Zed Books: 608 books
We Kill Because We Can
From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Welcome to the Drone Age. Where self-defense has become naked aggression. Where courage has become cowardice. Where black ops have become standard operating procedure. In this remarkable and often shocking book, Laurie Calhoun dissects the moral, psychological, and cultural impact of remote-control...
A Copyright Masquerade
How Corporate Lobbying Threatens Online Freedoms
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
When thousands marched through ice and snow against a copyright treaty, their cries for free speech on the Internet shot to the heart of the European Union and forced a political U-turn. The mighty entertainment industries could only stare in dismay, their back-room plans in tatters. This highly original...
No Refuge
The Crisis of Refugee Militarization in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
'Africa's refugee and IDP camps are a cause of major concern to the international community. Millions of men, women and children endure situations of protracted displacement in deplorable conditions. In the absence of more durable solutions, refugees and IDPs in many situations are exceptionally susceptible...
Insecure Spaces
Peacekeeping, Power and Performance in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In recent times, the Blue Berets have become markers of peace and security around the globe. Yet, the iconoclastic symbol of both the Blue Beret and the Blue Helmet continue to engage the international political imagination in ways that downplay the inconsistent effects of peacekeeping missions on...
Protecting Foreign Investment
Implications of a WTO Regime and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Despite the mounting criticism that globalization is encountering, the developed countries continue to lose no opportunity to change the rules of the global economy in their favour, regardless of the impact on developing countries and the poor. This book examines one of the most important instances...
Strategic Terror
The Politics and Ethics of Aerial Bombardment
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Presenting a global history of aerial bombardment, this book shows how certain European powers initiated aerial bombardment of civilians after World War I, and how it was an instrument of choice in World War II. Beau Grosscup shows that such methods, used initially as a means of terrorizing native...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Exiled populations, who increasingly refer to themselves as diaspora communities, hold a strong stake in the fate of their countries of origin. In a world becoming ever more interconnected, they engage in 'long-distance politics' towards, send financial remittances to and support social development...
Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession
Local Resistance in South & East Asia, the Pacific & Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Under the guise of 'development', a globalizing capitalism has continued to cause poverty through dispossession and the exploitation of labour across the Global South. This process has been met with varied forms of rural resistance by local movements of displaced farm workers, small and landless (women)...
Liberia's Women Veterans
War, Roles and Reintegration
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Featuring the unique, eye-opening testimony of over 130 former female child soldiers, this work provides a new and unconventional take on the social impact of war
Offers a feminist, multidisciplinary perspective which directly confronts our gendered perceptions of warfare and militarism
Makes innovative...
Advocacy in Conflict
Critical Perspectives on Transnational Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Conflicts in Africa, Asia and Latin America have become a common focus of advocacy by Western celebrities and NGOs. This provocative volume delves into the realities of these efforts, which have often involved compromising on integrity in pursuit of profile and influence. Examining the methods used...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Why are Latin American cities amongst the most violent in the world? Over the past decades Latin America has not only become the most urbanised of the regions of the so-called global South, it has also been the scene of the urbanisation of poverty and exclusion. Overall regional homicides rates are...
Armed Actors
Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In this volume, Latin Americanist scholars explore the recent evidence relating to the ways in which partial state failure in the continent is interacting with new types of organized violence, thereby undermining the process of democratic consolidation that has characterized Latin America over the...
by Asef Bayat, Heba Hagrass, Ali Kadri
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
What does it mean to be marginalized? Is it a passive condition that the disadvantaged simply have to endure? Or is it a manufactured label, reproduced and by its nature transitory? In the wake of the new uprising in Egypt, this insightful collection explores issues of power, politics and inequality...
Undoing Privilege
Unearned Advantage in a Divided World
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. In Undoing Privilege, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change. As a result, dominant groups have been allowed...