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 Millennium Development Goals: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Nana Poku, Jim Whitman
October 10, 2016
As the 15-year Millennium Development Goals approach their conclusion, we can now measure their larger successes and failures in more than ‘snapshot’ fashion; and we can begin to consider how best to shape the international development agenda for the coming decades based on what we have learned. ...
The Personal and the Professional in Aid Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne-Meike Fechter
October 10, 2016
This book considers how the personal and the professional dimensions are related, and how they matter for aid work. The contributions to this edited volume are based on the assumption that all actors are relevant in development, including national and international aid workers. A key question which...
The Political Invention of Fragile States: The Power of Ideas
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonja Grimm, Nicolas Lemay-Hebert, Olivier Nay
October 10, 2016
This book investigates the emergence, the dissemination and the reception of the notion of ‘state fragility’. It analyses the process of conceptualisation, examining how the ‘fragile states’ concept was framed by policy makers to describe reality in accordance with their priorities in the fields of...
The Transformation of Tajikistan: The Sources of Statehood
1st Edition
Edited
By John Heathershaw, Edmund Herzig
October 10, 2016
Tajikistan is one of the lesser-known and least-researched former Soviet Central Asian republics. The birth of the new state in 1991 was followed closely by a civil war which killed more than 50,000 people and displaced many tens of thousands more. While a peace agreement was signed in 1997, ...
Youth in the Former Soviet South: Everyday Lives between Experimentation and Regulation
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Kirmse
October 10, 2016
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus. It brings together a range of academic perspectives, including media studies, Islamic studies, the sociology of youth, and social anthropology. While most discussions of youth...
EU Strategies on Governance Reform: Between Development and State-building
1st Edition
Edited
By Wil Hout
June 08, 2016
This book discusses the European Union’s approach to governance reform in its development assistance relationships with various groups of developing countries. A group of expert authors outline the general features of the position on governance taken by the EU, which is currently the major ...
Global Land Grabs: History, Theory and Method
1st Edition
Edited
By Marc Edelman, Carlos Oya, Saturnino Borras Jr.
June 08, 2016
Since the 2008 world food crisis a surge of land grabbing swept Africa, Asia and Latin America and even some regions of Europe and North America. Investors have uprooted rural communities for massive agricultural, biofuels, mining, industrial and urbanisation projects. ‘Water grabbing’ and ‘green ...
Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms
1st Edition
Edited
By Radhika Desai
February 29, 2016
Premature announcements of the eclipse of nation states under 'globalization' and 'empire' stand exposed as the 21st century's first economic crisis underlines their continuing importance. A predominantly cultural study of nationalism was unable to resist the 'globalization' thesis. Focusing ...
Development Perspectives from the Antipodes
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Schech
September 08, 2015
Development discourses and academic development knowledge reflect to a large extent the interests of the ‘North’. The Antipodes – Australia and New Zealand - share an ambivalent location as countries of the ‘North' in wealth, development and dominant intellectual genealogies but ‘South' in latitude...
Health, Drugs and Healing in Central Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Alisher Latypov
September 03, 2015
This volume contains five chapters written by American, European and Central Asian scholars, who examine a range of issues critical to our understanding of health and healing in contemporary Central Asia. Grounded in the review of medical literature in Arabic, Persian and Chaghatay Turkic, ...
After the Third World?
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark T. Berger
April 09, 2015
The emergence of the 'Third World' is generally traced to onset of the Cold War and decolonization in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s and 1970s the "three worlds of development" were central to the wider dynamics of the changing international order. By the 1980s, Third Worldism had peaked ...
Terrorism and the Politics of Naming
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Bhatia
April 09, 2015
Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume assesses the nature, power, role and function of names in global politics and the international media. Names are not objective, they accrue subjective associations, for example 'Terrorist' has a very different connotation...