Zed Books: 608 books
Can NGOs Make a Difference?
The Challenge of Development Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs...
Citizenship and Social Movements
Perspectives from the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh,...
Mobilizing for Democracy
Citizen Action and the Politics of Public Participation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms...
Agribusiness and Society
Corporate Responses to Environmentalism, Market Opportunities and Public Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This volume examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness. In particular, in what ways are they changing their R & D and business practices in order to develop new environmentally oriented products,...
The Politics of Indigeneity
Dialogues and Reflections on Indigenous Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Provocative and original, The Politics of Indigeneity explores the concept of indigeneity across the world - from the Americas to New Zealand, Africa to Asia - and the ways in which it intersects with local, national and international social and political realities. Taking on the role of critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The researchers who have written this volume are clear not only that mass poverty is still the leading humanitarian crisis in developing countries, but that, if effective policies are to be put in place, the national elites who control governments and economies need to be convinced of both the reasons...
Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization
Social Movements and Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Development studies is in a state of flux. A new generation of scholars has come to reject what was once regarded as accepted wisdom, and increasingly regard development and globalization as part of a continuum with colonialism, premised on the same reductionist assumption that progress and growth...
Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa
Rethinking Homophobia and Forging Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable coverage in the popular media in recent years. Gay-bashing by political and religious figures in Zimbabwe and Gambia; draconian new laws against lesbians and gays and their...
Women, Violence and Tradition
Taking FGM and Other Practices to a Secular State
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Is the practice of FGM on the rise in the UK and US? Why? What happens to religious and cultural traditions when they are taken from their context into a new, often secular, state? Women, Violence and Tradition is a fascinating look into the life histories of women from ethnic minority communities...
by Sindre Bangstad
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
In late July 2011, Norway was struck by the worst terror attacks in its history. In a fertilizer-bomb attack on Government Headquarters in Oslo and a one-hour-long shooting spree at the Labour Party Youth Camp at Utøya, seventy-seven people, mostly teenagers, were killed by Anders Behring Breivik....
In the Way of Development
Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
A collaboration between indigenous leaders, social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, In the Way of Development explores the current situation of indigenous peoples enmeshed in the remorseless expansion of the modern economy. The volume assembles a rich diversity of statements,...
Border Walls
Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
*** Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting *** Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders?...
Media Movements
Civil Society and Media Policy Reform in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
There is currently no book length study that looks at how social movements in LA are impacting media reform and media policy.
Covers recent movements and their successes, offering an up-to-date analysis.
Will appeal to a broad section of students of communication and media,...
Against Empire
Feminisms, Racism and the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In Against Empire, Zillah Eisenstein extends her critique of neoliberal globalization and its capture of democratic possibilities. Faced with an aggressive American empire hostage to ideological extremism and violently promoting the narrowest of its interests around the globe, Eisenstein urgently...