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.
Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Maziyar Ghiabi
June 30, 2020
More than a hundred years have passed since the adoption of the first prohibitionist laws on drugs. Increasingly, the edifice of international drug control and laws is vacillating under pressures of reform. Scholarship on drugs history and policy has had a tendency to look at the issue mostly in ...
Rural Transformations and Agro-Food Systems: The BRICS and Agrarian Change in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Ben M. McKay, Ruth Hall, Juan Liu
June 30, 2020
The economic and political rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and Middle-Income Countries (MICs) have important implications for global agrarian transformation.These emerging economies are undergoing profound changes as key sites of the production, circulation, and ...
Sustainable Development in Africa-EU relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Langan, Sophia Price
June 30, 2020
The European Union has been one of the most vocal advocates of ‘sustainable development’, particularly in its dealings with developing countries. Even prior to the formulation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the EU has insisted upon the need for sustainable approaches to poverty ...
The Development Dictionary @25: Post-Development and its consequences
1st Edition
Edited
By Aram Ziai
June 30, 2020
Few books in the history of Development Studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary – A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992. The Development Dictionary was crucial in establishing what has become known as the ...
Third World Approaches to International Law: On Praxis and the Intellectual
1st Edition
Edited
By Usha Natarajan, John Reynolds, Amar Bhatia, Sujith Xavier
December 12, 2019
This book addresses the themes of praxis and the role of international lawyers as intellectuals and political actors engaging with questions of justice for Third World peoples. The book brings together 12 contributions from a total of 15 scholars working in the TWAIL (Third World Approaches to ...
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 Changgang Guo, 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...