Zed Books: 608 books
Refusenik!
Israel's Soldiers of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers, called up to take part in controversial campaigns like the 1982 invasion of Lebanon or policing duties in the Palestinian territories today, have refused orders. Many of these 'refuseniks' have faced prison sentences rather than take part in what they regard as an unjust...
Economic Policy and Human Rights
Holding Governments to Account
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Economic Policy and Human Rights presents a powerful critique of three decades of neoliberal economic policies, assessed from the perspective of human rights norms. In doing so, it brings together two areas of thought and action that have hitherto been separate: progressive economics concerned with...
International Poverty Law
An Emerging Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This book seeks to advance the emerging field of international poverty law. While law and development discourse has dealt with international poverty, advocates of poverty reduction customarily operate within a nation-state context. The contributors to this volume, while largely, although not exclusively,...
Destination in Doubt
Russia since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The enormously complex changes triggered by the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were nowhere more ambiguous than in the heartland of the Soviet bloc, Russia itself. Here the population was divided on all the most fundamental questions of post-communist transition: economic reforms, the Communist...
The Remaking of Social Contracts
Feminists in a Fierce New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) argues that social contracts must be recreated if they are to fulfil the promise of human rights. In The Remaking of Social Contracts, leading thinkers and activists address a wide range of concerns - global economic governance, militarism,...
The Aid Triangle
Recognizing the Human Dynamics of Dominance, Justice and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The Aid Triangle focuses on the human dynamics of international aid and illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance. Using the concept of a triangle of dominance, justice and identity, this timely work explains how the experience of injustice...
City Futures
Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this...
Thank You, Madagascar
The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
• *Here is a captivating and absorbing account, interspersed with vivid extracts from her diaries, that reveals how not only they but the people of the land of Madagascar captured her heart *- David Attenborough
• Beautifully written, a diary about the people and animals of Madagascar
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Voicing Demands
Feminist Activism in Transitional Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women’s empowerment. These narratives depart from the existing debate on women’s political engagement in formal institutions to examine feminist activism for building and sustaining...
The Rise of the Global Left
The World Social Forum and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Leading sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos makes an impassioned case for the politicisation of the World Social Forum, arguing that its full potential as a force for social, economic and political change can be achieved only by taking a stand against neo-liberal globalization, war, famine and...
Practising Feminist Political Ecologies
Moving Beyond the 'Green Economy'
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the ‘green economy’,...
The Hidden Face of Eve
Women in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This powerful non-fiction account of the oppression of women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago.
Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. Her experiences...
The Essential Nawal El Saadawi
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The writings of Nawal El Saadawi are essential to anyone wishing to understand the contemporary Arab world. Her dissident voice has stayed as consistent in its critique of neo.imperialist international politics as it has in its denunciation of women's oppression, both in her native Egypt and in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The first book to examine the impact of neoliberalism on male identities and gender relations, filling a major gap in the scholarship on gender and identity.
The significance of its findings extend far beyond gender studies, and will appeal to fields ranging from anthropology and international...