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The Muslim Speaks by Khurram Hussain
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €22.02The 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... -
Rock in a Hard Place: Music and Mayhem in the Middle East by Orlando Crowcroft
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.37A muggy night in Abu Dhabi, 2011. Under the stadium lights a 30,000-strong sea of Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians and Egyptians wait in anticipation. Alongside them are Saudis, Iranians and Israelis... -
Globalizing Citizens: New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion by John Gaventa
Booksplease Price: €40.27Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance, citizens in every nation are linked by the institutions of global... -
Heteroactivism: Resisting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Rights and Equalities by Catherine Jean Nash
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €22.02Around the world, LGBTQ+ activists have won an unprecedented series of political victories, from marriage equality to increased representation in government. But this success has sparked a backlash... -
Catastrophe Remembered: Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees: Essays in Memory of Edward W. Said by Nur Masalha
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.69The 1948 Palestine War is known to Israelis as 'the War of Independence'. But for Palestinians, the war is forever the Nakba, the 'catastrophe'. The war led to the creation of the State of Israel and... -
South Sudan's Civil War: Violence, Insurgency and Failed Peacemaking by John Young
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.54A mere two years after achieving independence, South Sudan in 2013 descended into violent civil war, refuting US government claims that the country's succession was a major foreign policy success and... -
Who Really Feeds the World? by Vandana Shiva
Booksplease Price: €25.49'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.' The Guardian 'A star among environmental, activist, and anti-corporate circles.' Vice The world's food supply is in the grip of a... -
Global Citizens: Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization by Marjorie Mayo
Booksplease Price: €48.72The dawn of the twenty-first century has been accompanied by an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic order. Dramatic events such as the... -
Relocation Failures in Sri Lanka: A Short History of Internal Displacement and Resettlement by Robert Muggah
Booksplease Price: €48.72Each year, millions of people are internally displaced and resettled in the wake of wars and floods or to make way for large-scale development projects, and this number is increasing. Humanitarian... -
The Essential Nawal El Saadawi: A Reader by Nawal El-Saadawi 9781848133358
Booksplease Price: €32.86The writings of Nawal El Saadawi are essential to anyone wishing to understand the contemporary Arab world. Her dissident voice has stayed as consistent in its critique of neo.imperialist... -
Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance Anissa Helie 9781780322858
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.00This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization... -
The New Extractivism: A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century? by James Petras 9781780329925
Booksplease Price: €32.01In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the... -
Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History by Michael Deibert 9781783607983
Booksplease Price: €34.61The world's first independent black republic, Haiti was forged in the fire of history's only successful slave revolution. Yet more than two hundred years later, the full promise of that revolution -... -
Africa's Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent by Leonce Ndikumana 9781848134584
Booksplease Price: €108.75In Africa's Odious Debts, Boyce and Ndikumana reveal the shocking fact that, contrary to the popular perception of Africa being a drain on the financial resources of the West, the continent is... -
Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender J. Daniel Luther 9781786995827
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €93.03Queer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalisation of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far... -
Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat by Debora Diniz 9781786991591
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €88.02Winner of the 2017 Jabuti Book PrizeThe Zika virus is devastating lives and communities. Children across the Americas are being born with severe disabilities because of it. Yet during the desolating... -
Scroungers: Moral Panics and Media Myths by James Morrison 9781786992147
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €58.38Scroungers, spongers, parasites ... These are just are some of the terms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the most vulnerable in our society, whether they be the... -
Liberia's Women Veterans: War, Roles and Reintegration Leena Vastapuu 9781786990808
Booksplease Price: €32.01The Liberian civil wars of the 1990s and 2000s became notorious for their atrocities, and for the widespread use of child soldiers. Girls and young women accounted for up to 40 per cent of these... -
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by Linsey McGoey 9781780326368
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €99.65'The definitive book for our times on what makes strategic ignorance so "strategic" in the hands of the powerful.' Steve Fuller, author of Post-Truth 'This is McGoey at her absolute best... -
Nanotechnology: New Promises, New Dangers by Toby Shelley 9781842776872
Booksplease Price: €32.01Buckyballs. Quantum dots. Golden triangles. Organic light-emitting diodes. Welcome to the world of nanotechnology - the engineering of new materials and new products, the use of new manufacturing... -
The Circumcision of Women: A Strategy for Eradication by Olayinka Koso-Thomas 9780862327019
Booksplease Price: €40.27African women have begun in recent years to research and campaign against the practice of female circumcision. Dr. Koso-Thomas shows that female circumcision is not confined to the Horn of Africa or... -
An Introduction to the WTO Agreements by Bhagirath Lal Das 9781856495813
Booksplease Price: €108.75The World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to GATT, is rapidly establishing itself as the third pillar of the Bretton Woods institutions alongside the World Bank and the IMF. The prolonged... -
China in Africa by Chris Alden 9781842778630
Booksplease Price: €108.75Nowhere in the world is China's rapid rise to power more evident than in Africa. From multi-billion dollar investments in oil and minerals to the influx of thousands of merchants, labourers and cheap... -
Posthuman International Relations: Complexity, Ecologism and Global Politics by Erika Cudworth 9781848135147
Booksplease Price: €108.75In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations. As a... -
Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small Arms by Laura Lumpe 9781856498739
Booksplease Price: €44.99Whether the war zone be in Africa, Sri Lanka, Chechnya or Afghanistan, most people are not killed by hi-tech or heavy weaponry, but by the small arms, cheap and accessible, that have flooded into so... -
Feminist Post-Development Thought: Rethinking Modernity, Post-Colonialism and Representation by Kriemild Saunders 9781856499477
Booksplease Price: €45.35In this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale... -
The Social Economy: International Perspectives on Economic Solidarity by Ash Amin 9781848132818
Booksplease Price: €108.75As the current economic crisis spreads around the globe questions are being asked about what king of capitalist or post-capitalist economy will follow. There is increasing talk of the need for... -
Macro-Economics: Making Gender Matter: Concepts, Policies and Institutional Change in Developing Countries by Martha Gutierrez 9781842770603
Booksplease Price: €108.75This book makes clear that systematic gender biases are present at all levels - in institutions, markets and the household - and presents options for introducing social structures to the... -
China in Africa by Chris Alden 9781842778647
Booksplease Price: €26.11Nowhere in the world is China's rapid rise to power more evident than in Africa. From multi-billion dollar investments in oil and minerals to the influx of thousands of merchants, labourers and cheap... -
Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure by Andrea Cornwall 9781780325729
Booksplease Price: €108.75This pioneering collection explores the ways in which positive, pleasure-focused approaches to sexuality can empower women.Gender and development has tended to engage with sexuality only in relation... -
The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? by Joel Kovel 9781842778715
Booksplease Price: €32.01We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy us. Capitalism and its by-products - imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty and the... -
Africa's Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa by Ilda Lindell 9781848134515
Booksplease Price: €108.75Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine countries and... -
Violence in Everyday Life: Power, Gender and Sexuality by Aliraza Javaid 9781786997227
Booksplease Price: €96.95Violence in Everyday Life explores how identity markers such as gender and sexuality intersect with violence, synthesizing the themes of gender, sexuality and violence to offering a crucial and... -
Confessions of a Terrorist: A Novel by Richard Jackson 9781783600038
Booksplease Price: €29.65P: Who is the real terrorist in this room? M: What're you saying? In a claustrophobic concrete cell, two men face each other across a bare table. One is a wanted terrorist, the other a British... -
An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy by Assistant Professor Dario Azzellini 9781783601547
Booksplease Price: €30.83The global financial crisis has led to a new shop-floor militancy. Radical forms of protest and new workers' takeovers have sprung up all over the globe. In the US, Republic Windows and Doors started... -
Bolivia: Processes of Change by John Crabtree 9781780323763
Booksplease Price: €26.11Since 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... -
A History of Africa by Hosea Jaffe 9781786990655
Booksplease Price: €108.75Spanning more than two thousand years of African history, from the African Iron Age to the collapse of colonialism and the beginnings of independence, Hosea Jaffe's magisterial work remains one of... -
Africa's Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent by Adekeye Adebajo 9781780329420
Booksplease Price: €109.11As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who... -
Displacement Economies in Africa: Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity by Amanda Hammar 9781780324883
Booksplease Price: €35.56Large-scale displacement - whether caused by war, state-related political or development projects, different forms of political violence, structural crisis, or even natural disasters - evokes many... -
Crisis and Critique: A Brief History of Media Participation in Times of Crisis by Anne Kaun 9781783607372
Booksplease Price: €108.75Throughout history, innovations in media have had a profound impact on protest and dissent. But while these recent developments in social media have been the subject of intense scholarly attention,...