from the World's Deadliest Streets
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-Fiction
Author is an award winning journalist, and was the only foreign correspondent reporting from 'the world's most dangerous country' for several years
An exposé of gang crime, police corruption and state violence in what is...
The Fate of Sudan
The Origins and Consequences of a Flawed Peace Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
In 2005, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's most devastating civil wars and set the stage for the partition of Sudan, Africa's largest country. One of the most important peace agreements in African history, it has had decisive consequences for the entire Horn of Africa....
Algeria since 1989
Between Terror and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Algeria's democratic experiment is seminal in post-Cold War history. The first Muslim nation to attempt the transition from an authoritarian system to democratic pluralism, this North African country became a test case for reform in Africa, the Arab world and beyond. Yet when the country looked certain...
Zapatistas
Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In the early hours of January 1, 1994 a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants emerged from the highlands and jungle in the far southeast of Mexico and declared "¡Ya basta!" - "Enough!" - to 500 years of colonialism, racism, exploitation, oppression, and genocide. As elites...
Translating the Queer
Body Politics and Transnational Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
What does it mean to queer a concept? If queerness is a notion that implies a destabilization of the normativity of the body, then all cultural systems contain zones of discomfort relevant to queer studies. What then might we make of such zones when the use of the term queer itself has transcended...
by Jacques Bidet
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Jacques Bidet is an established, and well respected author.
The first explicit synthesis of Marxian and Foucauldian theory (it has been bubbling for a while) – an intellectual paradigm shift.
Huge range of interest – trade (general politicised reader, activists, artists as...
A Fundamental Fear
Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The fear and anxiety aroused by Islamism is not a myth, nor is it simply a consequence of terrorism or fundamentalism. Writing in 1997, before 9/11 and before the austerity that has bred a new generation of far right groups across Europe and the US, S. Sayyid warned of a spectre haunting Western civilization....
Trial Justice
The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda. There is no doubt that appalling crimes have occurred here. Over a million people have been forced to live in overcrowded displacement camps under the control of the Ugandan...
Common Space
The City as Commons
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons – first, to think beyond the notions of public and private...
Land, Freedom and Fiction
History and Ideology in Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Essential for anyone studying both African and post-colonial literature more generally.
Features analysis of a variety of key authors from both the colonial and post-colonial era, most notably Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
Features a new foreword by prominent American Professor of English at UMass, Stephen Clingman.