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Great Firewall of China
How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
Häftad, 2021
282 kr
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China’s ‘Great Firewall’ has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. …
Duel in European History
Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy
Häftad, 2016
298 kr
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For centuries, duelling played an integral role in the preservation of the aristocratic order in Europe, defying attempts by both church and state to ban the practice. Moreover, the romance and drama of the duel has made it an enduring fixture in films, literature, and the theatre.In The Duel in …
Leadership in Independent Africa, Six Decades On
The Blended Representation Principle as a Cause for Afro-Optimism
Av Kofi Anani
Häftad, 2025
416 kr
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In this open access book, Kofi Anani finds ways forward through the Blended Representation Principle (BRP), which stipulates that power be shared between leaders selected on the basis of Western-democratic ideals and leaders chosen on the basis of traditional African norms and conventions. Drawing …
Interpreting the Ethiopian Revolution
Imperial Heritage and Embattled Statehood
Inbunden, 2025
1243 kr
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Fifty years after the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, Etana H. Dinka brings together a who’s-who of modern Ethiopian studies in order to offer this long-overdue analysis of the revolution and its legacies. With contributions both from seasoned academics—many of whom wrote about the revolution as it …
Eritrea's Gold Rush
Western Mining Companies, Regional Wars, and Human Rights Abuses in Africa
Häftad, 2025
307 kr
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Leading Horn of Africa expert Charlotte Touati exposes the role played by Canadian gold mining company Nevsun and other global actors in propping up the regime of Isayas Aferwerki, one of Africa’s most dangerous dictators. In the process, Touati shows how global capital networks help perpetuate …
Bolivia
Processes of Change
Häftad, 2013
290 kr
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Since Evo Morales was elected president in 2006 as leader of the MAS, the first social movement to achieve political power in Latin America, Bolivia has seen radical changes and continues to generate huge interest worldwide. In this revealing new book, Crabtree and Chaplin show how ordinary people …
Iran, the Green Movement and the USA
The Fox and the Paradox
Inbunden, 2010
1279 kr
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Iran, the Green Movement and the USA presents the paradox that the USA faces in dealing with Iran over its nuclear armament: negotiate, and legitimize Ahmadinejad’s otherwise troubled presidency; resort to sanctions or military strikes, and altogether destroy the budding civil rights campaign of …
Speaking of Trust
Religion and Mutual Aid in Southwest Kenya
Häftad, 2027
413 kr
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This open access book examines the often overlooked entanglements and affinities between emerging models of formal and informal finance and welfare with longer-running religious structures and concerns.In Kenya, mutual aid has long mediated microcredit contracts and the social contract between …
Cooking Culture
Women’s Culinary Agency and Everyday Creativity in Rural Mali
Inbunden, 2024
1207 kr
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Winner of a Gourmand Food Culture Book Award 2025 – 1st place in Africa categoryIn this open access book, Stephen Wooten offers a holistic historical ethnography of cooking and female agency in West Africa, and of the broader cultural and historical significance of women’s culinary agency.Drawing …
Cooking Culture
Women’s Culinary Agency and Everyday Creativity in Rural Mali
Häftad, 2026
416 kr
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Winner of a Gourmand Food Culture Book Award 2025 – 1st place in Africa categoryIn this open access book, Stephen Wooten offers a holistic historical ethnography of cooking and female agency in West Africa, and of the broader cultural and historical significance of women’s culinary agency.Drawing …
Transafrica
The Languages of Postqueerness
Av Chantal Zabus, Chris Dunton
Inbunden, 2025
925 kr
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Transafrica explores this new lexical culture in cultural materials (novels, poetry, testimonies/life stories, interviews, film, visual art) in English, French, Arabic and other selected African languages, and the meanings which Africans have transnationally conferred upon “queer” and …
Election Observation at a Crossroads
Perspectives from Africa
Häftad, 2027
413 kr
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This groundbreaking collection offers the first book-length contribution to ongoing debates around how election observation can best support genuine democratic elections in Africa.In a three-part structure covering international observers, their domestic counterparts, and the consequences of …
Climate Shocks and Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan
An Ecological Approach for Political Cooperation
Häftad, 2027
413 kr
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In this important, multidisciplinary, open access study, Daniel Akech Thiong shows that the relations between climate disaster, pastoralist migration, and intercommunal conflict in Africa reach farther, both in time and space, than we realize.Focusing on the climate-shock-induced migrations of the …
Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia's Northwestern Province
An Ethnography of Inequality and Interdependence
Inbunden, 2025
1243 kr
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Rita Kesselring provides a compelling ethnographic account of the wildly uneven, deeply interconnected development trajectories of Solwezi, a copper mining town in Zambia, and Zug, an urban hub for metal trading firms in Switzerland. In so doing, she provides a valuable open access case study of …
African Studies Now
Critical Approaches to Racialization and Identity Politics in Francophone Contexts
Av Eric Essono Tsimi, Andrea Behrends m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
413 kr
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This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolving landscape of African studies in the new millennium. It details new trends, approaches, and theoretical frameworks that have the potential to shape the future of the discipline. Curated by the up-and-coming scholar Eric Tsimi in …
Police, the State and the Congo Cop
Av Michel Thill
Häftad, 2026
413 kr
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This open access book offers the first full-length, empirical deep-dive into everyday policework in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the same time, its findings go well beyond the DRC and Africa, ultimately providing a new, startlingly nuanced theoretical framework for understanding what police …
Eritrea's Gold Rush
Western Mining Companies, Regional Wars, and Human Rights Abuses in Africa
Inbunden, 2025
952 kr
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Leading Horn of Africa expert Charlotte Touati exposes the role played by Canadian gold mining company Nevsun and other global actors in propping up the regime of Isayas Aferwerki, one of Africa’s most dangerous dictators. In the process, Touati shows how global capital networks help perpetuate …
African Possibilities
A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice
Av Ifi Amadiume
Häftad, 2027
239 kr
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In this latest book by the award-winning author of the hugely influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands, Ifi Amadiume propels gender relations beyond dichotomies and discriminations and towards a power-sharing argument in discourse, contestation, and resistance. Representing the culmination of …
Hydropolitics of Dams
Engineering or Ecosystems?
Av Mark Everard
Häftad, 2013
403 kr
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The Hydropolitics of Dams charts the troubled waters of 'heavy engineering' approaches to ecosystem management, exploring the history, benefits and problems of large dams. It then explores diverse ecosystem-based approaches to management of human interactions with the water cycle, concluding that a …
Decolonizing Solidarity
Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles
Av Clare Land
Inbunden, 2015
1279 kr
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In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which …
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare
Häftad, 2016
297 kr
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'This book rests on a lifetime’s thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in “a more realistic light”.’Times Literary SupplementThe seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of William Shakespeare, this form of drama found its …
Babies for Sale?
Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction
Häftad, 2017
371 kr
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Transnational surrogacy – the creation of babies across borders – has become big business. Globalization, reproductive technologies, new family formations and rising infertility are combining to produce a 'quiet revolution' in social and medical ethics and the nature of parenthood. Whereas much of …
Shakespeare
Poet and Citizen
Inbunden, 2016
1471 kr
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'This book rests on a lifetime’s thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in “a more realistic light”.’Times Literary SupplementAlthough Shakespeare is rightly celebrated for the continued relevancy of his plays and poetry today, we too often lose sight of the wider historical context …
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2016
1471 kr
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'This book rests on a lifetime’s thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in “a more realistic light”.’Times Literary SupplementThe seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of William Shakespeare, this form of drama found its …
Why We Lie About Aid
Development and the Messy Politics of Change
Häftad, 2018
304 kr
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Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donor publics, are constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid system which mistakes short-term results for long-term transformation and gets attacked across the political …
Happy Abortions
Our Bodies in the Era of Choice
Av Erica Millar
Häftad, 2017
304 kr
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‘A provocative and important book that every pro-choice advocate should read.’Sinéad Kennedy, Coalition to Repeal the 8th AmendmentWhen it comes to abortion, today’s liberal climate has produced a common sense that is both pro-choice and anti-abortion. The public are fed an unchanging version of …
Global Health Watch 5
An Alternative World Health Report
Häftad, 2017
348 kr
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For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health.This new edition addresses the key challenges facing governments and health practitioners today, within the context of rapid shifts in global governance mechanisms and the UN’s Sustainable …
Love Falls On Us
A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives
Häftad, 2021
276 kr
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In 2009 Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story. Two years later Hillary Clinton declared “Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights,” but still today there is little consensus on how to advance those rights beyond the U.S. and Europe. The fact is that …
Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today
Essential writings on Intersectionality, Postcolonialism and Ecofeminism
Av Khayaat Fakier, Diana Mulinari m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
318 kr
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This vital new collection presents new Marxist-Feminist analyses of Capitalism as a gendered, racialized social formation that shapes and is shaped by specific nature-labour relationships. Leaving behind former overtly structuralist thinking, Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today …
Work Want Work
Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism
Av Mareile Pfannebecker, James Smith
Häftad, 2020
219 kr
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Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to sociological data, philosophy, political theory, legislation, the testimonies of workers and an eclectic …
