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Politics & International
Relations and Development
& Economics
New Books Catalogue
January-June 2021
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Sensuous Knowledge Heteroactivism
A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone Resisting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Rights and
Minna Salami Equalities
In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Catherine Jean Nash, Brock University, Canada & Kath Browne,
Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to University College, Dublin, Ireland
help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways LGBTQ+ activists have won an unprecedented series of political
of experiencing the world afresh. This book pries victories, from marriage equality to increased representation in
apart the systems of power and privilege that have government - but this success has sparked a backlash. This book
dominated ways of thinking for centuries – and which have led to so considers the rise of the new ‘heteroactivism’, showing how social
much division, prejudice and damage. And it puts forward a new, media and new sources of funding have reinvigorated the opponents
sensuous, approach to knowledge: one grounded in a host of global of LGBTQ+ rights. It also shows how the rhetoric and tactics of this
perspectives – from Black Feminism to personal narrative, pop culture new generation of heteroactivists differs from their predecessors,
to high art, Western philosophy to African mythology – together exploiting notions of ‘parental rights’ and freedom of speech to
comprising a vision of hope for a fragmented world riven by crisis. assert heteronormative values. The authors reveal the increasingly
transnational nature of anti- LGBTQ+ activism, with growing links
UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 216 pages
between heteroactivists in the US, UK and beyond.
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Violent Ignorance Art/Commons
Confronting Racism and Migration Control Anthropology Beyond Capitalism
Hannah Jones, University of Warwick, UK Massimiliano Mollona, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Violent Ignorance addresses the uncomfortable political questions This is the first book to theorise the commons from the perspectives of
about belonging, race, migration and history we would all rather contemporary art history and anthropology, focusing on the ongoing
ignore, examining these questions in the context of the multiplication tensions between art and capitalism. This study is grounded in an
of border controls and enforcement, reckoning with this alongside analysis of contemporary artistic and curatorial practices, which the
a socio-historical perspective on the production of race and shifting author describes as practices of commoning, based on co-production,
forms of racism over time and place. The book questions what it participation, mutualism and the valorization of reproductive labour.
means to belong, and discusses how hierarchies of belonging are Art/Commons gives stimulating first-person accounts of five projects
revealed by what we (can) see and what we (can) ignore. the author conducted at the intersection of art, activism and pedagogy,
ranging from participatory film projects to his directorship of the
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 240 pages Athens Biennale. Mollona proposes a novel theoretical approach to
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current debates on the commons, and shows that art can provide both
ePdf 9781786998613 • £17.99 / $22.16 a language of anti-capitalist and post-colonial critique as well as a
Zed Books distinctive set of skills and practices of commoning.
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 224 pages
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The Law of War and Peace Storying Relationships
A Gender Analysis: Volume One Young British Muslims Speak and Write about Sex and
Edited by Gina Heathcote, Sara Bertotti, Emily Jones & Sheri A. Love
Labenski Edited by Richard Phillips, University of Sheffield, Claire
This book offers a cutting-edge analysis of the relationship between Chambers, University of York & Nafhesa Ali, University of
law, armed conflict, gender and peace. The first of two volumes, it Sheffield
focuses on the interplay between international law and gendered Storying Relationships explores the sexual lives of young British
experiences of armed conflict. The editors provide an in-depth Muslims in their own words and through their own stories. It finds
analysis of the key debates on collective security, unilateral force, the engaging and surprising stories in a variety of settings: when young
laws governing conflict, terrorism and international criminal law. While people are chatting with their friends; conversing more formally within
much of the current scholarship has centered on the UN Security families and communities; scribbling in their diaries; and writing
Council's Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), this blogs, poems and books to share or publish. These stories challenge
work seeks to move understandings beyond this framework. It does stereotypes about Muslims, who are frequently portrayed as unhappy
so through providing a critical and intersectional approach to gender in love and sexually different. The young people who emerge in this
and conflict which is mindful of transnational feminist and queer book, contradicting racist and Islamophobic stereotypes, are assertive
perspectives. and creative, finding and making their own ways in matters of the
body and the heart.
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 256 pages
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Frantz Fanon Political Advice
A Political Biography Past, Present and Future
Leo Zeilig, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Edited by Colin Kidd, University of St Andrews &
University of London Jacqueline Rose, University of St Andrews
Frantz Fanon was one of the leading twentieth- The continuing churn of political advisers in
century political thinkers, an activist against Donald Trump's White House serve as a reminder
colonialism and imperialism, and the author of of the salience and relevance of political advice.
essential texts such as The Wretched of the Earth This volume of essays sets that concern into
and Black Skin, White Masks. Leo Zeilig here details the life of Fanon a wider historical context. The book treats political advice in an
- from his upbringing in Martinique to his wartime experiences and interdisciplinary fashion, with contributions from classics and literature
work in Europe and North Africa - and frames his ideas and activism as well as from history and politics. The unique practitioners'
within the greater context of his career as a practising psychiatrist and perspective to the problem of political advice is brought by the
his politically tumultuous surroundings. The book covers the period contributions of politicians, political advisers and senior civil servants.
of the Algerian War of Independence, national liberation and what Case studies include 'Reagan's court', advisers to the queen in
Fanon described as 'the curse of independence'. Elizabethan England and advisers dealing with the fallout of modern-
day political referendums.
UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 296 pages
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ePub 9780755638222 • £13.49 / $17.24 PB 9781838601201 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781838600044 • £65.00 / $90.00
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Exceptional Me When America Stopped Being
How Donald Trump Exploited the Great
Discourse of American Exceptionalism A History of the Present
Jason Gilmore, Utah State University, USA Nick Bryant
& Charles Rowling, University of Nebraska
Nick Bryant takes a deep dive into the history of
Kearney, USA
America to explain how the seeds of Trumpism
Donald Trump has forged a unique relationship were sown in the decisions of past administrations,
with American exceptionalism, diverging from how and how the historical clues – unseen by many – paved the way for an
presidents and presidential candidates have long communicated this outsider to take power.
idea to the American public. Jason Gilmore and Charles Rowling call
this Trump's 'Exceptional Me Strategy' which began with his 2016 Spanning six presidents and narrated in Bryant's engaging
election campaign. Through systematic comparative analysis, Rowling autobiographical style, When America Stopped Being Great takes
and Gilmore examine the departure Trump's exceptionalist rhetoric the long view, combining storytelling with hard facts to show how the
signals from previous presidents use of exceptionalism as a tool of country moved from the optimism of Reagan’s ‘Morning in America’
political communication - rather than America (its institutions, ideals to Trump’s ‘American Carnage’. The epilogue considers the fall-out
and people) being exceptional, it is Donald Trump himself who holds from COVID-19 and the 2020 election.
the key to American exceptionalism.
UK April 2021 • 304 pages
HB 9781472985484 • £25.00
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Hate in Precarious Times Privileged Populists
Mobilising Anxiety from the Alt-Right to Populism in the Conservative and Libertarian
Brexit Working Class
Neal Curtis, University of Auckland, New Micah J. Fleck
Zealand Counter-revolution has long been a tool of propagandists to redirect
This book takes a theoretically informed cultural populist movements from achieving actual liberation for themselves.
studies approach to examine why the politics of But what happens when counter-revolutionaries begin to believe
hate and ideologies of the far-right are on the their own claims of genuine revolution? And how big a role does
rise. Neal Curtis argues that to counter it we must challenge the mainstream political ideology and policy play in the mass ignorance
sense of social and economic precarity this politics feeds off. Hate in and revisionism that has now allowed nationalism to influence
Precarious Times examines five distinct types of precarity, which cover national elections?
topics such as threats of apocalyptic terrorism; policies of austerity,
Privileged Populists sets out to answer these questions while aiming
and low-waged, insecure jobs in the wake of the Financial Crisis;
to understand the organic emergence of anti-political populism within
challenges to privilege; and disinformation in a “post-truth” age.
the context of late-stage capitalism in the West. This book analyses
Taking an ontological and theoretically-informed approach - drawing
these elements as a means of appealing to the growing sense of
on philosophy and media studies - this is a unique contribution to the
cultural and economic unrest within the conservative working class.
analysis of far right politics.
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 256 pages
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The Great Deception Beyond Brexit
Can the European Union Survive? Towards a British Constitution
Christopher Booker & Richard North Vernon Bogdanor, King's College London
Now published with a new chapter discussing the Vernon Bogdanor's crucial book explores the
COVID-19 pandemic, this book suggests that the ever-changing relationship between Britain and
United States of Europe and its edict of 'ever closer the European Union: from the original concept of
union' have been based on a colossal confidence European unity to 21st century Euroscepticism. As
trick. Britain's leading constitutional expert, he looks at
the fundamental constitutional problems confronting Britain on its exit
This book tells for the first time the inside story of the most audacious
from the European Union, and argues that Brexit is the start of new
political project of modern times: the plan to unite Europe under
beginnings – perhaps heralding a peaceful constitutional moment. A
a single 'supranational' government. From the 1920s, when the
new preface outlines what political questions need to be asked now
blueprint for the European Union was first conceived by a British civil
that Britain has begun the process of leaving the European Union.
servant, this meticulously documented account takes the story right
up to the moves to give Europe a political constitution.
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 304 pages
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Ireland and the Magdalene
Laundries
Trust, Politics and Revolution A Campaign for Justice
Katherine O’Donnell, University College Dublin,
A European History
Claire McGettrick, James M. Smith, Maeve
Francesca Granelli, King's College London, UK O'Rourke & Mari Steed
Tracing the relationships and networks of trust in Using the State’s own report into the Magdalene
Western European revolutionary situations from institutions, as well as testimonies from survivors and independent
the Ancient Greeks to the French Revolution and witnesses, this book gives a detailed account of life behind the
beyond, Francesca Granelli here shows the essential high walls of Ireland’s Magdalene institutions. The book offers an
role of trust in both revolution and government, overview of the social, cultural and political contexts of institutional
arguing that without trust, both governments and revolutionary survivor activism, the Irish State’s response culminating in the The
movements are liable to fail. The first study to combine the Ryan Report, and the formation of the Justice for Magdalenes
importance of trust and the significance of revolution, this book offers campaign, a volunteer-run survivor advocacy group. The result is a
a new lens through which to interpret revolution, in an essential book damning assessment of how the Irish State continues to evade its
for all scholars of political science and historians of revolution. responsibilities, not merely to survivors of the Magdalenes but also in
providing a truthful account of what happened.
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 336 pages • 16 bw illus
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Democracy in Southern Europe
Colonialism, International Relations and
Autobiographical Cultures in Europeanization from Malta to Cyprus
Post-War Italy Isabelle Calleja Ragonesi, University of Malta
Life-Writing, Communism and Feminism How have Malta and Cyprus - both EU members
Walter S. Baroni, University of Manchester, UK – transitioned from colonial island states to
independent democracies? With the assistance
After the Second World War, two contrasting of primary documentation this book traces the
political movements became increasingly active difficult path of these two states to becoming independent liberal
in Italy - the communist and feminist movements. democracies. Using socio-economic and political data, analysed
In this book, Walter Baroni uses autobiographical life-writing from through the microscope of political science and international
both movements' key protagonists - including analysis of Giorgio relations theories, Isabelle Calleja Ragonesi charts the progress of
Napolitano and Laura Lepetit - to shed new light on the history of the two islands in the context of a number of four distinct phases;
these movements and more broadly the similarities and differences decolonization, independence; post-colonial independence;
between political activists in post-war Italy. sovereign nation-state status and finally attempts to reach substantive
democracy status and EU membership.
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National Identity in Serbia Women and Industry in the
The Vojvodina and a Multi-Ethnic Balkans
Community in the Balkans The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile
Vassilis Petsinis, University of Tartu, Estonia Sector
This book analyses the evolution of Vojvodina’s Chiara Bonfiglioli, University College, Cork,
identity over time and the unique pattern of ethnic Ireland
relations in the province. Although approximately
Women's emancipation through productive labour
25 ethnic communities live in Vojvodina, it is by
was a key tenet of socialist politics in post-World War II Yugoslavia.
no means a divided society. Vassilis Petsinis explores Vojvodina’s
The break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991 resulted in factory closures,
intercultural society and shows how this has facilitated the
forcing thousands of garment industry workers into precarious and
introduction of flexible and regionalized legal models for the
often exploitative private-sector jobs. Drawing on more than 60 oral
management of ethnic relations in Serbia since the 2000s. He also
history interviews with former and current garment workers, as well
discusses recent developments in the region, most notably the arrival
as workplace periodicals and contemporary press material collected
of refugees from Syria and Iraq, measuring the impact that these
across Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia,
changes have had on social stability in the province.
Women and Industry in the Balkans charts the rise and fall of the
post-socialist transition.
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The Albanian Bektashi
Power and Conflict in Russia’s
History and Culture of a Dervish Order in
the Balkans
Borderlands
Robert Elsie The Post-Soviet Geopolitics of Dispute
In this, his final book, Robert Elsie analyses the
Resolution
Albanian Bektashi and considers their role in the Helena Rytövuori-Apunen, Tampere Peace
country’s history and society. Although much has Research Institute
been written on the Bektashi in Turkey, little has Helena Rytövuori-Apunen draws on a range of
appeared on the Albanian branch of the sect. Robert Elsie considers empirical research and across separatist conflicts in Georgia (South
the history and culture of the Bektashi, analyses writings on the order Ossetia and Abkhazia), Moldova (Transnistria and Gagauzia) and
by early travellers to the region such as Margaret Hasluck and Sir Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh) and the 2014 annexation of Crimea
Arthur Evans and provides a comprehensive list of tekkes (convents) from Ukraine. This book provides a balanced assessment and critique
and tyrbes (shrines) in Albania and neighbouring countries. Finally he of the assumptions and misunderstandings that inform mainstream
presents a catalogue of notable Albanian Bektashi figures in history discussions, as well as placing the conflicts in their proper and
and legend. complex historical contexts. At a time when there is an increasing
tendency to view Russia as the source of all instability in Eastern
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 392 pages Europe, Power and Conflict in Russia’s Borderlands unpicks the
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The Post-Soviet Politics of
Utopia
Language, Fiction and Fantasy in Modern Armenia and Europe
Russia Foreign Aid and Environmental Politics in
Edited by Mikhail Suslov, University of the Post-Soviet Caucasus
Copenhagen, Denmark & Per-Arne Bodin,
Pål Wilter Skedsmo, Fridtjof Nansen Institute,
Stockholm University, Sweden
Norway
More than 700 ‘utopian’ novels are published in Russia every year.
This ethnographic study, based on new primary
These utopias – fantasy fiction, science fiction, alternative history –
research, looks at aid in the South Caucasus, and
express very real Russian anxieties: be they territorial right-sizing, loss
its role in Armenia’s relationship with Europe. In
of imperial status or turning into a ‘colony’ of the West.
particular, Pål Wilter Skedsmo argues that the Aarhus Convention,
Contributors to this innovative collection use these narratives to which entitles citizens of Europe to access information and
re-examine post-Soviet Russian political culture and identity. In the participation in decision-making in environmental matters such as
process The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia sheds crucial light onto infrastructure projects, has allowed Armenian citizens to adapt and
a variety of debates – including the rise of nationalism, right-wing control the direction of their country’s political future in various ways
populism, imperial revanchism, the complicated presence of religion – whether through protest activism or legal challenges. Armenia and
in the public sphere and the function of language. Europe is an essential case study for scholars of development.
UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 376 pages UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 280 pages
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Transitional Justice in Poland Erdogan's Empire
Memory and the Politics of the Past Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East
Frances Millard, University of Essex Soner Cagaptay, The Washington Institute, USA
In this study of the mechanisms of transitional Today, in addition to a domestic crackdown on
justice in Poland, Frances Millard asks: How does dissent and journalistic freedoms, driven by
society come to terms with its past? How should Erdogan’s style of governance, Turkey faces a
it punish the perpetrators of oppression and hostile world. Ankara has nearly no friends left in
acknowledge its victims? Through the specific the Middle East, and is under threat from resurgent
case of Poland, Millard provides a comprehensive assessment of the historic adversaries: Russia and Iran. Furthermore, Turkey cannot rely
mechanisms and institutions used to achieve this, such as lustration, on the unconditional support of its traditional Western allies.
law enforcement through a Constitutional Tribunal and institutions
Here the leading authority Soner Cagaptay, author of The New
dedicated to dealing with the past such as the Institute of National
Sultan, provides a masterful overview of the power politics in the
Remembrance.
Middle East and Turkey’s shifting place in it. This new edition is
updated to include recent events in Syria.
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Turkey and the Soviet Union Turkish Intelligence and the Cold
During World War II War
Diplomacy, Discord and International The Turkish Secret Service, the US and
Relations the UK
Onur Isci, Bilkent University, Turkey Egemen Bezci, National Sun Yat-Sen University,
Based on newly accessible Turkish archival Taiwan
documents, Onur Isci's study details the This book examines the hitherto unexplored history
deterioration of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Soviet of secret intelligence cooperation between three asymmetric partners
Union during World War II, when the relations between the two – the UK, US and Turkey – from the end of the Second World War
plunged to several degrees below zero. For the Russians, hostility was until the Turkey’s first military coup d'état on 27 May 1960. The book
based on long-term apathy stemming from the enormous German shows that our understanding of the Cold War as a binary rivalry
investment in the Ottoman Empire; for the Turks, on the fear of between the two blocs is too simple an approach and obscures
Russian territorial ambitions. This book offers a new interpretation of important characteristics of intelligence cooperation among allies. By
how Russian foreign policy drove Turkey into a peculiar neutrality in doing so this book not only reveals previously-unexplored origins of
the Second World War, and eventually into NATO. secret intelligence cooperation between Turkey and West, but also
contributes to wider academic debates on the Cold War.
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Cyprus Before 1974
The Prelude to Crisis Turkey in Africa
Marilena Varnava Turkey's Strategic Involvement in Sub-
This book seeks to unpick the internal conflicts Saharan Africa
which led to the failure of the peace process in Federico Donelli, University of Genoa, Italy
Cyprus. The study focuses on the events of 1968
- when the Greek-Cypriot political leadership Federico Donelli brings to light the extent of
failed to grasp the nature of the changes within Turkey’s involvement in Africa and analyses the
the island’s post-independence arena. Recurrent attempts within unique characteristics, benefits, challenges and
both communities during the talks of that year to create faits limits of Turkish policy in the region. The book
accomplis favourable to their own bargaining positions served to examines the Turkish diplomatic programme as well as its domestic
heighten the barriers to a peaceful outcome. This study enlarges our reception, which includes humanitarian aid, religious links such as the
understanding of the underlying issues which the Turkish invasion of OIC (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation), as well as private business
1974 were to throw into stark relief. links. Crucially, Donelli examines what makes Turkish involvement
different from that of other international actors in the region – its
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Whose Peace Are We Building? Angola at the Crossroads
Leadership for Peace in Africa Between Kleptocracy and Development
Youssef Mahmoud, International Peace Institute, Rui Santos Verde, African Studies Centre,
New York & Mbiatem Albert, University of University of Oxford, UK
Dschang, Cameroon Angola is the third largest economy in Sub-Saharan
As concerns mount about the continued relevance Africa and plans to accede to the Commonwealth
and efficiency of UN peace operations, Youssef but it is poised precariously at a crossroads
Mahmoud – who headed several challenging between a past marked by civil war and corruption
peace missions in Africa – draws on many years of experience to and a future of potential economic development. This book examines
offer insights into how political leadership might be exercised to the post-Civil War period which began in 2002 and saw the rise of
help restore and nurture peace. Making extensive use of the authors' corruption, as well as recent developments in the country, such as the
unique personal experiences, the book offers an unparalleled insight efforts of the current President, João Lourenço, to reform the regime
into the leadership challenges of complex conflict situations. through political openness, economic growth and a crackdown on
corruption. Rui Santos Verde analyses the country's recent history
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Politics and Pan-Africanism
Diplomacy, Regional Economies and In The Shadow of Mandela
Peace-Building in Contemporary Africa
Political Leadership in South Africa
Dawn Nagar, Centre for Conflict Resolution at
Cape Town, South Africa Alexander Johnston, Durban University of
Technology, South Africa
Offering an investigation of the diplomatic and
economic regional power structures in Africa and This outstanding and original work goes to the
their relationships with each other, Dawn Nagar heart of South Africa's political problems: doubts
discusses the potential and future of pan-Africanism. The three as to the sustainability of the post-apartheid
primary regional economic communities (RECs) that are recognised settlement, beset with divisions in the ruling ANC,
by the African Union as the key building blocks of a united Africa are factionalism, corruption and the widening of fault-lines in state and
examined, providing a detailed overview of the current relationship society. The 'leadership issue' has become key and this will be the
between these power blocs. This book provides insight into the first specific examination of leadership in the light of Mandela's
current state of diplomatic and economic relations within Africa and legacy and its effect on his successors. Alexander Johnston argues all
shows how far there is to go for a future of Pan-Africanism. potential leaders operate in 'the shadow of Mandela', as the architect
of the transition from apartheid to democracy, and with overarching
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 312 pages moral authority and international reputation. This book is the first to
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Insurgency and War in Nigeria Post-Conflict Security in South
Sudan
Regional Fracture and the Fight Against
Boko Haram From Liberal Peacebuilding to
Akali Omeni, University of Leicester, UK
Demilitarization
This book is the first to focus on the military nature
Nyambura Wambugu, University of Juba, South
of Boko Haram, the reasons for its success in the Sudan
specific regions of the Chad basin it operates Why have policies of liberal peacebuilding failed
in, and a detailed history of the Nigerian army’s to bring lasting stability to South Sudan? Nyambura Wambugu,
counter-insurgency – with whom, uniquely, the author has spent an academic with more than ten years' practical advisory and
research time. The book identifies and analyses the battles and policymaking experience, adopts a holistic and multi-thematic
skirmishes on the front line, as well as unearthing a wider explanation approach to answer these crucial questions. Rooting her analysis as
for Boko Haram’s military success and revealing how counter- deeply as the initial militarisation of Sudan in the 1950s, Wambugu
insurgency failures are at the root of instability in the region. considers the complex and overlapping issues that have afflicted the
region since 2005. In the process, Wambugu demonstrates the failure
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The Genesis of the Civil War in Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide
Somalia Identity, History and Hate Speech
The Impact of Foreign Military Ronan Lee, Queen Mary University of London,
Intervention on the Conflict UK
Muuse Yuusuf, United Nations The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global
attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San
This study explores the genesis of the civil war in Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights
Somalia by analysing the defeat of Somalia in the violations, forced migrations and extra-judicial
1977 Ogaden war. Muuse Yuusef argues that this defeat, which was killings on an enormous scale. This unique study draws on thousands
prompted by the intervention of the USSR, was a turning point which of hours of interviews and testimony from the Rohingya themselves to
unleashed long term socio-political forces that led to the collapse assess and outline the full scale of the disaster. Casting new light on
of the central government of the country. By recognizing the impact Rohingya identity, history and culture, this is an essential contribution
of foreign military interventions in Somalia, from superpower rivalry to the study of the Rohingya people and to the study of the early
during the cold war to the war-on-terror, and how it lead to the stages of genocide. Ronan Lee adds convincingly to the body of
initiation and perpetuation of the Somali conflict, the book attempts evidence that the government of Myanmar has enabled a genocide in
to identify foreign military intervention as a new paradigm in the Rakhine State and the surrounding areas.
study of Somalia.
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China's New Urbanization Civil Society and Citizenship in
Inequality and the New Chinese Dream India and Bangladesh
Jiabao Sun, King's College London, UK Edited by Sarbeswar Sahoo, Indian Institute
Recent state-led urbanisation initiatives in China of Technology Delhi & Paul Chaney, Cardiff
have drastically transformed Chinese rural University, Cardiff, Wales
society - closing the urban-rural divide as well as Presents new primary and secondary multi-
redistributing wealth and altering the flows of social disciplinary research exploring the opportunities
mobility. In this study Jiabao Sun asks: who are the and challenges facing civil society in today’s India
winners and who are the losers in this process? and Bangladesh. The book examines changing citizenship rights and
the contrasts and commonalities between the two nations. It looks
This book uses two case studies of different modes of state-led rural
at the issues associated with changing gender relations – as well as
urbanisation - in the villages of Tianjin and Zhejiang - in order to asses
religious freedom, inter-faith (in)tolerance and secularism. This multi-
the impact on the livelihoods of the villagers as well as the success of
disciplinary volume draws on qualitative and quantitative research to
the development initiatives. By focusing on the villagers capabilities,
offer new research findings, and contributes to theory-building on the
assets and support provided this study examines the imbalances
form, functioning and democratic role of civil society in the twenty-
of rural redistribution at three levels: among social groups, among
first century.
villages and between the rural-urban divide.
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World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)
Political Economy of Social
Change and Development in
Nepal
Jeevan R. Sharma, University of Edinburgh
This is an accessible contemporary political-
economic analysis of social change in Nepal
offering a fresh perspective on Nepal’s transforming
political economy. It draws primarily on fieldwork
materials together with analysis of published and unpublished
sociological, anthropological and developmental evidence on Nepal
to offer a nuanced discussion on the socio-cultural ramifications of
the political economy of social change in Nepal. It discusses how
awareness of rights and gender, along with the collective agency
of women and oppressed and marginalized groups has resulted
in durable changes in how individuals, groups, and institutions
interrelate.
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Kashmir in Conflict The West’s War Against Islamic
India, Pakistan and the Unending War State
Victoria Schofield Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and
This book examines the Kashmir conflict in its Iraq
historical context, from the period when the valley Andrew Mumford, University of Nottingham, UK
was an independent kingdom right up to the
struggles of the present day. Drawing upon research This book offers the first history of Operation
in India and Pakistan, as well as historical sources, Inherent Resolve and the West's war against ISIS,
this book traces the origins of the state and explores the implications from its inception in 2014 to the fall of Raqqa in 2017. Andrew
of independence for Kashmir. With a new chapter covering recent Mumford offers a comprehensive analysis and assessment of
developments in the region - including the implementation of martial the military campaign deployed against ISIS in Syria and Iraq by
law and the election of the BJP in India - this is the essential guide to examining the West's strategic objectives, as well as the conflicting
the long-running conflict. interests of rival powers - namely Russia, Iran and Turkey. By
examining individual operational components of this military
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 336 pages engagement such as drone usage, cyber warfare, special forces
PB 9780755607181 • £19.99 / $26.95 operations and sponsorship of guerrilla forces, this book offers a
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Remembering the Great War
in the Middle East
From Turkey and Armenia to Australia and New Zealand Countering Violent Extremism
Edited by Hans-Lukas Kieser, University of Zurich & Thomas
The International Deradicalisation
Schmutz, University of Zurich
Agenda
This book addresses the conflicts, myths, and memories that grew out
of the Great War in Ottoman Turkey. In Australia and New Zealand, Tahir Abbas, Leiden University, The Netherlands
and in the post-Ottoman Middle East, the memory of the First World Terrorism and radicalisation are increasingly
War still has an immediacy that it has long lost in Europe. This volume dominating sociological, political and cultural
analyses these complex configurations: why these entanglements concerns. This book explores how the problems
became possible; how shared or even contradictory memories have causing violent extremism are local, and therefore,
been constructed over the past hundred years; and how differing so are the solutions. The concept of countering violent extremism
historiographies have developed. The book reaches towards a new delivers community and youth developmental projects as a process
conceptualization of the “long last Ottoman decade” (1912-22), one of social engineering that aims to discourage, disengage and de-
that places this era and its actors more firmly at the centre of a history incentivise vulnerable young people on the verge of radical political
of a Greater Europe, a history comprising – as contemporary maps views. Tahir Abbas aims to understand the concept of countering
showed – Europe, Russia, and the Ottoman world. violent extremism from a global perspective using case studies from
different countries - including Israel and Kashmir - while examining
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The Spectre of Afghanistan
Security in Central Asia
Amin Saikal, Australian National University,
Australia & Kirill Nourzhanov, The Australian
National University, Australia.
This book outlines Afghanistan's past and present
instability. Given the country's extensive cross-
border ethnic, linguistic, sectarian and cultural ties
with its neighbours, whatever transpires in the war-torn country has
regional and global security implications. The book is the first to
focus on the current defensive policies the states of Central Asia have
in place in the event of the Afghan situation deteriorating further. It
also considers the positions and policy responses of three influential
actors in the region: Russia, China and the United States. The authors
assesses the convergence of interests between these great powers
in stabilising Afghanistan, and their divergence of geopolitical
objectives in the region
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Water and Society: Changing The Nile
Perceptions of Societal and A New History of the World's Greatest
Historical Development River
Terje Tvedt, University of Bergen, Norway Terje Tvedt, University of Bergen, Norway
Here, historian and leading water expert Terje The greatest river in the world has a long and
Tvedt argues for a change that acknowledges fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the
the significant role played by water in societal world's leading experts on the history of waterways,
development. Reflecting his expertise as a travels upstream along the river’s mouth to its
geographer, historian and a political scientist, and drawing on his ancient sources. The result is a journey through 5000 years of history
wide experience of water issues around the world, Terje Tvedt's Water and 11 countries, from the Mediterranean to Central Africa. This is
and Society provides a long overdue reappraisal of the relationship the fascinating story of the immense economic, political and mythical
between water and society. Tvedt reaffirms water as central to any significance of the river. Brimming with accounts of central characters
true understanding of human history and development. in the struggle for the Nile – from Caesar and Cleopatra to Churchill
and Mussolini and on to the political leaders of today - this is a
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Contested Waters Marine Resources, Climate
Sub-national Scale Water and Conflict in Change and International
Pakistan Management Regimes
Daanish Mustafa, King's College London, UK Edited by Andreas Østhagen, Fridtjof Nansen
Contested Waters provides an in-depth analysis Institute, Norway & Andreas Raspotnik, The
of trans-boundary water conflict involving the Arctic Institute, Norway
Indus Basin in Pakistan. The book focuses on This book is available as open access through
both national scale and local scale case studies the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is
to illustrate how these water conflicts are both discursively and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
materially driven by human institutions and politics. Through case
studies of controversy over large dams, local flooding and irrigation When changes in the oceans impact fisheries, can states handle
methods, Daanish Mustafa highlights the various deeply political and the management of these changes amongst themselves, or are
institutional factors driving water conflict and calls for engagement they locked in patterns and mechanisms that prove inflexible and
with water conflict in political terms. inefficient in dealing with rapid external environmental changes? This
volume explores how international institutions and regimes set up to
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 160 pages • 20 bw illus manage marine resources – predominantly fisheries – are adapting to
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Media and Water Land Abandoned to the Sea
Communication, Culture and Perception The Managed Retreat of Coastal Areas
Joanne Garde-Hansen, University of Warwick, Stuart Oliver, St Mary's University, UK
UK This book addresses the social, cultural and
As flooding, drought and water scarcity become political context of the process of managed
more pronounced due to climate change, so the coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment
way in which these events are presented in the of the coast, as a means of coping with ecological
media assumes greater significance. Joanne Garde- changes. With a specific focus on the Blackwater
Hansen’s book offers a sustained and comprehensive exploration of Estuary in Essex, Stuart Oliver analyses the cultural and social
media representations of water. Drawing on a wide range of media implications of managed retreat and proposes managed realignment
– including newspapers, digital, photography, radio, television and as a practical way in which society can rethink itself, address the new
video, as well as empirical research on media and memory – she realities of the environment and move towards developing a more
examines how drought, flooding and water management have been sustainable relationship with it.
portrayed in the media, both historically and in the contemporary
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