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.
Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia: Socialism(s) and Socialist Legacies
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Post-conflict Reconstruction and Local Government
1st Edition
Edited
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...
Fragility, Aid, and State-building: Understanding Diverse Trajectories
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel M Gisselquist
May 14, 2019
Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with generally mixed results. This volume explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its ...
Class Dynamics of Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Pattenden, Liam Campling, Satoshi Miyamura, Benjamin Selwyn
January 17, 2019
This book argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries. It does so via a transdisciplinary approach that draws on case studies from Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Contributors illustrate and ...
Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Philipp Schröder
January 17, 2019
This volume contributes new insights to the scientific debate on post-Socialist urbanities. Based on ethnographic research in cities of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Russia, its contributions scrutinise the social production of diverse public, parochial and private spaces in conjunction with ...
The International Politics of Ebola
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Roemer-Mahler, Simon Rushton
January 14, 2019
The outbreak of Ebola virus disease that gripped Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone through much of 2014 and 2015 was undoubtedly a health emergency, yet it was also a global political event. This book examines the international politics of the Ebola outbreak in all of its dimensions, critically ...
The Power of Human Rights/The Human Rights of Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Louiza Odysseos, Anna Selmeczi
January 11, 2019
The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as politically compromised or glorifying them as a priori progressive in enabling resistance. Drawing on plural social theoretic and philosophical literatures – and a multiplicity of empirical domains –...
China's Contingencies and Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Guo Changgang, Liu Debin, Jan Nederveen Pieterse
December 19, 2018
How have Chinese views on globalization developed over time? How is China managing the new normal of slower growth? Is China creating an alternative modernity? Is China a status quo power or a reform power? Can China manage its growing international role in international institutions and in the New...
The 'Local Turn' in Peacebuilding: The Liberal Peace Challenged
1st Edition
Edited
By Joakim Ojendal, Isabell Schierenbeck, Caroline Hughes
December 19, 2018
Contemporary practices of international peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction are often unsatisfactory. There is now a growing awareness of the significance of local governments and local communitites as an intergrated part of peacebuilding in order to improve quality and enhance precision...
The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Weiss, Pallavi Roy
October 25, 2018
There is a woeful neglect of the current United Nations in the academic and policy literatures, and so it is unsurprising that an examination of that multilateral structure before 1945 shows an even more egregious absence of analytical attention. Such ignorance conveniently ignores the forgotten ...
Food Sovereignty: Convergence and Contradictions, Condition and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Holt-Gimenez, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Todd Holmes, Martha Jane Robbins
October 18, 2018
A fundamentally contested concept, food sovereignty (FS) has – as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement and an analytical framework – barged into global discourses, both political and academic, over the past two decades. This collection identifies a number of key ...