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The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism: Rethinking Development Policy in an Unbalanced World by Richard Kozul-Wright
Booksplease Price: £38.75"Stabilise, liberalise and privatise" has, since the debt crisis of the early 1980s, been the mantra chanted at developing countries by international financial institutions, donor countries and... -
Making Public in a Privatized World: The Struggle for Essential Services by David A. McDonald 9781783604838
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £74.51How do we provide effective public services in a deeply neoliberal world? In the wake of the widespread failure of privatisation efforts, societies in the global south are increasingly seeking... -
Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression by Tony Roberts 9781350324466
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £60.54Since the so-called Arab Spring, citizens of African countries have continued to use digital tools in creative ways to ensure that marginalised voices are heard, and to demand for the rights they are... -
South Sudan's Injustice System: Law and Activism on the Frontline by Rachel Ibreck 9781786993403
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £84.96'An outstanding feat based on in-depth research in a difficult setting ... this book uncovers the dysfunctions of law and the bravery of South Sudan's activists struggling for justice.' Mark Fathi... -
Contested Knowledge: A Guide to Critical Theory by John Phillips 9781856495578
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £84.96This is the most accessible and wide-ranging introduction to critical theory currently available. Providing a comprehensive overview of the practice, role and importance of theory across the... -
Industrial Development for the 21st Century by David O'Connor
Booksplease Price: £39.15With very few exceptions, industrial development has been central to the process of structural transformation which characterises economic development. Industrial Development for the 21st century... -
Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report by People's Health Movement
Booksplease Price: £39.15In an increasingly integrated, globalised world with new cross-border threats to health, widening disparities in both health and access to health care, and an unacceptable level of human suffering... -
Development with a Body: Sexuality, Human Rights and Development by Susie Jolly
Booksplease Price: £93.44'We used to talk about development with a human face. We should be talking about development with a body' Arit Oku-Egbas, African Regional Sexuality Resource Centre, Nigeria Sex and sexuality have... -
Researching Sex and Sexualities by Paul Boyce 9781786993205
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £47.64Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain - encompassing bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready categorisation. To claim the sexual as a viable research object therefore... -
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The FARC: The Longest Insurgency by Garry Leech 9781848134928 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.28Garry Leech has written the definitive introduction to the FARC, examining the group's origins, aims, and ideology, and looking at its organizational and operational structures. The book also... -
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100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World by Bob Sutcliffe 9781856498142 [USED COPY]
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £2.43This highly original visual book is designed as a teaching aid - for students in conventional courses as well as readers wanting to tease out for themselves an understanding of the contemporary world... -
The Net by Sarif Hatatah 9780862325343
Booksplease Price: £17.27This subtle novel by one of Egypt's increasingly eminent writers concerns Egyptian society under the Sadat regime. Khalil Mansour, an intellectual once imprisoned for political activism and now... -
Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism by Mareile Pfannebecker 9781786997272
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £23.46Work 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... -
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin 9781842778609
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.11This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people... -
Exploited: Migrant Labour in the New Global Economy Toby Shelley 9781842778524
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.11From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every day migrant labourers are exploited and enslaved. Extra hours are squeezed out of Polish food packers, and trafficked African... -
Tanzania's Informal Economy: The Micro-politics of Street Vending by Alexis Malefakis 9781786994516
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £18.24The market places and street corners of Dar es Salaam are home to a thriving informal economy of street vendors selling secondhand clothing and other goods. These street vendors often live a... -
African Anthropologies: History, Critique and Practice by Mwenda Ntarangwi 9781842777633
Booksplease Price: £29.92This overview of the history, application and teaching of anthropology in post-colonial Africa shows how the continent's anthropologists are redefining the historical legacy of European and American... -
Dirty Politics?: New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq by Steven Kettell
Booksplease Price: £38.45Britain's participation in the Iraq war defines one of the most tumultuous periods in its political history. Driven by a desire to enhance the influence of the British government on the world stage,... -
Sex, Needs and Queer Culture: From Liberation to the Postgay Doctor David Alderson 9781783605125
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.75The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist... -
Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation by Jorg Wiegratz 9781786991089
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.95For the last three decades, Uganda has been one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Globally praised as an African success story and heavily backed by international financial institutions,... -
The Politics of Land Reform in Africa: From Communal Tenure to Free Markets by Ambreena Manji
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £20.07Across Africa land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure; Farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets. Law reform is at the heart of this... -
The Political Economy of Mobile Telephony in South Africa: MTN, Vodacom and the State Odilile Ayodele 9781350411777
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £84.96Telecommunications are an essential part of the global political economy, and the private telecommunications sector is driving much of the transformation across Africa. Yet the regulatory frameworks... -
Making Poverty: A History by Thomas Lines 9781842779422
Booksplease Price: £23.99In this clear and intelligent book, Thomas Lines examines the role that global policies have played in creating a crisis of rural poverty. He explains the mechanisms of markets and supply chains,... -
Science and Technology for Development by James Smith
Booksplease Price: £22.07How can science realize its potential and help us tackle global inequality, environmental change and crippling poverty? How can more appropriate technologies be developed for those most in need?... -
Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America: Economic Networks and Cultural Interactions by Ute Roschenthaler 9781786990778
Booksplease Price: £23.99Trade connections and cultural exchange between Africa and the rest of the global South have existed for centuries. Since the end of the Cold War, these connections have expanded and diversified... -
The Muslim Speaks by Khurram Hussain 9781786998873
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £79.40The Muslim Speaks reimagines Islam as a strategy for investigating the modern condition. Rather than imagining it as an issue external to a discrete West, Khurram Hussain constructs Islam as internal... -
The Nawal El Saadawi Reader by Nawal El-Saadawi 9781856495141
Booksplease Price: £39.30Writer, doctor and militant, Nawal el Saadawi has had a major influence on the lives of women and men globally. Author of many books, both fiction and non-fiction, which challenge our thinking about... -
Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power, and Intimacy in the Sex Industry by Melissa Hope Ditmore 9781848134348
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.80Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money,... -
China's Urban Billion: The Story behind the Biggest Migration in Human History by Tom Miller 9781780321424
Booksplease Price: £85.55By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past... -
The New Spanish Revolutions: A Rebellious Journey Across a Changing Spain by Christopher Finnigan 9781786997098
Booksplease Price: £80.50Travelling from Madrid to The Valley of the Fallen, through Castile and Leon and across the fiercely contested region of Catalonia, Christopher Finnigan meets a remarkable cast of characters behind... -
Just War and the Responsibility to Protect: A Critique by Robin Dunford
Booksplease Price: £29.64Despite the disasters of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and ever more visible evidence of the horrors of war, the concepts of 'Humanitarian Intervention' and 'Just War' enjoy widespread legitimacy and... -
Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform by Prosper B. Matondi 9781780321486
Booksplease Price: £30.16The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally. The image of it has all too often been that of the widespread... -
AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa's Epidemic by Isak Niehaus
Booksplease Price: £88.04The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008 life... -
Blackness at the Intersection by Kehinde Andrews 9781786998644
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £60.54A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain. In the 1980s, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw first coined the term... -
The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith Gilbert Rist 9781786997555
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £84.96In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of... -
Youth and Revolution in Tunisia by Alcinda Honwana 9781780324623
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £84.96The uprising in Tunisia has come to be seen as the first true revolution of the twenty-first century, one that kick-started the series of upheavals across the region now known as the Arab Spring. In... -
The Priest of Paraguay: Fernando Lugo and the Making of a Nation by Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Booksplease Price: £38.75Paraguay had the oldest one-party regime on earth. Under the 60-year dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner's Colorado party, wealth and power became concentrated in the hands of a small few;... -
Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics Rui Lopes 9781350378308
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £84.96Lusophone Africa has been neglected in Anglophone historiography. With the exceptions of a narrow set of episodes, figures, and interpretations, all of which appear in a fragmented set of journal... -
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Rethinking Globalization: Critical Issues and Policy Choices by Martin Khor 9781842770559 [USED COPY]
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £2.73In this optimistic book Martin Khor, director of the influential Third World Network, sets out concrete proposals for what Third World governments can do to shape globalization to their particular... -
Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language by James Griffiths 9781786999702
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.03A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year "A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of Books As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster...