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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.
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.
(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
Roberts: The Energy Glut: Climate Change and the Politics of Fatness
Book, September, 16 2010
The Energy Glut tells the story of energy and how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links many public issues as manifestations of the same fundamental planetary malaise.
Gainsborough: Vietnam: Rethinking the State
Book, August, 12 2010
Vietnam: Rethinking the state offers an exciting and up-to-date look at the politics of this fascinating country as it seeks to make the transition from war-torn economic backwater to a dynamic and modern society
Bateman: Why Doesn't Microfinance Work?: The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism
Book, July, 08 2010
In this provocative and controversial analysis, Milford Bateman reveals that microfinance doesn't actually work. Using a multitude of case studies from across the globe he exposes why many of its most fundamental building blocks are largely myths.
Allen: The Lord's Resistance Army: Myth and Reality
Book, March, 11 2010
Authoritative but provocative, The Lord's Resistance Army provides the most comprehensive analysis of the group available, dismantling numerous myths and providing a wealth of information that is not widely known.
Marfleet: Egypt: The Moment of Change
Book, October, 10 2009
This book is the first for over 20 years to comprehensively and accesibly examine contemporary issues in Egypt
El saadawi: Woman at Point Zero
Book, June, 22 2007
Saadawi's searing indictment of society's brutal treatment of women - and Zed's only Fiction title.
Amin: Capitalism in the Age of Globalization: The Management of Contemporary Society
Book, April, 17 2006
In this book, Amin provides us with a powerful understanding of the new and very different era which capitalism has now entered.
