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.
Violence and the Third World in International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Randolph B. Persaud, Narendran Kumarakulasingam
June 30, 2021
Violence and the Third World in International Relations is intended as a contribution to the decolonization of international relations, and especially of international security studies, much of which is dominated by a self-sustaining Eurocentrism. Rather than focusing on the motivations of violence...
War Economies and Post-war Crime
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabine Kurtenbach, Angelika Rettberg
June 30, 2021
Even when armed conflicts formally end, the transition to peace is not clear-cut. This comprehensive volume explores the mounting evidence which suggests that it is rather ‘unlikely to see a clean break from violence to consent, from theft to production, from repression to democracy, or from ...
Developmental States beyond East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Jewellord T. Nem Singh, Jesse Salah Ovadia
December 18, 2020
This comprehensive volume reviews recent scholarship regarding the role of the state in economic development. With a wide range of case studies of both successful and failed state-led development, the authors push the analysis of the developmental state beyond its original limitations and into the ...
Gendering Security and Insecurity: Post/Neocolonial Security Logics and Feminist Interventions
1st Edition
Edited
By Navtej K. Purewal, Sophia Dingli
December 18, 2020
Security studies and international relations have conventionally relegated gendered analysis to the margins of academic concern, most commonly through the ‘women in’ or ‘women and’ politics and IR discourse. This comprehensive volume contributes to debates which seek to move feminist scholarship ...
Negotiating Well-being in Central Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By David W. Montgomery
December 18, 2020
Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with political, economic, and environmental problems that seem to keep Central Asians from a "better" future. Alongside all the struggles of life, however, ...
New Actors and Alliances in Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Ann Richey, Stefano Ponte
December 18, 2020
This collection brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars exploring how development financing and interventions are being shaped by a wider and more complex platform of actors than usually considered in the existing literature. The contributors also trace a changing set of key ...
Global Debt Dynamics: Crises, Lessons, Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Antoniades, Ugo Panizza
September 30, 2020
This comprehensive volume explores debt dynamics and the intensification of debt crises across the globe, bringing together several recent but underexplored debt crises from different regional and socioeconomic contexts. Using detailed case studies, the authors recast the perils of debt-based ...
Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development: A Critical and Reflexive Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Lia Kent, Miranda Forsyth, Sinclair Dinnen, Joanne Wallis, Srinjoy Bose
September 30, 2020
The concept of hybridity highlights complex processes of interaction and transformation between different institutional and social forms, and normative systems. It has been used in numerous ways to generate important analytical and methodological insights into peacebuilding and development. Its ...
Innovations in 'Sport for Development and Peace' Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Megan Chawansky, Lyndsay Hayhurst, Mary G. McDonald, Cathy van Ingen
September 30, 2020
Transnational organizations and practitioners who use sport for international development often position sport as a unique option for tackling development challenges. While sport can be a tool for social change, the authors in this collection bring a critical eye to this assumption and offer new ...
The Agency of the Governed in the Global South: Normative and Institutional Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Anke Draude
September 30, 2020
Research on global norm diffusion and institutional transfer has often neglected the agency of the governed. This collection argues that limited statehood – the lack of state capacities in most parts of the global South – provides opportunities for the governed to raise their voices and be listened...
Diverging Paths of Development in Central Asia: Market Adaptations, Interventions and Daily Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Gül Berna Özcan
August 14, 2020
Newly gained sovereignty, uneven penetration of neo-liberal ideals and the growth of disparate capitalist markets have elicited varied responses in Central Asia. What does development mean for the political class and for ordinary citizens? What are the effects of new capitalist institutions and ...
New Mechanisms of Participation in Extractive Governance: Between technologies of governance and resistance work
1st Edition
Edited
By Esben Leifsen, Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Maria Antonieta Guzman-Gallegos, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
June 30, 2020
The scholarly debate on deliberative democracy often suggests that participatory processes will contribute to make environmental governance not only more legitimate and effective, but also lead to the empowerment of marginalized social groups. Critical studies, however, analyse how technologies of ...