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Letter from the co-operative Two of our lead titles in this catalogue, Eric Hazan and Kamo’s First Measures of the Coming Insurrection and Christian Felber’s Change Everything, articulate a growing desire for systemic change.

As 21st century capitalism endures a possibly fatal confluence of crises, so the publishing industry faces a potentially existential threat, driven by changes to the way people read and communicate. Publishing is also ripe for an internal revolution – there are still too many entrenched hierarchies, profiteering managers, and a workforce disproportionately white and middle-class.

As a workers’ co-operative Zed operates in a way which reflects how we, and movements around the globe, wish to see the world. There is still much for us to improve and change. But we are sure of two things. Firstly, publishing must flow with the tide of technological change, rather than hoping the storm dies away. Secondly, content – i.e. words which structure, challenge and illuminate the world – will continue to be an essential part of human culture, although models and formats change. At Zed Books we wholeheartedly embrace the challenge.

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ContentsFirst Measures of the Coming Insurrection 02

The Racket 03

We Have Nothing to Lose But Our Fear 04

Confessions of a Terrorist 05

Can Non-Europeans Think? 06

The PKK 07

Thank You, Madagascar 08

South Sudan 09

Change Everything 10

The 1% and the Rest of Us 11

Male Daughters, Female Husbands 12

Marxism and the Muslim World 13

Planet Dialectics 14

The Lords of Human Kind 15

Another World is Possible 16

Clothing Poverty 17

Spaces of Aid 18

Ghost Cities of China 19

Asia-Africa Development Divergence 20

Africa 21

Africa’s New Oil 22

Contested Powers 23

Social and Solidarity Economy 24

An Alternative Labour History 25

Marxism and Feminism 26

Decolonizing Solidarity 27

Breathing Space 28

Practicing Feminist Political Ecologies 29

Advocacy in Conflict 30

Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance 31

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Like so many sparks in the darkness, the people’s revolt is stirring – it’s time to prepare for what comes next.

We are witnessing a new age of revolt and upheaval. In North Africa and the Middle East it took days to topple supposedly entrenched regimes. Now, to the west, multiple crises are etching away at a ‘democratic consensus’ that has, since the 1970’s, suppressed any sparks of revolutionary potential. It is time to prepare for the coming insurrection.

In this bold and beautifully written book, Eric Hazan and Kamo provide a short account of what is to be done in the aftermath of a regime’s demise: how to prevent power from restoring itself and how to reorganise society according to the people’s needs. Arguing that neither the reshuffling of political leadership nor a ‘transition period’, classically advocated by 20th century communists, between a capitalist social order and a communist horizon will do, First Measures of the Coming Insurrectionis the manual for the coming, global revolution.

Eric Hazan is a writer, historian and founder of the renowned independent publishing house La Fabrique. His most recent books in English include A People’s History of the French Revolution (2014) and The Invention of Paris (2012).

Kamo is an anonymous French anarchist.

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“I have been following Matt Kennard’s work for years. He is a fine journalist and political analyst, acute and perceptive.” Noam Chomsky

“An exceptional author. Matt Kennard never tries to paint a pig pretty. Thanks, Matt, for keeping it ugly.”Hunter Glass, former gang investigator for the US military

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Meet the financial gangsters and high-class muscle men who pull the strings of democracy.

During his time at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam, a deception and rip-off of immense proportions.

From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard’s unbridled access over four years to the crème de la crème of the American elite left him with only one conclusion. The world as we know it is run by a squad of cigar smoking men with big guns and big cash, and the racketeer’s reach is far too close to home. It’s time for the world’s citizens to uncover the racket.

Matt Kennard is a Fellow at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Irregular Army (2012), and has written for the Financial Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune and the Guardian.

The RacketA Rogue Reporter vs the American Elite

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Leading figures on the left look at how the experience of fear prevents political change.

Our 24/7 lives are saturated with round-the-clock fear. Scare-tactic headlines fill our homes and 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.

We Have Nothing to Lose but our Fear delivers a counter blow to this rampant culture of fear fuelled by the likes of CNN, FOX and the Daily Mail. Featuring discussions with David Harvey, Silvia Federici, John Holloway, Marcus Rediker, Saskia Sassen and others, the books explores contemporary and historical manifestations of fear, what constitutes rational versus irrational fear and how fear is manipulated by political players.

This book reveals how fear changes and shapes our subjectivity and, crucially, how the political use of fear is being resisted, by people across the globe.

Fiona Jeffries is Visiting Scholar at the Center for Policy Studies in Culture and Communities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

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‘Extraordinarily intense ... A book that’s too important not to read.’Morning Star

‘Does a remarkable job at capturing the deadly spiral of violence characterized by state and non-state terrorism today ... The dialogue is a tour de force.’Critical Studies on Terrorism

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Gripping political thriller which challenges everything we know about terrorism.

We all know what terrorism is, don’t we? The cause of fanatics, barbarians, extremists – the ‘other’.

In this enthralling, white-knuckle ride of a novel, Richard Jackson unsettles this comfortable view.

Two men face each other across a bare table. One is a wanted terrorist, the other a British intelligence officer. As they talk deep into the night the line between interrogator and confessor begins to blur. Who, then, is the real terrorist? And will they pay for their guilt in blood?

Richard Jackson is Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and one of the world’s leading experts on terrorism.

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‘A leading cultural observer.’ Washington Post


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A highly disrespectful challenge to the dominance of European intellectual thought.

What happens with thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical ‘pedigree’? In this powerfully honed polemic, Dabashi argues that they are invariably marginalised, patronised and mis-represented.

Challenging, pugnacious, but also stylish, Can Non-Europeans Think? forges a new perspective in postcolonial studies by looking at how intellectual debate continues to reinforce a colonial regime of knowledge, albeit in a new guise.

Based on years of intellectual work and activism, Dabashi delivers a provocative and insightful collection of observations and philosophical explorations, which is certain to unsettle and delight in equal measure.

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of many books, including The Arab Spring (Zed Books, 2012) and Iran, The Green Movement and the USA (Zed Books, 2010).

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The definitive introduction to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey.

The PKK is infamous for its violence. The struggle it has waged for Kurdish independence in south-eastern Turkey has cost in excess of 40,000 lives since 1984. Less known, however, is the fact that the PKK now embraces a non-violent end to the conflict, with its leader Abdullah Öcalan having ordered his fighters to ceasefire and engage in a negotiated peace with the Ankara Government.

Whether these tentative attempts at peacemaking mean a long-term end to the bloodshed remains to be seen, but either way the ramifications for Turkey and the wider region are potentially huge.

Charting the ideological evolution of the PKK, as well as its origins, aims and organizational setup, Paul White provides the only authoritative and up-to-date analysis of one of the most important non-state political players in the contemporary Middle East.

Paul White is a Visiting Lecturer at Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta, Indonesia. He is the author of Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers? (Zed Books, 2000). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kurdish Institute, Washington DC.

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‘A captivating and absorbing account, that reveals how the people and the land of Madagascar captured her heart.’David Attenborough

‘Without a doubt one of the very best books about conservation. I was truly absorbed from start to finish.’Dr. Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace

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Profound and illuminating reflections on the majesty of the natural world, and the challenges of conservation.

Madagascar is one of the world’s natural jewels, with over 90 percent of its wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. Few people knew it better than the pioneering primatologist and conservationist, Alison Jolly. Thank You, Madagascar, is her eyewitness account of the extraordinary biodiversity of Madagascar, and the environment of its people.

At the book’s heart is a conflict between three different views of nature. Is the extraordinary forest treasure-house of Madagascar a heritage for the entire world? Is it a legacy of the forest dwellers’ ancestors, bequeathed to serve the needs of their living descendants? Or is it an economic resource to pillage for short-term gain, to be preserved only to deliver benefits for those with political power?

Exploring and questioning these different views, this is a beautifully written diary and a tribute to Madagascar.

Alison Jolly was a world renowned primatologist and conservationist. A portion of recently restored forest in Madagascar is named after her, as well as a new species of mouse lemur. She died in 2014.

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A comprehensive examination of the politics, history and economic development of the world’s newest state.

In 2011, South Sudan became an independent country. Its long liberation struggle was an attempt to right the wrongs of brutal colonial conquest, deliberate neglect and racial oppression organized by governments headquartered at Khartoum. The long struggle has had a violent aftermath. The war of liberation has been marked by looting, raids and massacres that pitted ethnic communities against each other.

In this remarkably comprehensive work, Edward Thomas provides a multi-layered examination of what is happening in the country today. Writing from the perspective of South Sudan’s most mutinous hinterland, Jonglei state, the book explains how this area was at the heart of South Sudan’s liberation.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and a broad range of sources, this book gives a sharply focused, fresh account of South Sudan’s long unfinished struggle for liberation.

Edward Thomas has lived and worked in Sudan and South Sudan for over eight years. He worked as a teacher, researcher and human rights worker for Sudanese and international organizations.

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‘Economy for the Common Good [ECG] has demonstrated an ability to draw together companies, consumers and communities by offering a fresh alternative.’The Guardian

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A lucid and inspiring route-map for transforming our present, failed, economic system.

Is it possible to imagine businesses whose bottom line is not profit and endless growth, but human dignity, justice, democracy and sustainability? Or an alternative economic model untainted by the greed and breakdown of current financial systems?

Christian Felber says it is. Moreover, in Change Everythinghe shows how we might go about making it a reality. The ‘Economy for the Common Good’ (ECG) is not just an idea, but has already become a broad international movement with thousands of people, hundreds of companies, dozens of communities and organizations participating, co-developing and implementing the idea. This is a remarkable manifesto for change that will profoundly influence debates on re-shaping our economies in the wake of failed attempts at austerity.

Christian Felber is a lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a founder of the ‘Economy for the Common Good’ (ECG) movement.

Change EverythingCreating an Economy for the Common Good

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A theoretically rich and historically informed study of the global 1%.

While the Occupy movement faces many strategic and organizational challenges, one of its major accomplishments has been to draw global attention to the massive wealth and power held by 1% of the population across the world. In The 1% and the Rest of Us, Tim Di Muzio explores what it means to be part of a socio-economic order presided over by the super-rich and their political servants.

Incorporating provocative and original arguments about philanthropy, social wealth and the political role of the super-rich, Di Muzio reveals how the 1% are creating a world unto themselves in which the accumulation of ever more money is really a symbolic drive to control society and the natural environment.

Tim DiMuzio is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Political Economy at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the editor and contributor to The Capitalist Mode of Power (2013) and the editor of the journal The Review of Capital as Power.

The 1% and the Rest of UsA Political Economy of Dominant Ownership

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‘A marvellous book, fresh as on the day of first publication and ready for a new generation of readers.’Eric Hobsbawm

‘A great historian of empire.’Edward Said

‘A wry delight… brilliant, witty and humane.’Philip Toynbee

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A landmark work in the history of Eurocentrism, by one of Britain’s most distinguished left-wing historians.

When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous.

Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries’ memoirs, the letters of diplomats’ wives, explorers’ diaries and the work of writers as diverse as Voltaire, Thackeray, Oliver Goldsmith and, of course, Kipling - Victor Kiernan teases out the full range of European attitudes to other peoples.

Erudite, ironic, and global in its scope, The Lords of Human Kind has been a major influence on a generation of historians and cultural critics and is a landmark in the history of Eurocentrism.

Victor Kiernan (1913-2009) ranks among Britain’s most distinguished historians. He was Professor of Modern History at the University of Edinburgh from 1970 until his retirement and the author of numerous books including European Empires from Conquest to Collapse and The Duel in European History.

The Lords of Human KindEuropean Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

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An early study of queer theory and non-Western feminism, challenging the concept of gender.

In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim.

This highly original book frees the position of ‘husband’ from its affiliation with men, and goes on to do the same for other masculine attributes, dislocating sex, gender and sexual orientation. Boldly arguing that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of sexual difference, Male Daughters, Female Husbandsexamines structures in African society, showing that roles were not rigidly masculinized nor feminized.

At a time when gender and queer theory are the subject of intense discussion, this outstanding study not only warns against the danger of projecting a specific, Western notion of difference onto other cultures, but calls us to question the very concept of gender itself.

Ifi Amadiume is Associate Professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA. She is an award winning Nigerian poet, anthropologist and essayist.

Male Daughters, Female HusbandsGender and Sex in an African Society

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A deft analysis of the relationship between political Islam, Marxism and Arab nationalism.

In the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings, Marxism and the Muslim World has a new and powerful resonance. Now the revolutionary euphoria has faded, old elites and overtly Islamic political parties have seized the agenda. Meanwhile hysteria over terrorism and fundamentalism has made Islam the neoliberal West’s enemy number one.

In this book Rodinson studies the economic and political, rather than religious, characteristics of Islam. His major themes include: the history of Marxism in the Middle East; the relationship between national conflicts and class struggle; and the history of Communism in Arab states such as Syria and Egypt.

Breaking from colonial ‘Orientalism’ Rodinson invents new critical approaches. Unashamedly political and polemical, he provides an insightful picture of political Islam and Marxism, and the implications for the Arab working class. The subject of this book could hardly be more relevant to politics today.

Maxime Rodinson was a French historian, sociologist and renowned specialist on Islam and the Arab world. He died in 2004 aged 89.

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‘Sachs’ ideas are dynamite.’New Internationalist


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A foundational text of post-development, challenging complacent nostrums of progress.

Almost twenty years ago, Wolfgang Sachs warned in Planet Dialectics that environmental concerns have been assimilated into the rhetoric, dynamics and power structures of ‘development’.

This classic book addresses the crisis of the Western world’s relations with nature and social justice. Examining in turn efficiency - the mantra of our times; speed - the love affair with modernity; globalization - the juggernaut of history; and development - the great undelivered promise, Sachs shows that the Western development model is fundamentally at odds with justice, humanity and nature.

Wolfgang Sachs is the author of numerous books including the seminal Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power (2010) and (with T. Santarius et al) Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security, and Global Justice (2007).

Planet DialecticsExplorations in Environment and Development

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The first English language collection of essays and demands by prominent members of the World Social Forum movement.

In 2001 the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The meeting was viewed by many at the time as a new manifestation of the global Left. It embodied a sense of hope which social movements need to recapture today.

Another World is Possible is the original collection of essays and demands from the heart of the ‘movement of movements’. Based on the work of the first and second World Social Forum this classic collection not only set out the initial aims of the movements that came together, but lay the way for the theoretical study of the world’s new social movements; their multiple and participatory character.

Today, at a time, when many crises affect all our lives, it is time to revisit the original demands of a united global solidarity movement and to reconstitute a global Left.

William F. Fisher is Director of International Development, Community Planning and Environment (IDCE) at Clark University, USA.

Thomas Ponniah is an Affiliate of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and a Professor in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada.

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A gripping exposé of global trade networks in the fast-fashion and clothing recycling industry.

Have you have ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from, who made them, and where? Or ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling?

Following a pair of jeans Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid global journey to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, revealing how fast-fashion and clothing recycling are interconnected. Andrew Brooks shows how recycled clothes are traded across continents and uncovers how fast-fashion retailers and international charities are embroiled in commodity chains which perpetuate poverty.

Stitching together rich narratives from Mozambican markets, Nigerian smugglers, Bolivian female traders, to London’s vintage clothing scene and Vivienne Westwood’s ethical fashion lines, Clothing Poverty uncovers the many hidden sides of seemingly mundane items.

Andrew Brooks is a Lecturer in Development Geography at King’s College London. His research on the clothing sector has taken him to South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.

Clothing PovertyThe Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-hand Clothes

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‘Inspirational. At a time when international aid workers are retreating within gated complexes and secure transport links, Lisa’s work becomes all the more important.’Mark Duffield, author of Global Governance and the New Wars


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A landmark challenge to humanitarian theory and practice through three key symbolic sites - the grand hotel, the SUV and the compound.

Aid workers complain that working in ‘the field’ often sits uneasily with the goals they’ve signed up to. Examples include visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, and checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.

While such observations might seem intuitive, to date no concerted academic or policy study has dealt with the impact of these factors on theory or policy. Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of what has colloquially been referred to as ‘Aid Land’, exploring in depth two high-profile case studies - the Aceh tsunami and Hurricane Katrina - in order to uncover a fascinating history of the material objects that have become an endemic yet unexamined part of the aid landscape.

Lisa Smirl was a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK. She did field research in many countries, including Aceh, Jogyakarta, East Timor, Sri Lanka, and New Orleans. She died in 2013.

Spaces of AidHow Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

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Journey through a fascinating and surreal urban wilderness, a product of China’s economic transformation.

Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country’s urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption orientated culture rapidly taking their place.

Ghost Cities of China is an enthralling, dialogue driven, on-location search for an understanding of China’s new cities and the reasons why many currently stand empty.

Wade Shepard is Editor in Chief at The China Chronicle. He has been a global nomad since 2009 and runs the popular blog Vagabond Journey.

Ghost Cities of ChinaThe Story of Cities Without People in the World’s Most Populated Country

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A comparative study in development performance between Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Why have Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam been so successful in reducing levels of absolute poverty, while in African countries like Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania, despite recent economic growth, most people are still almost as poor as they were half a century ago?

This book presents a simple, radical explanation for the great divergence in development performance between Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa: the absence in most parts of Africa, and the presence in Southeast Asia, of serious developmental intent on the part of national political leaders.

David Henley is Professor of Contemporary Indonesia Studies at Leiden University, Holland.

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A rigorous and fundamental challenge to mainstream accounts of economic growth in Africa.

Not so long ago, Africa was being described as the ‘Hopeless Continent’. Recently, talk has turned to ‘Africa Rising’. What, then, is the truth behind Africa’s growth?

In this book Morten Jerven fundamentally reframes the debate, challenging mainstream accounts of African economic history. Whilst for the past two decades experts have focused on the ‘chronic failure of growth’ in Africa, Jerven shows that most African economies have been growing at a rapid pace since the mid-90s. In addition, African economies grew rapidly from the 1950s to the 70s. Thus, African states were dismissed as incapable of development based largely on observations made during the 1980s and early 1990s. The result has been misguided analysis, and few practical lessons learned.

This book is an essential account of the real impact economic growth has had on Africa, and what it means for the continent’s future.

Morten Jerven teaches at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It (2013).

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An accessible and insightful account of the possibilities and pitfalls facing Africa’s new oil producers.

In recent years, technological advances, higher commodity prices and a global thirst for energy have meant that African oil and gas are increasingly in demand. Countries such as Niger, Uganda, Chad, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania are looking at the prospect of vast increases to their national budgets.

But the story of African oil has usually been associated with disaster - older producers have little to show for the billions of dollars they’ve earned, and oil money has been shown to fuel conflict and corruption, creating a so-called ‘resource curse’. In this revealing and insightful book, Celeste Hicks questions the inevitability of such an outcome, revealing what the discovery of oil means for ordinary Africans through original testimony from those working in the oil industries and the communities that surround them.

Africa’s New Oil is a much-needed account of an issue that will likely transform the fortunes of a number of African countries.

Celeste Hicks is a freelance journalist and former BBC correspondent in Chad, who has lived and worked across the Sahel and Somalia.

Africa’s New OilPower, Pipelines and Future Fortunes

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A study of the relationship between energy production and political power.

In the global north post-industrialism is being posed as the answer to dependency on labour and natural resources. Not only does it promise a more stable future, but an economy focused on intellectual property is more environmentally friendly, so it is suggested.

Contested Powers argues that the fixes being offered by this model are illusory, and that development in the global south continues to be hindered by an economy that puts the capacity for technological advancement in private hands. The authors call for a multilayered understanding of sovereignty and a critical focus on energy politics, as crucial to wider debates on development and sustainability.

This is essential reading for those interested in how energy resources are converted into political power.

John-Andrew McNeish is co-editor of Flammable Societies(2012) and has carried out international evaluation and consultancy work for the World Bank, the Norwegian Trade Union Congress (LO) and several Norwegian NGOs.

Owen J. Logan is a photographer, writer, and a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. He is a contributing editor to Variant Magazine.

Axel Borchgrevnik is Associate Professor at the Institute for International Studies and Interpreter Education in Oslo, Norway.

Contested PowersThe Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America

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A comprehensive study into the viability and prospects for the global alternative economy.

In the context of economic crises, inequality and climate change, attention is focusing on ‘social and solidarity economy’ as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-based development.

This book looks at how this alternative economic model can move beyond its fringe status in many countries and regions, and scale up and scale out on an international basis.

Bringing together leading researchers in this field, blending theoretical and empirical analysis, and drawing on experiences and case studies from multiple countries and regions, this volume addresses these questions. In so doing, it aims to inform a broad constituency of development actors including scholars, practitioners, activists and policy makers.

Peter Utting is the Deputy Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.

Social and Solidarity EconomyBeyond the Fringe?

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A global history of worker control – challenging capital, the state and the trade union leaders.

The global financial crisis has stoked new worker militancy, with radical forms of protest and workplace occupations from New York to Athens, and in many other places. As this volume shows, most socialist and communist parties have neglected to promote workers’ control, and trade unions, operating through the institutional frameworks of government, have held a monopoly over labour history.

Tracing Marx’s writings on the Paris Commune through council communism, anarcho-syndicalism, Italian operaismo, and other ‘heretical’ left currents, this book uncovers the history and contemporary relevance of autonomous workers’ movements.

An Alternative Labour History demonstrates that workers already have the capacity to run their own workplaces - without leaders or bosses.

Dario Azzellini lectures in politics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. He is the co-author of They Can’t Represent Us(2014) and co-editor of Ours to Master and to Own (2011).

An Alternative Labour HistoryWorker Control and Workplace Democracy

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The essential reader on all aspects of the relationship between Marxism and Feminism.

Global events such as economic crisis, social unrest and militarization affect women disproportionately; however women are also leading struggles against oppression and exploitation around the world.

In the context of a renewed interest in Marxist theory among many women activists and academics, Marxism and Feminism reassesses previous debates and seeks to answer pressing questions: how should we understand the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism? How can we envision a feminist project which emancipates both women and society?

This collection presents a class-focused perspective which addresses capitalism, patriarchy and racism. Through keyword concepts it presents a contemporary and accessible Marxist-Feminist analysis on a host of issues. With contributions by both renowned scholars and new voices, this book is set to become the foundational text for modern Marxist-Feminist thought.

Shahrzad Mojab is a Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education and former Director of the Women and Gender Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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An essential work for scholars and activists seeking solidarity with Indigenous struggles across the world.

In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the impulses which drive middle-class activists to support Indigenous people cannot lead to successful alliances unless they are transformed through a process of action and critical self-reflection.

Based on a wealth of in-depth, original research, and focussing in particular on Australia, where the vestiges of British law and cultural power continue to shape the nation, Decolonizing Solidarity provides a vital resource for those involved in Indigenous activism and scholarship.

Clare Land is a Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. She co-presents a radio program in Melbourne which focuses on colonialism and resistance.

Decolonizing SolidarityDilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles

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A persuasive argument for the importance of air as a resource and vital part of environmental policy.

In this book Mark Everard argues that governments and citizens too often take the air we breathe for granted. Air and the wider atmosphere are vital in protecting us from radiation, maintaining climate and weather patterns, dispersing water, seeds, and pollen, and in serving as a source of alternative energy.

Breathing Space overturns conventional thinking on the atmosphere, and is the first book to properly integrate air into the wider environmental discourse. Outlining the structure and development of the atmosphere Everard assesses its importance within the environment as a whole.

Everard’s work represents the long overdue incorporation of air into our wider understanding of ecosystems, and argues persuasively for the need for governments to recognise the importance of air as a resource. A must read for scholars and students of the environment, and for environmental activists.

Mark Everard is the author of many books, including Common Ground (Zed Books, 2011), scientific papers and articles, and is a regular TV and radio commentator on sustainability. He has served on numerous government advisory panels.

Breathing SpaceThe Natural and Unnatural History of Air

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A groundbreaking new book which puts Feminist Political Ecology on the map.

Destined to be the next big feminist political ecology text, the volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working on in the field. It features the latest analysis of the post-Rio+20 debates with a nuanced reading of the impact of the current ecological and economic crisis on diverse women and their communities and ecologies. It answers the call from a wide audience that wants to know and understand the new thinking on feminist political ecology today.

Including renowned writers including Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich along with an upcoming generation of new activist scholars, this book fills the gap in the environment and gender literature.

Wendy Harcourt is Associate Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Netherlands.

Ingrid L. Nelson is Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Vermont, USA.

Practicing Feminist Political EcologiesMoving Beyond the ‘Green Economy’

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An essential and highly critical analysis of how Western advocacy impacts conflict-ridden countries.

Conflicts in Africa, Asia and Latin America have become a common focus of advocacy by western celebrities and specialist advocacy organizations. This provocative volume delves into the realities of these efforts, which have often had to make major compromises of integrity in the pursuit of profile and influence.

Examining the methods used by western advocates and their impacts, Advocacy in Conflict brings together expert authors to evaluate the successes and failures of past advocacy campaigns and offer constructive criticism of current efforts.

Taking in a range of high-profile case studies, including campaigns for democracy in Burma, the rights of Palestinians in Gaza, and the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, as well as advocacy regarding human trafficking, disability rights and the global arms trade, the authors challenge the assumptions and agendas set forth by advocacy organizations.

Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation and co-author of Darfur: A New History of a Long War (Zed Books, 2008).

Advocacy in ConflictCritical Perspectives on Transnational Activism

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How political turmoil and dissent are shaping gender roles in the Arab world.

Since the end of 2010, when a wave of mass protests and uprisings swept across the Arab world, there has been unprecedented media attention to Arab women and their role in regional political transformations. Yet, this large body of commentary and speculation has yet to culminate in a substantial study of gender roles in relation to the ‘Arab Spring’, as well as often ignoring or marginalising socio-political change prior to 2011 and women’s participation in it.

Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance takes an original approach to analysing the shifts in gender roles, gender relations and gender norms that have occurred as the result of what is known as the ‘Arab Spring’, rejecting essentialising and orientalist assumptions that dissolve issues of class, nationality, migration and religion which are key indicators of social difference in the region.

Nicola Pratt is Reader in the International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick.

Lena Meari is an Assistant Professor at the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department and the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University, Palestine.

Maha El Said is a Professor at the English Department, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University.

Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and ResistanceLessons from the Arab World

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