Zed Books: 608 books
Russia and Development
Capitalism, Civil Society and the State
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Unique and insightful, this book takes a look at Russia’s development through the Tsarist and Soviet periods. Rather than make the more familiar comparisons between Russia and the West, Russia and Development focuses on political and social mobilization in adjacent Central Asia. It examines the...
Chocolate Nations
Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury. From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans, Chocolate Nations reveals the hard economic realities...
Building Feminist Movements and Organizations
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The struggle for the advancement of women's rights and gender equality globally is impossible without strong women's organizations and movements to provide leadership and momentum. But what does a strong women's organization look like? And what does it take to create effective and sustainable women's...
Introducing Just Sustainabilities
Policy, Planning, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
This unique and insightful text offers an exploration of the origins and subsequent development of the concept of just sustainability. Introducing Just Sustainabilities discusses key topics, such as food justice, sovereignty and urban agriculture; community, space, place(making) and spatial justice;...
Congo Masquerade
The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states. In this scathing study of catastrophic aid inefficiency, Trefon argues that whilst others have examined war and plunder in the Great Lakes region, none...
Goma
Stories of Strength and Sorrow from Eastern Congo
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
A city of over one million people caught between volcanic eruptions and armed conflict, Goma has come to embody the ‘tragedy’ that is the Democratic Republic of Congo. Often portrayed by outsiders as a living hell, Goma is nevertheless a city of opportunity for others.
Drawing on a rich...
Latin America's Turbulent Transitions
The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward radical left governments - specifically in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Why has this profound shift...
Grassroots Postmodernism
Remaking the Soil of Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
With the publication of this remarkable book in 1998, Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash instigated a complete epistemological rupture. Grassroots Post-modernism attacks the three sacred cows of modernity: global thinking, the universality of human rights and the self-sufficient individual. Rejecting...
Charles Taylor and Liberia
Ambition and Atrocity in Africa's Lone Star State
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Campaigner, insurgent, fugitive, rebel commander, commodity kingpin, elected president, exile and finally prisoner, Charles Taylor sought to lead his country to change but instead ignited a conflict which destroyed Liberia in over a decade of violence, greed and personal ambition. Taylor's takeover...
Elections and the Media in Post-Conflict Africa
Votes and Voices for Peace?
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Over the past ten years, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo and Rwanda all organized pluralist elections in a post conflict context, having experienced an armed conflict which either interrupted or prevented democratization processes. These...
The Trial of Hissène Habré
How the People of Chad Brought a Tyrant to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
When Hissène Habré, the deposed dictator of Chad, was found guilty of crimes against humanity in 2016, it was described as ‘a watershed for human rights justice in Africa and beyond’. For the first time, an African war criminal had been convicted on African soil.
Having followed the trial...
The History of Development
From Western Origins to Global Faith
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
In this classic text, now in its fourth edition, Gilbert Rist provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system, the rise of US hegemony,...
The Congo Wars
Conflict, Myth and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away. Waves of armed conflict and atrocities against civilians have resulted in over three million casualties, making this one of the bloodiest yet least understood conflicts of recent times. In The Congo Wars Thomas Turner provides...
by Ernie Regehr
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In the past quarter century our world has hosted ninety-nine wars, twenty-nine of these are ongoing. The bill for maintaining huge stores of weapons and some 70 million people in uniform currently stands at $1.7 trillion a year. Of these wars, over 85 percent are not settled on the battlefield; they...