Zed Books: 608 books
Women's Activism in Africa
Struggles for Rights and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The only up-to-date, comprehensive study of women’s political movements in Africa
Brings together a wide array of case studies and original empirical material from across the continent – both North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa
Authored by mostly African academics and activists who have themselves...
Muslim Spaces of Hope
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Debates about contemporary Islam and Muslims in the West have taken some negative turns in the depressing atmosphere of the war on terror and its aftermath. This book argues that we have been too preoccupied with problems, not enough with solutions. The increased mobilisation and scrutiny of Muslim...
by Alcinda Honwana
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The uprising in Tunisia has come to be seen as the first true revolution of the twenty-first century, one that kick-started the series of upheavals across the region now known as the Arab Spring. In this remarkable work, Alcinda Honwana goes beyond superficial accounts of what occurred to explore...
by Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, Patrick McCurdy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
From Tahrir Square to Occupy, from the Red Shirts in Thailand to the Teachers in Oaxaca, protest camps are a highly visible feature of social movements' activism across the world. They are spaces where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious politics, often in...
Crisis and Class War in Egypt
Social Reproduction, Factional Realignments and the Global Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In 2011, capital’s crisis erupted in Egyptian society. This eruption, and subsequent politics, have been misrepresented as revolutionary, as the working class was – and is increasingly so – devalued and disempowered.
In Crisis and Class War in Egypt, Sean F. McMahon critically analyses...
Usurping Suicide
The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features?
This book examines suicide like no other. Unconcerned with the individual dispositions that lead a person to commit such an act, Usurping Suicide focuses on the reception suicides have...
Revolting Subjects
Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilizes a number of high-profile and in-depth case studies - including...
A People Betrayed
The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Events in Rwanda in 1994 mark a landmark in the history of modern genocide. Up to one million people were killed in a planned public and political campaign. In the face of indisputable evidence, the Security Council of the United Nations failed to respond. In this classic of investigative journalism,...
Reinventing Order in the Congo
How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africa‘s second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to...
Caribbean Drugs
From Criminalization to Harm Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The Caribbean poses a significant drugs problem for the UK and the US, as the recent phenomenon of yardie gangs in British cities graphically illustrates. But in the islands themselves ganja, crack cocaine and the policies to control them have become, as this book demonstrates, a veritable social...
Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East
Changing Selves, Changing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
What is the link between information communication technology and women's empowerment in today's development context? How can ICT facilitate the pursuit of a better world? Exploring the rich complexity of the contexts in which they live and work, the authors of Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle...
by Marta Harnecker
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
What future is there for the left, faced with the challenges of the twenty-first century? Based on a lifetime's experience in politics, Marta Harnecker addresses the crisis facing the left today. At its heart, this book is a critique of social democratic realpolitik. Harnecker reminds us that, contrary...
Reclaiming Latin America
Experiments in Radical Social Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Reclaiming Latin America is a one-stop guide to the revival of social democratic and socialist politics across the region. At the end of the Cold War, and through decades of neoliberal domination and the 'Washington Consensus' it seemed that the left could do nothing but beat a ragged retreat in Latin...
by Neil Carrier, Gernot Klantschnig
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Nigerian drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western ships, crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's streets, and narco-traffickers corrupting the state in Guinea-Bissau: these are some of the vivid images surrounding drugs in Africa which have alarmed policymakers,...