Zed Books: 608 books
Eco-Homes
People, Place and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This is the first book to comprehensively explore eco-housing from a geographical, social and political perspective. It starts from the premise that we already...
Sex Work Matters
Exploring Money, Power, and Intimacy in the Sex Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by the police, to the experience of male and transgender...
Feminism and War
Confronting US Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and war. The editors of Feminism and War have brought together a diverse set of leading theorists...
Sexual Decoys
Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her unforgiving indictment of neoliberal imperial politics. She charts its most recent militarist and masculinist configurations through discussions of the Afghan and Iraq wars, violations at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the 2004 US Presidential election, and...
Impossible Peace
Israel/Palestine since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In 1993 luminaries from around the world signed the 'Oslo Accords' - a pledge to achieve lasting peace in the Holy Land - on the lawn of the White House. Yet things didn't turn out quite as planned. With over 1, 000 Israelis and close to four times that number of Palestinians killed since 2000, the...
Afghanistan
The Mirage of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Widely portrayed as the 'success of the war on terror', Afghanistan is now in crisis. Increasingly detached from the people it is meant to serve, and unable to manage the massive amounts of aid that it has sought, the administration in Kabul struggles to govern even the diminishing areas of the country...
Holocaust Escapees and Global Development
Hidden Histories
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The thousands uprooted and displaced by the Holocaust had a profound cultural impact on the countries in which they sought refuge, with numerous Holocaust escapees attaining prominence as scientists, writers, filmmakers and artists. But what is less well known is the way in which this refugee diaspora...
Decolonizing Methodologies
Research and Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
'A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.'
Walter Mignolo, Duke University
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory.
This...
Zika
From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The first frontline account of the Zika epidemic.
Much of the coverage of Zika has been alarmist, and focussed on the risks posed to affluent Americans and Olympic athletes. This book corrects this by looking at the disease from the perspective of those ordinary Brazilians who have been most affected...
Disappearing Palestine
Israel's Experiments in Human Despair
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Palestine is fast disappearing. Over many decades Israel has developed and refined policies to disperse, imprison and impoverish the Palestinian people in a relentless effort to destroy them as a nation. It has industrialized Palestinian despair through ever more sophisticated systems of curfews,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa. Featuring chapters and in-depth case studies on South Africa and Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Botswana and West Africa, it traces the development of ideas about sustainable development and...
by Sven Harten
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Evo Morales is one of the world's most controversial political leaders. His story is extraordinary: poor shepherd-boy, persecuted coca grower, self-professed admirer of Ché Guevara, hero of the anti-globalization movement, and first indigenous president of modern Latin America. The story of the social...
by Rut Diamint, Laura Tedesco
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Cult-of-personality or true democracy? The rise of populism worldwide, combined with the overwhelming success of leaders in Latin America, has positioned the region at the forefront of political debate. Conventional wisdom presents this trend as a handful of charismatic individuals leading an ideological...
by Doctor Meghana Nayak, Professor Eric Selbin
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Decentering International Relations seeks to actively confront, resist, and rewrite International Relations (IR), a heavily politicized field that is deeply centered in the North/West and privileges certain perspectives, pedagogies, and practices. Is it possible to break the chain of signifiers that...