Zed Books: 608 books
by Timothy Braun, Lisa Glidden
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Activists, scientists and policymakers around the world have long argued that we need to find sustainable and secure solutions to the world's energy demands. At issue for citizens worldwide is whether we are scientifically literate enough to understand the potential policy choices before us. Understanding...
One World Mania
A Critical Guide to Free Trade, Financialization and Over-Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Accessibly covers the key present-day issues of free trade and globalisation - perfect for critically minded students and citizens
Features a wealth of empirical and statistical evidence neglected by mainstream media
Author's previous book on Free Trade received rapturous endorsements from such high-profile figures as Ha-Joon Chang and Walden Bello
Marikana
A Report from South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
On 16 August 2012, the world looked on in horror as South African police gunned down striking mine workers at Marikana, leaving thirty-four dead and many more wounded. It was a massacre that echoed apartheid-era violence at Sharpeville and Soweto, shattering the international image of South Africa...
AIDS and Power
Why There Is No Political Crisis Yet
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in their prime of AIDS. It is a stunning cataclysm, plunging life expectancy to pre-modern levels and orphaning millions of children. Yet political trauma does not grip Africa. People living with AIDS are not rioting in the streets or overthrowing governments....
Private Security in Africa
From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Across Africa, growing economic inequality, instability and urbanization have led to the rapid spread of private security providers. While these PSPs have already had a significant impact on African societies, their impact has so far received little in the way of comprehensive analysis.
Drawing...
The End of Development
A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?
Human history unfolded differently across the globe. The world is separated in to places of poverty and prosperity. Tracing the long arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early twenty first century in an argument...
The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class
Corporate Power in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. Using social...
Energy Services for the Urban Poor in Africa
Issues and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Africa has been experiencing higher rates of urbanization than any other continent, and today about one-third of the continent‘s population live in urban areas. But studies of energy services for urban residents, especially the poor, are still rare. The supply of electricity to poor city dwellers...
Participation
From Tyranny to Transformation: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Participation has established itself as a significant approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in developing and developed countries alike. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by...
by Patience Mutopo, Atakilte Beyene, Hanne Haaland
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
The issue of biofuels has already been much debated, but the focus to date has largely been on Latin America and deforestation - this highly original work breaks fresh ground in looking at the African perspective. Most African governments see biofuels as having the potential to increase agricultural...
The Health of Nations
Towards a New Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health, both within and between countries, remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places...
Living Longer
Ageing, Development and Social Protection
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Accelerated population ageing, long a significant issue for developed countries, is now becoming important in the developing world too. Population ageing is one of the great achievements of the past century - although it brings its own social, economic, political and cultural challenges. The quality...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Should migrants have the same rights as citizens to health care services? What do we mean by rights and by health? And how do we uphold such rights when diasporic networks provide a diversity of opportunities and constraints for people seeking to maintain or restore their health? Answering these pressing...
Protecting the Health of the Poor
Social Movements in the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health. While the world’s affluent spend fortunes on the most trifling treatments, poor people’s lives are ruined and often cut short prematurely by challenges that could easily be overcome at low cost:...