Zed Books: 608 books
Rock in a Hard Place
Music and Mayhem in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
A muggy night in Abu Dhabi, 2011. Under the stadium lights a 30,000-strong sea of Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians and Egyptians wait in anticipation. Alongside them are Saudis, Iranians and Israelis. Defiance and excitement course through the crowd like electricity. Standing together, they are waiting...
by Robert Mshengu Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
In this book, South African performer and activist Robert Mshengu Kavanagh reveals the complex and conflicting interplay of class, nation and race in South African theatre under Apartheid. Evoking an era when theatre itself became a political battleground, Kavanagh displays how the struggle against...
The Lords of Human Kind
European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often...
Life after Violence
A People's Story of Burundi
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Burundi has recently emerged from twelve years of devastating civil war. Its economy has been destroyed and hundreds and thousands of people have been killed. In this book, the voices of ordinary Burundians are heard for the first time. Farmers, artisans, traders, mothers, soldiers and students talk...
Genocide, War Crimes and the West
History and Complicity
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Genocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes & the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understanding of an important...
Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance
The Power of Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political and social structural conditions to the thoughts...
Relocation Failures in Sri Lanka
A Short History of Internal Displacement and Resettlement
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Each year, millions of people are internally displaced and resettled in the wake of wars and floods or to make way for large-scale development projects, and this number is increasing. Humanitarian and development specialists continue to struggle with designing and executing effective protection strategies...
Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The Cuban revolution served as a rallying cry to people across Latin America and the Caribbean. The revolutionary regime has provided vital support to the rest of the region, offering everything from medical and development assistance to training and advice on guerrilla warfare.
Cuba and Revolutionary...
Guerrillas
War and Peace in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Three parallel wars were fought in the latter half of the twentieth century in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. These wars were long and brutal, dividing international opinion sharply between US support for dictatorial regimes and the USSR’s sponsorship of guerrilla fighters. This fascinating...
Aftershock
A Journey into Eastern Europes Broken Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In this unique, panoramic account of faded dreams, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe a quarter of a century after the fall of communism, to track down hundreds of people he spoke to in the initial atmosphere of optimism as the Iron Curtain fell – from politicians and scholars to trade...
The Burdens of Freedom
Eastern Europe since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
From Estonia to Macedonia, this book is a history of 15 countries as they negotiate their transition from communism. For some, the story ends happily, with triumphant entry into the European Union in 2004.Others are caught in limbo, destroyed by nationalist politics, war and genocide, or crippled...
Dissident Marxism
Past Voices for Present Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
We are witnessing the birth of a new politics -- anti-capitalist, libertarian and anti-war. But where do today's dissidents come from? Dissident Marxism argues that their roots can be found in the life and work of an earlier generation of socialist revolutionaries, including such inspiring figures...
Cosmic Shift
Russian Contemporary Art Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Features a strong line-up of the country’s most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians.
Featuring: pioneers of the Moscow Conceptualism movement Ilya and Emilia Kabakov; Bart De Baere, Russia’s foremost curator; art critic and theorist Boris Groys;...
by Nawal El Saadawi
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
A new edition of the most seminal feminist novel from the Arab world, set to inspire a new generation
Inspired by the true, tragic and defiant story of Firdaus – whom El Saadawi met whilst working as a doctor in a women's prison
El Saadawi is considered one of the world's most...