Zed Books: 608 books
Men and Development
Politicizing Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
A wide-ranging volume featuring contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice,...
Policing Sexuality
Sex, Society, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity by nation states, and questions how and why states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of its citizens. Julian C. H. Lee presents both theoretical and ethnographic literature, distilling common themes and causes...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This innovative book outlines the great complexity, variety and difference of male identities in Islamic societies. From the Taliban orphanages of Afghanistan to the cafés of Morocco, from the experience of couples at infertility clinics in Egypt to that of Iraqi conscripts, it shows how the masculine...
Breathing Space
The Natural and Unnatural History of Air
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
In this book Mark Everard argues that governments and citizens too often take the air we breathe for granted. Air and the wider atmosphere are vital in protecting us from radiation, maintaining climate and weather patterns, dispersing water, seeds and pollen, and serving as an alternative source of...
Sexuality in Muslim Contexts
Restrictions and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted either by the...
The Uncultured Wars
Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
The Uncultured Wars is a powerful indictment of dominant American liberal-left discourse. Through twelve stylish essays Steven Salaita returns again and again to his core themes of anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia and the inadequacy of critical thought amongst the 'chattering classes', showing how...
Representing Jihad
The Appearing and Disappearing Radical
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The jihad has been at the centre of the West's securitization discourse for more than a decade. Theorists constantly use the jihadist as a discursive tool to further their neoliberal, military and market agendas, perpetuating massive gaps of understanding between 'the West', Muslims and jihadists...
Impasse in Bolivia
Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Bolivia has experienced two decades of unprecedented popular resistance to the consequences of neoliberal policies, resulting in the resignation and flight of its president in October 2003. This unusual book uncovers the reasons and processes behind the rising opposition - mirrored in country after...
Civil Society and the State in Left-Led Latin America
Challenges and Limitations to Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Timely and unique, this innovative volume provides a critical examination of the role of civil society and its relation to the state throughout left-led Latin America. Featuring a broad range of case studies from across the region, from the Bolivian Constitution to participative budgeting in Brazil...
Global Governance and Biopolitics
Regulating Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This seminal work is the first fully to engage human security with power in the international system. It presents global governance not as impartial institutionalism, but as the calculated mismanagement of life, directing biopolitical neoliberal ideology through global networks, undermining the human...
Female Well-Being
Toward a Global Theory of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This global survey starts from the assumption that the significant transformations in women's lives deserve to be fully documented and interpreted. Janet Mancini Billson and Carlyn Fluehr-Lobban tackle the complexities of social change by using data from countries in every world region to illustrate...
A Liberal Peace?
The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Moving beyond the binary argument between those who buy into the aims of creating liberal democratic states grounded in free markets and rule of law, and those who critique and oppose them, this timely and much-needed critical volume takes a fresh look at the liberal peace debate. In doing so, it...
Neoliberal Africa
The Impact of Global Social Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Neoliberalism has shaped African development for nearly thirty years. As such, it is not an economic 'shock' or a 'structural adjustment', but rather a historic shift in Africa's development politics and policy. This book explores the ways in which African countries have experienced the neoliberal...
The Politics of Land Reform in Africa
From Communal Tenure to Free Markets
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Across Africa land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure; Farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets. Law reform is at the heart of this revolution. The Politics of Land Reform in Africa casts a critical spotlight on this profound change...