Bøger i ThirdWorlds serien

Presenting feminist perspectives on politics of rights, this title explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with 'rights work' in a variety of settings.

As the centres of world capitalism struggle to overcome long-term stagnation and existential crisis, this book aims to recover the legacy of revolutions against capitalism and imperialism.

Through a combination of theoretical works and a series of case studies, the volume highlights the cutting edge of international labour studies. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Intends to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands.

Analyzes to what extent the US policy of democratizing the Middle East with pre-emptive invasions was justified or effective.

This book takes a new approach to the August 2008 Russo-Georgian war, looking at the longue duree of Russian-Georgian relations as well as the domestic factors that, since independence and the Rose Revolution of 2003, provided the context for war. This book was published as a special issue in Central Asian Survey.

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.

Migration is becoming one of the key globe governance issues today. Migration represents the interface between the Third World and the First. We need to understand better the complexity of global migration trends and their social and political implications. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

An overview, from a variety of angles, of the history and contemporary significance of Third Worldism in international affairs.

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.

Explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with 'rights work' in a variety of settings. This book explores the dilemmas that arise for feminist praxis in diverse locations, and address the question of what rights can contribute to struggles for gender justice. It explores the intersection of formal rights.

A collection of essays from an international group of scholars which explores the interactions between cultures originating in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Europe.

From environmental concerns, through vigilante citizenship, to the legacies of armed conflicts during and after decolonization, this title intends to reconstruct the contradictory history of development and critically engage contemporary responses and their implications for social and political analyses.

Focuses on the history of nation-building during the era of decolonization and the Cold War and on the post-Cold War and post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building. This book explores themes that relate to 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' nation-building efforts from South Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s to East Timor and Afghanistan in the 21st century.

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

Focuses on changes in the nature of nationalisms in selected cases of Asia under the impact of the inegalitarian political economy of neoliberalism since the 1970s. This book shows how cultural nationalisms emerged against the background of the political disenfranchisement and disengagement which neoliberal inequalities produced.