Zed Books: 608 books
by Tom Porteous
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Why has Africa become such an important priority for Britain's foreign policy under New Labour? What interests and values is the UK seeking to uphold by intervening? Why has aid to Africa more than tripled over the past decade? How has the UK's involvement in the War on Terror affected its efforts...
Development Planning in South Africa
Provincial Policy and State Power in the Eastern Cape
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape's provincial government consequently launched an historically ambitious...
Al-Qaeda
From Global Network to Local Franchise
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Since the attacks of September 11th 2001 and up to and beyond Osama bin Ladin's death, al-Qaeda has come to embody the new enigmatic face of terrorism, dominating discussions of national and international security. Yet in spite of the attention it receives, conflicting assumptions about the group...
Dictatorship, Imperialism and Chaos
Iraq since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since 1989 the history of Iraq has been one of the world's most traumatic. In this book, Thabit Abdullah places the Iraqi people at the centre of changes which began with the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the current American-led occupation. Battles for control of oil, the vacuum created...
Land and Freedom
The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against neoliberalism. But what have these movements achieved for their members in more than two decades of resistance and can any of these achievements...
Energy Justice in a Changing Climate
Social Equity and Low-Carbon Energy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Energy justice is one of the most critical, and yet least developed, concepts associated with sustainability. Much has been written about the sustainability of low-carbon energy systems and policies - with an emphasis on environmental, economic and geopolitical issues. However, less attention has...
by Eleanor O' Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
During the 1990s the drive of liberal peace efforts in the form of humanitarian intervention transformed the ways in which traditional development assistance operated in war and post-war situations. From Somalia and Rwanda to Bosnia and Sri Lanka, conflict, security and development became more intertwined...
A Future for the Excluded
Job Creation and Income Generation by the Poor: Clodomir Santos de Morais and the Organization Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Clodomir Santos de Morais is to organizational and entrepreneurial literacy what his Brazilian confrere, Paulo Freire, is to ordinary literacy. This book introduces for the first time in English the experiences of grassroots development workers who have applied his ideas of the Organization Workshop...
Kenya
The Struggle for a New Constitutional Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The aftermath of recent Kenyan elections has been marred by violence and an apparent crisis in democratic governance, with the negotiated settlement resulting from the 2007 election bringing into sharp focus longstanding problems of state and society. The broader reform process has involved electoral,...
Conscientious Objection
Resisting Militarized Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Refusing to take part in war is as old as war itself. This wide-ranging and original book brings together four different bodies of knowledge to examine the practice of conscientious objection: historical and philosophical analyses of conscientious objection as a critique of compulsory military service...
Taking Aim at the Arms Trade
NGOS, Global Civil Society and the World Military Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Taking Aim at The Arms Trade: NGOs, Global Civil Society and the World Military Order takes a critical look at the ways in which NGOs portray the arms trade as a problem of international politics and the strategies they use to effect change. NGOs have been pivotal in bringing the suffering caused...
by Mouhamedoune Abdoulage Fall, Cyril Fouillet, David Picherit
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Microcredit programmes, long considered efficient development tools, now face unprecedented crises in a number of countries. Is this the end of microcredit or rather an essential step in its expansion? Should we stop microcredit altogether or rethink the way it is implemented?
Drawing on extensive...
Kakuma Refugee Camp
Humanitarian Urbanism in Kenya's Accidental City
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world’s largest, home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa. Though notionally still a ‘temporary’ camp, it has become a permanent urban space in all but name with businesses, schools, a hospital and its own court system....
South Africa Pushed to the Limit
The Political Economy of Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Since 1994, the democratic government in South Africa has worked hard at improving the lives of the black majority, yet close to half the population lives in poverty, jobs are scarce, and the country is more unequal than ever. For millions, the colour of people’s skin still decides their destiny....