Bücher der Reihe ThirdWorlds

The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities analyses violence in post-war cities from different perspectives and in different parts of the world, with a shared attention to space and how it affects violent dynamics.

Beyond the Gatekeeper State explores the dynamic changes occurring within and between African states, and the international system since the turn of the century.

The violent events in Kyrgyzstan in March 2005 gained the name `Tulip Revolution¿. This book brings together domestic and international perspectives to determine what happened ¿ and with what implications.This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

This book explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy-relevant understandings of how states become more resilient and the role of aid. It was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

The outbreak of Ebola virus disease that gripped Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone through much of 2014 and 2015 was undoubtedly a health emergency, yet it was also a global political event. This book examines the international politics of the Ebola outbreak in all of its dimensions, critically assessing the global response, examining what the outbreak can tell us about contemporary global health governance, and examining the inequalities and injustices that were laid bare. In doing so, the book shows how some of the concepts, debates and findings from the growing field of global health research in International Relations can help both in furthering understanding of the Ebola crisis and also in improving policy responses to future infectious disease outbreaks. This book was originally published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly.

This timely volume by Chinese and international scholars offers diverse perspectives on challenging questions around China's relationship with globalisation, Asia and the wider world. This book was originally published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly.

The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as politically compromised or glorifying them as a priori progressive in enabling resistance. Drawing on plural social theoretic and philosophical literatures - and a multiplicity of empirical domains - they illuminate the multi-layered and intricate relationship of human rights and power. They highlight human rights'' incitement of new subjects and modes of political action, marked by an often unnoticed duality and indeterminacy. Epistemologically distancing themselves from purely deductive, theory-driven approaches, the contributors explore these linkages through historically specific rights struggles. This, in turn, substantiates the commitment to avoid reifying the ''Third World'' as merely the terrain of ''fieldwork'', proposing it, instead, as a legitimate and necessary site of theorising. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

A fundamentally contested concept, food sovereignty (FS) has ΓÇô as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement and an analytical framework ΓÇô barged into global discourses, both political and academic, over the past two decades. This collection identifies a number of key questions regarding FS. What does (re)localisation mean? How does the notion of FS connect with similar and/or overlapping ideas historically? How does it address questions of both market and non-market forces in a dominantly capitalist world? How does FS deal with such differentiating social contradictions? How does the movement deal with larger issues of nation-state, where a largely urbanised world of non-food producing consumers harbours interests distinct from those of farmers? How does FS address the current trends of crop booms, as well as other alternatives that do not sit comfortably within the basic tenets of FS, such as corporate-captured fair trade? How does FS grapple with the land question and move beyond the narrow ΓÇÿrural/agriculturalΓÇÖ framework? Such questions call for a new era of research into FS, a movement and theme that in recent years has inspired and mobilised tens of thousands of activists and academics around the world: young and old, men and women, rural and urban. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Accompanying the growing awareness of the significance of democratic local governments as an integrated part of peacebuilding, this volume seeks to discuss, problematize and explain the concept of the 'local'. It tackles the 'local turn' of peacebuilding in a comprehensive and critical way. This book was first published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly.

This book assembles original ethnographic research into urban spaces and lifestyles in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Russia. Taken together, the case studies address cities as gateways to 'new worlds', both local and global, discuss ambitions of states at taming urban landscapes, and illustrate current trends of economic, religious and other li

This book argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries. It does so via a trans-disciplinary approach that draws on case studies from Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

This book provides case study, cross-case studies, practitioner reflection and conceptual material on the function of local government in the context of decentralisation in post-conflict countries, from both academics and policy-makers. The chapters were originally published in the online journal Third World Thematics.

This volume brings together anthropologists, historians and political scientists from around the world to reflect on how to build up empirical and juridical statehood, how to forge a nation after colonial divide-and-rule, and how to position themselves in an international order not of their making.

This comprehensive volume contributes to debates which seek to move feminist scholarship away from the reification of the war/peace and security/economy divides. It was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Third World Thematics.

This book advances new research directions that explore the emotional and affective dimensions of development. Going beyond merely placing emotion and/or affect as the objects of study, it examines 'development' in fresh ways through analysis of its affective dimensions.

This book brings together voices from the Global South and Global North to think through what it means, in practice, to decolonise contemporary higher education.