Zed Books: 608 books
After Charlie Hebdo
Terror, Racism and Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Extremely timely - published two years after the November 2015 attack, this is the first book to provide an objective analysis of the long-term fall out of the Paris attacks
Featuring a range of high-profile French and international scholars
Uses responses to the attacks as a means...
South Sudan's Civil War
Violence, Insurgency and Failed Peacemaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The first book-length study of South Sudan’s civil war.
South Sudan is the subject of considerable scholarly and policy interest due to the civil war and subsequent famine.
Author has been described as ‘the foremost authority on the militia groups in southern Sudan’.
Offers...
Human Rights
Social Justice in the Age of the Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Koen De Feyter, who has chaired Amnesty International's Working Group on economic, social and cultural rights, shows the many ways in which rampant market economics in today's world leads to violations of human rights. He questions how far the present-day international human rights system really provides...
Hope is a Promise
From the Indignados to the Rise of Podemos in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
In the wake of economic crisis and widespread unemployment, Podemos has quickly become one of the most dynamic political forces in Europe, offering a radical democratic alternative to austerity and the status quo. Barcelona-based activist Carlos Delclós was there to witness this rise first-hand,...
Checkpoint Watch
Testimonies from Occupied Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This book is a critical exploration of Israel's curfew-closure policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories through the eyes of CheckpointWatch, an organization of Israeli women monitoring human rights abuses. The book combines observers' daily reports from the checkpoints and along the Separation...
Depicting the Veil
Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This powerful book exposes how gendered Orientalism is wielded to justify Western imperialism. Over the last ten years, Western governments and mainstream media have utilized concepts of white masculine supremacy and feminine helplessness, juxtaposed with Orientalist images depicting women of color...
Debating Cultural Hybridity
Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism? Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural...
The New War on the Poor
The Production of Insecurity in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
When viewed from the perspective of those who suffer the consequences of repressive approaches to public security, it is often difficult to distinguish state agents from criminals. The mistreatment by police and soldiers examined in this book reflects a new kind of stigmatization.
The New War...
Who Owes Who
50 Questions about World Debt
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Using 50 questions and answers, this book explains the debt impasse for developing countries in a simple but precise manner. It details the roles of the various actors involved, the mesh in which indebted countries are caught, the possible scenarios for getting out of the impasse, and the various...
Food is Different
Why We Must Get the WTO out of Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Why does our global food system gives us expensive, unhealthy and bad-tasting food, where we pay more for packaging and long-distance shipping than we do for the food itself? Why do farmers and peasants from around the world lead massive protests each and every time the World Trade Organization meets?...
Negotiating Climate Change
Radical Democracy and the Illusion of Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Climate change is the greatest challenge of the age, and yet fierce disagreement still exists over the best way to tackle the problem or, indeed, whether it should be tackled at all. In this original book, Amanda Machin draws on radical democratic theory to show that such disagreement does not have...
South Africa's Insurgent Citizens
On Dissent and the Possibility of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Twenty years on from South Africa's first democratic election, the post-apartheid political order is more fractured, and more fractious, than ever before. Police violence seems the order of the day – whether in response to a protest in Ficksburg or a public meeting outside a mine in Marikana. For...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Energy supply is a key factor in economic and social development, but lack of modern energy in rural areas limits efforts to alleviate poverty and improve living standards. This book identifies the options for providing modern and improved renewables-based energy to low-income rural areas, with special...
Unplanned Development
Tracking Change in South-East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Unplanned Development offers a fascinating and fresh view into the realities of development planning. While to the outsider most development projects present themselves as thoroughly planned endeavours informed by structure, direction and intent, Jonathan Rigg exposes the truth of development experience...