Zed Books: 608 books
Who's Afraid of China?
The Challenge of Chinese Soft Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
If China suddenly democratised, would it cease being labelled as a threat? This provocative book argues that fears of China often say as much about those who hold them as they do about the rising power itself. It focuses not on the usual trope of economic and military might, but on China's growing...
Ballot Box China
Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-Party State
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected. The Chinese government believes that this is a step towards `democracy with...
by Kerry Brown, Simone van Nieuwenhuizen
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China. Though he retains an immense symbolic importance within China’s national mythology, the rise of a capitalist economy has seen the ruling class become increasingly ambivalent towards him. And while he continues...
Dangerous Brown Men
Exploiting Sex, Violence and Feminism in the 'War on Terror'
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
- integrates debate in sexuality studies and race and ethnic studies with analysis of the key international events of our times - presents a way of understanding the 'war on terror' as a political and cultural shift that impacts on everyday life for all of us - identifies key and urgent questions for feminists, anti-racists and human rights activists in the face of current challenges
Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes,...
Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?
Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring. In this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict...
Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America
Confrontation or Co-optation?
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In recent years, the simultaneous development of prominent social movements and the election of left and centre-left governments has radically altered the political landscape in Latin America. These social movements have ranged from the community based 'piqueteros' of Argentina that brought down three...
Uzbekistan and the United States
Authoritarianism, Islamism and Washington's Security Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Uzbekistan, the most strategically situated Central Asian country, has exhibited the most appalling record on human rights and democratic reforms. Yet, post-September 11, a transformation in US policy has suddenly taken place: US troops are now stationed there; Washington has put the Islamic Movement...
When The Walking Defeats You
One Man's Journey as Joseph Kony's Bodyguard
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
A rare and fascinating insider account of one of the world’s most notorious rebel groups
Author was given unique and unprecedented access over a number of years to a young man who was a personal bodyguard to Joseph Kony, the enigmatic and reviled leader of the movement
The LRA attracted widespread...
Women in Israel
Race, Gender and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Women in Israel provides a fresh, gendered analysis of citizenship in Israel. Working from a framework of Israel as a settler-colonial regime, this important, insightful book presents historical and contemporary comparative approaches to the lives and experiences of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi and Palestinian...
Forced Marriage
Introducing a Social Justice and Human Rights Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law. Together the contributors provide an international, multi-disciplinary perspective that offers a compelling alternative...
Fighting Terror
Ethical Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Fighting Terror analyses the ethical dilemmas that confront everyone in the war on terror. Arguing that this is as much a war of ideas as it is a military struggle, Alex Bellamy argues that fighting morally is essential in distancing the terrorized from the terrorists. The book starts by setting out...
by Victor Kiernan
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
'This book rests on a lifetime’s thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in “a more realistic light”.’
Times Literary Supplement
The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of William Shakespeare, this form of drama...
The End of Certainty
Towards a New Internationalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The End of Certainty is a magical realist book on world politics. Stephen Chan takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through how we can establish a new kind of international relations and construct a common future for the planet. Chan argues that the certainties of singular traditions of philosophy...