Zed Books: 608 books
Assata
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
'Deftly written...a spellbinding tale.'
The New York Times
In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted terrorist list.
Assata Shakur's trial and conviction...
Creating Criminals
Prisons and People in a Market Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Market society is producing more crime around the world. More acts are being defined as crimes. Ever increasing numbers of people are classified as criminals and more are being locked up in prison. With globalization, the crime and punishment problem is no longer insulated from pressures beyond national...
The Ecological Hoofprint
The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand. Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth...
Getting to Zero
A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
A gripping, first-hand account of the harrowing decisions and uplifting encounters experienced by the authors in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.
Co-author Oliver Johnson received an OBE following his work in Sierra Leone, with both authors being well connected in NGO and global health...
Ebola
How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018
From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. By the middle of 2014, the international community was gripped by hysteria. Experts grimly predicted...
by Fiona Jeffries, Wendy Mendez, Nandita Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Our 24/7 lives are saturated with round-the-clock fear. Scare-tactic headlines fill our homes and our public spaces. If it’s not the war on terror, it’s the new war on the middle class. Crisis is the new black, as catastrophe after casualty after crash shape the order of the day. Nothing to Lose...
The Priest of Paraguay
Fernando Lugo and the Making of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Paraguay had the oldest one-party regime on earth. Under the 60-year dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner's Colorado party, wealth and power became concentrated in the hands of a small few; until elections in 2008 broke the party's hold on the country and promised a newer, more egalitarian future,...
Myanmar's Enemy Within
Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
For decades Myanmar has been portrayed as a case of good citizen versus bad regime – men in jackboots maintaining a suffocating rule over a majority Buddhist population beholden to the ideals of non-violence and tolerance. But in recent years this narrative has been upended.
In June 2012,...
Citizens of Nowhere
How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart. Ten years of economic and political crises have pitted North versus South, East versus West, citizens versus institutions. And yet, these years have also shown a hidden vitality of Europeans acting across borders, with civil society and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen. Isin and Nielsen show that an 'act of citizenship' is the event through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens. They claim that such an act involves both responsibility...
by Professor Richard Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
P: Who is the real terrorist in this room? M: What're you saying? In a claustrophobic concrete cell, two men face each other across a bare table. One is a wanted terrorist, the other a British intelligence officer. But this is no ordinary interrogation, and as they talk deep into the night and violent...
Darfur
A New History of a Long War
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Written by two authors with unparalleled first-hand experience of Darfur, this is the definitive guide. Newly updated and hugely expanded, this edition details Darfur's history in Sudan. It traces the origins, organization and ideology of the infamous Janjawiid and rebel groups, including the Sudan...
'Honour'
Crimes, Paradigms, and Violence Against Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'. Authors examine strategies of response to such manifestations of violence against women, focusing largely on 'honour killings' and...
The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary
Movements, Histories and Motivations
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This dictionary is an alternative and a counter-balance to the many political dictionaries that ignore or marginalize the history and influence of anti-capitalist movements. It paints a rich picture of the ideas and issues that inform today's anti-capitalist activity. The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary...