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Cornwall: The Participation Reader
Book, June, 09 2011
This reader explores the conceptual and methodological dimensions of participatory research and the politics and practice of participation in development.
Leech: The FARC: The Longest Insurgency
Book, June, 09 2011
Part of Zed's groundbreaking Rebels series, Garry Leech has written the definitive introduction to the FARC, examining the group's origins, aims and ideology, and looking at its organizational and operational structures
Kwa: Behind the Scenes at the WTO: The Real World of International Trade Negotiations
Book, May, 12 2011
Based on interviews with people actually participating in the negotiations, this remarkable book lifts the shroud of secrecy surrounding these ostensibly democratic negotiations.
Harten: The Rise of Evo Morales and the MAS
Book, May, 12 2011
In this insightful and revealing book, Harten attempts to explain the success of the MAS and its wider consequences, showing how Morales has become the symbol for a new political consciousness that has entailed de-stigmatizing indigenous identities.
Harring: White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence
Book, April, 30 2011
Survey of Canadian legal history and Aboriginal peoples.
Cohn: The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse
Book, April, 19 2011
Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have become garden variety words for practically anyone who reads about current events in a newspaper or blog.
Öktem: Angry Nation: Turkey since 1989
Book, April, 14 2011
Kerem Oktem charts the contemporary history of Turkey.
Thakur: Militias and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peace: Silencing the Guns
Book, April, 14 2011
Bringing together the lessons learned from four intensively-researched case studies the book argues that the overly rigid 'cookie-cutter' approach to demilitaristation is ineffective at meeting the myriad of challenges involving militias.
Authors: Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come
Book, April, 13 2011
How does a revolt come about and what does it leave behind? What impact does it have on those who participate in it and those who simply watch it? Is the Greek revolt of December 2008 confined to the shores of the Mediterranean, or are there lesso...
Milstein: Anarchism and Its Aspirations
Book, March, 23 2011
From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the participants in the "battle of Seattle" and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have been inspired by the ideal of a free society of free individuals-a world without hierarchy or domination.
(Eds): Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petroviolence
Book, March, 10 2011
This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
Hill: The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics
Book, March, 10 2011
Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements.
Thorsen: Child Migration in Africa
Book, March, 10 2011
Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances of children's volu...
Kassem: Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory
Book, March, 10 2011
Palestinian Women is the first book to examine and document the experiences and the historical narrative of ordinary Palestinian women who witnessed the events of 1948 and became involuntary citizens of the State of Israel.
Brown: Ballot Box China: Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-Party State
Book, February, 24 2011
This book looks at the history of the experiments in grassroots democracy in China, how they arose, what they have achieved and where they might be going.
Ryan: Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
Book, January, 20 2011
FROM BEAN TO BAR - WHERE DOES YOUR CHOCOLATE COME FROM?
Marais: South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The Political Economy of Change
Book, January, 13 2011
South Africa Pushed to the Limit shows that although the legacies of apartheid and colonialism weigh heavy, many of the strategic choices made since the early 1990s have compounded those handicaps
Dangl: Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America
Book, December, 30 2010
In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles in electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain uneasy.
Tokar: Agriculture & Food in Crisis
Book, December, 20 2010
The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, editors Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars...
Swanson: War Is A Lie
Book, November, 24 2010
WAR IS A LIE is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those wars that have been most widely defended as just and good.
