Organisation
Zed Books
Co-operative book publishers focusing on development issues
Zed Books is a co-operative whose purpose is the publication and effective distribution, North and South, of books on international and Third World issues. Issues covered in Zed publications include: Development and Environment Studies; Politics and Economics; Gender and Cultural Studies; Asian, Middle-Eastern, African and Latin-American Studies. Over half of the published authors are from the South.
Published Documents
- Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces
- Zed Books, 2013
- This chapter from the book, 'Spaces for Change: The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas' discusses the gendered construction of participation in local institutions created by the state in India to promote develo...
- Is civilian control of military and security structures equivalent to democratic control?
- G. Cawthra (ed); R. Luckham (ed) / Zed Books, 2003
- This book examines the governance of security and insecurity in developing and former communist countries that are becoming more democratic. The book asserts that to ensure the military is governed in a democratic manner, it...
- Are agricultural corporations responding to environmental issues?
- K. Jansen (ed); S. Vellema (ed) / Zed Books, 2004
- How far are agribusiness corporations responding to emerging environmental awareness to play their part in the 'greening' of agriculture and food? Are they developing new environmentally-friendly products, services and production meth...
- Participatory research as mutual learning: blurring the distinction between researcher and participant
- A. Cornwall / Zed Books, 1996
- Researchers in health care often place themselves at the centre of a research process: they do research on participants, rather than with or by them. In this book chapter, Andrea Cornwall makes the case for truly participatory researc...
