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Explores how 'pop-up culture' has entrenched precarity in London by normalizing andglamorizing crisis conditions in the aftermath of the 2008 crash.

A highly ambitious, original and provocative, epistemic inquiry, that explains why Muslim voices are absent in the global public mainstream and how this situation can be remedied.

Declares the end of the nation state as a political proposition predicting the dissolution of the state as an organizing framer of politics.

Blows the lid on what has been described by the UN as a 'human catastrophe' - the government's war on disabled people

How rationalities and rites of passage associated with manhood in the white American Heartland are constitutive of racist and heteropatriarchal violence

How the logic of work has crept into everything we do, even as we articulate post-capitalist and post-work possibilities

Explains key concepts in economics in terms of the individual and everyday life.

Reveals Israel's increasing efforts to form alliances in Africa, explaining what this means for the continent and wider geopolitics.

An ethnographic study of how financial products and services affect inequalities and conflicts in South Africa.

What has happened to the secret babies born under China's one child policy, so many of whom are now adults?

A journey through contemporary Spain, meeting the people and movements working to completely transform the country

In an era of increasing global inequality, free trade ideologues and protectionist prophets, Christian Felber sets out visionary new roadmap for making trade good.

The go-to, self-contained critical introduction to microeconomics and student guide to decoding economics textbooks

An account of the rapidly-expanding international traffic in women which aims to reveal that it is a global issue. Using original field studies from Thailand, the book explores the nature and extent of the problem worldwide.

Internationally respected sociologist and pioneering education reformer Raewyn Connell reveals the necessary steps to rectify the sector's crisis of sustainability

An in-depth ethnographic exploration of how the AIDs pandemic has played out at a local level in South Africa, revealing the importance of understanding culture for shaping effective strategies of AIDs treatment.

A fascinating investigation intoa very strange episode of scientific history. P.W. Barber tells the story of theinvention, practice and downfall of psychedelic psychiatry, revealing how itshaped twentieth century understanding of mental health.

A radical resetting of Medieval and Early Modern English History, arguing that in Tudor England people had fluidity in their concepts of ethnicity

Why are contemporary African governments working to undermine the international courts they proactively created and supported in the 1990s and early 2000s?

The first book-length study of the causes, events and consequences of South Sudan's brutal civil war and the devastating effects of the US-led peace process.

The ordinary citizens campaigning for justice in one of the most troubled countries in Africa

Traces the rise of far-right across the western world since the end of the Cold War, to reveal a global view of the movement's often contradictory strategies and positions.

From drone warfare to nuclear weapons, global governance to post-secularism, this is an essential study on the changes in world politics since the end of the Cold War and 9/11.

A fascinating history of the cultural and political impact of duelling.

This collection of Richard Falk's writings provides unique insight into the momentous events of the Arab Spring, examining how the uprisings came to lose their way.

A detailed empirical analysis of how certain NGOs develop alternative ways of organizing economic, political and social life.

This collection examines the ways in which social movements in the Global South are rejecting the prevailing narratives of globalization and providing new ways of imagining social change. In the process, it opens up a radical new direction for development studies.

An essential framework for assessing success in international development, challenging how we view fragile states, conflict zones, and the ability of international agencies to take effective action.

An astonishing investigation into the outbreak and spread of Zika and the resilience of the Brazilian people in the face of the epidemic.

A revealing memoir of resilience, exposing the numerous failures of Western intervention at the centre of West Africa's Ebola outbreak.