ThirdWorlds
About the Book Series
THIRDWORLDS will focus on the political economy, development and cultures of those parts of the world that have experienced the most political, social, and economic upheaval, and which have faced the greatest challenges of the postcolonial world under globalisation: poverty, displacement and diaspora, environmental degradation, human and civil rights abuses, war, hunger, and disease.
THIRDWORLDS serves as a signifier of oppositional emerging economies and cultures ranging from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and even those ‘Souths’ within a larger perceived North, such as the U.S. South and Mediterranean Europe. The study of these otherwise disparate and discontinuous areas, known collectively as the Global South, demonstrates that as globalisation pervades the planet, the south, as a synonym for subalterity, also transcends geographical and ideological frontiers.
The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Emma Elfversson, Ivan Gusic, Kristine Höglund
June 24, 2024
The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities analyses violence in post-war cities from different perspectives and in different parts of the world, with a shared attention to space and how it affects violent dynamics. The world is urbanising rapidly and cities are increasingly held as the most ...
Beyond the Gatekeeper State
1st Edition
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By Sara Rich Dorman
January 29, 2024
Beyond the Gatekeeper State explores the dynamic changes occurring within and between African states, and the international system since the turn of the century. Frederick Cooper’s model of ‘gatekeeper states’ – shaped as much by their international links as by their domestic practices – provides ...
Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism: Development Futures?
1st Edition
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By Anne Meike Fechter, Anke Schwittay
September 25, 2023
Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately-funded forms of aid that operate on the margins of the official development sector. The last decade has seen a ...
Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education: Bringing Decolonial Theory into Contact with Teaching Practice
1st Edition
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By Shannon Morreira, Kathy Luckett, Siseko H. Kumalo, Manjeet Ramgotra
September 25, 2023
This book brings together voices from the Global South and Global North to think through what it means, in practice, to decolonise contemporary higher education. Occasionally, a theoretical concept arises in academic debate that cuts across individual disciplines. Such concepts – which may well ...
Decolonising Gender in South Asia
1st Edition
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By Nazia Hussein, Saba Hussain
September 25, 2023
Decolonising Gender in South Asia is the first full-length compilation of cutting-edge research on the challenging debates around decolonial thought and gender studies in South Asia. The book elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity ...
Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia: Socialism(s) and Socialist Legacies
1st Edition
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By Harry Verhoeven
September 25, 2023
The spectres of Marx and Lenin have long loomed prominently in Africa and Asia and they still do so in the 21st century. Many of the founding fathers of postcolonial republics believed socialism could transform their societies. Yet what socialism meant in theory and in practice has always been ...
Revolutions
1st Edition
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By Radhika Desai, Henry Heller
September 25, 2023
As the centres of world capitalism struggle to overcome long-term stagnation and existential crisis, this book aims to recover the legacy of revolutions against capitalism and imperialism. The capitalist world today faces pervasive crises of unprecendented depth. To economic and social crises that ...
Affectedness And Participation In International Institutions
1st Edition
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By Jan Sändig, Jochen von Bernstorff, Andreas Hasenclever
June 30, 2021
Affectedness and Participation in International Institutions looks at the growing involvement of affected persons in global politics, such as young climate activists, indigenous movements, and persons affected by HIV/AIDS. Since the early 2000s, international organisations within various ...
Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements
1st Edition
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By Tsegaye Moreda, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Zoe W. Brent
June 30, 2021
Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements argues that multiple contemporary converging crises have significantly altered the context for and object of political contestations around agrarian, climate, environmental and food justice issues.This shift affects alliances, collaboration and ...
Post-conflict Reconstruction and Local Government
1st Edition
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By Paul Jackson, Gareth Wall
June 30, 2021
The subject of local government and post-conflict reconstruction sits at the intersection of several interrelated research areas, notably conflict/peacebuilding, governance, and political economy. This volume addresses a gap in the academic literature: whilst decentralisation is frequently included...
Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Critical Approaches
1st Edition
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By Chris Huggins
June 30, 2021
Disputes and dispossession of property rights in the mining sector are causes of injustice, violence, and forced resettlement around the world. This comprehensive volume examines mining, particularly what is often called ‘Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining’, from a perspective of governance and ...
Studying the State: A Global South Perspective
1st Edition
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By Esteban Nicholls
June 30, 2021
Studying the State explores the results of governments in the Global South, particularly in Latin America, turning to the state as a vehicle for mobilizing people, resources and political change. The book evaluates the results of this return to the state by looking at recent historical events to ...